Video Question: Warm Up Exercises, Acousitc or Electric Guitar

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Date: June 9th, 2008 | Length: 1.15 | Instructor: Nick Greathouse

mercenary asks, "Hey Dennis - Or other instructors - With your latest metal lesson set leeson where you show come cool awesome warm up techiniques - Can these also be applied to acoustic guitars as well? I generally play with both acoustic and an electric - and I prob assume they could be used also for electric guitars??? Thx" Another benefit of being a member of JamPlay is the video response section. Our expert staff fields questions from our members and provides video responses each week.

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