Warm up Exercises – From Thought to finish …

@wildguitartk 8690 wrote:

Hey guys

I recently wrote an article on warm up for my blog, thought it came out nicely so check it out and lemme know what you think

http://shredthisway.blogspot.com/2009/08/guitar-warm-up-exercises-often-seen.html

BTW , the tabs are a lil screwed up .. I originally wrote it up in word .
any suggestions on which font I can use?

and I’m still working on the legato section .. so any suggestions there would also be gr8

Peace

Hello there, 🙂

I think you did a good job there on the warm-up, although a couple of proper-stretches (before picking up the guitar) are in order to prevent tendonitis. Just ask Infinite Guitar’s fearless leader Sean Conklin if he thinks that pre-warmup stretching is important!!! He’ll tell ya! 😮 :rolleyes: 😉

As far as your forthcoming legato section goes, be sure to clearly explain the proper mecahnics of a good pulloff technique! 😉 Some sources weakly explain the pulloff as a hammer-on in reverse, and even though there’s a bit of obvious truth in that, such a gross simplification would certainly lead a beginner legato student down a road of “weak-ass” pulled-off notes! (LOL!) Ya know, explain the necessary “plucking-motion-toward-the floor” that the left-hand pulloff finger must do to get the lower-pitched/2nd note of the pulloff to have any volume that is even close to the volume of the higher-pitched/first/picked-note! Perhaps it might even be a good idea to make the beginner’s first attempts at pulling-off (as they pertain to a warm-up routine) pulloffs-to-open-strings. After all, those are a bit easier, since the lower-pitched note then doesn’t require fretting. Personally, I like ewarm-ups that are practical/applicable. Therefore, my idea about pulloffs to open strings might be cooler if they were suggested as a descending open/first-position “E” Pentatonic-Minor scale:

—3–0

* Clearly, the fretted-notes would be picked, and then there would be a pulloff to each subsequent open-string-note. 😎

Best of luck! 😉

~Bill Meehan~ 😀

@wildguitartk 8824 wrote:

thanks man…

I’d be sure to take that into consideration..
I wanna take some time with legatos..cuz I feel there are many ways to do it right and use it as a tool to building strength.. but there are also a million more ways to do it wrong..

your reply was pretty helpful man… I might just copy paste someofthe stuff 😉 :p

Hey wildguitark, 🙂

That’s cool! You’re correct that there are many ways to do that stuff incorrectly! :rolleyes: 😮 Anyways, I’m glad that you thought my reply could be helpful, and by all means,
“cut-and-paste” whatever you want! 😎 Just “paying-it-forward” bro – (LOL!) 😉

~Bill Meehan~ 😀