Panterachat

If I don't wanna do a exercise I have always found Captain Beyond's "Raging River of Fear" or the first half of The Atomic Bitchwax's "Ain't Nobody Gonna Hang Me In My Home" gives both my bands a good workout.

I usually play some James Brown stuff or something with lots of octaves or 9ths. Gets my fingers sufficiently stretched out.

Isaac Albeniz - Asturias

classical finger picking song that starts out easy but goes into crazy stuff, and is fun to play.

Cake - I Will Survive

ashes in your mouth

hektik wrote:ashes in your mouth

good song!



a mix of a few songs i guess to warm up, maybe a few sclaes

i warm up with all the metallica riffs i can think of at the time, plus a few runs of some solos.

quick floyd some bass tunes that are great to warm up with

goshuaspenis wrote:quick floyd some bass tunes that are great to warm up with

Off the top of my head:

James Brown -- Funky President
Megadeth -- Five Magics
Rammstein -- Seeman

And a couple of tricky parts of songs I'll be playing before I hit the stage just to make sure I'm stretched.

bunch of hammer-ons to get fingers movin

I just run through a few scales a few times. Usually Major, Minor, and Blues.

I don't warm up to songs. I just stretch my arms, wrists, fingers and then rub my fingers to help get the blood flowing. After that probably some chromatic type stuff and trills with all fingers.

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Necrophagist - Stabwound

bunch of minor scales work too

slaughtered

i find the metalocalypse theme song to be very entertaining and effective for warm ups.

Usually a bunch of arpeggios and harmonic minor scales.