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Pianist Robert Fleitz checks out a few new warmup ideas, featuring Tonebase lesson clips by Nikolai Lugansky, Penelope Roskell, Orli Shaham, and Seymour Bernstein.

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[ilovehomies]

Putting my hands over the stove and then flailing my hands around 🙏

[vodkat]

This will be useful especially when travelling to places with cold climates!

[pianoplaynight]

I warm up with whatever piece I'm studying atm played at half tempo with flatter dynamics.

[jdthefake]

Nothing better to heat up the body than going for a walk. Or yoga. Heating up your hands specifically is inefficient, better to heat up the rest of your body so that your hands will naturally follow.

[musicpiano]

I warm up my fingers with Hanon, scales and arpeggios. Everyday 20-25 minute my fingers go through a big marathon🥊🎹

[iampracticingpiano]

I warm up with some of the first exercises I learned (Russian school, mostly), because my fingers “know” them on a deep level, sight-reading an easy piece I don’t know, and breaking down repertoire I’m studying into lines—playing the bass, then tenor, etc. This last healps me find hints of polyphony in most styles of music. My guess is Horowitz may have done something similar to discover those delicious voicings for which he is famous.

[shay]

I started doing acupuncture and it really warms up my hands

[lavietzion]

The easy ones are my personal favorite

[meyerbeer]

I warm up on one of Joseph Haydn's 52 sonatas. His violin music is a good violin warm up too.

[IZUMRUD]

My favourite way to warm up is playing Bach a little.

[j-dub]

Your body comment is spot on (also live in the cold)! Start with the core where the most circulation exists then work outward.

[geuros]

Using a heat water rubber bag works quite well, gets the hands warm quickly.

However, stay away from direct contact of hot water with your skin at all costs. At first it might feel good but your skin will soak moisture and then it will drain your body from heat for hours until it all evaporates. You need to bear in mind water is one of the hardest substances to heat, it takes an incredible amount of energy to get heated and even more to get evaporated.

As for warm-up exercises, I like to do broken diminished 7ths very slowly with maximum possible freedom, similar to what Seymour Bernstein showed here.

[tomasjosefpiano]

Profesional pianist here, don't complicate it. You can play something slow to start if you need to, but what they're saying is gonna be a waste of time for most people

[annetteeverett]

I still do my childhood exercises: "Inchy-Pinchy." Press each finger deeply into the thumb, one at a time. Saying "Inchy-Pinchy" while you do it forces you to do it slowly.

[NickCarlozzi]

Wish I knew this as a teen… gave myself tendinitis pretty bad from overuse, always practicing in the cold, never warming up properly

[sylvaingoudreau]

warm up doesn't mean to get "warm" but to get your body ready for a physical tasks.

[bogdanshevchenko]

Tell that to Adrian Brody in The Pianist

[mmarionette_]

I need this kind of warm up when my carpal tunnel syndrome is acting up. Thanks!

[TheyCallTheSandman]

I understand the notion of getting bored easily. So, not being a really developed player technically, I tend to practice Mozart's Sonate Facile a lot in order to warm up. It's a rather scale-based exercise and it's more fun to get into the mood this way. Of course, there are certainly other exercises out there that sort of serve the same purpose.

[Buddy-jqiy]

My favorite warm up is Beethoven’s sonata op. 47 Kreutzer, to really break my fingers