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What Are You Working On Right Now?
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Time to practice. While you guys talk about new features, and figure out better ways for Fractal and Line 6 to run their businesses.
Hahaha! Lots of unpaid consultants up in here.
Thanks for keeping us honest, Tom!
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I've been focusing mainly on alt-picking technique, and I'm getting close to where I'd like to be, but I thought about it tonight, and there's still so much I want to get better at, that I also neglected when I was much younger:
And then I want to go beyond my very basic understanding of theory, and learn the fretboard better.
- More legato
- Get faster at trills
- Single n.p.s licks
- Arpeggios- swept & string skipping, both picked and legato
- Tremolo use
- Tapping
And then I want to go beyond my very basic understanding of theory, and learn the fretboard better.
When you say you want to learn the fretboard better, where are you at with it right now?
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It can take lifetimes.....
.... simply because the guitar is so diverse and capable ofsuch a wide range of musical styles and sensibilities. Throw in tying it all together with
various amps/cabs/fx and it just feels like the journey is infinite and unending to me.
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Uh..., beginner. I'm bad. I have to think about the note names unless it's on the E string. I know patterns, but if I wanted to solo over chord changes (as opposed to just noodling in the parent key, which is not how I want to improvise), I'd have to work it out ahead of time.
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Yeah, I think I'm coming to grips with that.It can take lifetimes..... :lol .... simply because the guitar is so diverse and capable of
such a wide range of musical styles and sensibilities. Throw in tying it all together with
various amps/cabs/fx and it just feels like the journey is infinite and unending to me.
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Back on this. Still at 100 bpm, same as where I left off, but I gotta think I can get it, if I just keep inching the speed up, bit by bit. I can play linear stuff faster than the 128 that this is, so all that's left is getting the motions ingrained I suppose.
The main reason I want this is because the picking pattern will then translate to other string-skipping arpeggios, and all I have to do is change the notes to form a different chord.
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Got to 106, but felt like I was losing control, so I played it as triplets, then changed the tempo to that speed-80, then worked back up 5 bpm at a time, but when I got back to 105, it felt comfortable. So I went for 110. And then it felt out of control again! 
Man this is difficult! So back it down again, and come back up. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Hopefully I can raise my 'back down to X tempo' by 5 bpm each time, and get it 5 bpm faster each time. Maybe after 1000 more reps I'll have it!
Man this is difficult! So back it down again, and come back up. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Hopefully I can raise my 'back down to X tempo' by 5 bpm each time, and get it 5 bpm faster each time. Maybe after 1000 more reps I'll have it!
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I would think this stuff would be coming faster for me by now, but this string-skipping shit is a motherfucker!
I can see why Petrucci practiced 6 hours a day.
I can see why Petrucci practiced 6 hours a day.
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Looking forward to participation from each and every one of you ;~))
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I just corrected a motion that I think is going to really help me get this up to tempo.
Every pick stroke needs to be straight, but as I got around 105, I was once again, "swinging" my pick up and over the 1st D/19 when changing from a upward to a downward pick slant, which made me lose control, and miss the B/20 half the time.
So I'm back at 70, and really focused on making that pick slant direction change immediately after I hit that D/19. And same thing on the e/17 (but that one wasn't giving me trouble.)
And now I'm thinking of my motions as "cutting Z's through the strings", with NO 'rounded/circular' movements, and it is definitely helping.
I realized the same exact thing when doing that fast riff in Home, but not sure why I didn't catch it sooner in this lick.
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70 to 90 is now no problem at all. I could play it @ 90 all day, with 99 out of 100 times being perfect. So now when I "reinforce" whatever gains in speed I get, I'll start at 80.
Took a break at 90, but when I get back at it, I'm gonna see if I can get to 120, 1 bpm at a time. I really wish I could set up a metronome to slowly increase its speed, without me having to stop each time.
I guess in the Axe III I could set up 20 presets in succession, and have the metronome go up 1 bpm on each one, then use a footswitch to just increment up.
Yesterday I did go for it @ 128, but even though I could get through it, every time there was some kind of mistake, or I just fumbled it completely. Might've gotten it 2 times out of 40 tries.
It sounds almost violin-like on the neck PU! Cool fuckin lick, for sure!
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