Our band does 'Smooth' by Santana and I improvise the solos, but I'd love to be able to get the second solo spot on as there's something about it, particularly the run at 3:19 onwards, that just sounds lovely.
The solo in question starts at 3:06.... Would you be able to play this, and if not, how many hours do you think it would take you ?
I can do it at half speed after a fashion, but I think my fingers just don't have the dexterity to ever get it to full speed
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I can't help you other than to just slow it down in the audio and really study it and see/hear how you could do an acceptable version of your own.
If it sounds good it is good and I doubt the punters will give a shit as long as you don't play like a Les Dawson special.
The tremolo picking isn't hard- you just have to have a decent grounding in alternate picking.
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I’m self taught. Never had a lesson in my life. The limit of my tuition is spending days working through tab of a solo that’s too difficult and speeding it up slowly. Any soloing “skills” I have have been acquired doing this.
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I know I can get it in the end with my usual method of playing it on a loop at a speed I can manage then slowly increasing the tempo until I'm at full speed, but that takes days.... Literally days of playing the same 2 or 3 bars over and over and over and.....
I'm sure there must be a more efficient method of learning stuff than this.
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I have to be honest. I improvise most of the solo . I sometimes find it very tricky trying to get another player's exact phrasing so I do something in a similar vein.
If I set my mind to attempting a close copy, it would probably take me quite a while if the phrasing doesn't come naturally to me. Then I usually get the notes and phrasing in my head at slower speed (if it doesn't come naturally) then jump to trying to play it a full speed.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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Start with the last phrase of it. Once you've nailed the last bit, add the second last bit. Then the third last, keep going until you've done the whole thing.
When learning things like this its always easier to go from the tricky bit (that you can't play yet) to an easier bit (that you've already taught yourself) rather than the other way around.
All modulation of the signal should really be termed vibrato.
Tremolo has come to mean variation in volume; it should really be referred to as amplitude vibrato.
Learn to slant your pick backwards for speed tremolo picking and it is easy..........loads of online technique lessons for the pick slanting