How To Get Your Fingers Faster For Guitar By Warming Up Efficiently
Warming up your hands is critical for getting fast fingers for guitar that generate speed through effective and efficient technique.
Don’t overlook this because you are in a hurry to play!
There are many general ways to warm up for guitar playing such as:
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Physical Exercise
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Stretching your fingers
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Stretching your hands
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Stretching your arms
Etc.
But –
When talking about warming up, we’re really talking about things you can play on guitar that help you get the most benefit from your practice or perform music without making mistakes (due to not warming up).
Below are three powerful warmup exercises for guitar that help you play faster and get your fingers moving how you want them to!
Try these three warmups before you practice:
Make Your Warmups Relevant To Your Practice Items
It’s a big mistake to practice random warmup exercises that have nothing to do with your actual practice materials.
Why?
Not because it is 100% ineffective (there is some benefit to it)…
It’s because your practice becomes less efficient.
How so?
Your warmup IS practice. So, it makes more sense to use this time to warmup with the kinds of exercises or practice items you will be working on.
This means that it is more efficient to break down one of your practice items and warm up with a smaller section of it before you begin the entire exercise.
Now we’re onto something!
Here are a few ways to do it:
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Break any of the guitar licks you practice into
3-5 note sections
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Practice part of a guitar solo you’re working on
with a specific technique
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Practice techniques that are relevant to an
exercise you are about to work on
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Practice tremolo picking an arpeggio to warmup your
hands for playing it like normal
· Practice scales in short bursts of a few notes and gradually add more notes one note at a time
Use Exercises That Warmup Many Things At Once
Don’t just practice items on guitar that only give you a single benefit. Use warmups that warm up many aspects of your playing at once!
This makes your practice even more efficient so you get more results in less time.
Arrange your guitar practice items into a single warmup exercise to try to work on as much as you can at once. Then reap the benefits of getting better results from your practice.
Warm Up Faster With High Repetition Counts
Generally speaking, warming up is about getting the blood flowing to your hands and getting your mind linked up with the movements of your hands.
Practicing something using high repetition counts at a fast speed is the best way to warmup as quickly as possible.
Try these two approaches:
1. Practice short scale segments using high reps with speed bursts.
For example, practice the first 5 notes of a scale 50 times, by playing them as fast as you can and inserting a brief rest at the end of each repetition. Afterwards, repeat this by starting from the second note of the scale and playing notes 2-6. Then, 3-7, 4-8, etc.
2. Focusing on consecutive repetitions of a few notes in short period of time.
Break this repetition approach down even more by only playing a couple notes at a time. For example, using the scale approach above, repeat only the first two notes 200 times. This super-charges your mental focus, warming up your mind as well as your fingers.
Now you know how to warm up to get better results from your guitar practice.