How do you warm up your creatiuvity??

[Kabal]

There's more to warming up than just your hands with bass and I'd like to know how everyone does it. Whether it's listening to a certain band or just sitting and playing for a while or whatever.

I typically have to play for at least a good hour before I'm really in the zone and it seems to affect my fingers too, like my hands won't warm up until my creative abilities do. Or I have to immerse myself in a good book/movie/album/piece of artwork for a while before I can start making what I see as satisfactory music.

I've been in a bit of a creative rut for a while and I'm curious, how do you navigate the filters of your brain to get to that pure flowing unadulterated river of light known as the right brain?

To a point where you're not just coming up with one cool riff or line but where the riffs and ideas are so backed up they come flying out of your butt (metaphorically speaking )

Edit: Apparently I'm so uncreative I can't spell the title of this thread right

[SurferJoe46]

It's like playing a venue and you've got three sets to do.

You know the first cold set kinda sucks a little since everyone's not in the groove yet - but then comes the second set.

Everyone's getting it on by then and they just work the room and the notes and the whole stage presence just jells.

The third set is kinda looser - maybe so by then since everyone's kinda tired - there's a lack of cohesion by this time and you can just get through it so you can go home.

Same-o with the creative juices.

When I need to be creative - and I don't mean writing or scoring a song for me - I find that my fingers become magically endowed and they don't make many mistakes and oops-notes when I've been just playing for the sake of playing.

I can play almost anything that isn't too simple and that seems to stoke the fires higher and higher....... I can find the notes I want - when I want them and with the feeling it needs

I also find that by this time I have even gotten the boxes all formed and I can even find new zones on the fretboard that just 'work' for the song.

Yeah - playing that cold 1st set is a no-no for me - but then again so is 2AM in a cowboy bar when all the drunks are nodding off or ordering black coffee so they can drive home.

Does anyone still play three sets any more? I still do - but that's the way I learned it to be.