Hi everyone. I'm new to GMC since about a week now.
I used to play guitar constantly (a few hours every day) from 12 years old to about 18 years old. Then I'm not sure what happened but I lost interest. I still kept playing once every few months...but hardly worth mentioning. I'm now 27 I wanted to start practicing regularly again. So I went and bought a new guitar and amp, signed up to GMC and here I am.
Since I've signed up I've practiced a few lessons here and there. Some I found easy and some difficult. It seems like most rhythm based lessons come real easy to me...but it's not so with the solo/lead based lessons.
It seems like I can remember the rhythm lessons easier. Whereas if I practice a lead based lesson which let's say is broken down into 5 steps...by the time I get to step 5 I have no clue what step 1 was. I never have a clue to where the following notes are going...whereas with rhythm it just comes naturally. I there a way to get around this? Or am I sounding crazy?
Yes can be a bit tricky sometimes to memorise the leads, heres what I do on say a lead lesson thats broken into say 5 parts.
obviously start with the first part, and play it over and over for a bit, then I try with the lessons backing track at a slow tempo, jsut to get the feel of how it fits, then I move onto the second box doing the same, but everytime I play the second part I add the first part too, again, put the backing on to get the timing etc , then move on to the third part, again adding the first and second parts and I carry on building up the lead to the fifth part, by the time I reach there the first four parts are (usually) firmly there in my memory then its just a case of practicing the whole piece over and over again, working on the trickier sections seperatly to iron out the techniques involved.
thats how I work on them, just methodically and lots of repetition
Thanks for your help guys. I'll give your suggestions a try and see how it goes.
It's also nice to know that it's not just me with this problem.
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