Chords for Adam Rafferty Guitar lesson - How to Warm Up Properly Using "Groove Scales" - Part 1
Tempo:
105.375 bpm
Chords used:
G
E
B
D
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E] [B]
Greetings everybody, this is Adam Rafferty here with some enormous headphones.
I'm here
to give you a little guitar lesson on the importance of warming up.
I'm going to show
you how I warm up before I dive into a full on practice routine.
I hope that you'll [G] benefit
from this and I hope you'll enjoy it.
I'm going to use some index cards because I wrote
out a couple of little pointers and of course I don't have a teleprompter here in my apartment
so please bear with me.
One thing that, especially if you're a guitarist and you're working on
solo arrangements and [N] maybe you take lessons or maybe you're just learning off the internet
and YouTube, something that you often need somebody to show you is the importance of
a warm up routine.
The warm up is like the pre-practicing.
When I take the guitar out,
I don't just start playing Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson arrangements.
I do some things
to ease into playing guitar and reawaken my technique and the feeling of the strings under
my fingers.
Not only that, but reawaken my musical mind and my sense of musicality.
As
far as warming up physically, athletes do it, dancers do it, vocalists do it, and instrumentalists
do it.
Especially if you've ever seen trumpet or trombone players, they've got to warm up
their lips and do all this kind of stuff to get loose lips and warm up their, actually
temperature wise, warm up their horns so that the pitch is proper.
A basketball team wouldn't
go from the locker room and run out on the court and play a full on basketball game without
doing some light warming up, light running around, light jump shots to get the mobility
in the joints, muscles, and tendons and everything flowing.
Now, I really do this.
If you were
to ever see me pick a guitar up, especially when I'm on tour, the first thing I do in
the morning is I get the guitar out of the hotel room and I'm doing the warm up.
Pretty
much exactly what I'm going to show you.
Pretty much exactly.
Okay, now as I said, it's not
only a technical exercise.
You've got to immerse yourself musically in the meaning behind what
this is.
A mistake that I made for many years was thinking that technique is just something
I can get perfect and then I can magically add either feeling, whatever that means, or
groove later.
Where I'm at now in my musical development, I see that you can't really take
the, you can't really separate these things so easily.
So it's better to start off groovy.
Start off funky.
Play with rhythm and build your playing around that.
I've had a lot more
enjoyment in my playing since I've done that.
Okay, now if we look at finger style guitar
playing or any kind of guitar playing or any kind of music playing for that matter, what
is it?
We're playing an instrument.
We're playing notes on the instrument.
We're trying
to get a good sound and play in time.
We're playing with some kind of rhythmic flow.
So
we're going to do that in our warm up, only we're going to go slow.
And slow doesn't necessarily
mean lazy.
Slow means we're going to put it right in the pocket and give enough time between
notes so that we're letting the fingers wake up.
We're going to start with what I call
groove scales.
I call them groove scales because they're fun and they're groovy.
They're not
this tedious idea of, oh, I hate practicing scales.
It's not that.
Here's a way that we
can have a very focused little exercise so that we can warm up and pay attention to how
we feel rather than trying to tackle a piece of music and all the complications that that
involves.
Okay, G scale.
Three notes a string.
I'm going to show you how to do it.
We're
going to use the first finger, the second finger, and the fourth finger of the left
hand for the first five strings that we play.
So starting on the [G] sixth string, third fret.
I'm just showing you very slowly.
[A] Third fret, fifth fret, [B]
seventh fret.
[C] Same thing on the next
string.
[D] [E] Now on the fourth string we [Ebm] do fourth [G] fret, fifth [Am] fret, seventh fret.
[Bb]
Then on the [B] third
string.
[D] When we get to the second string, and this is going to be the last string of this scale,
we go up to the fifth fret with the [E] first finger and we're going to do one, three, four.
[Bm]
[G] Okay, for this exercise I'm using a flat pick and I'm using all down strokes.
Greetings everybody, this is Adam Rafferty here with some enormous headphones.
I'm here
to give you a little guitar lesson on the importance of warming up.
I'm going to show
you how I warm up before I dive into a full on practice routine.
I hope that you'll [G] benefit
from this and I hope you'll enjoy it.
I'm going to use some index cards because I wrote
out a couple of little pointers and of course I don't have a teleprompter here in my apartment
so please bear with me.
One thing that, especially if you're a guitarist and you're working on
solo arrangements and [N] maybe you take lessons or maybe you're just learning off the internet
and YouTube, something that you often need somebody to show you is the importance of
a warm up routine.
The warm up is like the pre-practicing.
When I take the guitar out,
I don't just start playing Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson arrangements.
I do some things
to ease into playing guitar and reawaken my technique and the feeling of the strings under
my fingers.
Not only that, but reawaken my musical mind and my sense of musicality.
As
far as warming up physically, athletes do it, dancers do it, vocalists do it, and instrumentalists
do it.
Especially if you've ever seen trumpet or trombone players, they've got to warm up
their lips and do all this kind of stuff to get loose lips and warm up their, actually
temperature wise, warm up their horns so that the pitch is proper.
A basketball team wouldn't
go from the locker room and run out on the court and play a full on basketball game without
doing some light warming up, light running around, light jump shots to get the mobility
in the joints, muscles, and tendons and everything flowing.
Now, I really do this.
If you were
to ever see me pick a guitar up, especially when I'm on tour, the first thing I do in
the morning is I get the guitar out of the hotel room and I'm doing the warm up.
Pretty
much exactly what I'm going to show you.
Pretty much exactly.
Okay, now as I said, it's not
only a technical exercise.
You've got to immerse yourself musically in the meaning behind what
this is.
A mistake that I made for many years was thinking that technique is just something
I can get perfect and then I can magically add either feeling, whatever that means, or
groove later.
Where I'm at now in my musical development, I see that you can't really take
the, you can't really separate these things so easily.
So it's better to start off groovy.
Start off funky.
Play with rhythm and build your playing around that.
I've had a lot more
enjoyment in my playing since I've done that.
Okay, now if we look at finger style guitar
playing or any kind of guitar playing or any kind of music playing for that matter, what
is it?
We're playing an instrument.
We're playing notes on the instrument.
We're trying
to get a good sound and play in time.
We're playing with some kind of rhythmic flow.
So
we're going to do that in our warm up, only we're going to go slow.
And slow doesn't necessarily
mean lazy.
Slow means we're going to put it right in the pocket and give enough time between
notes so that we're letting the fingers wake up.
We're going to start with what I call
groove scales.
I call them groove scales because they're fun and they're groovy.
They're not
this tedious idea of, oh, I hate practicing scales.
It's not that.
Here's a way that we
can have a very focused little exercise so that we can warm up and pay attention to how
we feel rather than trying to tackle a piece of music and all the complications that that
involves.
Okay, G scale.
Three notes a string.
I'm going to show you how to do it.
We're
going to use the first finger, the second finger, and the fourth finger of the left
hand for the first five strings that we play.
So starting on the [G] sixth string, third fret.
I'm just showing you very slowly.
[A] Third fret, fifth fret, [B]
seventh fret.
[C] Same thing on the next
string.
[D] [E] Now on the fourth string we [Ebm] do fourth [G] fret, fifth [Am] fret, seventh fret.
[Bb]
Then on the [B] third
string.
[D] When we get to the second string, and this is going to be the last string of this scale,
we go up to the fifth fret with the [E] first finger and we're going to do one, three, four.
[Bm]
[G] Okay, for this exercise I'm using a flat pick and I'm using all down strokes.
Key:
G
E
B
D
A
G
E
B
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
Greetings everybody, this is Adam Rafferty here with some enormous headphones.
I'm here
to give you a little guitar lesson on the importance of warming up.
I'm going to show
you how I warm up before I dive into a full on practice routine.
I hope that you'll [G] benefit
from this and I hope you'll enjoy it.
I'm going to use some index cards because I wrote
out a couple of little pointers and of course I don't have a teleprompter here in my apartment
so please bear with me. _
_ One thing that, especially if you're a guitarist and you're working on
solo arrangements and [N] maybe you take lessons or maybe you're just learning off the internet
and YouTube, _ something that you often need somebody to show you is the importance of
a warm up routine.
_ The warm up is like the pre-practicing.
When I take the guitar out,
I don't just start playing Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson arrangements.
I do some things
to ease into playing guitar and reawaken my technique and the feeling of the strings under
my fingers.
Not only that, but reawaken my musical mind and my sense of musicality. _
_ As
far as warming up physically, athletes do it, dancers do it, _ vocalists do it, and instrumentalists
do it. _
Especially if you've ever seen trumpet or trombone players, they've got to warm up
their lips and do all this kind of stuff to get loose lips and warm up their, actually
temperature wise, warm up their horns so that the pitch is proper.
_ _ A basketball team wouldn't
go from the locker room and run out on the court and play a full on basketball game without
doing some light warming up, light running around, light jump shots to get the mobility
in the joints, muscles, and tendons and everything flowing.
_ Now, _ I really do this.
If you were
to ever see me pick a guitar up, especially when I'm on tour, the first thing I do in
the morning is I get the guitar out of the hotel room and I'm doing the warm up.
Pretty
much exactly what I'm going to show you. _
_ _ Pretty much exactly. _ _
_ Okay, _ _ now as I said, it's not
only a technical exercise.
You've got to immerse yourself musically in the meaning behind what
this is. _ _ _ _ _ _
A _ _ mistake that I made for many years was thinking that technique is just something
I can get perfect and then I can magically add either feeling, whatever that means, or
groove later.
_ _ _ Where I'm at now in my musical development, I see that you can't really take
the, _ you can't really separate these things so easily.
So it's better to start off groovy. _
Start off funky.
Play with rhythm and build your playing around that.
I've had a lot more
enjoyment in my playing since I've done that.
Okay, now if we look at finger style guitar
playing or any kind of guitar playing or any kind of music playing for that matter, what
is it?
We're playing an instrument. _ _
We're playing notes on the instrument.
We're trying
to get a good sound and play in time.
We're playing with some kind of rhythmic flow.
So
we're going to do that in our warm up, only we're going to go slow.
And slow doesn't necessarily
mean _ _ lazy.
_ Slow means we're going to put it right in the pocket and give enough time between
notes so that we're letting the fingers wake up.
We're going to start with what I call
groove scales.
I call them groove scales because they're fun and they're groovy.
They're not
this tedious idea of, oh, I hate practicing scales.
It's not that.
_ Here's a way that we
can have a very focused little exercise so that we can _ warm up and pay attention to how
we feel rather than trying to tackle a piece of music and all the complications _ that that
involves.
Okay, G scale.
Three notes a string.
I'm going to show you how to do it.
We're
going to use the first finger, the second finger, and the fourth finger of the left
hand for the first _ five strings that we play.
So starting on the [G] sixth string, third fret.
_ _ I'm just showing you very slowly.
[A] Third fret, _ fifth fret, [B] _
_ seventh fret.
[C] Same thing on the next
string. _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ Now on the fourth string we [Ebm] do fourth [G] fret, fifth [Am] fret, seventh fret.
_ [Bb]
Then on the [B] third
string.
_ _ [D] _ _ When we get to the second string, and this is going to be the last string of this scale,
we go up to the fifth fret with the [E] first finger and we're going to do one, three, four.
_ [Bm] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ Okay, for this exercise I'm using a flat pick and I'm using all down strokes. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Greetings everybody, this is Adam Rafferty here with some enormous headphones.
I'm here
to give you a little guitar lesson on the importance of warming up.
I'm going to show
you how I warm up before I dive into a full on practice routine.
I hope that you'll [G] benefit
from this and I hope you'll enjoy it.
I'm going to use some index cards because I wrote
out a couple of little pointers and of course I don't have a teleprompter here in my apartment
so please bear with me. _
_ One thing that, especially if you're a guitarist and you're working on
solo arrangements and [N] maybe you take lessons or maybe you're just learning off the internet
and YouTube, _ something that you often need somebody to show you is the importance of
a warm up routine.
_ The warm up is like the pre-practicing.
When I take the guitar out,
I don't just start playing Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson arrangements.
I do some things
to ease into playing guitar and reawaken my technique and the feeling of the strings under
my fingers.
Not only that, but reawaken my musical mind and my sense of musicality. _
_ As
far as warming up physically, athletes do it, dancers do it, _ vocalists do it, and instrumentalists
do it. _
Especially if you've ever seen trumpet or trombone players, they've got to warm up
their lips and do all this kind of stuff to get loose lips and warm up their, actually
temperature wise, warm up their horns so that the pitch is proper.
_ _ A basketball team wouldn't
go from the locker room and run out on the court and play a full on basketball game without
doing some light warming up, light running around, light jump shots to get the mobility
in the joints, muscles, and tendons and everything flowing.
_ Now, _ I really do this.
If you were
to ever see me pick a guitar up, especially when I'm on tour, the first thing I do in
the morning is I get the guitar out of the hotel room and I'm doing the warm up.
Pretty
much exactly what I'm going to show you. _
_ _ Pretty much exactly. _ _
_ Okay, _ _ now as I said, it's not
only a technical exercise.
You've got to immerse yourself musically in the meaning behind what
this is. _ _ _ _ _ _
A _ _ mistake that I made for many years was thinking that technique is just something
I can get perfect and then I can magically add either feeling, whatever that means, or
groove later.
_ _ _ Where I'm at now in my musical development, I see that you can't really take
the, _ you can't really separate these things so easily.
So it's better to start off groovy. _
Start off funky.
Play with rhythm and build your playing around that.
I've had a lot more
enjoyment in my playing since I've done that.
Okay, now if we look at finger style guitar
playing or any kind of guitar playing or any kind of music playing for that matter, what
is it?
We're playing an instrument. _ _
We're playing notes on the instrument.
We're trying
to get a good sound and play in time.
We're playing with some kind of rhythmic flow.
So
we're going to do that in our warm up, only we're going to go slow.
And slow doesn't necessarily
mean _ _ lazy.
_ Slow means we're going to put it right in the pocket and give enough time between
notes so that we're letting the fingers wake up.
We're going to start with what I call
groove scales.
I call them groove scales because they're fun and they're groovy.
They're not
this tedious idea of, oh, I hate practicing scales.
It's not that.
_ Here's a way that we
can have a very focused little exercise so that we can _ warm up and pay attention to how
we feel rather than trying to tackle a piece of music and all the complications _ that that
involves.
Okay, G scale.
Three notes a string.
I'm going to show you how to do it.
We're
going to use the first finger, the second finger, and the fourth finger of the left
hand for the first _ five strings that we play.
So starting on the [G] sixth string, third fret.
_ _ I'm just showing you very slowly.
[A] Third fret, _ fifth fret, [B] _
_ seventh fret.
[C] Same thing on the next
string. _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ Now on the fourth string we [Ebm] do fourth [G] fret, fifth [Am] fret, seventh fret.
_ [Bb]
Then on the [B] third
string.
_ _ [D] _ _ When we get to the second string, and this is going to be the last string of this scale,
we go up to the fifth fret with the [E] first finger and we're going to do one, three, four.
_ [Bm] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ Okay, for this exercise I'm using a flat pick and I'm using all down strokes. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _