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Jan 14 2008, 11:29 PM
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Good thing is that you HAVE accuracy,that's most important,tempo is easier part imho.
Now you just play everything you do slowly and adding some speed step by step. Speed is the matter of time and discipline,so practice hard and heavy. Since you have left hand issue,I'd suggest some legato stuff + alternate picking of course. There are tons of great lesson at GMC,just type legato or alt. picking into search field. 
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Jan 14 2008, 11:52 PM
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Jan 17 2008, 01:01 AM
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Course I have.
And reason and simple,you're playing scales down more often than up.  Just switch your routine a bit and focus yourself on playing scales up. It's strange,we play what feels nice for us and then suddenly get into troubles. 
This post has been edited by Muris: Jan 17 2008, 01:02 AM -------------------- Youtube
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Jan 17 2008, 03:57 AM
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You're welcome,let me know if you need anything else.
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Apr 5 2008, 04:43 PM
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Hi there
 I see,you must have had tons of problems when it comes to picking, since you're left handed playing as right handed player.  I would like to few more details tho,per example how long have you played, how do you hold the pick,position of picking hand etc. Could you post a small video clip of your playing,some random stuff? That way I'd be able to give you better suggestion for sure.
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Jul 21 2008, 09:49 PM
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Great post James,thanks.
Being lefty and playing as right handed player surely gives you the most problems in picking. But just like everything else in life, with enough practicing you'll overcome certain barriers speed wise,no worries. As for me,back in the days I never watched tempo or bpm that much, I was always focused on a goal and tried to get it, without much thinking and with A LOT playing. Perhaps I made some huge mistakes and waste lot of time by doing things like that but I can't roll back the time. So use metronome,try to pick as clean as possible and don't look at the numbers too much, numbers usually fright us with no reason, 16th notes at 150 is nothing if you play one single note all the time,right? However I would like to track your progress and so I'm asking you to share some video clips with me, random exercises,regular lessons etc. I'll try to help anyway I can. Btw,there is a new rule among GMC stuff, we are supposed to provide 4 tempo BTs for each section, 25%,50%,75% and 100%. There was a poll and majority of members decided. Cheers!! -------------------- Youtube
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Jul 21 2008, 10:48 PM
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Hey guys
Cool topic. I'd like to try and shed some light too..I'm a lefty who plays right handed as well. Now, I don't claim to be extremely fast, but I can pretty easily handle 120bpm 16th note alternate picking. Legato has always been a friend to me, and in fact for a long time I only ever practiced ONE solid legato exercise, which is the lick at the end of Gabe's Neoclassical Sweeping and Legato lesson. This one has done wonders for me, the whole lesson is a great left hand exercise without being too tough on the right hand. However, like you guys, for a long time I had a problem breaking some barriers with regards to my picking. So heres what I have done that has helped me a ton: 1) Learn to downpick only. 2) Learn to pick up only. A lot of people have a problem when it comes to AP because they're more focused on down or up picking, and it is unbalanced and leads to your brain getting confused and makes it harder to keep a rhythm steadily. For most people, the problem is up picking. Was for me too. Master it, learn to play with upstrokes only and then go back to AP. If you can do both up and down equally well, you're good. 3) repeating exercise patterns that force you to shift your pattern of up and down strokes. For example, most of the licks in Pavel's Hand Control Lesson. Lets look at one of them here: E|---------14---------12---------| B|-------------------------------| G|-----11---------11-------------| D|--9----------9-----------------| A|-------------------------------| E|-------------------------------| The first one, looped. This kind of lick also includes string skipping, which makes it an even better exercise. The way this kind of exercise would be played by most people, you would have a power chord shape formed at least on the D and G strings. Another way to synchronize your hands together even more with this kind of exercise is to have your fretting fingers mute the two other strings you're not playing. Try not always fretting these "chord" notes, but muting them when they're not being played. This can be taken even further to help make a really cool "cut off note" effect when you get it down  [edit] Fixed the second link
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Jul 22 2008, 12:08 PM
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QUOTE (JamesT @ Jul 22 2008, 04:19 AM)  Muris, I think there are two main things I can get from this... 1. Keep working at it.  2. Quit looking at how many ticks my metronome says and instead focus on making music. First one is fine,we ALL must keep working. But second one isn't actually what I was trying to say. Your metronome will always ticks 4 times unless you use some odd time groove or som. I was actually thinking of tempo. 90,120,170,doesn't matter,just practice until you get it right! Looking forward to cam takes, it's best way to analyze your playing and give some advices if possible.
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Jul 23 2008, 01:11 PM
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Main thing is to feel comfortable while playing,
and if you feel comfortable you'll gain speed even without noticing,trust me! Looking forward to your takes,keep up the hard practicing.
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