Various playing and non-playing exercises for warming up before practice session.

Everything you need to know, and do, before starting a guitar practice session.

Vintage rock playing - warm and fat tones.

I used to play chromatic scales to warm up for many years, and they are great for warming up fingers, but they have one deficiency, the chromatic ups and downs do not require to be focused and to warm up your mind. So I designed these different patterns that require to be focused while practicing.

Ten minutes of slow, quiet and gentle warming up should be enough. Let's start with some humming! Always start off with humming even if your voice feels fresh and ready to go. Gentle hum with your mouth closed.

This exercise is a warm up, like the humming in lesson 1 but with a little different in the melody. Different vowels have different effects on the voice. That is why the second lesson contains two exercises with different vowels.

Cover four types of picking movement: optimise your routine for amazing picking performance!

Warming up exercises, spoken tutorial.

Welcome to my first lesson here on GMC. Todays topic is warming up, I will show you what I usually do to warm myself up before a show or recording and give you some ideas about possible variations that might make things a bit more interesting to play. You will come across lots of chromatic runs, scale fragments and a lot of alternate picking.