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Guitar Gym Weekly Workouts: Vol. 5
Chris Buono

Chris Buono

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About this course

NOTE: TrueFire Foundry courses are independently-produced courses presented by a hand-picked selection of top-notch artists and educators from around the world. Filmed in the educator’s own studio, Foundry courses bring fresh educational concepts and very effective teaching methodologies to TrueFire Students.

Hello, I'm Chris Buono — welcome to my TrueFire Foundry course, Guitar Gym Weekly Workouts Vol. 5, which I produced in my own studio.

This Guitar Gym Weekly Workouts Vol. 5 continues my ongoing series with eight unique challenges covering myriad styles for you to work with. In this fifth volume, you will find Workouts that help with alternate picking, sweep picking, tapping, chord changes, walking bass lines, neck vision concepts by way of a challenging pentatonic fingering, one of my own techniques called “punch comping” and finally the ever-important subject of bending.

  • Weekly Workout #33 Alternate Picking | Watch Where You Point That Thing
  • Weekly Workout #34 Sweep Picking | 2-Note/1-Note Sweeps
  • Weekly Workout #35 Tapping | Ode to Jason Becker
  • Weekly Workout #36 Chord Changes | Funky Hemivax
  • Weekly Workout #37 Walking Bass Lines | Tuck Andress Riffage
  • Weekly Workout #38 Neck Vision | Ruling the b5 Lick
  • Weekly Workout #39 Punch Comping | Vanderbilt Lick
  • Weekly Workout #40 Bending | Eddie Phrasing
With this collection of workouts, you get a wide variety of skills to hone. Guitar Gym caters to chops building endeavors and gave life to the popular Guitar Gym Course Series. At the core of Guitar Gym is what I call "Workouts."

Workouts are specifically designed challenges that help develop your playing so that you can become the monster player you want to be. This Guitar Gym Workouts course is made up of a unique type of workout called "Weekly Workouts" where I design, produce and unleash a spontaneous challenge every week. While meant to be mildly difficult they're still playable, concise and fun to work with.

This is perfect for busier students who are on the go a lot and sometimes just want a bite-size morsel to chew on during a hectic week. As for those deep in the shed, Weekly Workouts provide a change of pace with something fresh every week. They range from skills already built into my Guitar Gym to ones I'm developing, to ones I'm working on myself for my own recordings and gigs!

I'll open the video with a quick summary of what's to come. Then, I'll play the Workout at half speed. This performance will be followed by a detailed break down that leads right into me playing the Workout at the intended tempo I hope to see you work it up to. Guitar Pro files, as well as a PDF files, come with each Weekly Workout. 

All you'll need is a metronome, your ax and the desire to get better. You can work at your own pace. If you need help establishing that pace - I got you covered. If you need advice on approaching the Workout - I'm on it. If you complete the Workout and want to expand on it - I'm all over it!

Ready to get started? Grab your guitar and let’s dig in!

NOTE! Chris Buono organized the course into eight weekly sections for those students that prefer to have a specified regimen of material across a specified schedule. However, for those students who prefer to work at their own pace, or even skip around, you are certainly encouraged to approach the course in that way as well.

What you'll learn

  • Understand that tempo goals are flexible and personal
  • Understand the Guitar Gym Weekly Workouts series structure and approach
  • Understand how to use the provided materials (transcriptions, breakdowns, play-alongs)
  • Understand the structure and format of weekly workout videos
  • Develop a strategy for building a consistent practice routine
Release date: 05/24/2018 • 1h 10m runtime
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Sample lessons
Weekly Workout #34
Weekly Workout #34
Sweep Picking | 2-Note/1-Note Sweeps
Weekly Workout #39
Weekly Workout #39
Punch Comping | Vanderbilt Lick

What's included

11 lessons • 8 charts

Guitar Gym Weekly Workouts: Vol. 5
Welcome to the Guitar Gym Weekly Workouts series! These courses are made up of eight weekly challenges I give my Online Classroom students in the mighty Guitar Gym through TrueFire’s Online Private Lessons program. To get the full gist of what’s behind Weekly Workouts, let me give you a little background info...

Guitar Gym is my game-changing TrueFire Online Classroom that caters to chops building endeavors across the globe and gave life to the popular Guitar Gym Course Series. Guitar Gym has a lot to offer, but at the core is what I call "workouts". Workouts are specifically designed challenges that help develop your playing so you can become the monster you want to be. There are hundreds of them across five levels of skills such as alternate picking, hybrid picking, legato, tapping, triads, and more.

The Guitar Gym Weekly Workouts series are made up of a unique type of workout from the 'Gym called "Weekly Workouts" where I design, produce and unleash a spontaneous challenge every week for my 'Gym members. While Weekly Workouts are meant to be mildly challenging, the priority is to make them playable, concise, and fun to work with. This is perfect for my busier members who are on the go a lot and sometimes just want a bite-size morsel to chew on during a hectic week. As for members deep in the shed, Weekly Workouts provide a change of pace and something fresh every week. They range from skills already built into Guitar Gym, to ones I'm developing for the 'Gym, to ones I'm working on myself for my own recordings and gigs.

Here in Volume 5, you will find Workouts that help with alternate picking, sweep picking, tapping, chord changes, walking bass lines, neck vision concepts by way of a challenging pentatonic fingering, one of my own techniques called “punch comping” and finally the ever-important subject of bending.

The setup of each Weekly Workout is consistent. I'll open with a quick summary of what's to come, then I'll play the workout at half speed. This performance will be followed by a detailed break down that leads right into me playing the workout at the intended tempo I hope to see you work it up to.

I provide a Guitar Pro file as well as a PDF file with each Weekly Workout. From there all you need is a metronome, your axe, and the desire to get better!

If you want to know more about me, click here to go to my website. While you're there, be sure to check out my various happenings and don't forget to sign up for my mailing list. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and SoundCloud as well as track me on Bandsintown using the links below.

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How To Weekly Workout
Let's get your fingers playing the Weekly Workout at hand. Feel it out, get to know it, pick it apart, analyze it, and finally take control and learn it.
Weekly Workout #33
Alternate picking - every guitar player's first challenge. And, one that will always be part of chops building. This week we visit that monumentally important technique with a condensed version of a head melody in a tune called "Watch Where You Point That Thing" from bassist Steve Jenkins from his first record, Mad Science. The licks are chromatic in nature and played at a brisk tempo. Truth be told: This tune has always kicked my butt and I've used hybrid picking to make it through. Thanks to some holy grail advice from Troy Grady that I happily put into practice I'm able to play the lines with the phrasing Steve is looking for. Score! Now I pass on the challenge to you.

Have fun with it!
Weekly Workout #34
Sweep picking is on the chopping block this week. While sweeping takes a LOT of patience in the beginning, it's so worth it in the end. Much like hybrid picking, it gives you a way to play otherwise impossible passages and sound really good doing it! This week's Weekly Workout will take you through full six-string arpeggios at that spell out m11 chords as well as an ˚7 arpeggio disguised as a 7b9! It's an action-packed four bars to say the least.

Have fun with it!
Weekly Workout #35
I'm currently working on a teaching segment that will be used as a fundraiser for Jason Becker. It's an honor to be able to give back to a musician who gave us so much not only as a burning player, but as an inspiration for strength and courage as he continues to compose music while permanently confined to a wheelchair due to ALS. This week you'll play through an excerpt from a lick I'm lovingly slaving over for this campaign. It's a descending tapping lick in Am that makes some interesting moves down the neck to help get you in a place where you reproduce some of Becker's magic.

Have fun with it!
Weekly Workout #36
For this Weekly Workout you have chords to play. Tough ones. Sans pick I'll take you through five bars in 3/4 of some challenging changes set to what I call the "funky hemiola." That's my goofy way of calling out the three-over-four 16ths polyrhythm commonly used in standard funk guitar rhythm patterns as pioneered by the great Jimmy Nolen under the watchful eye of James Brown. These are cool changes taken from a tune of mine called “Ralph Knows the Fax” that I wrote on a Novax XR - an incredible instrument built by the great Ralph Novax.

Have fun with it!
Weekly Workout #37
With my trusty ES-340 in hand I give you this weeks Weekly Workout: A very cool walking bass line riff courtesy of Tuck Andress. I learned both versions of this two-bar riff from his legendary Hot Licks video of yore. It's a seemingly simple I7-IV7 change in C. Take note: Tuck originally played it in G, but I raised it up a perfect fourth to cut down on the stretching. The goal is to get the bass line to sound separate from the swing eighth upbeat chord stabs while maintaining the overall groove. With some tips from me along with patient practice you too will have this rolling in no time.

Have fun with it!

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HOOVERPHONIC

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09/05/22

Guitar Gym Weekly Workouts: Vol. 5

Chris Buono is a beast. Very thorough, very engaging, and he has a wide range of stylistic abilities on the guitar. It is a pleasure to learn from him, and his methods are very efficient at ensuring progress.

AndreFontijn

Verified buyer

08/22/21

Re my post for workouts vol3. Take advantage of these courses.

shawn

10/21/19

Short, but good quality

Fist, Chris is an amazing player and teacher, and his courses, like the guitar gym series, are typically of very high quality. They are filmed in a studio with multiple angles and last around two hours. The reason I give this 3 stars instead of 5 is because you're paying about the same amount for slightly diminished quality (it's Chris's house with one angle, even though he does a good job with camera positioning, it's not the same as the multi-angle and professionally lit Truefire studio) and about half the length. Each Weekly Workout will get you through about 10 weeks, provided you actually practice each lesson for a week. However, the content is, as usual for Chris, top notch.

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