QUOTE (DeepRoots @ May 5 2008, 04:31 PM)
Hmm..weaknesses...
I'd say my sweeping has gone downhill because i've practised nothing but alternate picking for a while..also my legato could be waay better.
One thing i need to start practising is finger-picking, i played the greensleeves lesson a while back and stopped practising fingerpicking for some unknown reason..
Also..im not great working over chord changes, like changing scale but keeping in the same position not just moving around the same shape to different positions.
All will come with time tough i am sure
Good idea for a topic btw, now i know what to get practising right away
Like i said to Andrew...we make the time for whats important to us and the rest falls by the wayside.
Maybe sweeping isnt as important to you as AP or Legato. I think after a time certain techniques fall away because we don't use them for expression. Music is about expression and we all express ourselves in different ways. For me sweep picking is intregal to my expressing myself.
As far as finger picking is concerned, finger picking correctly is hard, i would suggest finding someone who is highly skilled in this area to learn from. For me my brother is a great inspiration in fingerpicking. His main influence is Mark Knopfler. Not only that he has played for so long without a pick that when i ask him where i put my pick down he looks at me like i am speaking an alien language
(like what the hell is a pick?)
I think Muris has some good lessons on Fingerpicking you should ask him for some advice in his instructor threads.
Daniel
QUOTE (Nick325 @ May 5 2008, 04:37 PM)
i would say my sweeping, 5 string more than 3 string, because i cant really start to speed up while mutting. i always seem to lift my palm. and maybe a little tapping but im practicing it a lot more (cause it sounds awsome
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Nick,
Blocking string noise can be a real pain in the butt i know! But what you have to learn is how to control not so much your palm as you have to develop a better left hand muting technique. Although palm muting is a big part of sweep picking left hand finger muting is just as important. You need to slow down and work on that "rolling" action of your fingers so that as you sound a note you deaden the string as you release. You don't full pull off the string entirely right away.
Think of it like this..you fret a note and immediately let the string come off the fret but don't take your finger off it and place your palm then release. Its this give and take between palm and finger that gives the sweep its tightness.
I would practice finger muting on 3 string sweeps and gradually add more notes. Its such a subtle movement on the part of your fretting hand it shouldnt take you long to get the hang of it.
Daniel
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