What Are You Working On Right Now?

[la szum]

Honestly, it is now in my top 3 Ozzy songs and I feel like it has everything. Having a blast so far.

It does. You could cultivate skills in a diverse armada of approaches
with just that one song, including shifting time signatures, funky ass aregegiated
chords that are in no other rock or metal songs, and some flat-out bad-ass riffage.

I need to revisit it. Stoked to hear you are having a blast with it, Dave.

 

[Warmart]

It does. You could cultivate skills in a diverse armada of approaches
with just that one song, including shifting time signatures, funky ass aregegiated
chords that are in no other rock or metal songs, and some flat-out bad-ass riffage.

I need to revisit it. Stoked to hear you are having a blast with it, Dave.

Spot on mister! I get sad every time I think about him passing, so unique in every way.

With the clean arpeggiated part, a couple of those, "funky chords" really throw me. First 3 are easy pretty standard, but whoa wtf, afterwards?! My pinky no want to do that!

I think he was trying to piss himself off so he'd really slam the 1st palm muted chunk, lol.

Cool thing is I have the 2 main riffs damn near spot on, and they will bring the grins full bore! Solo is a mix, easy in parts, from what I've seen - but it's next!

 

[la szum]

Love it, @Warmart !!!

It was because of Randy and his passion for "theory" and Classical Guitar that I wanted to
learn all that stuff. He was brilliant in so many ways. Amazing how great he and EVH were, too,
and yet there styles and approaches are literally world's apart.

Randy be all, "You will use your pinky fokkers!!!"

 

[metropolis_4]

Some kids were messing around in my music room yesterday and when I came down today there was a thumb pick sitting on my desk.

I decided it was a sign, so now I’m working on my finger picking with a thumb pick. I pulled out some old Chet Atkins books and started digging in.

Also, I came across this section from Country Gentleman. I love these super wide intervals! This is something I haven’t experimented with before, so I’m going to dig into this concept a bit.

I’m a sucker for cool harmonic ideas and I was geeking out a bit on the first measure of the third line how that parallel movement slides the bass note up to the dom 7 all within the A chord tones . So simple, yet so effective

 

[TSJMajesty]

I'm still working on this string-skipping riff. Omg, this is the most time I've ever spent on getting a particular technique under my fingers, and I'm slowly getting it. I just played it @ 118 bpm. But it's taking a LOT of practice!

My aim is that as I get more and more comfortable with it, it'll make learning/making up my own, string skipping licks that much easier, kinda like another tool in the proverbial 'bag-o-tricks.'

My overall goal with all the stuff I practice, is that each thing I learn will help me widen my own palette, so to speak, even though I haven't even begun to take any of what I'm doing, and make it into something of my own. But that is the ultimate goal.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Something a little different today, that involves 2-way pick slanting.

In the context of strict alt-picking, regardless of whether you start on a downstroke or not, if you have an odd # of notes on a string, when you change strings, you have to alternate btw an upward PS and a downward one.

So you need to change the pick angle within the time frame of however many notes are played on that string.

I'm using this diminished lick from The Shadow Man Incident.

The first section is easier, since there's an even # of notes, so you can stay with whichever pick slant you begin with (which depends on how you start the lick.) I start on a downstroke, since it's on the beat (if it begins off the beat, I usually start on an upstroke), so my pick slant is upward.

But as you get to measure 425, you have to start switching back and forth btw pick slants, so that's what I'm working on. It sounds pretty badass @ 168 bpm, which I can't play. Yet!

 

[la szum]

Love that ascending run.

And the Calypso Piano Solo it leads to is growing on me. A little.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Love that ascending run.

Do you hear a little Octavarium in it?

It's this same scale, so has the same "flavor." Cued up-



I just realized (at the end of the whole tone riff) Jordan takes a similar opportunity to play something quite "different" afterwards.

 

[Jarick]

Been listening to a lot of modern shoegaze all week and that got me to start listening to Deftones' White Pony again. Never tried to learn the stuff so going through now. Feiticeira is such a weird guitar song but fun as hell to play.