Warm ups.

[Casey]

I do not go on stage with out warming up for at least ten minutes.

I would like some input from the rest of you, on tips and ideas on warming up before going out on stage.

[Lucius]

Well, I take my hands out of my pockets I guess ;). Nah, If I have a pad, then I will just warm up playing different strokes, but I usually strectch to warm up, or tap on my lap, and a great thing I have found to warm up my arm muscles is stick twirling beleive it or not! That as worked great for me lately for some reason!

[MaltBuddow3]

I've been trying to find a good warm up routine for a while now, and this one seems to work. Ever seen Weckl's Natural Evolution vidoes? The excercise is base off that and Power Drumming.

Triplets on the feet, LRRLRRLRRLRR, and triplets on the hands. On hands go from singles to doubles to triples to quads (all triplets, dont change into rolls). As you get comfy with one sticking on the snare drum begin to move it around all over the place, and come back to the snare for the doubles, and then move, triples move, quads move, and cool back down with doubles or singles at the same tempo... and by the end you should be going as fast as you can without forcing anything.

I give myself one measure of rest and, at the same tempo, I go into paradiddles on the feet (heel down) with paradiddles on the hands, and move those around, and then play the paradiddles on the feet over a groove, and continually speed the whole thing up.

Eventually I'm going to put different stickings over the paradiddles just like on the triplet warm up. Hope that helps!

[quitou]

Mike Mangini's C&C system is a great way to warm up....it gets all of your limbs working at the same time

[beat1212]

one thign i do is strech my fingers adn particularyl my thumb, and then strech my arms adn feet. i s tart out playign slow singel strokes and double stroeks adn pradidlees adn thrwon in a few flams. then i jstu take those few rudiments and incorpate them aorunf my kit gradualyl going faster ,, GRADUALLY is teh key word nto all of a sudden cuz htat jstu iritates your mutscles. thats a good way to warm up i think and jstu fro the fun of it i do soem rolls btu recently i realized if u are seom1 who liesk to do rolls alot its very very very neccesary to stretch your thumb even though tis a littel mutscle it will make a huge impact on your playing and u want it feelign relaxed. (ya i knwo my typing sucks)