Beginner Bushido Task 2 |
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Beginner Bushido Task 2 |
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Feb 1 2012, 10:52 AM |
Task 2 : https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Inside-Outside-Picking/
Record and upload a version of this (at a tempo that feels comfortable to you) by Wednesday 8th Feb. Following on from our basic picking hand work, I'd like to shine the spotlight towards picking between strings and picking over them. This is often referred to as picking 'inside' or 'outside' the strings. You will encounter these motions when you play alternate picking licks that cover more than one string so it is essential to understand them. It can be very difficult to attain any sort of speed when isolating these picking mechanics. Some people can reach very high speeds doing it (see John Petrucci) but those people are evil. I use this as a way of introducing your hand to the motions and getting comfortable using them, rather than going for speed training. Once you've spent some time at this level, you would naturally encounter these motions in various picking patterns and the speed of the inside/outside picking would naturally increase along with the exercises you practice in time.. The 'backing track' is just a click track so feel free to record your takes with a metronome as the backing. Of course, I recommend starting only at a tempo you can manage and see if you can increas the tempo by perhaps 5 or 10bpm by next week. Enjoy ! |
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Feb 6 2012, 04:12 AM |
Ok my attempt at inside and outside picking!
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Feb 8 2012, 10:10 AM |
Master, from the icy practice corner of your temple I come back with my take on your second assignment.
I played at 88bpm - the cleaner parts (2nd and 4th run) are outside picked InsideOutside_88bpm.mp3 ( 1.07MB ) Number of downloads: 141 Hey mate, I had the same problem in the beginning, and even if I'm going >95bpm.. This is what helped me: 1 I started really slow (50bpm), where the fretting hand was no problem and it sounded clear 2 practiced at that speed until I was able to play it clean two times in a row 3 increased by 2bpm 4 goto 2 while practicing this lesson, I realised that a good 'stretchy' warmup before and inbetween really helped, because my fretting hand was getting 'knotted' quite fast.. hope that'll help you too.. The ironic thing about this is...I'm not having a problem with the picking...it's the fretting hand that I am struggling with!
This post has been edited by mad: Feb 8 2012, 10:12 AM |
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Feb 8 2012, 11:26 AM |
Master, from the icy practice corner of your temple I come back with my take on your second assignment. I played at 88bpm - the cleaner parts (2nd and 4th run) are outside picked InsideOutside_88bpm.mp3 ( 1.07MB ) Number of downloads: 141 Thank you for your take Mad one Outside picking is definitely the easier for you, as it is for me. However, if you were to continue working on these elements I would strongly recommend you to do them yet slower (boring I know) as the ratio of clean execution of the lick to not clean isn't high enough yet for you to really benefit from it. In short, at this speed you're practising as many mistakes as you are good habits. So, that's all I would suggest there But it's all good !! The ironic thing about this is...I'm not having a problem with the picking...it's the fretting hand that I am struggling with! Ah, it is ironic ! Well it's good to hear that your picking is coping with it but it seems your fretting hand needs some attention to help it cope. What aspects is it struggling with ? Stretching or keeping in time ? If you want to modify the finger positions so you're just playing 2 notes, not 3 different ones, then do so.. it's still practising the same picking motions but you're just using 2 fingers. |
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