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Out of humiliation is born greatness, or is that humility? ;-)
I think I've got - just play each note of the scale with a down stroke and the its relative 3rd with an upstroke; then coming back down the scale just reverse the pair order (is this called a negative 3rd? or a relative lower 6th???), and by playi...
My bandmates call the practice recording device the "humilatron", and by golly it is...
mark.
Thanks Bruce,
That makes a lot of sense. There are two "folded scales" that I find the most useful and can also be applied to arpeggios for a great sound. The first is the one we've been referring to and the second is the one that moves in thirds....
Thank you all for the tips.
Bruce.......I like the idea of "Then record yourself". I'm going to give that a try. Listening to myself may help identify weak areas.
P.S. I think that last summer you called the folded scales "scale sequencing" in the speed drills discussion.
Roger, I think Adam Granger came up with the term first - If you you have the FGM archives you can find an article there. But I think you already know by other names - it is just playing a small cycle of degrees for each note on the scale. The the...
Hey Bruce - some great tips there - especially about RELAXING!!! (that didn't LOOK very relaxed, did it?)
What is Dan refering to when he says "folded scale"?
P.S. Another thing I do for specific songs (rather than a generic drill) works on the assumption that you can play the given tune reasonably well at a slow-moderate speed. Then record yourself and loop play it back with slow-down/speed-up software...
Byron, the one single drill that I have found that dramatically increased by left-right coordination as well as overall speed and really solid right-hand up-down smoothness (even at high speed) is the folded G-scale as given in Dan's Flatpicking e...
I can keep time with the metronome up to a point. After that my coordination falls apart. I've read and tried all of the snake oil remedies but none seam to work. Is there any way to get over this wall?
Roger,
That's about the best advice there is. I played/strummed/outofsync/goingnowhere for many moons. It wasn't until I met the metronome that it clicked (pun intended). With all seriousness, great advice!
mark.
Hi Bryon,
If things start out working together, then get out of sync as you are "speeding along" it could be because you are speeding up as the song progresses. If that's the case, you should try working with a metronome.
Most sync issues can be...
My problem is coordination between both hands. I can speed along but most of the time I’m out of sync. Please help!
Interesting bunch of links (googling brain studies musicians). Sounds like we left-handers, a majority of whom are "mixed dominant" and somewhat ambidextrous have an advantage as guitar players. To me the typical guitar set up seems like a left ha...
I'm not sure anyone really knows exactly why we tune the way we do.
With the proposed tuning EADGCF we would still have five patterns that move up the neck (they'd just be different than the ones we know now) but with the second string tuned to B...
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- At 4:40pm on August 15, 2009,
Greg Yavorsky said… - Hey Roger. I guess you'll be there for the festival the day before week 2.
Any chance of a private lesson that day?
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