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bhuether
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Post subject: What technical area gives you the most trouble?
 Posted: Aug 28, 2003 - 03:24 AM
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For me, ascending scales with alternate picking (very fast) is tough. I can never just pick up my guitar and blaze through scales right away. I always have to practice them for a while before I start executing them fast and clean (i.e. the lesson mp3s on this site are not one-takes...). Descending is no problem. I wonder what it is about ascending? Does everyone have this problem?
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Daz
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Posted: Aug 28, 2003 - 04:37 PM
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It's descending that usually gives me problems, after doing your alternate picking excercises my alternate picking speed is somewhere between your medium and fast speed. I'm trying to apply that to everything else that i play (slow and fast things, excluding most(if not, all) rhythmic things though) so that i can get a good feel for alternate picking.
Scales seem to be giving me the most trouble though, especially descending. I don't know exactly what the problem is though, i should probably video myself and watch what i'm doing.
Though playing scales with normal picking are no problem for me, i can play them at a speed that's about your medium on recordings and hardly ever mess up. |
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maur2
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Posted: Aug 29, 2003 - 10:41 PM
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for me (atleast for now  it would be ascending sweep-picking in scales. i find it hard to get up to the next string smoothly. |
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maur2
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Posted: Aug 30, 2003 - 07:29 AM
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oops! forgot to add the problematic part in this whole thing, which is the legato in this technique! (only sweep-picking it ain't too hard). you pick the first note on the current string then pull-off to the sound of the next notes.. you use acscending sweep-picking to go up! nice ex for legato+sweep together.
I still find it pretty hard to play smoothly.. |
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Skinny
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Posted: Oct 24, 2003 - 07:35 AM
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| I find going up and down scales (legato or picking) pretty easy, but sweep picking really stops me dead! Although I can do the odd legato sweep with a tap in it alright... |
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MalcolmHex
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Posted: Nov 20, 2003 - 03:20 PM
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| Hmm... I've spent the last 8 years mastering extremely fast alt picking, ascending and descending scalar sequences, and sweep arpeggios... not EVERY arpeggio, obviously, but a handful of good ones. The thing I have the most trouble with (you're going to laugh) is playing a nice, slow, tasty melodic solo with even vibrato. I spent years focusing on the wrong areas. I can play Malmsteen... now, if I could just sound like David Gilmour I might consider myself to be making progress! I think it's just unorganized practice for me. The first thing I do is usually start ripping at warp speed immediately. Any tips on playing better slow stuff? |
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Posted: Jan 02, 2004 - 01:28 PM
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| It's coordinating my picking hand and my fretting hand. I can alternate pick really fast, and I can do legato really fast, but I can't continuously play really fast. |
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