Guitar Aerobics Advanced Warm up Routine
- Danny Gill  - Page Two

20 years ago I banged up my thumb and the pain wouldn't go away a month later. So  being young and dumb and because I kept playing guitar pentatonic scales daily to the metronome the injury turned into a nerve lesion and my whole arm started to get this pinched nerve feeling all the day and all the night.

Major discomfort. It was get an operation or live with it so I went an acupuncturist my friend Vinnie Noble recommended to me. Vinnie was a trumpet player in Bim Skala Bim a Ska band you may have heard of. Anyway this particular acupuncturist had his heart in the right place but was a newbie.

He fortuitously moved to another town and very kindly referred me to someone who knew what they were doing and they cured me within 4-6 months. All acupuncturists are not equal. Phil, that cured me, bless him, had spent 3 years in japan doing aikido so knew all about twists of the wrist and hand and arm and so on.

Its true that it is probably a good idea to warm up to a certain degree before beginning your daily guitar practice regimen no matter what style you play. Its certainly a good thing to warm up to what you know before playing new material but this more of a pre warm up to practice.

Its your body. We are all a bit different. If you took the guitar exercises on this lesson to heart you would build up technique and gain knowledge.

Still there is that nagging, time wasting issue of no pamphlet.

Its confusing and annoying and it turns me off. A great guitar player in Danny Gill. In my opinion, as to lesson format .... you can do better!

Exercise 1: Major 7 chord guitar stretch.
Exercise 2: is a diminished chord exercise using inversions.
You will need paper and pen for these shapes.
Exercise 3: Quasi chromatic note pattern.
Exercise 4: More quasi chromatics.
Exercise 5: Even more quasi chromatics 324124
Exercise 6: Legato quasi chromatics
Exercise 7: Sequences 12345 5431
Later you match scales with arpeggios and sequences and more.