Warm up techniques

[dwf1004]

Gotcha there, Keith. Feel free to leave PD alone, eh?

 

[mbgreene]

Its a little corny, but I tend to use a bunch of novelty stuff to warm up.

Things like the Sailors Hornpipe (think Popeye strutin down the street) or Irish jigs - stuff that came out of early lessons for sight reading etc. but are actually good for working on utilizing all fingers, picking, string crossing etc. Plus little extras like the Hawaii 5-0 theme, Bonanza etc.

 

[kbaim]

Just funnin'.



Wish PD lived closer. Could use a good bass player for next project.
KEITH

 

[phatduckk]

Just funnin'.



Wish PD lived closer. Could use a good bass player for next project.
KEITH

where you at dude? if your project is a short session and not a "real band" i can fly out on a vacation for a week or 10 days and jam ...

transporting a 1/2 stack could be a bitch tho

 

[kbaim]

Looking to form instrumental band again. Hopefully with vioin and sax. Do a little recording.

Orange county (between LA and SD)

 

[phatduckk]

Looking to form instrumental band again. Hopefully with vioin and sax. Do a little recording.

Orange county (between LA and SD)

rock on. the home of Social Distortion their new CD is pretty good by the way

i was just there this last weekend. i wish i new .... coulda met up for an afternoon jam session.

 

[skabassist13]

this is one of my prefered methods becuase it requires very little work. if you can, locate a sink that has hot water. fill the sink with warmish hot water, dont burn yourself, you just need it a tad hotter than warm. put your arms in the sink up to your elbows and sit there for a minute. you should feel your whole lower arm start to warm up and feeling loose. when you feel your done, pull your arms out, dry them off and appreciate your warmed up arms.

 

[louisgtr]

I have found that John Petrucci's "Rock Discipline" DVD which shows some great warm up techniques to work for me. Nothing very extensive as far as scales (in terms of speed...that comes later), but in stretches and warm ups.

+1 - I also like to use the warm up stretches John demonstrates in Rock Discipline, they really help in getting the fingers relaxed and loosened up.