Picking, How to pick with speed.. |
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Picking, How to pick with speed.. |
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Sep 5 2011, 10:57 AM |
Hello mate, welcome aboard! Glad you like my lessons, I hope they will help you in your musical journey.
I think jstcrsn was talking about is having patience. Regardless of what you want to play, it's always important to keep in mind that results will come after couple of months of practice, if you start practicing right away. Guitar playing is something that is very rewarding, but you need to be able to be realistic about it as well, which I'm sure you are. The thing with speed, I'll quote Guthrie here: "Speed is a byproduct of accuracy". being precise enough, and staying precise when increasing tempo gradually is a sure step to achieve greater tempos. It may take months, years, but you will get there if you really want to do it. In general, best advice that I can give you is: Take is very very slow when practicing anything at all. Chord changes, fast runs, bends, vibratos.. anything - it all requires you to really put your fingers into slow motion mode, so the brain can have time to remember what is the correct way. If you practice slow, and stay on slow tempos for couple of days, you create proper foundation for developing speed later on. The precise you are - the faster you will become. Of course this is where patience comes into play, because you need to increase those tempos very gradually, giving your muscle memory time to adapt to new speeds. If you need some metronome practicing methods, or anything like that, let me know, and I'll try to help. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Sep 5 2011, 04:08 PM |
Check out this:
There's some good info about how you hold the pick. Cheers This post has been edited by WeePee: Sep 5 2011, 04:08 PM |
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Sep 6 2011, 08:19 PM |
Hey Guys Thanks for all of the advice, I will put some some careful and precise routines into my practice time. Looks like patience is the answer. I will have to sign to GMC for a while, you guys certainly make newbies welcome...thanks again. Welcome to GMC. Being a guitarist in itself can be a struggle but is very rewarding. I've owned a guitar since I was like 14 which was 14 years ago and I quit for around 10. Within the last 4 years I picked it back up and I've been jamming out. I'm not that great, I may be around a skill thats like a level 5. I can do somethings and make it look like I'm good but thats because I've practiced certain runs and licks so much that my parents have told me I need headphones they are sick of hearing it. When I do a scale in thirds I'm extremely slow. So just keep your head up and give it sometime. At a certain level you will feel you aren't gaining but everyone else around you will. If ever in need here just ask, you have the best instructors here. Attend some of their chats, I usually don't have that much time for them. But when I do go I learn a lot and feel inspired to play. Like Gab said last week the key with a good picking movement is letting your hand be loose like your trying to shake water off of it. That has helped me a lot and that was only a week ago! - Travis S. -------------------- Guitars:
Ibanez S770PB (Natural Flat) , Ibanez XPT700 (Chameleon) , Sterling J Richardson Signature , Squire IV Jazz Bass (Sunburst) Gear: Neural DSP Plugins My YouTube Page. |
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Sep 6 2011, 09:31 PM |
Hey Guys Thanks for all of the advice, I will put some some careful and precise routines into my practice time. Looks like patience is the answer. I will have to sign to GMC for a while, you guys certainly make newbies welcome...thanks again. We are glad to help mate Anything you need, you let us know. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
- Check out my GMC Profile and Lessons - (Please subscribe to my) YouTube Official Channel - Let's be connected through ! Facebook! :) |
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Sep 21 2011, 12:10 AM |
Check out this: There's some good info about how you hold the pick. Cheers Made sense to me. Good video. Thanks for sharing! |
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Sep 21 2011, 07:47 AM |
Azz once show me this, it really help me out.
-------------------- QUOTE It's a proven fact that guitar faces have a bigger impact on tone than wood does. |
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Sep 22 2011, 12:44 AM |
No matter how slow you play , as long as it's perfect you're already an ace guitarist
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