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Put your foot on a Wah pedal that isnt connected. At least you will look cool to your wife (maybe)I spent an hour + drilling I-R-P and it’s coming around. Still terrible, but better. I also realized that I’m more comfortable with the guitar in classical position. If I buy a footstand my wife is totally going to humiliate me…
Gonna try to find a block of wood or something that I can kick out of the way before anyone can see me.
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Put your foot on a Wah pedal that isnt connected. At least you will look cool to your wife (maybe)
That’s genius
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Work this into your practice:
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I find it easier to play the 1st 6 bars on the 2nd string though. Really helps "break" that ring/pinky dependence.
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I like how you casually throw out that virtuosity. Im closer to playing Mary Had A Little Lamb then being able to pull that shit off.
I got tired of doing I-R-P to I-M-P and tried to learn that opening. Sweet Jeebus is that thing a hand stretch. I dropped it to like 130 BPM and still could barely even sloppily play it...
Im going to mix that joker in every day and see if I can eventually pull off the intro clean at full pace.
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I have a foot stool, but it's black so it's cool!I spent an hour + drilling I-R-P and it’s coming around. Still terrible, but better. I also realized that I’m more comfortable with the guitar in classical position. If I buy a footstand my wife is totally going to humiliate me…
Gonna try to find a block of wood or something that I can kick out of the way before anyone can see me.
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No..., you don't have to aim for playing it at speed. (I can't!!) It helps work that finger independence btw the pinky and ring finger, at whatever tempo you play it, even if it's really slow.
I mean, in my case, I could barely do it at first.
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That intro really tests your alternate picking. In theory it looks like it should be easy, 5-3-2-0 on adjacent strings, but I found that the second you try to play it with any pace, you get so panicked to get to the next string that you miss the first 0. Your mind - hand connection wants to go 5-3-2 and skip the 0 to go to the next string.
I really like it, that one little part vets your palm muting, left hand and alternate picking all in one little blast.
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Downloaded a new backing track and this was my second pass through it.
Good:
I feel like I have a pretty good grasp of the a-minor scale. Im doing considerably less guesswork on what's in the scale and how to move left or right or up and down. Playing I-R-P lines is coming along.
Bad:
I still don't know how to use the scale without it sounding like Little Johnny Learns To Play Guitar. Particularly anything at pace. It sounds like just playing a scale instead of something musical.
Im gonna go play that Yngwie riff at snail pace and cleanse my soul.
Good:
I feel like I have a pretty good grasp of the a-minor scale. Im doing considerably less guesswork on what's in the scale and how to move left or right or up and down. Playing I-R-P lines is coming along.
Bad:
I still don't know how to use the scale without it sounding like Little Johnny Learns To Play Guitar. Particularly anything at pace. It sounds like just playing a scale instead of something musical.
Im gonna go play that Yngwie riff at snail pace and cleanse my soul.
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This is where "phrasing" comes into play. "Phrasing" takes notes from a scale or run and makes them sound human.
In a nutshell, "phrasing" is your unique imprint on the notes being played. In other words, it's not the notes, but how you play them.
The famous guitar dudes all have their own way of "phrasing". This is part of their "tone" and many times, you can tell who's playing the notes by the "phrasing". B.B. King, George Lynch, Yngwie, EJ, etc...
Some "phrasing" examples:
- a rake before a bend
- a slow vibrato
- a fast vibrato
- pauses
- pinch harmonic
- trill
- slide up / down to note
- volume knob up / down
- tone knob up / down
- mutes
- whammy bar up / down
- double stops
- pick hard / soft
etc
I'd say you start with your vibrato ("baseline" phrasing) and go from there.
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Paul Kossoff (RIP) was a master of simplicity and phrasing. One of the most unique vibratos ever (impressed the "gods" of the day including Clapton).
Check out his solo from "All Right Now" (here it is in ISO form)... very simple and few notes, but his phrasing turns it into gold:
(video timing set play right before solo starts)
Check out his solo from "All Right Now" (here it is in ISO form)... very simple and few notes, but his phrasing turns it into gold:
(video timing set play right before solo starts)
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Byrdman
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For some reason, I have never really liked that song, but the guitar parts are exactly as you say tasty and surprisingly simple, and I have always liked the grove. Maybe it is the singing,
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This makes a lot of sense. I feel like I know the scale well enough to have it be more interesting, but it sounds more like the camp counselor playing at the jamboree.
I’ll focus on experimenting with different ways to play the notes.
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Can't see how yore playing these clips, but one thing that helped me was trying to play in a linear fashion.. as opposed to the boxes.This makes a lot of sense. I feel like I know the scale well enough to have it be more interesting, but it sounds more like the camp counselor playing at the jamboree.
I’ll focus on experimenting with different ways to play the notes.
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This course is great if you have a TrueFire account or can get it on sale:
It helped me a lot to learn to improvise a bit more and get out of the box and use the full range of the guitar.
It helped me a lot to learn to improvise a bit more and get out of the box and use the full range of the guitar.
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For some reason, I have never really liked that song, but the guitar parts are exactly as you say tasty and surprisingly simple, and I have always liked the grove. Maybe it is the singing,
Paul Rodgers isn't the Merchant Of Cool for nothing. He's a god amongst mere mortals.
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This makes a lot of sense. I feel like I know the scale well enough to have it be more interesting, but it sounds more like the camp counselor playing at the jamboree.
I’ll focus on experimenting with different ways to play the notes.
Put some stank on those notes.
Scales aren't always the answer.
The keyboard player/ singer for The Twenty Committee had this awesome practice regimen in college:
He would find licks he liked, and play them in every key up and down the keyboard.
If I remember correctly he would try to learn 2 or 3 a week, or a month or something, and then piece them together back to front.
He even asked if I thought any EVH licks were worth adding, and I mentioned some.
I adopted his practice concept, and am a better lead player (on guitar) for it.
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