# Learn Guitar — Rock exercises

> Interactive page: [`exercises-rock.html`](exercises-rock.html) · Hub: [`exercises.md`](exercises.md) · Matching drills: [`drills-rock.md`](drills-rock.md)

Root plus fifth, mute everything else, then lock the right hand. Power-chord gym plus rock-leaning pick (downstroke stamina, syncopated mute). Short wake-ups: [Rock drills](drills-rock.md). Gallop and chug stamina: [Metal exercises](exercises-metal.md).

**Technique path:** [Drills](drills.md) · [Exercises](exercises.md) · this page.

**Sources (two-check):** conventional root-fifth voicings and palm-mute technique as taught in Hal Leonard rock method material · Berklee-style right-hand-to-click practice. Generic shapes — no copied riffs.

On the HTML page, Play becomes Stop on the same button. Tempo follows the metronome.

## Suggested order

1. E5 shape
2. E5→G5→A5
3. Across E5–A5–D5
4. Mute check
5. Downstroke stamina
6. Syncopated mute
7. Power-chord variants

### Three tracks

- **Beginner** — E5 alone, clean and quiet. Then slide it to G5 and A5.
- **Intermediate** — across strings. Mute check. Downstroke stamina on E5.
- **Advanced** — syncopated mute. Power variants up the neck. Then [Rock drills](drills-rock.md).

## Power chords

### E5 shape

Open low E plus A string fret 2.

```
e|-x-
B|-x-
G|-x-
D|-x-
A|-2-
E|-0-   E5
```

### E5 → G5 → A5

One bar each. Move the whole hand as a block.

```
E5      G5      A5
A|-2-    -5-     -7-
E|-0-    -3-     -5-
```

### Across E5–A5–D5

Identical shape, different string.

```
E5      A5      D5
D|-x-    -x-     -7-
A|-2-    -7-     -5-
E|-0-    -5-     -x-
```

### Mute check

Strike each shape once and listen. Walk E5, G5, A5, D5 in order.

```
E5   G5   A5   D5
A|-2- -5- -7- -5-
E|-0- -3- -5- -x-
```

### Power-chord variants

Start root fret 0 / 3 / 5 / 7 on low E, cycle three shapes up; palm-mute eighths or open downs.

## Rock pick

Core alternate pick and palm-mute eighths stay on the [Exercises hub](exercises.md).

### Downstroke stamina on E5

E5 on every click, all downstrokes, unmuted.

```
A|-2-
E|-0-   all ↓
```

### Syncopated mute

Hit on beat 1 and on the & of beats 2 and 4. Alternate E5 and G5 each bar.

```
    1  &  2  &  3  &  4  &
E|-x--0--x--0--x--0--x--0-|  P.M. on x
```

## Practice note

8–10 minutes. Two on E5, four on moving powers, two on stamina or sync. Then [Rock drills](drills-rock.md). Lead box 1: [Solo exercises](exercises-solo.md).