What Are You Working On Right Now?

[Bloody_Inferno]

I just saw a recent insta post by Nahre Sol showing the different phrasing techniques used in Indian classical music, and I've gotten enamoured with them that I'll probably spend the next week or month incorporating them in my playing.

 

[TSJMajesty]

I practiced my sextuplet riffs, and a part of a solo that is a C6 to an Em6 swept arpeggios, and they're tricky to do clean.
But for the first time I got them fluid enough that it made me smile! It was like, Yeah! That sounds really cool!

When stuff starts coming together, it's

 

[Stone]

When stuff starts coming together, it's

Ain't that the truth
Amen

 

[norminal]

Had a breakthrough last night. I’ve been practicing descending pentatonic “fives” on and off and last night, it finally “clicked.”

This proves my theory (at least for myself) about breaking down and focusing on specific problematic areas of a lick or technique and practicing ONLY those. For me it was the “sweep” or the economy “down down” as well as the two note per string which I was fairly weak at playing with any speed.

Johnson and Bonamassa must have shedded this for years to get where they are today.

 

[DrewJD82]

Had a breakthrough last night. I’ve been practicing descending pentatonic “fives” on and off and last night, it finally “clicked.”

This proves my theory (at least for myself) about breaking down and focusing on specific problematic areas of a lick or technique and practicing ONLY those. For me it was the “sweep” or the economy “down down” as well as the two note per string which I was fairly weak at playing with any speed.

Johnson and Bonamassa must have shedded this for years to get where they are today.

The economy picking is what screwed me up, because whenever I saw it written as "economy picking" I assumed it was different from what I was already doing and was this special technique I couldn't figure out, when "just pick the next fucking string without changing directions" would have made things a lot clearer from the start.

 

[Byrdman]

Well, our band broke up about a month ago. The bass player left us to play with the singer's other band after his bass player quit, lol...

Anyway, over the past +6 months I noticed some "holes" in my game learning the songs for the band so I just started taking some lessons from a local guy to plug them up and be better next time.

Right now he has me doing a lot of finger exercises to make me a lot more efficient with individual finger motions. He noticed, and I already knew, I had a lot of "wasted" motions. Finger's flailing, tense-ness in both hands, etc. especially when tempos increased. Standard shit everyone experiences but I thought I could spend months sorting it out myself, or get some professional help.

Been doing these exercises for about 3 weeks and can already see and feel a difference. He is also just introduced week before last how CAGED and Pentatonic boxes can be merged/incorporated together. Just scratching the surface on CAGED. I understood the principals behind it and was using the CAGED Maj/Min Triads while learning songs that were more advanced in song structure to cheat a little, but now he says we are going back and filling in the holes.

 

[DrewJD82]

I'm trying to learn the "Poundcake" solo but the literal drill parts are a bitch.

Edit- It's more of an issue of my JEM not being in the best shape, there's a lack of sustain in the guitar itself so when I go to hold out that bent B note on the G-string then grab the drill, the note's dying before I even get the drill back to the guitar. If I add more gain to the amp, it's way too distorted. There's multiple shims under the damn nut to try to get around the inability to adjust the truss rod and though the guitar plays fine, great even, it doesn't sound how I know it's capable of sounding.

 

[FuzzyAce]

the literal drill parts are a bitch.

oh, but it's so much fun!

 

[DrewJD82]

oh, but it's so much fun!

2015 Ryobi's crank faster than 1991 Makita's, FYI.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Well, our band broke up about a month ago. The bass player left us to play with the singer's other band after his bass player quit, lol...

Anyway, over the past +6 months I noticed some "holes" in my game learning the songs for the band so I just started taking some lessons from a local guy to plug them up and be better next time.

Right now he has me doing a lot of finger exercises to make me a lot more efficient with individual finger motions. He noticed, and I already knew, I had a lot of "wasted" motions. Finger's flailing, tense-ness in both hands, etc. especially when tempos increased. Standard shit everyone experiences but I thought I could spend months sorting it out myself, or get some professional help.

Been doing these exercises for about 3 weeks and can already see and feel a difference. He is also just introduced week before last how CAGED and Pentatonic boxes can be merged/incorporated together. Just scratching the surface on CAGED. I understood the principals behind it and was using the CAGED Maj/Min Triads while learning songs that were more advanced in song structure to cheat a little, but now he says we are going back and filling in the holes.

Keep at it man, it's a never-ending learning experience but that's why we keep going.
Sorry about the band though.

 

[FuzzyAce]

2015 Ryobi's crank faster than 1991 Makita's, FYI.

It's funny, I use drills everyday now but couldn't tell you which is best for guitar.

Been a long time since I did that trick.

 

[DrewJD82]

It's funny, I use drills everyday now but couldn't tell you which is best for guitar.

Been a long time since I did that trick.

The slower ones.

To match the same pitch that's in the song I need to slowly pull the trigger in and if I pull it back further than an 1/8" it's getting into a different octave. It may be the right tool for many jobs, but not this one.

 

[PLX]

The slower ones.

To match the same pitch that's in the song I need to slowly pull the trigger in and if I pull it back further than an 1/8" it's getting into a different octave. It may be the right tool for many jobs, but not this one.

Ed had his tech lock the trigger to the specific motor rotation speed for that trick.

 

[PLX]

Searing this into my memory.

 

[TSJMajesty]

I noticed some "holes" in my game....
to make me a lot more efficient with individual finger motions.

The past few years, as I've been trying to up my own game, I've become painfully aware of many things in my technique that were holding me back, that really needed to be addressed.

I've changed-

Keeping my fingers (even that damn pinky!) close to the fretboard
Muting strings in various ways
Breaking the link between my pinky and ring finger,
Moving my pick grip further down my 1st finger, to help with switching slants, to better help with outside and inside string changes
Altering my picking motion to a side-to-side, instead of rotating it too much (like you would turn your hand when opening a door knob)
And working on being able to pick any lick just as fast, whether starting on a downstroke or an upstroke.

Getting these bad habits fixed, er, improved, has made such a huge difference in my being able to tackle harder stuff.

There's still one thing that I don't practice often enough- trills- that's still holding me back, but they are so boring.

 

[TSJMajesty]

2015 Ryobi's crank faster than 1991 Makita's, FYI.

I've noticed many of my Dewalt cordless tools run at an A note. haha

 

[Stone]

2015 Ryobi's crank faster than 1991 Makita's, FYI.

you need a Dewalt for the tone

 

[la szum]

Lots of clean to mostly clean tones drenched in Delay and Reverb.

Someone make me stop!!!!!!

 

[FuzzyAce]

Not a damn thing. I've been in a playing drought as of late. Haven't felt inspired to pick up the guitar much although I feel the break is needed so I can hit it again with new perspective.

 

[Stone]

Recording