Exercises, Drills, warm-ups???
Ok, what i'd like to know is: How do you all warm up before band practice or gigs? let's exchange tricks so we can learn from each other...
I usually do stretches with my arms, fingers, neck and joints. It just seems to relax my playing before band practice or live shows. My left hand guitar warm ups are usually scales (especially chromatic progressions, sweep-picking, and string skipping exercises). My right hand warm ups are usually sweep-picking, alternate picking, string-skipping, and odd-timing strumming exercises. And the funny thing is...nowadays i do a lot of my warm-ups in the car with the steering wheel.hehe(usually when i'm im driving into chicago for band practice) . I also often practice scales in my head, or improvise solos and melodies from songs that i hear on the radio and try to play it as soon as i get a hold of a guitar. And yes, I am a guitar-freak!lol....ok your turn...
I usually do stretches with my arms, fingers, neck and joints. It just seems to relax my playing before band practice or live shows. My left hand guitar warm ups are usually scales (especially chromatic progressions, sweep-picking, and string skipping exercises). My right hand warm ups are usually sweep-picking, alternate picking, string-skipping, and odd-timing strumming exercises. And the funny thing is...nowadays i do a lot of my warm-ups in the car with the steering wheel.hehe(usually when i'm im driving into chicago for band practice) . I also often practice scales in my head, or improvise solos and melodies from songs that i hear on the radio and try to play it as soon as i get a hold of a guitar. And yes, I am a guitar-freak!lol....ok your turn...
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Permalink Reply by Sonic Gihad on -
Dood! Balot helps with a different kind of tapping... the only string that may be involved is a G-string.
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