How do you start your "daily" bassroutine

[salsaslas]

How do you start your "daily" bassroutine. I mean the start up, lets say for the first 3-5 minutes? Do you tune (tuner, fifths, harmonics, octaves?) or just start up?

Do you start with (mostly and after "possible" tuning):

• stretching
• fingerexercise
• scales
• your own standard execution
• your tuning that is a part of you exercise (getting music out of tuning).
• playing with some backtracking
• in what ever comes to you
• free improvisation
• free improvisation to some backtracking
• directly go in to the exercise of the day
• random
• it differs
• dont know

 

[salsaslas]

I normally start with tuning with a tuner (on the headstock) and then go with the exercise Im into. Probable cause I have a lot to develop in my playing before I'll be a bassplayer. But thats me!

 

[fearceol]

I tune up first, then spend about a minute or two doing gentle stretches, followed by slow chromatic scales and arpeggios played above the fifth fret. So, only after about five to seven minutes am I ready for my actual practice.

 

[AaronVonRock]

I plug in and play whatever comes to my mind. A lot of the time I'll come up with a cool riff or idea that will later be used for a song.

 

[DrSteve]

I tune up, noodle about, then hit random play on my iPhone and see why happens. If I have a song I want to work on, I'll get to that after a few random tunes.

 

[GigJones]

How do you start your "daily" bassroutine. I mean the start up, lets say for the first 3-5 minutes[/LIST]

I set a metronome to my current BPM and start with an ascending/descending, two-octave scale, in 8th notes, triplets, and 16th
notes followed by the 7th chord arpeggio (8th, trips, 16th) for the scale/mode I have targeted over the current two week period.

 

[stratovani]

I pick it up, strap it on, and play the first thing that comes to my head. After a while I'll put a song on my computer and play along with it. Other times I'll do some metronome work. It all depends on what I feel like doing that particular moment.

 

[davidhilton]

How do you start your "daily" bassroutine. I mean the start up, lets say for the first 3-5 minutes? Do you tune (tuner, fifths, harmonics, octaves?) or just start up?

Do you start with (mostly and after "possible" tuning):

• stretching
• fingerexercise
• scales
• your own standard execution
• your tuning that is a part of you exercise (getting music out of tuning).
• playing with some backtracking
• in what ever comes to you
• free improvisation
• free improvisation to some backtracking
• directly go in to the exercise of the day
• random
• it differs
• dont know

Usually I warm up by playing Donna Lee in a few different keys.
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[edpal]

Power on the tube amp, do some physical stretching of arms, shoulder-shrugs to loosen neck and shoulders, some hand and finger stretching. MAybe even a few toe-touchs. Tune up, then hit something fast with a good backing track to get my juices flowing.

 

[Stick_Player]

I start with a BIG mug of hot, black coffee.

 

[Beltdrive]

I practice before work, so it's a pot of coffee and about 30 minutes of Steely Dan on a loop, I find that warms me up the best.

 

[ZenG]

Limber up the fingers first......

Sometimes I don't even plug in until after I've done this for a few minutes.

usually I start with finger warmups........but if I have a riff in my head that I was thinking about the night before...I'll just start playing that.....

 

[Bassist4Eris]

Bong hits.

Just kidding. Drugs are bad, m'kay?

I voted "it differs". I might noodle a bit, or I might play some riffs (original or cover). I don't have a warmup routine. I just play lightly for a few minutes until I feel more limber.

The bass I'm playing often makes a difference. I'm more likely to play some blues or Motown riffs on my P-bass, where my 6-string Carvin might make me inclined to noodling or playing original stuff, and my 4-string Carvin just begs to be slapped.

In short, I usually just start with some "free play" to get the fingers loose before I delve into anything focused or specific.

 

[Bassisgood4U]

Hey, do you wanna play "Higher Ground"?
That's how I warm up.

 

[FretlessMainly]

Every time I pick up my instrument, I play the first thing that my brain makes my fingers do. I approach music from a strictly improvisational context. Bass in hand = express what my brain is wired on at that moment. Good/bad is irrelevant. Then I reflect on what has happened and seek improvement or reinforce good lines through repetition.

 

[Jhengsman]

In the few minutes between breakfast and going to work I am normally doing a slow blues progression. After dinner it is the method book and/or working on specific songs depending upon the day of the week.

 

[NeroJazz]

I follow a home-brewed schedule consisting of warm-up using scales, working on new tunes, techniques or exercises that push me forward, I then finish off by playing tunes I already know well and just have fun.

It really works for me, and I have a structural approach which has helped me immensely in keeping focus and not just fall back on noodling.

 

[drunkenDAYlewis]

I'll start with left hand permutations to limber me up, then a variety of right hand things.

 

[electracoyote]

Curious. No choice for "bottle of tequila."

I must be a hack.