Mindful Repetition |
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Aug 31 2013, 08:13 AM |
I was given a copy of Frank Gambale's Chops Builder which is a series of 'warm ups'
Frank covers many types of exercises in his regiment of exercises: Alternate picking triplets, Alternate picking sixteenth notes, Combination triplets and sixteenth notes, Major scales and their modes, Melodic minor modes, Harmonic minor modes, Diminished and whole tone scales, Interval scales and patterns, Chromatic exercises, String skipping, Sweep picking triad arpeggios, Hammer-ons and Pull-offs, Stretch voicings, Blues progressions, and much more. As I was learning the first and 2nd Round of warm ups, I started to find drills I had to slow down or break parts down until I could get them to my normal speed, it reminded me of Todd and Ben's video chats and approaches to getting technique down Also I have reached a drill that requires more work on my part, I'm watching Frank and his students running it and whilst they are playing at a faster tempo than me, their fingers don't seem to be moving as fast. It baffled me for a few minutes until I recalled Rick Graham saying something the other day, normally people say speed is a by product of accuracy but he said Speed is a by product of efficiency. So with the drill I'm having issues with I am starting to really look into each movement and position shift to minimise wasted effort of the left hand, which is making things look less hurried and allowing me to up the tempo. -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Aug 31 2013, 03:35 PM |
hey man - it's always great to see the results of slowing down and breaking things into small pieces that you can assimilate Isn't it?
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Aug 31 2013, 03:49 PM |
Hi mate! That's a great trainer! I also worked on it an it was really helpful. And these though that you shared are the big secret behind playing fast! There are 2 important things to have in mind when you are trying to play fast:
1. Efficiency 2. Muting the strings that mustn't sound. -------------------- My lessons
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