What Are You Working On Right Now?

[DrewJD82]

Been working on this section from “Metropolis PT1”-(2nd measure)

Got the first six measures memorized and up to tempo last night (started Saturday), tonight I’ll get the last bit of it and continue working through the rest of the song. I felt my peepee grow 1/16’ when I pulled it off at tempo.

 

[Mikael Dez]

Been working on this section from “Metropolis PT1”-(2nd measure)

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Got the first six measures memorized and up to tempo last night (started Saturday), tonight I’ll get the last bit of it and continue working through the rest of the song. I felt my peepee grow 1/16’ when I pulled it off at tempo.

That’s a massive peepee increase!

 

[Jazz Padd]

Working up a 15-20mn Beatles medley / suite for a mid-March live solo guitar set.

Songs are Free as a Bird, Blackbird, Lucy in the Sky, In my Life, done as instrumentals on a PRS S2 Studio with my Mad Professor 6-pedal board into a Henriksen Blu Six.

Have basic arrangements for each, so at the moment trying some different tune orders, transitions and pedal switching.

 

[TSJMajesty]

That’s a massive peepee increase!

I felt my peepee grow 1/16’ when I pulled it off at tempo.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Working mainly on this riff from Liquid Tension's Key To The Imagination. At different times, it's played on both B strings (on a 7), and the low E.

Fun riff!!
I can play it at tempo (105), but it gets easier for me above that speed. I can nail it @ 120, but between about 90-110, it just doesn't FEEL COMFORTABLE.

It's weird. (Or maybe not...?)

And in this riff, the open strings make it harder to keep fluid, due to the quick change in string tension against your pick.

So even though I can play it fine, I use it for practice. A lot!

For the past 4 hours, (along with other stuff of course) I've:

Come at this from 8th note = 160, on up (5bpm increases) to about 195 where I start to get erratic.
I've played just small sections repeatedly; Reversed my picking strokes; Relaxed my grip; Tightened it up; I even went way down to 100 bpm, working up in 5 bpm increments (8th notes, not 16th's), and I still get tripped up around 95bpm. (16th notes.)

It's become an obsession, as I've had this problem for a while. I guess part of my point is, this is one thing I've dedicated a lot of time to, and the improvements are coming SOO SLOWLY! Man I wish I'd done this when I was much younger!

Hoping I can at least put a noticeable dent in this tempo range this weekend if possible. Cuz I'm sure it would help me at other tempos too.

 

[Warmart]

Working on possibly my 1st sweepage!

 

[la szum]

Been working on this section from “Metropolis PT1”-(2nd measure)

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Got the first six measures memorized and up to tempo last night (started Saturday), tonight I’ll get the last bit of it and continue working through the rest of the song. I felt my peepee grow 1/16’ when I pulled it off at tempo.

Holy fuck.... in alternating 7/8 and 3/4. I can't even tap my foot like that.

 

[la szum]

Working on possibly my 1st sweepage!
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Nice! Starting with the widest stretch possible, I see.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

This...

 

[Warmart]

Nice! Starting with the widest stretch possible, I see.

They just couldn't make it easy!

 

[Warmart]

Working on possibly my 1st sweepage!
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Hell with playing it THERE, I moved it down to HERE:

Working with the man @TSJMajesty has taught me many things, one being that tabs are usually dumb.

Bad thing is I'm only at 60% of full speed, lmao.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Hell with playing it THERE, I moved it down to HERE:
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Working with the man @TSJMajesty has taught me many things, one being that tabs are usually dumb.

Bad thing is I'm only at 60% of full speed, lmao.

Couple sweeps in this that are very similar (qued up):

 

[Warmart]

Couple sweeps in this that are very similar (qued up):

He's copying me?!

Nah, probably not.

 

[Mikael Dez]

Practicing Autumn Leaves and my wife goes “that’s really nice, you’re playing notes I haven’t heard you play before!” Me, knowing it’s just because I ignored 7th chords for 20 years: thanks

 

[Gothi]

Berserker Trance, including a fast rhythm guitar following the uhm bada uhm bada bass strumming chords (VSTi, my guitar player has been down for over a year now). Have never made Trance before. Usually the electronic part of our Electro Folk is Industrial and synthpop inspired. However I cannot allow myself to make a tune about Berserkers going into trance if it ain’t Trance. Oldschool GOA, viking style. Man, how I love the freedom of making non-profit underground music. There are no genres that cannot be mixed.

 

[AFKAEjay(retired)]

I'm working on learning Autumn Leaves, on top of reading sheet music and getting down with 7th chords. Started guitar lessons cuz I'm sick of being so limited to metal music. Anyway, it's very relaxing and therapeutic working with MuseScore (it's free!) and it's helping me piece together sheet music and the guitar. I "built" all these chords based on where I thought they fit best based on the melody:
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Excellent!
It’s very powerfull to figure out the chords yourself!
If you try to come up with simular ones, but with the melody on the high E string,..you probably end up with some more comfy to play on your own.
If you do, consider not writing them down, the trick is…when you forget..take 60sec to reinvent…forget again..30sec to reinvent…forget…10 sec to reinvent…forget…1 sec..forget…1ms…and that’s where you wanna be

 

[la szum]

Ear training. Not sure why I didn't focus on this much earlier. Music is sound. Doh!

I mean, I've learned songs this way, but never emphasized ear training as a practice
with intentionality like I have recently.

Doesn't even need to be guitar. Was trying to cop some Debussy licks the other day.
Sounds more impressive than it was.

Just trying to tune my ears to be more responsive, and then get my hands to follow.

Not cheating either.... so far.

 

[Mikael Dez]

Excellent!
It’s very powerfull to figure out the chords yourself!
If you try to come up with simular ones, but with the melody on the high E string,..you probably end up with some more comfy to play on your own.
If you do, consider not writing them down, the trick is…when you forget..take 60sec to reinvent…forget again..30sec to reinvent…forget…10 sec to reinvent…forget…1 sec..forget…1ms…and that’s where you wanna be

You don’t happen to write articles about blues triads and PRS Hollowbodies do you?

 

[maguchi]

11/8. It's a bitch!

 

[TSJMajesty]

I was up hella early today, so I actually played guitar before work. One thing I did was to try and memorize the parts in Pull Me Under that I always seem to forget..., and, I tried playing that down-picking part. (right before "This world is spinning around...")

How TF can you DO that? It's 16th notes @ 103 bpm. So if you can downpick that whole part, it's like you're on par to play a 16th-note, alternate-picked riff at 200 bpm! My hand just doesn't wanna move that fast!