Historically, Speed, Accuracy, and Articulation was a limited-run booklet sold at Vinnie’s masterclasses in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was never a mass-market book like Guitar Techniques magazine.
The "Extra Quality" digital versions often originate from European guitar forums (Italy and Germany specifically), where fans took the original spiral-bound book, destroyed the spine, and scanned it on professional sheet-feed scanners. These versions are rare because they require manual deskewing and denoising of the tablature.
Vinnie recommends 45 minutes daily on these three areas alone.
| Time | Focus | Exercise | Tempo Goal | |------|-------|----------|-------------| | 10 min | Warm-up / Articulation | Spider walk (Ex 1) | 80 → 120 BPM | | 15 min | Accuracy | String crossing (Ex 2) | 60 → 100 BPM | | 15 min | Speed bursts | Sync drill (Ex 4) – play 4 notes, rest 2 sec | 100 → 140 BPM | | 5 min | Legato | Ex 3 | 70 → 110 BPM | Set a metronome to 60 BPM
Pro tip for “extra quality”: Use a drum loop (rock beat at 90 BPM) instead of a click to simulate real band timing. Vinnie mentions this in the original video’s Q&A.
| Day | Focus | Duration | |-----|-------|----------| | Mon | Chromatic & warm‑up | 20 min | | Tue | String crossing & legato | 20 min | | Wed | 3‑note‑per‑string scales (speed) | 25 min | | Thu | Articulation (bends/vibrato) | 15 min | | Fri | Speed lick & sync. | 25 min | | Sat | Review weakest area | 15 min | | Sun | Rest or play freely | – |
Set a metronome to 60 BPM. Play the first four lines of the articulation section. Most modern guitarists ignore these classical terms
Moore’s philosophy has always been that speed is a result of relaxation and efficiency, not tension. In his instructional materials, the exercises designed for speed are rarely just "shredding" without purpose. They focus on synchronization between the left and right hands. When guitarists look for high-quality PDFs of these exercises, they are often looking for the specific scalar patterns Moore uses—usually three-notes-per-string shapes that allow for fluid legato and alternate picking economy.
If you are stuck in a speed plateau—where your fingers move fast but your playing sounds like "angry bees in a jar"—then yes. The market is saturated with generic "shred" PDFs that teach you scales. Vinnie Moore’s document teaches you control.
The "Articulation" section alone is worth the price of admission. It forces you to play: not tension. In his instructional materials
Most modern guitarists ignore these classical terms. Vinnie’s PDF translates them directly to the fretboard.
This PDF is almost certainly a scanned and OCR’ed (or high-resolution photographed) version of the booklet that accompanied Vinnie Moore’s 1987-1989 REH video, Speed, Accuracy, and Articulation. The “Extra Quality” tag likely means:
The core content is ~20 pages of exercises covering: