John Petrucci’s Rock Discipline Chromatic Exercise - Alternate Picking Speed Workout

Welcome to Guitar Speed Trainer — an educational guitar training series.
In this lesson, you’ll practice speed, precision, and synchronization with a focused play-along exercise.

Work on your alternate picking speed with John Petrucci’s iconic chromatic exercise from Rock Discipline! This legendary workout is designed to improve precision, synchronization, and endurance—a must-have in any guitarist’s routine.

🧠 How to use this exercise:
• Start slow and focus on clarity
• Increase tempo gradually with a metronome
• Aim for relaxed, even alternate picking

🕒 Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction & Technical Tips
0:31 - Slow Practice
5:34 - Full Speed Play-Along
5:57 - Final Thoughts

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💡Gear used in this video :
✔ Dunlop Primetone Jazz III - https://thmn.to/thoprod/382265?offid=...
✔ Musicman JP2C
✔ Mesa Boogie JP2C - https://thmn.to/thoprod/379484?offid=...
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✔ Focusrite Clarett - https://thmn.to/thoprod/524288?offid=...
✔ Mac Studio

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