QUOTE (kjutte @ Jun 29 2008, 03:33 PM)
My weakness is not having enough time to practise :'(
That aside- Upward sweeps seems like a real bitch.
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And arpeggios without picking (noise)
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Any string change without picking even... noise still. Gotta learn how to mute 'em in realtime.
For sweep picking it is so much easier to learn it in small increments rather than all at once, check out one of my earlier posts in this thread where i give an excersise to help you learn how to sweep pick in small increments.
As far as string noise is concerned there are multiple reasons for string noise aside from not muting properly. Typically the one thing i notice in guitarists just starting out they play with entirely too many effects. I think even i would be hard pressed to have no string noise if i played with huge amounts of gain and chorus and reverb. The more effects you add to your chain the harder it will be to keep the strings quiet.
If this is not the case with you i just suggest analyzing what is causing the string noise when you switch strings. Sometimes it is more about figuring out what is causing it rather than quieting them after the fact. As you start playing more and more complex licks you have to really watch everything your hands are doing to make sure that you are doing everything you can to keep the strings quiet. Watch your hand angles, how you pull off or hammer on, are you brushing a string with your palm when switching notes, is your pick hitting an adjacent string etc...and so forth. Try to figure out the cause of the string noise first before trying to quiet them after the fact.
Daniel
QUOTE (Mark. @ Jun 29 2008, 04:26 PM)
My weakness is probably my picking hand dexterty, I can par example play 6 notes per beat speedburst at 150 bpm with alternate picking ( sweeping,legato or tapping isn't a problem at all, my problem lies in AP picking dexterty )
But if I need to play some very long alternate picking solo's (Zsolt's Modal Madness lesson ),
at par example 6 notes per beat at 120bpm.
My picking hand start to tense up, which makes me screw up to solo.
But I kinda already know the answer to this problem, I just need to work up slowly and accurate so that I can train my dexterty
I've already did this a couple of times and till now it has worked
And I dont really care about max speed now anymore, I feel that if I could shred super long runs clean at 150 bpm 6 note per beat that it would be fine. So now I wanna have everything clean, tight and accurate for long runs, not just for speedbursts at that tempo
The biggest thing with long AP runs at a fast tempo is more about knowing where you are going without thinking about it. Like i told someone earlier when i first started out i wanted to be Yngwie and just shred the whole neck in every crack in the song, the problem is that if you don't know where you are going on the neck without thinking about it your going to mess up. Generally speaking when speeding up after awhile is not a problem with your hands, it is a problem with your brain. What i mean by that is that your hand is tensing up not because it is weak, but because it is waiting for the signal from your brain about what to do next. I find this to be the case for me alot of times, but if i just slow down and take the time to get a lick under my fingers and visually see exactly how to get from point A to point B on the neck i don't tense up. Dexerity comes with not having to think so hard about what comes next for the most part and not a strength issue with your hands.
Think about it like this, i bet you could pick 16th notes at 170 BPM on an open string without having to fret any notes, and your wrist wouldnt tense up for quite awhile. Now if you had to play a 11 note pattern at that same speed your wrist would lock up in short order, but its not because of strength its because your hand stays tense waiting for input from your brain. But if you slow down and practice that 11 note pattern so you know exactly where it goes you will have to think about it less and less.
Daniel
QUOTE (besip @ Jun 29 2008, 06:13 PM)
NO.1 Theory!!!!!!!
and then lot of thinng i'm beginer but whats made me crazy..is somethime play over some backing or some song part train by metronome
I am probably not the best person to give you theory advice, my understanding of theory is relatively rudimentary. I mean i can tell you what key i am playing in, the chords i am using etc. But i couldnt tell you the WHY of what i am doing.
An analogy of that would be "JUst because i can drive a car doesnt mean i know how it works"
You want theory understanding go to the people here who have an huge grasp of the subject, like Andrew Cockburn.
From an instructor standpoint depending on your wants of styles to learn obviously Muris, David Walliman, and Nick Kellie stand out to me as being the guys to go to for Theory discussions.
Daniel
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