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Don't know why I didn't think of that.
Although my ring finger isn't much faster. Maybe because I use my pinky a lot.
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Although my ring finger isn't much faster. Maybe because I use my pinky a lot.
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I have been shocked and amazed to discover how many great players didn't use their
pinky as much as maybe many of us assume.
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More DT- On The Backs of Angels, blazing sextuplet run @ to end the solo:
The Sonsterr tab has some mistakes in various places, but I corrected the few wrong notes in this run by watching the lesson JP had on it a while back. The fingering is different than how he plays it, but aside from the 5 notes on the B string in the beginning, if you look at the # of notes on each string, it's always 6 until the very end. An even # of notes on each string means whichever pick slant direction you use, you can keep it the same all the way through. Which in this case, since I start on a downstroke, it's backwards PS.
JP does a shift on beat 3 and plays the D/19 as a G/14 instead, both an "A" note, and when he gets an octave lower, he does the same thing, moving that A from E/17, where I have it, to A/12. Both of which results in an odd # of notes on every string, meaning you have to use 2-way PS. I feel the lick is hard enough without having to do that, so that's why I changed it.
But I still can't play it @ 138!!
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The Sonsterr tab has some mistakes in various places, but I corrected the few wrong notes in this run by watching the lesson JP had on it a while back. The fingering is different than how he plays it, but aside from the 5 notes on the B string in the beginning, if you look at the # of notes on each string, it's always 6 until the very end. An even # of notes on each string means whichever pick slant direction you use, you can keep it the same all the way through. Which in this case, since I start on a downstroke, it's backwards PS.
JP does a shift on beat 3 and plays the D/19 as a G/14 instead, both an "A" note, and when he gets an octave lower, he does the same thing, moving that A from E/17, where I have it, to A/12. Both of which results in an odd # of notes on every string, meaning you have to use 2-way PS. I feel the lick is hard enough without having to do that, so that's why I changed it.
But I still can't play it @ 138!!
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So if you have a riff/lick/solo that's counted in groups of 3, either as triplets or sextuplets, I'm finding I tend to accent every 3rd/6th note, as a way to keep the pulse going, and to help keep me in time. But just to make sure every note is when it's supposed to be, I'm also playing certain riffs as 16th notes. I change the tempo so I'm playing the same # of notes per minute, but it actually helps keep the entire riff sync'd to the beat.
Like if you were doing a series of 5-7-8 on 2 adjacent strings, counted as triplets, most likely you'll nail the "5" perfectly each time. But say you're doing them as hammer-ons..., because of the connection between the ring & pinky fingers, the 7 & 8 might not be exactly "on time."
So in addition to changing the timing to 16th notes, because it moves the beat to a different note than just the "5", I'll also change the starting note.
Many of these sextuplet riffs end up being groups of 12 or 24 notes, which work just fine counted as 16th notes also, cuz math.
In that legato solo part of In The Name of God, changing the count to 16th notes really helps show me where my timing is a bit off. And sure, I'm talking about very small timing deviations, but I figure if I'm trying to learn Petrucci solos, I may as well get my timing as good as I can possibly get it.
Because even though I can play some of these much faster than I'm currently practicing them, that's when they start losing accuracy. So my goal in changing the timing like this, is that it will help me remain accurate as I gradually increase the tempo.
I doubt I'll ever get some of these up to tempo; I mean they're insanely fast! But there's a few of them that are within my reach, and I want to get em perfect! Cuz they sound so freaking good when they are!!
Like if you were doing a series of 5-7-8 on 2 adjacent strings, counted as triplets, most likely you'll nail the "5" perfectly each time. But say you're doing them as hammer-ons..., because of the connection between the ring & pinky fingers, the 7 & 8 might not be exactly "on time."
So in addition to changing the timing to 16th notes, because it moves the beat to a different note than just the "5", I'll also change the starting note.
Many of these sextuplet riffs end up being groups of 12 or 24 notes, which work just fine counted as 16th notes also, cuz math.
In that legato solo part of In The Name of God, changing the count to 16th notes really helps show me where my timing is a bit off. And sure, I'm talking about very small timing deviations, but I figure if I'm trying to learn Petrucci solos, I may as well get my timing as good as I can possibly get it.
Because even though I can play some of these much faster than I'm currently practicing them, that's when they start losing accuracy. So my goal in changing the timing like this, is that it will help me remain accurate as I gradually increase the tempo.
I doubt I'll ever get some of these up to tempo; I mean they're insanely fast! But there's a few of them that are within my reach, and I want to get em perfect! Cuz they sound so freaking good when they are!!
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