I'm practicing 1 song indefinitely

[Clint 55]

Eff it

 

[Clint 55]

Doing the melody, paraphrasing the melody, intro, coda, chords and inversions, arpeggios, scales, solos, different keys. Eff it. I don't think I'll run out of things to work on, ways to improve, or be in danger of sounding like Joe Pass any time soon.

 

[Mincer]

Can we hear it?

 

[Clint 55]

The composer playing it.

 

[GuitarStv]

This is a solid approach to music. Hell, Nickleback decided to keep playing the same song over and over again a couple decades ago and they got pretty rich.

 

[ver]

Nice idea. I thought of taking this same approach to "Holy Wars" - just practicing it almost exclusively, until I could play it. That didn't last two days. I don't have the patience to scrutinize tabs, especially on songs that far beyond my capabilities.

 

[solspirit]

Why not do your own thing?

 

[Clint 55]

^ Cuz I'm a jazz musician. That's what we do. Practice tunes and shed stuff related to playing tunes well.

Nice idea. I thought of taking this same approach to "Holy Wars" - just practicing it almost exclusively, until I could play it. That didn't last two days. I don't have the patience to scrutinize tabs, especially on songs that far beyond my capabilities.

I've tried that with epicly difficult tunes also and got defeated. This approach with this tune works for me because I know the tune and it isn't overly challenging. I can work on little bits at a time and improve. Plus it's fun and not too laborious.

 

[Clint 55]

Bass lines too lol. Position by position and string by string! Eff it.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Doing something like this is a fantastic way to level up in a lot of music skills! A trick one of my guitar teachers showed me is to transcribe the melody up one octave so it fits on top of the chord voicings.

Enjoy!

 

[Mincer]

I hadn't heard this tune, and I really like it. Great melody. Cool chords. It is a winner.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Nice idea. I thought of taking this same approach to "Holy Wars" - just practicing it almost exclusively, until I could play it. That didn't last two days. I don't have the patience to scrutinize tabs, especially on songs that far beyond my capabilities.

Here's an example of a guy who did not wisely (as you did) self-correct, reassess and change course after a short period of unproductive effort. He's says now he can do it pretty-close (i.e. still not perfectly) but after he worked at for 22 years (!) I don't think any song is worth that degree of effort. At least, to keep working at to nail perfectly. I would have settled long before for a way to fake it that I could live with.

But somewhat to this guy's credit, the songwriter himself (Robert Fripp) is on record as saying this song "Fracture" is "impossible to play".

https://youtu.be/rTIn4cIvtp0

 

[Clint 55]

I hadn't heard this tune, and I really like it. Great melody. Cool chords. It is a winner.

Woohoo!

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

The composer playing it.

I've never heard this song before either.

But now that i have, i suspect the band Phish was influenced by the melody and rhythm in the repeating section of this song that has the pauses/accents, when they crafted one of the key riffs in their song "Stash".

https://youtu.be/kYvWhWVxw1A