How to Warm Up With Groove Scales (Part 2)
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Boost your technique and fretboard knowledge, more easily than you ever thought possible.
I very much hope that this fun lesson brings a new level of technical ease and knowledge to your playing.
I do this as a warmup every day, and I teach this in workshops as well.
I’ll show you exactly how you to do this warmup in the FREE PDF.
Groove on!
Adam
Here’s What You’ll Get From This Lesson…
- You’ll learn how to warm up gently – and get a fat groove and tone on the guitar – with ease.
- You’ll “autmagically” start to know where all the notes on the neck are (no memorizing needed!)
- You’ll have the guitar in your hands at all times – no music reading is required.
- You’ll develop your knowledge of scales in a natural, fun, easy way that uses your ears and your hands. No long winded “theory lessons.”
- You’ll be amazed as new melodies creep into your playing – as if your hands “know where to go” – on their own!
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Hi Adam, i enjoy every time your soulful music-lessons and advices !
keep on on that lovely way
Armin
Thanks Adam
So simple, yet so effective:
It’s a great way to loosen up; and it has a cathartic effect–not feeling constrained by metronome timing when doing your scales.
So simple yet so effective. Never thought I’d dig playing scales.
Hiii Adam,
Thank you for lesson, I like your video cover on youtube, maybe someday, you can performance in Indonesia… Amiin.. see you
Hi Adam,
thaks 4 the good advice.From now on the GROOVE will guide me!
reg.
Wolfgang
Super!
Yes ! So much more fun than playing like a robot. It’s hard to not be an engineer 🙂
I too can be too technical!
What is the name of the Scale you are using, Thank you , cool stuff you rock..
Just a good old Major scale. Thanks for your comment and sorry for the late response! – AR
Excellent, where have you been all my life?
Hi Adam. Thanks for the advice. Spent years doing analytical major scales and gave up bored and no better a player. Come back to the guitar and enjoying it so much more and this lesson makes so much sense. Wish Id been given the advice 30 years ago!
One question though. I am generally practicing music by Tommy Emmanuel & now Andrea Valeria so thumb pick + fingers. Ive started doing this practice routine with the thumb pick only mostly alternate up/down strokes. If I want to benefit most from this practice, should I be doing it thumb bottom 3 strings and i/m/a for the top 3 strings or does it really matter ? (After all TE & AV often break into solos with the thumb pick only!). But another downside of thumb pick only is I am not warming up the rest of the fingers prior to practicing the songs ?
Many thanks.
Russell
Both those guys amaze me and I really struggle to get my touch right and play like them but I try. I did hang with Andrea, and while he is not a very technical teacher – he emphasized going very light with the thumb. Now when I practice boom chick (it is the absolute bane of my existence!) I try to go light, barely touch the string.
Practice slow and then fast. Each tempo informs the other! And, when you make the melody sing, the thumb sounds right.
Anything “fast” on guitar is an easy and small motion – once you figure out the RIGHT motion 🙂 You can’t always get fast by going slow. It’s like….running is NOT fast walking. Get it?
I am good and can play very fast with a flatpick, it’s like another limb (played jazz 20+ years) so I try to apply that logic. It’s in my body now, hard to articulate.
Up & downs on the thumb pick – I don’t use that for playing, but it’s good practice, it forces you to relax!
When I got my act together with the flat pick, I had an AHA moment which was – “don’t get stuck on upstrokes” meaning, the down then up is one motion. I try to do that with I M A when I boom chick as well.
Go easy and go light, take care of your hands. Hope this helps.
Happy New Year!
AR
Many thanks Adam for the in-depth reply, made sense 🙂 Will go easier on the thumb boom/chick ! All the best for 2017. Cheers.
Thank you so much for this, Adam. You could describe this in thousands of words, but it wouldn’t convey the message nearly as well as a few notes of your video. I can’t help but imagine an old jazz bassist in a smoky bar, slapping an upright double bass to get the band going . All of the cats pick up the finger popping. Then the drums lock in the groove, then the rhythm guitar sweetens it up, the horns punctuating it, and finally the keyboards to set the stage for the opening number. So cool. So in the groove. I think I’ve got it, I’m in the groove!
Ahem, sorry about that rhetorical excess. Just had to show the motivation, dontcha know.?
Just curious, do you warm up your hands and body before doing your Scales warmup?