Get ready to practice by playing along with one of the warmups below, corresponding to each level of the Beginner Guitar classes and Lead Guitar classes at NYC Guitar School  These warmups are pedagogically designed to gradually consolidate skills including picking, strumming, fretting, crosspicking, playing subdivisions and more. And they only take a few minutes!

Which one should you play?

That’s easy–play along with each in turn until you find one that is too hard. Don’t be dismayed if that means the first or second level–because these warmups get tricky!

When you do find your level of carnage, go back to the previous warmup, the last one that you could play along with. That’s your warmup!