Poster Boy's Bootcamp, The toughest job you'll ever love!!! |
Worry about the precision, and the speed will take care of itself.
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Aug 31 2014, 12:04 PM
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I promise a video tomorrow, I haven't been slacking I have just found with this lesson I can do it at 100 bpm but my 105 is sometimes ok sometimes with extraneous string noise and sometimes shockingly bad. Definitely this is my speed limit AT THE MOMENT. I refuse to set it in concrete.
It's also been interesting to be practising on my other guitars, a Tele with higher action and a Les Paul. The feel is different with each but doesn't affect my abilities once I adjust to them This post has been edited by PosterBoy: Aug 31 2014, 12:07 PM -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Sep 1 2014, 07:13 PM
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What a doofus I am
I've been practice a half tone whole tone shape all this time. Anyway here it is, I'll do lesson 4 correctly with the whole tone half tone now. I look forward to you feedback regardless Here's a quick lesson 4 attempt at 90bpm This post has been edited by PosterBoy: Sep 1 2014, 07:16 PM -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Apr 18 2016, 09:47 AM
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AWOL for a year and 7 months. I came to what I think is a big tension problem for my fretting hand and therefore preventing progress in speed and other areas of technique.
So I thought what's the best place to break things down into simple chunk like pieces to help focus on this whilst progressing in other areas so as not to get bored. Yep Todd's bootcamp! Here's a video showing where I think my problem lies. I have a collapsing thumb, someone else noticed it collapses more on strings 1,2 and 3 when I pull my elbow back instead of letting my wrist rotate. I also notice going up the neck my thumb drags behind my fingers rather than staying parallel with my index and middle finger. I don't put too much pressure on my neck from my thumb but I do notice my hand tenses more with the thumb collapsed. I am trying to rectify my posture too, bringing the guitar in more to the body and looking less at my fretboard so I don't angle the guitar body towards the ceiling. -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Apr 19 2016, 04:50 PM
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Its a weird feeling not having the thumb there, but it does show how little pressure is needed to fret notes.
Another interesting thing, doing lesson 4 double picked was causing me lots of picking issues where I really felt I was fighting the string and it felt awkward changing strings, then I remembered the Cracking the code videos of the downward pick slant and that makes it so much easier. -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Then I developed the thumbless technique to prevent it happening again. |
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Jun 27 2016, 10:04 AM
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Hey Todd I've just quit my church worship team, so much more time for meaningful guitar practice. I think playing with guys that don't take musicianship seriously (the balance between musicianship and spirituality stuff was way off) and playing uninspiring music didn't give me much motivation to get my own act together.
Now I'll have a big ol' hole in my life to fill with awesome technique and creative playing, and hopefully get some songs composed and recorded, but we'll see I know what I'm like at the start of a new chapter and what happens when life starts getting in the way! -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Jun 27 2016, 10:38 AM
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Sorry for the bad audio quality the position of my speakers in relation to my webcam mic is as far from optimal as it gets, but it's quicker recording like this than to use Sony Vegas and sync audio and video together.
So way back when... you asked me to practice lesson 4 again but this time double picked. Things I learnt were when going from an up pick on a higher (pitched) string to a down pick on a lower string, a down slant on the pick makes things much smoother, this is something I watched in Cracking the code, but when you actually put it into practice it really makes sense. This is at 103 bpm -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Jun 28 2016, 12:12 PM
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One thing I'm focusing on with lesson 5 is bringing my thumb with me when I move up to the next position on the neck. I have a habit of leaving it trailing behind until it need a movement all of its own to get it back with the rest of my hand and this band habit brings mistakes and tension to my playing. So I'm trying to initiate the movement to the next position with my thumb in a very subtle way as I work on the exercise super slowly.
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Jul 7 2016, 08:57 AM
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Here's lesson 5 ascending, I'll send one of me descending the pattern too, I couldn't get a clean enough take this morning
101bpm (as always I do everything in 1/16 notes!) -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Jul 17 2016, 11:18 AM
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I'm not sure why descending gave me so much trouble
Lesson 5 descending 101 bpm This post has been edited by PosterBoy: Jul 17 2016, 11:20 AM -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Jul 23 2016, 12:19 PM
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Todd you said you'd require more and more from me as the levels go up, but I think I require more of myself, so with each lesson I try and take the main object of the lesson and expand on it to get the most out of it I can
With Lesson 6 I came up with this expansion of the lick (see pdf) nothing groundbreaking but nice to try a couple other shapes and to realise when another string comes into play how much the difficulty goes up and the speed must come down! Here's a rough video of the expanded exercise at 130bpm, excuse the overreach on the first bar!!, I'll post up the proper lesson video at a faster tempo in the next day or so. This post has been edited by PosterBoy: Jul 23 2016, 12:20 PM -------------------- My SoundCloud
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