What's your B2B warm up?

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If you have one….

For me (Just kicking off Module 7).

  1. 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.
  2. G-A-B-C-D-E and back a few times
  3. A few bars of Midnight Oil’s Beds are Burning - fast single string chugging to get the right hand moving.
  4. 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.
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Cup of coffee

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Especially if I want to play a fretless bass line with a lot of vibrato in it. :rofl:

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Mine was - put on a drum loop and pluck open strings in different rhythms (focusing on plucking and muting):

Whole, Half, Quarter

Then quarters on each combo of the measure: 1 & 2, 1 & 3, 1 & 4, 2 & 3, 2 & 4, 3 & 4.

Then resting one quarter of each measure.

Then getting weird with different combinations of Eighth notes.

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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.

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I used Billie Jean during the course. Disliked the song then, dislike it now, but it is undeniably a good warmup.

These days I use New Order’s Sunrise or Joy Division’s Disorder.

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Yep, forgot that I finished my warm up with Billie Jean. I can’t believe that was 30 months ago.

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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.

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I used to have some bookmarked lessons I would start with before doing a lesson :slight_smile: list growing longer offcourse the deeper I got in the course

and to be honest I still go to that list sometimes for warmup :slight_smile:

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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.

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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.

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I guess I am always warm cuz I drink coffee 24/7.:astonished_face:

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Yup, coffee to wake up, coffee to relax. Busy? Cup of coffee. Bored? Cup of coffee. Cold? Have a cuppa, Too hot? Cuppa time. Bedtime? Cuppa coffee

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Woke up too early? Cup of coffee, relax in bed, go back to sleep!