Good warm-up songs (for limbering up)?

imalrightjack

I don't know about anybody else but other than stretching for a minute, I find doing scales or exercises totally tedious.  So, any songs you would recommend for slowly getting your fingers in synch without being overly demanding?

I often start with this:

It's maybe a bit too fast for warming up but something interesting/fun would be good.

Elwood

Metallica - Welcome Home
Diamond Head - Am I evil
Ozzy - Crazy Train

imalrightjack

Elwood said:

Metallica - Welcome Home
Diamond Head - Am I evil
Ozzy - Crazy Train

Good call.  I tend to play the Metallica version of Am I Evil? but it's a lot faster - particularly the end but in A.

sweepy

Jeff Beck Goodbye Pork Pie Hat  always a nice warm up , or Because we ended as lovers, then it usually decends into Holdsworth Metal Fatigue or something equally silly

guitargeek62

Neil Young, Down by the River solo.

p90fool

sweepy;635201" said:

Jeff Beck Goodbye Pork Pie Hat  always a nice warm up

I often do this too, not consciously as a warm up, but it's often the first thing I noodle about with when I pick up a guitar.

It's great for getting your "ear" in, and your vibrato and timing.

randomhandclaps

I used to almost exclusively rely on a piece called Economy Drive written by Shaun Baxter as an exam piece (and I'm pretty certain it was also published in Guitar Techniques) as it literally included virtually every movement and technique for the left hand.

viz

randomhandclaps said:

I used to almost exclusively rely on a piece called Economy Drive written by Shaun Baxter as an exam piece (and I'm pretty certain it was also published in Guitar Techniques) as it literally included virtually every movement and technique for the left hand.

Hanon for guitarists! Yep that's a great exercise. A bit like Vai's 10 hour workout.