In my previous post, I discussed the importance of a good warm up. In a nutshell, warming up primes your mind for performance and reacquaints your body with the movements of drumming. Although you can get by without warming up before a gig, you’ll have a harder time finding your groove early in your performance and you will be more likely to injure yourself. Unfortunately, warming up isn’t always the easiest thing to do before a set, especially if you’re not used to doing it. We drummers already go through a lot of work before each set as it is: we disassemble our drum sets, we pack our gear into the car, we drive it to the venue, then we unpack everything and have to set it all up on stage before we can finally play anything. To most people, this would already qualify as a warm up in and of itself. Nonetheless, we should still take the time to warm up properly before we play.
