What are you working on? (practice-wise)

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GuitarStv said:
Arpeggios (maj, min, maj7th, dom7th, min7th, min6th, dim 7th) . . . finding and playing them from anywhere on the neck, getting used to how they sound against different chords, improvising with them over fast chord progressions. I'm trying to get away from the blues rock pentatonic thing that has been my default for the last few years.

Also learning a few things that I've always liked but never got around to: Skynyrd's 'I know a Little', Hendrix's and Vaughn's versions of 'Little Wing', Solos to Megadeth's 'Symphony of Destruction' and Satriani's 'Surfing with the Alien'.
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Trying to break away from that "mechanical memory"? ;)
I admit too, that damn pentatonic scale gets really crippling sometimes yet it's so ingrained that it's impossible not to use it.

crusty philtrum said:
Is that 'Jumping At Shadows' by Duster Bennett (who wrote it I think) ? Or is that the F Mac version ?

Duster (Tony) Bennett was a friend of Peter Green and Fleetwod Mac and often gigged with them .... He was a one-man band, and used the Mac as his backing band on the 'Smiling Like I'm Happy' album, which featured the song Jumping At Shadows. Duster had an awesome voice, and I was lucky enough to see him live.
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This one to be exact
 
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I admit, I do need an LP or extremely similar to add to my arsenal of tones, soulful tone in those things.
 
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nothing! I never work on anything. I only play for enjoyment. no practicing!! I dream up some riffs and once every two week s I record for 2 hours and out comes a song. I know all the songs for my band so no need to practice those except for our sporadic practices and gigs!
 
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I am with my Eleca acoustic. I learn Dramatic picking. Make your picking very dramatic. Strum really hard and look angry at the guitar. Bend your elbow and sort of throw your picking hand at the strings. Kurt Cobain held his picking hand in place and then moved the guitar neck up/down to strum. Try making up your own signature picking styles. A great way for a beginner to show their style.
 
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alexdwsn12 said:
I am with my Eleca acoustic. I learn Dramatic picking. Make your picking very dramatic. Strum really hard and look angry at the guitar. Bend your elbow and sort of throw your picking hand at the strings. Kurt Cobain held his picking hand in place and then moved the guitar neck up/down to strum. Try making up your own signature picking styles. A great way for a beginner to show their style.
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Welcome to the forum btw.
 
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I'm working on practicing. Does that count?
 
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I'm working on Alan Holdsworth style lagato lines. Those stretches can be a little difficult.
 
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I'm working on deleting my whole repertoire of musical ideas based on other people and starting my own repertoire. It doesn't mean that the "new" repertoire will be completely original but it does mean I'm aiming for a fresher approach to my playing. It's fun to sit down with a backing track and explore intervals I hadn't tried before.

Over the last year I've been trying to develop a more angular playing style where I don't play a lot of consecutive notes in scales when soloing. It's a lot more dangerous because you step on some odd and unpleasing sounding intervals, but then you step on some that make you go like yeah that's the stuff right there. I'm also trying to avoid being too obvious in using arpeggios when I'm going for that angular feel. I try to sneak in other, more uncommon chord tones that fit nicely within context but sound terrible on their own instead of just leaning on root-third-fifth-seventh stuff.

The problem is, I'm still at that place where I'm thinking everything instead of just going with it. When I just let it flow I come up with both some amazing things and some terrible sounding things, so I'm still at that stage where I'll experiment with a handful of notes at a time so I can really get to know this approach better.

After that I'll work on mixing that with what I already know and make something out of it.
 
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