How to Warm up on Bass Guitar
Begin with chromatics at a tempo of 120 BPM (or 60 BPM if you're just starting out), one note per beat., After the chromatics, do whole-steps on each string, four notes per string, one finger per note per string, to help with the stretching and...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Begin with chromatics at a tempo of 120 BPM (or 60 BPM if you're just starting out)
Do this for a minute or two, using one finger per fret on your fretting hand, and using at least two fingers on your plucking hand, alternating each one. -
Step 2: one note per beat.
Do this at 120 BPM (or, once again, at 60 BPM), one note per beat.
Do this for one or two minutes. , Do this with every string.
After that re-tune your instrument, if needed. ,, Any real scale (any scale besides the chromatic) will do.
After playing each mode in succession move it up or down half a step and proceed doing it in the next key.
Keep doing this until you have done every mode of every key you know, this will not only physically warm up your muscles and stretch your muscles, joints, and tendons out, but it will also give your ears and brain a good warm-up. , This will warm you up and help you get used to different scales. , Play this scale using the hopscotch method. , Do this for a minute or two. -
Step 3: After the chromatics
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Step 4: do whole-steps on each string
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Step 5: four notes per string
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Step 6: one finger per note per string
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Step 7: to help with the stretching and warming up.
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Step 8: Go to the 12th fret of your highest pitched string and begin doing 8 full bends with each finger on that string
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Step 9: alternating after every four.
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Step 10: Begin playing chromatics again at 160 BPM (or 80-100 BPM)
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Step 11: one note per beat
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Step 12: one finger per fret.
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Step 13: Begin playing scales
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Step 14: in one key
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Step 15: at 120 (or 60) beats per minute
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Step 16: one note per beat.
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Step 17: Begin playing different scales in one key and different positions at 120 BPM without skipping a beat.
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Step 18: Take a scale you know all modes of
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Step 19: and choose a key.
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Step 20: Find the fastest tempo you can play in time and chose and scale and play every mode of it.
Detailed Guide
Do this for a minute or two, using one finger per fret on your fretting hand, and using at least two fingers on your plucking hand, alternating each one.
Do this at 120 BPM (or, once again, at 60 BPM), one note per beat.
Do this for one or two minutes. , Do this with every string.
After that re-tune your instrument, if needed. ,, Any real scale (any scale besides the chromatic) will do.
After playing each mode in succession move it up or down half a step and proceed doing it in the next key.
Keep doing this until you have done every mode of every key you know, this will not only physically warm up your muscles and stretch your muscles, joints, and tendons out, but it will also give your ears and brain a good warm-up. , This will warm you up and help you get used to different scales. , Play this scale using the hopscotch method. , Do this for a minute or two.
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