Bolth Mannn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSiG...eature=youtu.be

Any general tips on techniques or anything are greatly appreciated I've been playing about 2 years.

Syndromed

Me too please :

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Freepower

First, just work a little on consistency - theres lots of little mistakes. Practice and time!

You really need to work on your vibrato - don't pull with your fingers, make a controlled bend and release it. Watch this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjCs...feature=related

Compare the speed and width of Andy's vibrato to yours.

For the faster stuff - you will not get Satch style legato with your thumb that far over the neck, watch this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcIZ...&feature=relmfu

Finally, watch your right hand from about 2:45 onwards. You tense up your whole hand every time you hit a note, and move between fingers curled in and out... You want to keep your fingers relaxed, unless they're plucking the strings they should be doing nothing at all. Watch this -



Not very varied.

From that vid, all I would say is you have too much left hand movement, your fingers lift too far from the strings. Watch this -

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Syndromed

Thanks Freepower

Yes I know, my fingers lift too far ... but it's weird because when I play at first 5 frets, my fingers lift far but after the fifth my fingers don't lift far, they stay close to the strings.

I know the video, I already do your exercise, and it works, just on question about that :
Do you know Drhotlick ? He does that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do5gZ4vktH0&feature=plcp The same thing as you, but there is only one finger which lift everytime.
Do you think that it's worth ?

Otherwise, it sounds clean, fluid and correct for you ?

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Freepower

It's okay, could be cleaner, could be more fluid.

His exercise is pretty similar, with mine only one finger moves too. The difference is that with mine you train unused fingers to relax rather than keeping them pressed down. I think this is much more effective, try it both ways and see which feels better.

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Syndromed

Ok ! Thank you for your feedback!

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Tmusician

I've recently tried to totally re-invent my whole technique based on Freepower's videos, it's taking a bit to get used to but could you please comment on this cover I just made?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDHmBBnHhtU&feature=plcp

Freepower

Looking really good, there's still a fair bit of excess left hand motion but that's always an ongoing process. Try and work on keeping your hand position more "classical" for this kind of stuff, it lets you use your pinky far more effectively.

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Tmusician

Thanks Freepower, you've really helped me out. Something that I still have not been able to figure out is that my fretting pinky is kind of out of control, when it's not playing it can't just hover over the frets like I want it to, and it moves around when other fingers move and is usually flailing around haha.

I actually play with my pinky as much as possible, I think more than the average guitarist because I actually try to use it. Still after a year it's still doing this, and I think it keeps me from playing at high speeds. Do you know why this is happening?

Freepower

Well, I'd assume a mixture of your left thumb position and lack of focus on finger independence -

Check that out and try and get a classical posture together, see how that works. Give it a couple of months and let me know how it's all gone.

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atliadam

I hope i won't be mocked until my whole life for this. I'm a very beginner and actually this is completely junk but i would like to hear something from you. I was trying to play Holy Wars by Megadeth. Since i don't know if intro notes are PM, i played in both way. So what are you gonna suggest me? Should i focus on practice with metronome, do i have some kind of flowing problem? Or lack of left or right hand technique. Here we go:

Zaphod_Beeblebr

You lack everything and you're playing faster than you're even close to being able to.

Slow down, concentrate on getting it right and making it sound good and worry about it being fast enough as the very last thing you think about.

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atliadam

Thanks.

fanapathy

Hello, got a general question and didn't want to make a thread.

When learning a song equal to or slightly above skill level, would you recommend playing practicing the tricky parts in slightly higher speed, say 10-25% faster - adapting to playing it well at a higher speed to really nail it in normal speed? If that made sense.

Say if learning a difficult part or a new technique, I usually start where ever I can play it perfectly be it 25-50% range usually and move up until 100% - do you guys practice to play it even faster to make it easier when slowing down again? Cheers

Freepower

You want to able to play it a little quicker than you need to, but I wouldn't say you should try and play it faster than you can play it cleanly.

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fanapathy

Thanks FP, appreciate it. Sometimes feel, when just about "almost got it perfect but not quite", then try to practice it a little bit faster for a while and then when almost got it there go down to normal speed... and there it is.

ILLaViTaR

Haha forgot I posted this!

I don't use the pinky near enough, I'll have to bring it up to spec!

I'm quite confident in all the notes however I find myself basically playing on one string most the time (as in no instant string skipping/chord picking), using only my ring and index fingers on my fret hand most the time (another video I recorded same box type playing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOTi...o&feature=plcp).

The other week I looked up the tab for Simple man by Lynyrd Skynyrd, usually nowadays I can learn a song almost instantly whereas this had me stuffing every second note due to all the string skipping, even though I eventually got my head around it, I stil lcan't play it with flow/confidence.

I've been trying to improve my timing and it's getting better, playing along with guitar pro helps but as weird as it sounds I wake up with great timing one day, bad the next.
I've noticed I wake up on days where I'll be on musical crack, my picking hand will be "swooshing" around the strings with nice efficient clicks, but most days it's stiff and heavy feeling and nowhere near as light/mobile. I find warming up helps heaps but like I said there's just some days I wake up and I feel the rhythm so much more, not to mention if I don't play the guitar for 3 days or so and go to pick it up I actually play better rather than worse! It's a very confusing hobby lol.

Lucas_Marty

New here.
You are a beginner, just play, play and play. Strive to get better. And most importantly, don't go 3 days without playing guitar for god's sake.

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DiminishedFifth

I've got a video of me playing Fly Me To The Moon that I recorded the other day. I tried to sync it up as best as I could, but it's a TINY bit off until the improv starts. Any advice on note choice, dynamics or anything in general?

I tried to get the guitar as loud as I could, but I'm no master at mastering Not in the least.

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