Billie Jean from Mod 4. Yes! I know I shouldn’t but I hate being so utterly beaten. So I worked it into my warm up. I start really slowww (50bpm) and work up. I’m up to medium workout speed and it’s improving a bit each time.
G-A-B-C-D-E and back a few times
A few bars of Midnight Oil’s Beds are Burning - fast single string chugging to get the right hand moving.
Peaches - that iconic Jean-Jacques Burnell bass riff, why - it’s easy to make it sound OK and it makes me feel good before facing today’s challenge from Josh.
I worked through learning major and minor scales through the different modes as my warm up while doing b2b. For sone reason, I thought we’d use the different scale shapes more than we do. I still play through the different shapes going up the fretboard first when I pick up a bass in a shop.
I usually warm up by noodling around on the major and minor scales at various points on the neck. I’ve finished B2B but when I was going through it, I would also play the last couple of exercises, too. Now I usually play parts of whatever songs I’ve been working on recently.
I am an open chord strummer of acoustic 6 string BUT new to the Bass! Just completed Module 2. My warm up is an Intro to “Smoke on The Water” : 0-3-5 ; 0-3-6-5 ; 0-3-5-3-0……I do it a couple of times on each of the strings.
Thinking a little about this, I have a few lines I like to ‘noodle’ which you could call a warmup.
Namely the intro to NIB and bassline for Don’t Go To Strangers (JJ Cale).
They serve both to warm up the fingers and to help adjust tone etc.
I use them when playing with pedal settings also, possibly because I know how I expect them to sound.
Sometimes I feel too much that Wally is my soul animal.
I was looking for one strip in particular in which our life goals align.
He tells the pointy haired boss that his goal is to replace his soul with caffeine and live forever.
It’s good to have goals
list growing longer offcourse the deeper I got in the course
