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    • #22363
      Curt Kingston
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      What is the go to riff or song you warm up with? For me it’s either Highway to Hell or The Mob Rules.

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    • #22364
      rightonthemark
      Participant

      typically i play a pentatonic lick/run that spans four of the five pentatonic shapes.

      at some point the intro riff to crazy train is likely to come from my fingers.

      then usually what ever song/riff/lead i’ve been working lately.

      rock and roll ain't pretty; that's why they picked us to play it.

    • #22366
      Curt Kingston
      Participant

      Is the pentatonic run from the lessons or something that you Frankenberry’d yourself? I need to start doing that type of warm up now that I am looking to be a lead guitarist instead of a primary rhythm guy.

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      • #22367
        rightonthemark
        Participant

        my own frankeberry’d ditty \m/

        maybe i’ll make a video later and show it.

        rock and roll ain't pretty; that's why they picked us to play it.

    • #22374
      rightonthemark
      Participant

      here it is…my pentatonic warm up.

      i like that extended pentatonic shape.

      as you can see it spans 4 of the 5 basic pentatonic shapes.

      it’s three octaves of the same pattern.

      covers a lot of the fretboard and it’s a fun pattern to play.

      the sequence i do is something you might hear ace frehley do – think love gun.

      i do some sequences on the way back down too.

      some of the bends & slides and even the sequences might change from warm up to warm up but it’s based out of the same basic idea each time.

      rock and roll ain't pretty; that's why they picked us to play it.

    • #22375
      vik
      Participant

      Sweet.

      I am stealing this warm-up. Thanks

    • #22379
      Curt Kingston
      Participant

      That’s a nice approach for playing across patterns. Just noodled with it and I hear many licks in there. You’re right about it being reminiscent of Love Gun. Black Dog by Zeppelin is also nestled in there, with a blues note of course. I appreciate that tip and I will add it to my warm ups in my practice creator.

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    • #22382
      superblonde
      Keymaster

      That is a great warmup ROTM..
      When I started the older course, I would always play the stage 3 solo when picking up the guitar. Then I started playing Doug’s classic warmup exercise every time and then the stage 3 solo. Then it changed to be the stage 4 solo. But I’m not really good at either of those solos so I’m guessing a good full warmup is always better, one that really warms up the pinky.
      Then I went thru a long period where I always did the Speed Kills 3 exercise 3 for a few minutes every time, which does have a lot of pinky.
      Recently I’m doing a more schooled discipline where I play Doug’s classic warmup first, then all the Speed Kills 1 exercises, overall 30 minutes, sometimes up to 70-80 minutes. https://guitarlessonforum.com/guitar-forums/topic/speed-kills-1-warm-up-fingers-3-4 Is it ‘working’? Who knows..
      After that I often go into the riff of whatever new song I’m learning, so it’s usually the same post-warmup riff for many weeks.

      I’d like to get to a point where I have Doug’s licks on autopilot, and then my warmup will be something like, full warmup then pentatonic patterns then a dozen of those licks. But that will have to wait, because right now I need to begin another round of ear training as daily warmup, so, my fall season warmup will be the most frustrating of all, picking up the guitar and playing along with 2 random piano interval notes and trying to find the intervals, for 20-30 mins. Which is pretty much like: fingernails on a chalkboard level of frustration.

      There is a more fun already-warmed-up but-picking-up-the-guitar-again-thing I do sometimes, that was from Doug’s “Pentatonic Zone” video series. It is basically: the pentatonic patterns 1-5 connected together, play ascending to the last note of each pattern, slide up to the next pattern and play descending, slide up to the next one and play ascending, etc, then at the last pattern, reverse to go up the neck, and go back and forth like this several times (best with metronome because, hitting the slide note to the next pattern on the beat is what really makes this exercise great).

      I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
      And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

    • #22391
      j dogg39
      Participant

      I now play Michael Angelo Batio’s warmups from Speed Kills I every single time I play. It warms up your fingers and helps with the alternate picking.

    • #22392
      superblonde
      Keymaster

      My current go-to warmup riff that I am playing, is from Freedom At 21. The song is very simple yet more complex than it seems at first, because things happen on the 2 & 4. I think it’s because Jack White wrote the album with a very very good jazz drummer. Check it out, it’s a good riff.

      My current go-to warmup solo that I am playing, or should I say flailing, is Sweating Bullets. It’s a chromatic solo so it goes well after doing the Speed Kills 1 “1-2-3-4” warmup. I try to play the first section of the solo every day of practice, repeating for at least five minutes or so. Check out the Sweating Bullets solo in this awesome play along tab video, https://youtu.be/8OipGM-g7po?t=2m56s

      I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
      And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

    • #22401
      rightonthemark
      Participant

      my warmups have obviously changed over the years.

      it used to be playing some sort of KISS riff or Randy Rhoads riff.

      later i started to do scales and sequences. i have even put specific licks in my warmup. and almost always end it with some sort of improvised noodling.

      that extended pentatonic listed above was added a while back. i kind of became obsessed with it. i broke it down to the three octaves and would play each octave over and over before moving on to the next octave. then running straight thru all three oftaves and back.

      i then started to add sequences and licks to the scale warmup and some of those came about during my improvised noodling.

      when using licks for warmups i would play them very slow concentrating on accuracy and eventually i would get them up to speed. this is true of learning other guitartists lick or coming up with your own. to me this is the best way to commit anything to your natural playing memory – that you can recall it without really thinking about it. it’s the kind of thing you can do while watching tv. the sort of thing you should do any time you pick up your guitar.

      i typically have a guitar plugged into my laptop upstairs in the mancave; one on a stand downstairs in the office; and one in a case ready to take to band practice. and i periodically rotate which guitar is where. but it means whether i am upstairs or down i can grab a guitar at anytime and noodle or run thru my warmups. for example: i’m ready to go to dinner and waiting for the wife and can easily pick up a guitar to pass the time while she gets ready.

      rock and roll ain't pretty; that's why they picked us to play it.

    • #22402
      Igglepud
      Participant

      The first movement from Fur Elise followed by The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

      MY ROCK IS FIERCE!!!

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