I have to say it is one of the most important things to warm up when you are brand new. My suggestion would be grab your base, tune up, and then start playing some scales. Play some riffs that you remember. play some modules he has taught that you have in your memory bank and then, start playing.
My biggest thing was that I picked up my base because my girlfriend wanted to hear a particular song that I knew and know pretty well. It sounded like garbage because I was not ready to play that song in any way shape or form. We had just walked in from getting to my home, and she was so excited that I had received my new Bass, she wanted to see me play that song and it sounded like and I felt like garbage in front of my girl.
What are your thoughts warming up before you play for even yourself.
Because perfect practice makes perfect. If I as a singer tried to sing sweet child of mine without warming up my vocal cords I would ruin my voice. Same with your hands. Warm them up. Get them moving with scales and then practice. It makes a difference.
Thereās really no āone size fits allā thing here on the forum.
Weāre all different and after 5 years I just pick up my pass and play. Sometimes itās with BeatBuddy and noodle for a bit.
Other times Iāll just start right back on the song I was working on yesterday. I never start with scales.
But I think your major oversight (if I may be so bold) is trying to impress your significant other by playing bass. Remembering what day the recycling goes out. Now that will impress them far more than a mediocre rendition of 7 Nation Army.
Yep. If mine hasnāt already left that part of the house, she puts in earbuds and tunes me out. The only time she cares is when I tell her that I want to drop a chunk of cash on something.
I like to share. If Iām feeling it that day, she can hear me from 2 floors away. She might show up to a gig. At least the first one for moral support. Our taste in music is wildly different though.
If the instrument is making noise, then you are playing it.
If you are doing patterns that reinforce a skill, you are practicing.
Warming up is something that all skill levels do. Itās necessary to build up in intensity before trying to perform at your peak. But what that build up looks like will change as you build skill. For me, thatās usually playing simpler songs that I know but that focus on different techniques. Just like the way I warm up to rock climb is by climbing easier routes first.
And honestly, Iād argue that scales are usually not that great a warmup for beginners. Doing scales properly uses multiple skills: alternate plucking, fretting, changing strings. Doing all of those simultaneously at a level to reinforce good skills may be above warm-up level for beginners. Plucking and muting exercises are more likely to be a good warm-up speed.
In a case like that, itās probably not a good idea to play something like Closer To Home or Cakeās version of I Will Survive.
Better to try something like this.
Yeah. I mean, for the last few years I donāt even practice any more, that āpractice every dayā phase lasted about three years. Now I only do it when I am learning a song where I need to work up my technique, but itās always a very focused and goal oriented thing, never just āpractice to practice.ā
We donāt even have trash pick up in my area. I live in the country. besides Recycling as a far anyway. I used to work for a trash collection company, and we put the recycles in the same spot. Then we put the trash. It all went in the landfill.
Not where Iām from. Most recycling items are recycled.
That said, national statistics show that up to 10-30% of items thrown in recycling, on average, are plastic bags, food-contaminated paper/aluminum containers or other non-acceptable materials that canāt be recycled, so it is rejected and trashed by the recycling plant. But the vast majority of clean/separated glass, paper and aluminum items in bins is accepted and processed at the recycling plant.
As a new player and being 55 years old with arthritis I have to warm up.
