What’s the first thing you play when you grab your guitar? Do you warm up?

I personally love guitar warm-ups. Driving blood into your fingers is an excellent way to start your practice session.

Scales, arpeggios and symmetrical exercises among the most popular warm-ups for guitarists.

There is a downside though!

Every time I practice the famous 1 2 3 4 exercises or the old time favorite scales, I inevitably start thinking about other things — that phone call I have to make or the doctor appointment.

My fingers are moving, but my brain is somewhere else.

Is this beneficial for my fingers? Absolutely! But we can’t say the same for my brain.

So, what if you could play an exercise that also warm-up your creativity?

In this fingerstyle guitar lesson, I am going to show you three warm-up exercises that will also fire up your creativity. 

We will learn how:

• How to warm-up using melodic scales.
• How to create use chords to warm-up.
• A less tedious symmetrical warm-up exercise

Enjoy this lesson guys.