Alternate Picking Workout Options

[Gert1973]

Hi Monica,

New lesson... first take...

I have been practising this lesson for 2 weeks now. Today I made the first recording and it hits me immediately when I see myself playing. I believed during practise, I made small movements with my fingers. And when I see myself play... it's the opposite

So that's already something to work on. I did the whole lesson in this first take. And I already know you're going to say I have to break it into pieces

But I just like to do the full lesson, so in one month from now, I can look back and see the progression.

So here it is...



Analysis:
I think there a good difference between muted and not muted.
11: missed a note
26: bad note
1.23: missed the note and vibrato
1.27: screwed this up
1.30: missed this note
2.16: missed this vibrato
2.21: tapping needs more work
2.27: missed a note

1.18-1.35: this part definately needs more work

Question:
1.21: Darius makes the vibrato with 2 fingers
1.28: Darius only uses one finger (see video 5 around 1.15)
1.33: Darius also uses one finger (see video 5 around 1.19)
Where he uses one finger, he does not tough the botton of the fretboard and kind of makes the vibrato with a loose finger. To me it does not look like the correct technique for vibrato, right?

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[Gert1973]

Hello Monica,

Here's a first take at 100bpm

The first half of the lesson goes pretty good. I will need more practice with the second half. Especially the vibrato and a little bit on the trills.



Analysis:
31: this note did not ring good
34: unwanted string noise
1.01: strange unwanted string noise going from 4th fret second string to 7th fret 5th string and the note on the 5th string 7th fret all not good
1.04: only 2 vibrato
1.17: note not clear enough
1.50: trill not 100% good
1.57: trills start good but last two are rushed

I will practice the second part more and concentrate on the vibrato and the timing of the trills.



Note: After posting this, I wanted to practice the vibrato's some more so I had a new close look at how Darius performs the vibrato's.
In the main video, I counted the oscillations (and I hope I have the correct understanding of this word, hahahaha). On the first vibrato, he does 3 oscillations and on the second vibrato 2. The same for the 3th and the 4th vibrato (3 and 2) and same for 5th and 6th, right?
But on the slow video, the oscillations are different. Every vibrato has 3 oscillations...

So that means alternate 3 oscillations and 2 oscillations for the vibrato?


I also noticed he uses a different technique on the main video then on the slow video number 5 (look at 1.13-1.21). On the slow video on the 3th, 4th, 5th and 6th vibrate his hand does not have an angle on the guitar. That the reason I used the technique as in the slow video number 5 at one of the first takes I made of this lesson. But as you explained to me yesterday, I have to look at the main video

But now you know why I did those vibrato's with no angle on the guitar as you pointed out in your feedback


Have a good day!

Gert

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This post has been edited by Gert1973: Jul 13 2023, 12:08 PM