Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
▶ WATCH THE REST OF THE INTENSIVE
The first 4 weeks of this intensive are public here on YouTube. From week 5, the replays live inside my free community, where members follow along with daily check-in threads. Join free: skool.com/the-practice-room-pro/about
I'm doing my own 8-Week Alternate Picking Intensive, all 56 days of it, and streaming the actual practice sessions. This is Day 1.
This is not a lesson. It's the real daily work: 12 exercises, 5 minutes each. Four pentatonic, four modal, four exotic (melodic minor, harmonic minor and friends). Everything is eighth notes at 80 BPM over a drone so you can hear the tonality of every note. The tempo never goes up. The goal is perfect accuracy, and speed grows out of that.
Every week the exercises are updated and you get 12 new ones within the same categories.
Want to do the intensive yourself? It's one of four 8-week intensives inside Practice Room Pro, with the full week-by-week plan, printable tabs and Guitar Pro files, a practice log built specifically for this intensive, and my feedback on your playing as you go.
Start with a free 7-day trial:
jonbjorkmusic.com/pro
The metronome and drone you see on screen is my own app, JB Timing Trainer:
apps.apple.com/app/jb-timing-trainer/id6444255923
While the stream is on: play along with the tab on screen, or do your own practice with me as company. Either way, we both practiced today. Questions welcome in chat, I answer between exercises.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro: Day 1, how the intensive works
2:05 Exercise 1: Pentatonic
7:25 Exercise 2: Pentatonic
17:25 Exercise 3: Pentatonic, A minor
24:15 Exercise 4: Pentatonic, inverted sixes
29:50 Exercise 5: Modal, G Dorian
36:20 Exercise 6: Modal, A Aeolian
42:40 Exercise 7: Modal, F Lydian (plus how loud the drone should be)
49:00 Exercise 8: Modal, E Phrygian
54:50 Exercise 9: Exotic, A harmonic minor
1:01:30 Exercise 10: Exotic, E harmonic minor
1:10:00 Exercise 11: Exotic, E Phrygian dominant
1:15:40 Why slow practice works (the important part)
1:19:10 Exercise 12: Exotic, whole tone
1:24:30 Wrap-up and questions
▶ WATCH THE REST OF THE INTENSIVE
The first 4 weeks of this intensive are public here on YouTube. From week 5, the replays live inside my free community, where members follow along with daily check-in threads. Join free: skool.com/the-practice-room-pro/about
I'm doing my own 8-Week Alternate Picking Intensive, all 56 days of it, and streaming the actual practice sessions. This is Day 1.
This is not a lesson. It's the real daily work: 12 exercises, 5 minutes each. Four pentatonic, four modal, four exotic (melodic minor, harmonic minor and friends). Everything is eighth notes at 80 BPM over a drone so you can hear the tonality of every note. The tempo never goes up. The goal is perfect accuracy, and speed grows out of that.
Every week the exercises are updated and you get 12 new ones within the same categories.
Want to do the intensive yourself? It's one of four 8-week intensives inside Practice Room Pro, with the full week-by-week plan, printable tabs and Guitar Pro files, a practice log built specifically for this intensive, and my feedback on your playing as you go.
Start with a free 7-day trial:
jonbjorkmusic.com/pro
The metronome and drone you see on screen is my own app, JB Timing Trainer:
apps.apple.com/app/jb-timing-trainer/id6444255923
While the stream is on: play along with the tab on screen, or do your own practice with me as company. Either way, we both practiced today. Questions welcome in chat, I answer between exercises.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro: Day 1, how the intensive works
2:05 Exercise 1: Pentatonic
7:25 Exercise 2: Pentatonic
17:25 Exercise 3: Pentatonic, A minor
24:15 Exercise 4: Pentatonic, inverted sixes
29:50 Exercise 5: Modal, G Dorian
36:20 Exercise 6: Modal, A Aeolian
42:40 Exercise 7: Modal, F Lydian (plus how loud the drone should be)
49:00 Exercise 8: Modal, E Phrygian
54:50 Exercise 9: Exotic, A harmonic minor
1:01:30 Exercise 10: Exotic, E harmonic minor
1:10:00 Exercise 11: Exotic, E Phrygian dominant
1:15:40 Why slow practice works (the important part)
1:19:10 Exercise 12: Exotic, whole tone
1:24:30 Wrap-up and questions
