So right now my guitar instructor has be working on an exercise that goes like this:
And so on with the other finger combinations (2-3, 3-4, 1-3, 2-4, 1-4). Once the pattern is done, slide up a fret, and repeat, doing the whole thing to a metronome.
I was doing this the other day, and coming back down from the treble side, I'd get a subtle delay pedal kinda sound. It weirded me out, as I didn't even have a delay pedal in signal path anywhere; I'm going straight guitar->cable->amp. After paying close attention to what I was doing, I realized my fingers were coming down on the fretboard at an angle in order to touch the adjacent string and prevent it from ringing out. But in doing so, I'd sometimes inadvertently lightly hammer on the adjacent string, causing it to ring out lightly right before picked the string I was fretting, thus getting that pseudo-delay pedal effect.
It *sounds* kinda cool, but part of me is thinking that this is sloppy left hand technique would muddy up my playing when doing lead work. But on the other hand, little nuances like that are part of what gives each guitarist their own unique voice and style.
What do you guys think? Should I attempt to practice this out of existence so it never happens anymore, or cultivate it as a stylistic technique? Both (practice the above exercise until the pseudo-delay effect isn't happening anymore when I don't want it to, but continue to practice this effect so I can get it consciously when I want to)?
Code:
|---------------------1-2-2-1---------------------|
|-----------------1-2---------2-1-----------------|
|-------------1-2-----------------2-1-------------|
|---------1-2-------------------------2-1---------|
|-----1-2---------------------------------2-1-----|
|-1-2-----------------------------------------2-1-|And so on with the other finger combinations (2-3, 3-4, 1-3, 2-4, 1-4). Once the pattern is done, slide up a fret, and repeat, doing the whole thing to a metronome.
I was doing this the other day, and coming back down from the treble side, I'd get a subtle delay pedal kinda sound. It weirded me out, as I didn't even have a delay pedal in signal path anywhere; I'm going straight guitar->cable->amp. After paying close attention to what I was doing, I realized my fingers were coming down on the fretboard at an angle in order to touch the adjacent string and prevent it from ringing out. But in doing so, I'd sometimes inadvertently lightly hammer on the adjacent string, causing it to ring out lightly right before picked the string I was fretting, thus getting that pseudo-delay pedal effect.
It *sounds* kinda cool, but part of me is thinking that this is sloppy left hand technique would muddy up my playing when doing lead work. But on the other hand, little nuances like that are part of what gives each guitarist their own unique voice and style.
What do you guys think? Should I attempt to practice this out of existence so it never happens anymore, or cultivate it as a stylistic technique? Both (practice the above exercise until the pseudo-delay effect isn't happening anymore when I don't want it to, but continue to practice this effect so I can get it consciously when I want to)?
