tubecrunch
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Re: What playing technique are you working on?
Brent mason songbook...
Brent mason songbook...
What playing technique are you working on?
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Gearjoneser
Gear Ho
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
Speed picking with nothing but fingers so it's clean and sounds as close as I can get to a pick.
The passing of Paco de Lucia this week got me to listening to the guy who did it better than everyone.
Speed picking with nothing but fingers so it's clean and sounds as close as I can get to a pick.
The passing of Paco de Lucia this week got me to listening to the guy who did it better than everyone.
Great_Kazoo
Well-known member
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
Just working on building up some hand endurance. I started working on learning some bass transcriptions a while ago, but haven't kept up since I started a new job this last summer.
Now I'm trying to catch up and spend a little time each week learning some songs that were on the back burner--Led Zeppelin's "The Lemon Song", Bruford's "Joe Frazier", some funk lines from the Slap It! book and a walking bass line from a Charlie Parker tune.
*** I just realized the transcriptions I have are all in standard notation and not in tablature--maybe that's why they've been on the back burner!
Just working on building up some hand endurance. I started working on learning some bass transcriptions a while ago, but haven't kept up since I started a new job this last summer.
Now I'm trying to catch up and spend a little time each week learning some songs that were on the back burner--Led Zeppelin's "The Lemon Song", Bruford's "Joe Frazier", some funk lines from the Slap It! book and a walking bass line from a Charlie Parker tune.
*** I just realized the transcriptions I have are all in standard notation and not in tablature--maybe that's why they've been on the back burner!
Chris of Arabia
Desert RATT
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
Getting the notes in the right order along with hitting them at more or less the correct time...
Getting the notes in the right order along with hitting them at more or less the correct time...
GuitarStv
Sock Market Trader
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
I've been spending the last few months working out how to improvise some Hendrix style chord melody stuff. It seems to be a combination of major/minor pentatonic scales, arpeggios, and sus2/4s with a particular style of phrasing that follow the underlying chords of a song. Mother****er was a genius!
I've been spending the last few months working out how to improvise some Hendrix style chord melody stuff. It seems to be a combination of major/minor pentatonic scales, arpeggios, and sus2/4s with a particular style of phrasing that follow the underlying chords of a song. Mother****er was a genius!
uOpt
Something Cool
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
What you play classical music now?
What you play classical music now?
crusty philtrum
Vintageologist
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
Not falling over.
Listening (I'm pretty good but can never do it enough).
Fitting in to what's going on (always been that way but can always be better).
Playing less (anyone can play notes, playing the spaces is a better place to define oneself, methinks).
Eliminating the brain and reasoning from the equation (always been working on this, always room for improvement to get the heart directly connected to the fretboard).
Not thinking about bloody technique, so i can (hopefully) make music for ordinary people.
Trying to watch my feet more. They move about in a funny way when i notice them. I think they get bored when i concentrate too much on the guitar, and they do their own thing down there. The occasional time i notice them, they make me laugh.
Not falling over.
Listening (I'm pretty good but can never do it enough).
Fitting in to what's going on (always been that way but can always be better).
Playing less (anyone can play notes, playing the spaces is a better place to define oneself, methinks).
Eliminating the brain and reasoning from the equation (always been working on this, always room for improvement to get the heart directly connected to the fretboard).
Not thinking about bloody technique, so i can (hopefully) make music for ordinary people.
Trying to watch my feet more. They move about in a funny way when i notice them. I think they get bored when i concentrate too much on the guitar, and they do their own thing down there. The occasional time i notice them, they make me laugh.
Progbusters
New member
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
i'm finally stop ear training covering songs and start working on my own songs
i'm finally stop ear training covering songs and start working on my own songs
TimmyPage
New member
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
Alternate picking. I picked up a mix of hybrid picking and legato back in highschool to keep up with my shredder friends, this continued into university as I studied jazz guitar. Hybrid picking has always come really naturally to me for some odd reason, while straight, fast/accurate alternate picking has always been my greatest weakness. I've been spending an hour+ a night with a cup of tea and a metronome practicing lines and melodies at ever increasing speeds.
I've kind of soft-topped at around 9 nps with strict alternate picking at the moment, it'll take me another week or two to really push myself over this plateau.
Alternate picking. I picked up a mix of hybrid picking and legato back in highschool to keep up with my shredder friends, this continued into university as I studied jazz guitar. Hybrid picking has always come really naturally to me for some odd reason, while straight, fast/accurate alternate picking has always been my greatest weakness. I've been spending an hour+ a night with a cup of tea and a metronome practicing lines and melodies at ever increasing speeds.
I've kind of soft-topped at around 9 nps with strict alternate picking at the moment, it'll take me another week or two to really push myself over this plateau.
jon the art guy
Nerdy Nerd
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
I had to look up Economy Picking. Turns out my junior college guitar teacher frontloaded me with that one about 15 years ago.
You know, I hate to say this but I used to be so much better at guitar.
I had to look up Economy Picking. Turns out my junior college guitar teacher frontloaded me with that one about 15 years ago.
You know, I hate to say this but I used to be so much better at guitar.
Matt42
New member
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
I'm always working on improving my phrasing. I'd like to learn to apply modes better. And I'd like to get better at the Albert Lee style of pick and fingers country playing. I can do a bit, but no where near as much as I'd like to be able to do.
I'm always working on improving my phrasing. I'd like to learn to apply modes better. And I'd like to get better at the Albert Lee style of pick and fingers country playing. I can do a bit, but no where near as much as I'd like to be able to do.
GuitarStv
Sock Market Trader
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
Raise your guitar height and check the angle of your fretting hand. It should be almost straight most of the time. If it's bent at the wrist it's common for the fingers to go numb.
Raise your guitar height and check the angle of your fretting hand. It should be almost straight most of the time. If it's bent at the wrist it's common for the fingers to go numb.
That90'sGuy
DyzaBoyzologist
Re: What playing technique are you working on?
Sleeping. Yeah, sleeping.
Sleeping. Yeah, sleeping.
