I just found some of the best left-hand warm-up exercises I’ve ever seen in this FPE-TV video:  AJ and Dean from The Human Abstract explain how they get themselves ready before every show, including dexterity training for both individual fingers and the entire hand.

Check it out…

Notice, however, how AJ moves his fingers a lot less than Dean when shredding the same riffs…saving energy and, in all likelihood, making him capable of faster playing.  Nonetheless, watching Dean’s chromatic exercise in the last thirty seconds is mezmerizing…and now I definitely know why Carlos Santana thought his hand was a tarantula while tripping acid at Woodstock.