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Although if that was my wife I wouldn't be wasting time every evening talking to you lot on here.
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Currently for sale:
24.75 scale Kotzen style telecaster
Grover Jackson superstrat
12 string acoustic
OTO Bim delay pedal
Perhaps you're both right in a way - you need to slow down to the point where you can hear the mistakes, as opposed to slowing down to the point where you're not making mistakes. But you really have to be able to hear the mistakes, or you'll end up practicing them! I think that's the essence of Justin's argument too (don't practice mistakes).
And, isn't there a Discussion area on the forum for Technique...
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My own take: there are different ways to learn. Some methods work better for some people. Some methods work better for some tasks. There is no single One Right Way. The trick is (a) to find what works for you, and (b) to be prepared to switch methods where your normal method isn't working.
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I guess the way I would look at it is- can the person telling you the way to play fast play fast? If not, I'm disinclined to listen. If they can, I'm more inclined to listen (while still realising that different methods may suit different people).
EDIT: Oh yeah. I remember having a PE teacher at one point who attempted to teach us how to walk properly. We were 13/14.
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That same teacher attempted to teach us how to play tennis, too. I guess it was starting from first principles. Maybe it would have been good if there'd been time. I don't remember, by the end of the year, ever getting anywhere close to even playing an actual tennis match.
Isn't it more sensible to learn Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue at a sedate pace and fretting all the notes well than immediately trying to play it at the song's original tempo with strings buzzing and wrong notes being sounded? That is what I believe he has tried to emphasise in the videos I have seen where he tells people to start off slow and accurate. A real world analogy would be somebody learning something like archery or snooker, where starting off slow and deliberate helps with accuracy and consistency.
Now, there might well be some other videos by Justin that I haven't seen in which he covers more advanced techniques aimed at intermediate players - the type of playing where it's very hard to almost impossible to slow the playing down and still have it sound like a piece of music rather than producing a series of plodding notes. In those instances it makes more sense to try and achieve a reasonable tempo from the start and work on accuracy as you build up speed.
Also agree, in my 20's I spent a long time practicing scale patterns slowly with a metronome and trying to speed them up. It never worked and I concluded that I didn't really have the technical ability.
Now (fast approaching 60) I was inspired to start playing faster after going to download. I just started playing faster, nothing else. At first it was horrible, messy and inaccurate. After just 1 week I was noticing improvement. No practicing and breaking it down, as you say, just going for it for 5 to 10 minutes a day.
I guess if I was a guitar teacher it would be good business practice to tell people to practice slowly and build up. They will take longer to progress and so you have a client for longer