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.