How To Improvise Forever?

How do you improvise forever and avoid repeating yourself? Tough question! Here is my attempt to answer it:




Do you struggle with improvising? Why / why not? Do you have tips?

Why Practice Slowly When You Want To Play Fast?

I recorded this video to welcome Rids back to the forum - but it struck me this is a highly relevant topic to anybody working on building their chops.

So here is a question for you - do you ever practice way below your comfort speed? Why / why not?

Sound Tweaking Lessons

Hey guys,

I am thinking about producing some sound tweaking lessons for our community - and would like to check with you if you have any thoughts/suggestions for this topic.

Here you can see a video I recorded to give Yoncopin feedback in his REC thread.



Do you think this video is any good? Or is it a bit long and boring perhaps? Do you feel it's relevant (even though you might not have a Kemper amp)?

What's So Difficult With Fast Picking

This topic fascinates me - why is fast picking so hard?



Here is the lesson I am referring to in the video.

To me - the hard thing with speed picking, is the string crossing motion. It requires control...and a practicing strategy!

Are you struggling with alternate picking? And if so, why?

Help Gmc Modernise Emoji Support (fixed!)

Now that the site has better mobile support we are starting to see these:



...which is the result of the GMC website not being able to interpret emoji code / emoticons from your smartphone.

I am thinking we should be able to solve this by ourselves. Does anybody here have the knowledge on how we could go about it?

I guess there should be open source libraries for this (ie google's EmojiCompat library) - or maybe I could manually add the code for the most common ones via ipb forum admin.

Fingers crossed for some input!