Guitar Players need to pay close attention to how they start a practice session or performance.

You can easily blow out your chops too soon on the bandstand or the practice room.

This exercise may prevent these issues.

 

Two Hands-Two Warm ups

When Starting Cold and a new session has a flexible start time. Try Separate warm up exercises. Picking Hand First, Then Fingering Hand.

exercise / warm up

All strings

whole notes ||:1 2 3 4 2 2 3 4 3 2 3 4 4 2 3 4:||6x

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scales

melodic patterns

chromatic

random freeform tempo and melody

 

Please have a plan defined before beginning.

Keep duration of each part as equal as possible

Then randomize all choices.

Here is an example of how this sounds.

So did it work?

Hear the results of this 3 min warm-up