So I’ve been learning some of the harder Slash licks in the November rain outro solo , paradise city , etc. It has taken me quite a while to get them up to speed in the mid 90s 100% But I can now see that it is within my grasp .
what I am wondering is the more of this stuff I work on will it seem quicker to get up to speed the more I do it. The past 3 or 4 months have been working on 6 or 7 pieces of stuff ,eg hardest bits for me are usually speedy parts . I am thinking say after getting a few solos under your belt ,especially from someone with a pretty regular style of soloing , one would hope that say after 6 or 8 complete solos are achieved the next 6 will be slightly quicker to fall under ones fingers ,and the 6 after that ,slightly quicker again and so on .
It’s a lot more interesting working on actual solo’s for technique with the bonus of adding to ones repertoire .
It would be cool to be able to get more songs in ones repertoire and solos and their speed are one of the main stumbling points for me .
im currently on day 110 of consecutive focused practice ,usually 2 hours a day or more , plus some transcribing( well writing down in a way I understand , what I’m hearing ) And I’m getting up to speed and playing faster than I ever believed I could so , am hoping that once I get a good number under my belt they will eventually not take me so long to get up to speed .
am hoping to build up a good repertoire Of Guns n roses songs and skills in the next 5 years .
I start off tackling stuff so slowwwwwwww it’s not even worth playing the track, just sorting out all the articulations , once I can get it under my fingers I will start playing along to a demo piece or the actual guitar on the track trying to match it . I find at first I’m glad to start at the same time and finish at the same time and if the middle is not exactly synchronous to the track it’s not an immediate worry , I then get to the stage where I can try and match note for note til I get it perfect , then push up the speed .
of course ,the longer I’m playing these pieces the fussier I get ( I saw a name for this in a book recently ,something like selective bias) where before I would be happy to hit a certain speed , I must now play it cleaner, more defined etc lol.
Anyway so back to the original question, do you think practice works like compound interest
it’s a bad analogy , but you get my drift
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I was experimenting today playing the blues scale but with the minor 2nd Dorian interval , but not the 6th and it sounded good , also adding in b6th in places for a natural minor sound , or b6 and 7th for harmonic minor when I could get away with it sounding good , like over a V chord .
also been working on picked arpeggios like paradise city intro ,sweet child verse etc and planning to add others like don’t cry /civil war
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
1 2 b3 4 b5 5 b7 and was really liking it for improvising , if I was writing a solo I would look to see what notes were in the chords and where I could add flavour ,like Phrygian,harmonic minor etc ,
these are sometimes things I can sometimes do in the late afternoon. Early morning is the serious learning my solos ,licks etc .
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Think of it like reading english. When you are a kid you break the word down phonetically and you treat all words as a collection of smaller parts that you say separately but quick enough that all the sounds run together to make the word.
After you have learned that word you don't do that anymore. The entire thing becomes a single sound pattern. You are not doing phonetics anymore, you now have pattern recognition.
Now when that recognisable pattern appears within other new words you have a hybrid - maybe a bit of phonetics, then the recognised pattern, then maybe a bit more phonetics. You learning that new word is faster / easier because a bit of it is a pattern you already know.
Same for music, especially when written. You see 4 notes when you start and you think and play them. After a while you don't think of the note names anymore, you recognise the pattern. That expands to take into account the key signature and note length until you have all these amazing little variations of the same basic note structure depending on tempo, key, note length.
You don't do the individual note / phonetic bit anymore.
And that's why 5-10 mins per day is always better than a single 2 hour session on the weekend. Repetition is the key. Just like when learning to speak for the first time.
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I have always believed that some athletes leave their best performances on the training track. And thus are unable to attain the heights in performance, on the race day, that they are capable of. Overtraining can make you feel stale and uninspired when you want to perform. Applies to guitar as well as athletics.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.