Guitarists - don’t lie to yourselves! |
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Guitarists - don’t lie to yourselves! |
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Jun 7 2014, 04:05 PM |
I'm used to receive students who want to learn to play fast. Some times they are obsessed with this and they push themselves a lot to achieve this goal, even sacrificing cleanliness, clearness and sound of their playing,
Do you perhaps push speed a little too much, just because you so desperately want to reach those 150 bpm? Does it really matter if you’re in full control, no one will hear if you miss a note anyway… or? -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 8 2014, 03:22 PM |
Slightly OT but definitely related.
I had a gig last night outside (civic sponsored concert). Usually in SoCal this time of year the air is calm and warm. Well, not last night. Windy and it got a little cool. And like the Cali idiot I can be sometimes - I just wore a t-shirt My hands were a little cold and there was no time to 'warm-up'. I knew I was not going to able to pull off some quicker licks and lines - I could feel that I would have crashed and burned. So I didn't try. Instead of failing, I played at speeds I was confident and comfortable with at that moment. -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Jun 8 2014, 08:01 PM |
Two great points here by Todd - pushing speed little by little and with control over the phenomenon - recording yourself constantly, in order to be realistic with your progress and PRESENT DAY abilities These require patience, discipline and more than that AWARENESS and the speed obsessed beginners lack both, usually But the good news is, that if they truly want to become better they will develop these essential traits. Which one do you guys feel you lack sometimes - discipline, patience or awareness? Thanks for summarizing Cosmin. Can't agree more about the advantages that recording can give us, not only to develop our technique, and improvisations, also to be able to analyze our compositions alone and with our bands. I could notice that it's very difficult to have a sense of the whole thing when we are playing and composing with the band. The only way to be sure if the arrangements, structure and ideas of a song are working is to using all our attention to just listen. Slightly OT but definitely related. I had a gig last night outside (civic sponsored concert). Usually in SoCal this time of year the air is calm and warm. Well, not last night. Windy and it got a little cool. And like the Cali idiot I can be sometimes - I just wore a t-shirt My hands were a little cold and there was no time to 'warm-up'. I knew I was not going to able to pull off some quicker licks and lines - I could feel that I would have crashed and burned. So I didn't try. Instead of failing, I played at speeds I was confident and comfortable with at that moment. That's a good idea. I remember that we played the coldest day of the year at an open place. I didn't have a good time, my hands were frozen and playing the faster licks has been a tricky job. The best would have been to go for the safe side, however it would be weird for Cirse's fans to hear simplifies versions of the solos, wouldn't it? -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 8 2014, 08:26 PM |
i think its most important to play clean! i feel if i cant play it clean i cant play it. i have a goal for my level of playing now and its a heafty goal for me. for instance darius's alternate picking workout, i know i can play it, but im not pushing it, and eventually if i can get there, it will open up more possibilities on what im able to play, cause alot of music i listen to uses that technique. and im downpicking if i cant play 100 bpm clean, how can i expect to play 180 alternate, i move back and forth from those lessons, and remebering i want to make music to. Well done! You already have that goal. How is your plan? how many diary time do you practice? -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 9 2014, 02:30 PM |
Precisely! This is one of the important part of our Days of Confusion working routine. We each record ideas at home or together at the rehearsal room and try to take them as far up as possible at home, in respect to orchestration and detail. Once we get together again, we share the ideas and then we try to put some together in order to form more elaborate structures. How does the process occur for Cirse? In our case, I have been the music composer so everything started in my home, recording using software like Cubase or Nuendo, in the early days I used Cakewalk 9. Then we played it at the rehearsal room to arrange the songs, and to see how it feels live. Sometimes structure and parts are changed so then is when the recording rehearsals become important. -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 11 2014, 03:16 PM |
It's always a matter of mixing and matching until the final form is ready. We have some doubts about some songs which were on the EP But that's just crazy man! I always tell Cezar it's nonsense to think like: 'Ah, we could've done better!' Not at that point! That was the BEST thing we had back then Have you had such thoughts? Definitely! Each album of my band is a picture of the moment, it reflects what we were at that time. Sometimes, working too much on an albums quits its essence. -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 13 2014, 04:05 AM |
You must agree that there's a very thin line between knowing when it is done and continuing to push How do you usually figure that out? Is it a consenssuous feeling from all the band, or? I decided to let that another person mixes my band's albums to avoid this problem. -------------------- My lessons
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