Originally Posted by: jasim.hd

Hello, everyone.

I was wondering if you could recommend some warm-up exercises; and also some exercises that could improve playing in general, in terms of speed and dexterity, maybe.

Thank you for all your help. Have a good one. :)

Hi,

the most important thing to pay attention to while doing your warm-up is to FULLY engage your mind!

Let me explain that to you:

Whenever you start to warm up you need to get your fingers warm and smooth to play more accurate and faster. That is the part most players understand.

But your Bain also needs to get engaged and here is why:

If you don't engage your brain during the warm up you will "loose" a lot of precious practise time (YES you will loose the time to improve as a player, because playing a scale mindless up and down has absolutely NO benefit for your guitar playing!)

So you will actually improve your guitar skills during the warm up and therefore make your guitar routine much more efficient when you start to engage your mind.

How should you do that?

It actually doesn't matter what you are playing as long as it is challanging for your BRAIN.

For example play a scale you know but play a sequence of thirds instead of simply play the scale up and down.

Once you are getting familiar with that adopt the idea to another scale or simply change the pattern. There are endlesspossibilitys to that.

You will also get more creative and it is a lot of fun - right away even in the warm up

Cheers,

Matthias