warmup excercises???

[Sid Vai]

ok, i woudl like o know what the most efficient warmup excercise is. and the quickest...anyone?

[BrianH]

If my hands are cold, I warm them up in warm water or something like rubbing them together etc... Then I do this chromatic excercise from john petrucci's rock discipline video. I start the metronome out at around 80 and go up to 206 I believe. Then I am warmed up.

[Texter]

Yeah JPs warmup extravaganza usually does the trick. If I combine his excercises from RD and WS (wild stringdom) and do a Vai excercise from the UV booklet I'm busy for an hour or so just warming up ...and watching TV ofcourse.

[Sid Vai]

...can u please post them? id lik to know a warmup excercise....

[Babook]

"erotomania" really looks like a warmup song...
chromatics and some stretchs at the beginning then speed picking and all at the end

[Merlin_]

I wouldn't like to launch into erotomania cold.
I usually do some hand and wrist stretches, then JP's RD exercises.
Then I'll strum through a few chord progressions, then move on to chromatics

[EKG]

Intro to Mr. Big's Colorado Bulldog...start out slowly and work your way up.

[Predator]

I sit on my hands before picking up my guitar!

Just kidding... After rubbing my hands and fingers, I do chromatic excersizes aswell as arpeggios and improvising to warm up. Then I practise some stuff for a while, for instance... I'll practise some arpeggios, or chordprogressions, or pull offs or whatever, after that I'll play a few Satch or Dream Theater songs and if I feel like practising anymore I will continue doing that.

Basically, just playing (improvising solo's) helps warming your fingers up. Just don't forget to rub your hands a little bit, so they won't cramp up.

[Drew]

You know what works really well for me? playing scales linearly up the neck in three note groups, first playing two notes fretted normally then pre-bending into the third, then playing the same three notes fretted, and moving up one position and doing it again. For example:

G|--2-4-(b)5-4-2-4-5-4-4-5-(b)7-5-4-5-7-5-| etc.

something about that really loosens up my fingers and in addition helps keep your bends sharp.

then i just wank around aimlessly for a while, drink a gin and tonic or three, and flirt with groupies, if any exist.

-Drew