Project to gather, organize and standardize, and improve exercise customs

 

Rules recommended

1. Arrangement is in "Lead", and bonus/alternate arrangements

 

2. Tuning is E-Standard (except for special situations, like 5string Bass)

 

3. Record page (submitted cDLC) : Artist name "You", Album name "Exercises" (beware of typos)

Ignition search "Exercises" order on Artist - should give a most complete list.

 

4. Exercises should list together in RS14, sorted by Artist 

"You" display under "Y",  not overloaded letter.

"You Bass" for Bass only Exercises
"You Artist" for Exercises by Artists
"You Riff" for practical Exercises

 

5. Filenames (no space), "YouBass, YouArtist,YouRiff" ....psarc

followed  main topic exercised, sub-topics (style, root notes), origin, charter.

 

For easy updates, save all exercises in a subdir of DLC (DLC\Exercises)

 

I renamed customs (original name and charter is part of the new name)

Download by clicking on "You": (not this  :lol:)

Or jump to the charters page to use the original custom/name

 

Remove doubles 

(Same Internal song DLC Keys of 2 versions may hang RS)

USE Customsforge Manager

 

An almost complete collection can be downloaded as a zip file (170mb)

(this collection has not yet been updated to the remaster version)

 

List of Exercises in RS14

vTS means, I have improved the custom

 

Picking Exercises

 

You : Alternate Picking - Heavy Metal Guitar School part 1 (by DeadlyPower)

• 5:04, 10 patterns, repeated twice
• no guitar track, no beat, patterns easy, except 2) 

You : Alternate Picking to Solo (by DeadlyPower) 

• 5:04, 14 patterns, 5 solo riffs
• no guitar track, no beat, 3/4bars, exercises what it claims, shows me how much I suck in this topic
• excellent 

You : Alternate Picking (by blackened)

• 7:30, 56 patterns
• guitar track without beat, needs instructions in lyrics, heavy focus on finger/hand position change may loose concentration on alt.picking of other hand)

You : Alternate-Picking vTS (by Sharkman828)

• 6:02, 10 patterns (Frets 9 -12, 9-13)
• no guitar track, no beat, last sector no notes for 5:00!, start delay too short
• unfinished rather useless
• Cdlc corrected, now 3:28, 3s delay, pattern repeat faster on fret 5, faster above my ability on fret 12, metronome in bonus, 
• get 95% without cheating on alt.picking   ^_^ )

Arpeggios

 

You : Arpeggios Fingerpicking Basics v1 (by blackened)

• 4:22, 6 patterns, 4 riffs
• guitar track without beat, easy patterns for beginners, steep increase in difficulty for riffs, sustains should be removed for readability
• useful

You : Arpeggios and Sweeps Melodic Metal vTS (by blackened)

• 0:36, 2 Riffs
• guitar track with beat, only 2 long sectors, 
• short but useful
• I've divided riffs in more sectors, to easier memorize, optimized some fret-hand positions, original arrangement kept in bonus arr.

You : Arpeggios and Sweeps Advanced v1 (by blackened)

• 1:32, 3 patterns, 3 riffs
• guitar track without beat, easy patterns for beginners, steep increase in difficulty for riffs, sectors too long

Chords

 

You : Chords Part 1 (by blackened)

• 3:17, 9 openchords, 6 powerchords, 
• guitar track without beat, 5 increasing speed sectors of simple 4/4 down-strums,
• very useful for beginners

You : Chords Part 2 (by blackened)

• 6:04, 14 barréchords
• guitar track without beat, 5 increasing speed sectors of simple 4/4 down-strums, basic chords
• very useful

You : Chords Progression 12 Bar Blues v1 (Guitar & Bass) (by iWolf)

• 2:58, 7 patterns, 3 keys (C E G in difficulty levels)
• no guitar track with beat
• bebop & basic jazz blues for advanced users
• barré chords only
• excellent 

You : Chords Trainer ADE v1 (by apollo6655)

• 2:29, 3 open chords A D E (without open string)
• no guitar track with metronome
• simple down-strum 4/4, constant slow speed
• useful for beginners

You : Chords Trainer CGAm (by apollo6655)

• 2:32, 3 open chords C G Am (with open string)
• no guitar track with metronome
• simple down-strum 4/4, constant slow speed
• useful for beginners

You : Chords Advanced v5 (by darrko1984 )

• 9:25, 49 patterns
• no guitar track with beat, uncommon chords with muted strings, confusing and difficult to register in RS
• limited useful for beginners

Finger Exercices

 

You : 4 Fingers Exercises Guy (by  pollo_28)

• 7 customs
• up to 20:00, probably any possible pattern (704)
• no guitar track without beat 
• no pauses, no visible sectors, difficult to pick up a set of pattern
• Training on the 1st 4 Frets only 
• This is HUGE!

• I added bonus arr. (Root fret on 5, 9, 12) and a beat 
• inserted pauses and visible sectors to better differentiate different patterns
• currently for the 1st cDLC only, if you want more p.pm. me)

You : 4Fingers alternate picking and sweep kingkill_33 v1 (by a.peter)

• 1:10, 5 patterns
• guitar track no beat, acoustic tone 
• increase/decrease 1st-4th string / or 6th to 3rd with fret increase for each finger, every pick
• nice crossing pattern
• suggested picking alternate or sweep
• very useful to train strings change with each pick

You : Finger Independence and Speed v1 (by darrko1984)

• 2:16, 12 patterns
• guitar track no beat, distortion tone
• chromatic patterns, a minor & major scale with hand position shifts, hammer on / pull offs
• single string and all strings patterns

You : Finger Independence and Speed v1 (by DeadlyPower)

• 5:04, 5 patterns (non-linear sequences of major scale G), repeated 3x
• no guitar track no beat, distortion tone
• irregular speeds

You : Finger Spider Sequence Pebber Brown vTS (F A C E frets) (by DeadlyPower)

• I added bonus arr. (F A C E Root fret)

 

You : Finger Warm Up 1 Lesson Guitar vTS (original by Sharkman828)

• 2:30, 29 patterns

You : Finger Warm Up 2 Lesson Guitar vTS (by Sharkman828)

• 3:36, 26 patterns
• 2 nice quick exercises to play through or train by sector 
• no guitar track, no beat, ends in long sector with no notes, waiting for the score...
• I removed the last sectors, add drum & bass tracks,and a bonus metronome arrangement.
• I corrected sectors to match start/end of a pattern, and start/end of fret hand positions.
• I suggest this as an exercise template.

Rhythm

 

You : Rhythm Metal Riffs low tone (by darrko1984 )

• 7:32, 11 exercises/riffs with powerchords and muted open strings
• metal guitar track with no beat, guitar tone is low
• useful, unequal difficulty 

You : Rhythm Strum patterns in DD Level 120bmp v1 (by iWolf)

 

Scales

 

You : Scales Blues : Lesson Guitar v1 (by DeadlyPower)

• 5:14, 1 pattern, linear sequence, changing root constantly
• lyrics indicate root note on low E-String
• speed may a bit too fast to keep it for 5:00 
• blues scale is NOT RIGHT, missing 4th note on the G string 
• with other 4 patterns and more sequences in difficulty levels would be a perfect scale exercise
• useful, but unfinished cDLC

You : Scales Natural Fretboard A B C D E F G (Guitar&Bass) (by SA PyroBillie) 

You : Scales Harmonic Fretboard A B C D E F Ab (Guitar&Bass) (by SA PyroBillie)

You : Scales Pentatonic Fretboard A C D E G (Guitar&Bass) (by SA PyroBillie)

• All 3 customs last 4:00, 17 patterns (single & double picks, up & down the Fret in 2 diff.levels)
• no guitar track with beat, plays same notes all over the fretboard,
• excellent ear-to-fretboard notes learning .... if played notes were displayed in lyrics ...

You : Scales Runner A vTS(Guitar&Bass) (by PyroBillie)

• 4:08, 11 scales, 1 position on root A (5th fret), sequences of scales linear
• no guitar track with beat, scales from RS12 game, double pick, up/down, speed levels in difficulty levels, great idea for extensions.
• add repetitions where possible, corrected 1st invisible sector, completed lyrics to display scale names longer, 
• add clean tone, original arr. with distortion tone in bonus
• add 2 difficulty levels for guitar with non-linear sequence, three notes 123,234,345... and thirds 1-3,2-4,3-5..., up/downwards
• Perfect exercise in all aspects, should serve as an exercise template

You : Scales Runner C vTS (Guitar&Bass)

You : Scales Runner Open vTS (Guitar&Bass)

• 2 identical customs added on root fret C, and open string (root E or F)

You : Scales Runner Metal (Guitar&Bass) (by SA PyroBillie) v1

 

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Major F A C (by TS2112) 7:07

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Minor F A C (by TS2112) 7:34

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Pentatonic Minor F A C (by TS2112) 5:18

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Pentatonic Major F A C (by TS2112) 5:19

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Blues Minor F A C (by TS2112) 5:57

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Blues Major F A C (by TS2112) 6:25

• 6 sequences non-linear (group of 2,3,4 with interval 1 and 2) (12,23...; 123, 234...; 1234, 2345... and 13,24...;135,246...;1357,2461...)
• no guitar track with beat, acoustic tone
• scales on 3 fret positions (F, A, C) 
• info in lyrics

You : Scales Lesson Guitar v1 (by Sharkman828)

• 10:03, 59 patterns
• no guitar track, no beat, 3:00 useless silent end sector with no tabs 
• no scale information in lyrics, causes more questions than teaching
• rather unfinished useless cDLC

Speed

You : Speed Exercise Lesson Guitar v1 (by Sharkman828)

• 3:02, 20 patterns
• no guitar track, no beat, 2:00 useless silent end sector with no tabs 
• chromatic, pentatonic, major scales, riffs, pull off, slide - 
• no clear topic separation, no understandable rise in difficulty, no lyrics giving info
• rather unfinished useless cDLC 

You : Sweep Picking Exercise vTS tuned E & Eb (by Izzy)

• E-Tuning added, Eb tuning set in bonus arrangement

Artists

YouArtist : eZUKA from GRANRODEO : Glare Guitar School vol3 guitar inst demo v1 (by th1rtyf0ur)

YouArtist : Hizaki : Glare Guitar School v2 (by Tiothae)

 

YouArtist : Paul Gilbert : Intense Rock 1 Sequences and Techniques v1 (by BX5)

YouArtist : Paul Gilbert : Intense Rock 2 v1 (by BX5)
YouArtist : Steve Vai 30 Hour Workout v1 (by th1rtyf0ur)

 

 

Bass
YouBass : Bass Finger A.Sklarevski Ch.2 v1 (by darrko1984)
YouBass : Bass Finger Chromatic James Jamersons (by justgimmethefunk)
YouBass : Bass Finger Stretching v1 (by Izzy)

YouBass : Bass Rhythm Song-1 (by Vartok)_v1_1
YouBass : Bass Rhythm String Muted A.Sklarevski Ch.1 (by darrko1984)
YouBass : Bass Scales C (5 String Bass) v1  (by Tysylio)

Riffs

 

YouRiffs : Blues Comping 1 in A major_v2 (by frippchen)

YouRiffs : Blues Comping 2 in A major straight 8ths_v2 (by frippchen)

YouRiffs : Blues Comping 3 in G major funky (by frippchen)

YouRiffs : Blues Comping 4 in E major shuffle (by frippchen)

YouRiffs : Blues Comping 5 in E major (by frippchen)

YouRiffs : Blues Comping 6 in B major (by frippchen)

 

YouRiffs : Blues - Lonely Man Blues v1.1 (by TS2112)

 

YouRiffs : Country - Licks v1 (by TS2112)
YouRiffs : Metal : Rhythm Thrash Guitar & Bass 1st Lesson v1 (by blackened)
YouRiffs : Rock : 100 Chicago Music Exchange v1.2.1 (by haarek)

 

Below, I'll link to songs with undeniable learning effect 

- Minuet : From First To Last (by s37h) (Arpeggio chords finger stretching)

  (this is my corrected version 1.1. jan.2017)

- Blackmore's Night : Memmingen (by SmellyOrc) (finger picking)

- Aquarium : Gorod Zolotoy (by Obvilion) (finger picking)

 

 

Suggestions to add / improve customs / exercises are welcome.
 

Further suggestions :

Aim is quality in form and content in the making of exercises. 

• guitar mp3 track only if useful (to rhythm or melody)
   (no guitar track allows more arrangements in different keys, tunings, root notes
• drum/beat track is alive, better then dead boring metronome
• metronome bonus arrangement added by checking Metronome in Toolkit/arrangement window
• notes must be on beats!
• no empty last sector
• lyrics (long duration) for each sector to recall the topic exercised, player's focus
• divide exercises in logical sectors, optimize fret hand positions
• constant increase in difficulty ( not jumping from easy to hard back to easy)
• don't overload a custom with different topics, tabs or riffs, 4-5 minutes duration optimal
• use clean tone (except if Metal...)

 

(... to be continued)

Edited April 1, 20187 yr by TomSawyer2112

Thank you so much for creating these and making them available for download!

These are really nice, thanks to those who have helped this project, I was hoping to find something like this.

This is exactly what i have been looking for. Thank you everyone for all the hard work making these "Lessons" possible

Thank you everyone

thanks for great work

@@TomSawyer2112, I recomment this exercises, a must for your collection.

Also check out my latest Blues compings 7 & 8, they're more full instrumental songs with solos recorded and mixed down by myself. All real multitracks available. Very enjoyable and useful.

@@TomSawyer2112, I recomment this exercises, a must for your collection.

Also check out my latest Blues compings 7 & 8, they're more full instrumental songs with solos recorded and mixed down by myself. All real multitracks available. Very enjoyable and useful.

 

Yes, I saw your work, didn't play them fully through yet, I need to spend some more time to check and update this topic  ;)

What is good for bass practice. I am looking for something for working major scales and helping fret fingering speed. A lot to choose from and don't know what is a good starting point.

 

Thanks in advance.

If not suggested always use the word EXERCISE in both title and file name.

Thanks for the lessons , keep up the good work.

tnx mate

...omg!!! ...found that stuff yesterday   ...the journey goes on and on. THANK YOU for this lessons!!!!

...omg!!! ...found that stuff yesterday   ...the journey goes on and on. THANK YOU for this lessons!!!!

Can you upload them again? Seems like they are missing :-/

I haven't gone through all the ones listed for "You" as the artist to check, but I'm wondering about something. What are you all's thoughts on using short real clips from songs in one exercise file. For instance if there's a "You - Play Like Van Halen" created, that has two minutes worth of clips from 10 different songs chopped together. Is that okay?

 

(Obviously, if an artist that has ODLCs is done, none of the clips include DLC songs)

I haven't gone through all the ones listed for "You" as the artist to check, but I'm wondering about something. What are you all's thoughts on using short real clips from songs in one exercise file. For instance if there's a "You - Play Like Van Halen" created, that has two minutes worth of clips from 10 different songs chopped together. Is that okay?

 

(Obviously, if an artist that has ODLCs is done, none of the clips include DLC songs)

 

 

I would not name it as "You", because it's probably not exercising a precise technique.

And it isn't either an educational tutorial from an Artist. But under YouArtist would still be alright.

 

I would keep it under Van Halen - 

2 Minutes of 10 songs each is a pretty long compilation of 20 minutes, finding the right part to exercise may not be very comfortable.

I think You exercices should remain short, with not too may sections, to quickly find and remember what you want to train.

 

I haven't gone through all the ones listed for "You" as the artist to check, but I'm wondering about something. What are you all's thoughts on using short real clips from songs in one exercise file. For instance if there's a "You - Play Like Van Halen" created, that has two minutes worth of clips from 10 different songs chopped together. Is that okay?

 

(Obviously, if an artist that has ODLCs is done, none of the clips include DLC songs)

 

 

I would not name it as "You", because it's probably not exercising a precise technique.

And it isn't either an educational tutorial from an Artist. But under YouArtist would still be alright.

 

I would keep it under Van Halen - 

2 Minutes of 10 songs each is a pretty long compilation of 20 minutes, finding the right part to exercise may not be very comfortable.

I think You exercices should remain short, with not too may sections, to quickly find and remember what you want to train.

 

 

 

I haven't gone through all the ones listed for "You" as the artist to check, but I'm wondering about something. What are you all's thoughts on using short real clips from songs in one exercise file. For instance if there's a "You - Play Like Van Halen" created, that has two minutes worth of clips from 10 different songs chopped together. Is that okay?

 

(Obviously, if an artist that has ODLCs is done, none of the clips include DLC songs)

 

 

I would not name it as "You", because it's probably not exercising a precise technique.

And it isn't either an educational tutorial from an Artist. But under YouArtist would still be alright.

 

I would keep it under Van Halen - 

2 Minutes of 10 songs each is a pretty long compilation of 20 minutes, finding the right part to exercise may not be very comfortable.

I think You exercices should remain short, with not too may sections, to quickly find and remember what you want to train.

 

 

Okay. I saw the one "You" CDLC that was Yngwie Malmsteen Classic Exercises and thought that might be the model initially. Are there any YouArtist files in ignition? I only see a bunch of You ones.

 

Sorry, that last part, I meant as an example... two minutes for the entire CDLC of 10 songs. So on average, about 12 second clips from each song.

There exist a couple of customs, to my knowledge, in Ignition, with what you are looking for, though not preceded by the prefix “You”. Both by PC Plum (his links are all dead now but people might post their copy for you - I think that is how it works, but check forum rules first) :

 

“History of Rock Mashup” and “Guns n Roses solos”.

 

Great thread TomSawyer!! Good to see you out and about!

Problem with YouArtist customs is that this learning material is often copyrighted, you have to buy it to use it, 

so the fair use does not apply as it does for playing songs.(which you have to own too, to be fair)

I remember they removed the absolutely great John Petrucci exercices...

 

Yeah still lucky and alive, when so many people pass away.

RIP Neil

Hi!

Just to let you know that these two have the same file link, I believe that Intense Rock 2 is the file that is missing... Thanks for all the effort!

YouArtist : Paul Gilbert : Intense Rock 1 Sequences and Techniques v1 (by BX5)

YouArtist : Paul Gilbert : Intense Rock 2 v1 (by BX5)