Kristofer Dahl6th March 2008Very smart thinking Marcus - we have warming up lessons for vocals but none for guitar!
I also love how your teaching style is fluid with a touch of humour.
Welcome to GMC Marcus - we are glad and honoured you found your way!
Power_Arctica6th March 2008Yeah! Warming up is so important!!!
Great Les Paul Marcus!!
botoxfox6th March 2008Nice!
Jerry Arcidiacono6th March 2008Great first lesson Marcus, welcome again
The Uncreator6th March 2008Awesome lesson, we really needed this lesson, Excellent first lesson!
chast6th March 2008Good one
Video 4 and 5 are the same.
Angelica6th March 2008Very useful lesson, thank you
Robin6th March 2008Excellent!! Warming up is so ridicilously important and its great that we finally have a lesson on it! Great work.
Muris Varajic6th March 2008Great first lesson Marcus,warming-up IS really important,welcome to GMC!
Gen6th March 2008Great first lesson !
Danilo Capezzuto6th March 2008Great lesson. Warming up is the most important thing to me.
Marcus Lavendell6th March 2008Very useful stuff Marcus! Great lesson!
Joe Kataldo6th March 2008Warming Up is really important, cool lesson!
Melodic Axeman6th March 2008OMG O________O
lol that was totally unexpected.. welcome marcus !
Good first lesson, hope to see more lesson from you in the future!
Toni Suominen6th March 2008Great first lesson Marcus, very important topic and a useful lesson!
bruno6th March 2008algum brasileiro por aqui? que poderia me dizer o que o camarada disse?
Tuubsu6th March 2008good topic indeed! good lesson!
Capt.Z6th March 2008I love your band. great lesson by the way!
Dejan Farkas6th March 2008Excellent first lesson Marcus, welcome
Nemanja Filipovic6th March 2008great first lesson..welcome to GMC
Gabriel Leopardi6th March 2008Hey man! It's great to have your lessons here! I saw your show in Argentina.. mmm... it was maybe 7 years ago and it was great!
Great lesson!!
Bogdan Radovic6th March 2008Awesome lesson Marcus, welcome !!
Trond Vold6th March 2008A most excellent and useful first lesson
David Wallimann6th March 2008Welcome Marcus, great first lesson! Thanks!
bladzerok6th March 2008Very usefull lesson marcus! Thanks and welcome to GMC!
DeepRoots6th March 2008Great choice for a first lesson- thanks Marcus
Marcus Siepen6th March 2008Sorry about the video for the 5th exercise, I guess I uploaded exercise 4 twice by accident and I am just fixing this right in this moment :-) Before recording this lesson I was just browsing through all the lessons here on GMC and I realized that nobody talked about warming up yet, so I thought it might be a good idea to have this kind of lessons for guitarists, I am happy you like the lesson :-)
Luciana Segovia6th March 2008Great first lesson!
- Kristofer Dahl6th March 2008
Video 5 now live and correct - don't miss Marcus' final exercise!
- Marcus Siepen6th March 2008
Thanks for fixing this Kristofer, next time I will make sure I am not confusing the videos
SLASH916th March 2008Very useful lesson. I'll admit that I probably don't spend enough time warming up.
Juan M. Valero6th March 2008excelent lesson, warm-ups are really important !!!
congratulations and welcome to GMC
superize6th March 2008Grea warm up lessons Markus...This s what i needed
Fran6th March 2008Thanks Marcus, really useful. It's great to have you at GMC
- Martin la guitarra6th March 2008
thank you! i really love chromatics cuz it looks so difficult and so easy to learn
kyldeee6th March 2008This is awesome, I've had some problems with my hand, because of not warming up properly, so this is going to be very useful
Thanks Marcus and welcome to GMC, can't wait for your next lesson 
Jeff6th March 2008Hi Marcus. Welcome to GMC. This is a good lesson. I'm looking forward to more from you. Thanks!
Goliath6th March 2008Marcus! WOOOO!
If you got a mental image of some guy holding a beer close to his chest with his other hand in the air screaming, then good. That's the picture I was trying to paint. I look forward to more lessons (quick turn around on the first one too).
What kind of EMG is that in your LP Custom?- Marcus Siepen6th March 2008
Hey Kyldeee, it would be awesome if my lesson could help to solve that problem with your hand, make sure you are seriously warmed up before you play.
Pablo Vazquez6th March 2008Hey!! Welcome to GMC, It's really great to have your lessons here!
MattE6th March 2008No way! Welcome Marcus!
Great first lesson. I have been searching for various warm-up methods for quite a while now.
Thank you!- Schpudd6th March 2008
blind guardian are awesome :[ im actually a little star struck?
Ivan Milenkovic6th March 2008Great first lesson Marcus! Welcome!
Carlos Carrillo6th March 2008excellent marcus!!!!!!!!!!!
very creative lesson!!!!!!!!!!
thanks
Hisham Al-Sanea6th March 2008nice and useful lesson Marcus.
at lights end6th March 2008cool lesson, i've been needing good warm up exercise.
those strings are psychedelic!
Tolek6th March 2008OMG!!! Marcus from Blind Guardian? It can´t be!^^ I like your music and unfortunately haven´t been on any of your concerts yet. Cool that you are now a GMC member.
@topic: Nice first lesson. ;-) I hope you will make some blind guardian like lessons.
Grrrreeetz- Retribution7th March 2008
Great first lesson! I probably don't spend enough time practicing good warm-up techniques, so this'll help me out a lot.
Looking forward to your next lessons. 
Andi F7th March 2008Cool und useful lesson!
Welcome to GMC Marcus!
swingline7th March 2008Great Lesson i needed to warm up more, just a quick question, where did you get those strings their AWESOME.
- swingline7th March 2008
Mabey its just the camera doing that to the strings???
Eat-Sleep-andJam7th March 2008Nice Lesson, I like your tone
- Maximus7th March 2008
Well Done.
- 777-HAIRMETAL4HIM-7777th March 2008
Sweet great job
- EGMONT 19637th March 2008
hi marcus
was hast Du fuer Material ??
mich interessiert der Klang - super
wie kriegst Du den hin ??
Habe einen alten VOX CAMBRIDGE 15 30 W
ein LINE 6 AX2/212 mit FB 150w
einen NEUEN LINE 6 SPIDER 3 und ein ZOOM II pedal.Fender Strat -Eastwood Rocket-Fender Telecaster-Johnson LP Lim.serie - Epiphone sp2- HS 2 NECK-und natuerlich meine erste e Gitarre EGMONT SOLID 7 JAHR1963 -FRAGE MICH HEUTE WIE MAN UEBERHAUPT DAMIT SPIELEN KONNTE :)DOCH ES GING ;;
Muss wohl dabei sagen dass ich wieder seit 6 Monaten Gitarre uebe -hatte 1971 aufgehoert :(Ich glaube dass ich der Aelteste "member" bei GMC bin;
Habe viel Zeit -fruehpension- -und auch das noetige Material - aber mit dem einstellen hapert es ,,
vielleicht kannst Du mir ein paar Tips geben
Bin Belgier und wohne im deutschsprachigen Gebiet Belgiens
bis bald
UDO
- Marcus Siepen7th March 2008
Hi Udo, I will stick to english so everybody else can understand my answer too, ok?
The equipment that I used to record this lesson obviously is my Gibson Les paul Custom, equiped with 2 EMG 81 Pickups. The amplifier actually is a software called Guitar Rig 3 (from native instruments) and the camera was a Logitech webcam Fusion :-) If you talk about my live sound, I always use various Gibson Les Pauls, my amps are a Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier and a Mesa Boogie Triaxis, the only effects I am using are a Rocktron Intellifex and a Rocktron Xpression - misterj7th March 2008
great lesson! i love new warm up ideas!!
Khaos Keith7th March 2008ugh this is BEYOND cool. im such a big fan of blind guardian. i grew up listening to you guys and it was one of the main sounds that really developed my style. i cant WAIT to see all the lessons you make for this wonderful site, marcus
- Mark.7th March 2008
Great lesson !!
I´m still blown away by the fact that you´re here too teach us
preownedguitar9th March 2008Heya Marcus. Good first lesson. Already using this to warm up now. Thanks.
Ben N9th March 2008thanks
good lesson - RockinRobert9th March 2008
Great lesson. I love to see how you show some charisma and enthusiasm about the lesson!
PassionPlay9th March 2008Warm up is usually boring and this lesson is no eception
(sorry, but i need to be honest)
BUT, it's nescessary to warm up, as you explain in the video, so i'm very grateful even though i can't say "woooow what a rocking lesson"
- Looking forward to your next lesson(s), and welcome to GmC- Marcus Siepen9th March 2008
Hahaha, hey, no need to be sorry for your opinion, after all warming up is not really the most exiting thing to do. I guess this is also the reason why no other instructor made a lesson about this topic so far, they didn't want to bore you
But well, it is important to warm up, but don't worry, my next lesson will rock a bit more ;-) - PassionPlay9th March 2008
Thats what i want to hear
Jakub Luptovec9th March 2008Gr8:P
Btw. isnt this in E-flat? (if anyone said that already, I overlooked it.. sry..) Just noticed:D- Jakub Luptovec9th March 2008
Oh.. some of these are really fun to play, I must say:) especially that with sweeps included!..
sam4710th March 2008I like these. Thanks Marcus. Glad your here.
Nick Kellie10th March 2008sound advice marcus!
- Outrageous Vin11th March 2008
thanx a lot, i really needed a lesson like this
Alejandro Pinero11th March 2008cool man and Wolcome to GMC!!
- Marcus Siepen11th March 2008
Yup, my tuning is E flat, sorry, I forgot to mention this, I am using that tuning since almost 20 years, thats why it is normal for me
Enucleation12th March 2008Awesome lesson Marcus! (*ahem* Blind Guardian rules)
Gus16th March 2008Hey, I always warmed up, but just did it randomly.
Following this steps of your I can feel the difference it made in my practice session
Sometimes what makes a great lesson is how useful it is, not how impressive it is.
Neosmithk27th March 2008if you do lesson 3 i little differently you can make a "N" on the fret board... cool warm up btw, and Bind guardian rocks - im listening to it right now
- -Fox-30th March 2008
Excellent warm-ups, Marcus! Keep up the good work! Blind Guardian FTW!!
- seachto1st April 2008
hey marcus great lesson.nice touch.cheers
ps. could you do a lesson on the bards song.PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
BLIND GUARDIAN ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
krudtaa4th April 2008Great lesson. Really good Warm-ups.
- twood11th April 2008
- twood11th April 2008
I'm really speechless! (that's why nothing came out in the previous post)
Actually I can't believe we're warming up with you!!! 
flamen5th May 2008nice one man
Mats Hedberg18th June 2008nice approach ! great playing!
youre right warming up is really important!
thank you Marcus!
Best!
Mats Hedberg.- Marcus Siepen27th July 2008
Hey, it is not important to warm up "with me", as long as you warm up everything is fine
Nazgul14th August 2008Verdammt noch mal, ich will die Gitarre!!!
In schwarz UND in weiß am besten. Die ist einfach nur geil.
Velvet Roger18th August 2008Thanks for this
- J.E.21st October 2008
Zomg we have a celebrity on GMC:D i think its cool that they bring in famous guitarists! haha Kris should bring in dave murray^^
Mrblomme1st November 2008Great lesson Marcus.
And welcome to GMC. (I know I'm a bit late lol)
intemperateControl7th March 2009This is a good workout style for any player. The most simplistic of matters often tend to be the most beneficial in the overall scheme of things...
Neurologi11th September 2009I have been a slacker and pretty much never been one to do a warm-up beforehand. I just assumed the god-given ability would just fall from on high. Well thanks to this lesson, I am looking to mend my ways. This will become part of my regular routine along with variations as needed.
Many thanks for this.
Dieterle1st August 2012Thank you for that lesson !
By the way my daughter loves Blind Guardian
and i can do every day warming up with you hahaha GREAT !
Maybe she gets inspired now to learn playing guitar !
All the Best !
Dieter- hickstir10th February 2015
Thanks Marcus, just finished playing the entire #1, although not so fast. I will be playing this at least twice a day, including warm ups of course.
jaguilar1114th February 2015Tx Macrus for this... needed this.
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Hi everybody and welcome to my first lesson here on GMC. Todays topic is warming up, I will show you what I usually do to warm myself up before a show or recording and give you some ideas about possible variations that might make things a bit more interesting to play. You will come across lots of chromatic runs, scale fragments and a lot of alternate picking, I hope you'll enjoy it.