Invigorate Your Chops!

Jacob Quistgaard has four genre-based warm-up exercises, designed to boost your technique, spark fresh ideas, and make your practice sessions way more musical - and much more fun!

- Jacob Quistgaard

Over the following pages we will explore four warm-up exercises, drawn from four different musical genres that are all popular in GT: rock, blues, jazz and classical. The idea here is that while the chromatic ‘spider’ warm-up is and always has been a solid warm-up exercise, there’s no saying we can’t use more musical patterns to create much more interesting work-outs. Using cool licks or musical ideas and concepts as warm-ups will not only gain us new playing vocabulary; but stepping up the level of effort you put into your warm-ups and workouts will also bring several other benefits.