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Mar 25 2019, 09:17 PM
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Hi Victor,
Your approach to technique practice is not different to what I've done when Speed and Shred was my main goal. There are some important things to have in mind: - Diary practice: It's essential to practice the same type of stuff every day for a while to see results. - Economise movements: This is the most important and difficult part. All your movements must be small and effective in order to achieve fast speeds. The best is to have a mentor (I can be the one!) to check your technique and give feedback about this, but it also helps to analyse all your favourite guitarists to see their posture and hand movements. - Don't practice too much time at a not comfortable tempo. If you notice that you are not playing with both hands in sync, slow down. It's good trick to play some minutes 10 bpm over your tempo, but not more than 5 minutes. Get back to your comfortable tempo to get used to the right sound and hands work. Practising something played wrong will make you play faster but sound bad! - Don't stay too much on the same exercises. For example, you don't need to master two strings sweep picking to start practising 3 or 4 strings sweep picking. The more advanced exercise will help you master the previous ones. - Apply speed to your own improvisations. It's important to balance metronome playing with backing tracks playing to be able to use speed for real music. Combine exercises with phrases, make variations, be creative. That's everything that comes to mind now. I have an Intensive Technique Course with more tips and exercises here: LINK Let me know if you have any more questions! -------------------- My lessons
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Mar 25 2019, 10:07 PM
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Excellent topic! Here are some initial thoughts based on the info you have given us so far:
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Mar 26 2019, 08:27 PM
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Mar 26 2019, 08:54 PM
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And another video to get a better idea of my playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwgSaCmB8E
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Mar 26 2019, 09:52 PM
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QUOTE (Victor Simion @ Mar 26 2019, 07:27 PM)  I like how your right hand looks on first video but be careful because you have some hands sync issues. The problems come from the beginning of the take where you not keep the correct picking. Look in your Ben take (Hand Synch Lesson) at his picking direction and you will see that he make this: E string - down up down A string - up down up D string - down up down G string - up down up B string - down up down E string - up down up...etc Now what you do in the take is: E string - down up down A string - down up down D string - down up down G string - down up down B string - down up down E string - down up down...etc Every time when you change a string, you make that transition to not sound ok. Each first note from the next string sounds shorter than should be. This make the overall playing to not sounds corectly and precise because the wrong picking not let you to respect the notes value. That's why also appear some timing issues. You have moments when you are in front of the beat and moments when you are off beat. My advice is to slow down this lesson and try to copy Ben's picking direction because this will improve your playing and will help you to respect each note value. Also take care about accents because they will bring an improvement in keeping a good timing. One more thing. Try when you practice to use less gain in tone. It will be harder for playing but great for learning techniques in a good way. You have that type of tone that "lie" because of too much gain and this thing can make you to not notice important things. QUOTE (Victor Simion @ Mar 26 2019, 07:54 PM) And another video to get a better idea of my playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwgSaCmB8E About the second video that you posted (Neoclassical licks). Exactly how I expected. The right hand is not ok. Look at 0:13 what happens with your hand. That mechanism with moving the whole hand will not brings you speed and clarity. Try to calm down and don't move the whole hand. Relax yourself and use just a wrist motion. Also involve your thumb movement when you increase the speed. I hope my tips to help you 
This post has been edited by Monica Gheorghevici: Mar 26 2019, 10:04 PM |
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Mar 28 2019, 10:04 AM
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Yes I think Monica is spot on here!
About your right hand movement, a simplified way of looking at it, would be to just try making smaller movement when you practice at slow tempo. There is a major chance this will naturally have you use more of the thumb movement (which is a good thing!). QUOTE (Victor Simion @ Mar 26 2019, 08:54 PM) And another video to get a better idea of my playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwgSaCmB8E And thanks for this video, it makes it easy for use to identify the problem: Most of it lies in the fact that you are not quite ready to push speeds up to this tempo, however improving the hand motion (as mentioned) will also give you numerous other advantages (applicable to many different kind of licks/scenarios). |
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