What do you play for warming up?

[Annelene Frabe]

I’d love to see what your exercises are!

 

[Matt Wildcat]

I don’t really know if they’d count as exercises, but I have a few things I do to warm up – I start off with running over a few basic chord progressions (For example – C, Am, F, G, etc.) gradually working my way up to slightly harder chords and such, then I go over a few scales, mainly Am Pentatonic at the moment. I also do a slightly altered Am pentatonic, so it uses all the same notes of the scale, but they’re just put together like a short little solo going from high E down to low E. Sometimes I’ll also do a more technical exercise focusing on hammer-ons and pull-offs, which includes hammering on and pulling off as fast as possible with each finger, working on one at a time (One fret per finger) for approx. 5 to 10 seconds before moving onto the next finger. From there, I just go into working on songs given to me by my music teacher.

 

[Nathan Register]

I just run through the major and minor scales slow-fast all over the neck it helps with speed and getting the blood flowing, then I will just calm mute some power chords as fast I can down picks and up picks until I feel I’m warmed up.

 

[Noah Berends]

I usually run through some simple riffs I like to get the blood going to my fingers, then I’ll run through some portions of Steve Vai’s 10 Hour Guitar Workout to get the fingers loose. After that I usually get into what I wanted to practice and in between just noodle around to keep nimble.

 

[Mariler]

I usually do some scales alternate picked and hammer-ons/pull-off with each finger. Just for a few minutes

 

[Sayonil Mitra]

Now a days, I start with the chromatic exercise, then the last solo from the song Ritual by Ghost. it’s a slow solo. but works for me.

 

[Ben Thorpe]

Chromatic climb and descend is a good warm up exercise.

 

[Dan Shipway]

Pentatonic scale and bending (My entire catalogue for now basically)

 

[Jak Angelescu]

I do my own little 30 minute chromatic exercises it covers a lot of ground from pinky endurance, legato, sequential runs, speed picking and finger dexterity/independence

 

[Elton Breaux]

I have a little riff that i made that really gets the fingers going. Even in the middle of playing , if my fingers arent doing what i want I’ll go back and play it to get my fingers going.

 

[Alan Celis]

i mostly noodle around the guitar, playing some sweeps and doing some scale runs with alternate picking

 

[Rad Synner]

playing master of puppets at 90% speed. Im more of a rythm player and its just a song that puts me in the mood. Also helps keeping my downstroke picking up to norm! After that, I practice a couple scales and whatnot and just have fun

 

[Calvin Phillips]

depends on what im working on honestly.. if I’m jamming my songs I’m probably playing my songs through and through.. but if I’m working on a improv lately I’m just running that scale up and down.. most these days are mostly pinky related.. changing it up from 1 2 4 to 1 3 4 to get all fingers in sync.