Zaphod_Beeblebr

Anyone who likes Guthrie should check out Brett Garsed without a moment's hesitation. Seriously. You will not regret it.

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mikey85123

I agree somewhat. I got caught up in practicing only technique and it lead to me forgetting parts of songs and not having a big enough library of songs to play. It's kind of embarrassing to just be good at running scales and then when you go to jam you discover you can't play many songs all the way through.

On the other hand, even though you can learn alot through playing and composing music it does limit you to not have practiced some scales. Not so much the physical aspect, but more the restriction it places on you during composition. I really think it helps to learn some of the more "exotic scales" because you can throw in some passing notes that can really change the color of the song. If you haven't heard them or played them you will stick to what you know and sometimes that can start to become uninteresting. Then again, as pointed out you can just playing 3 chord rock songs and if you play it right and have good stage presence it will be just as impactful to the audience.

B&J

Well i'm not exactly into 3 chord rock songs. I am a classical player so i am used to playing etudes from like Carcassi and stuff like that. Thats how i learn my technique, its the way classical people tend to learn theire stuff, and then when i turned to electric it was like, lets learn technique exercises and i was like isnt this just something you do while playing?

I see the whole "songs i can learn" as etudes, and from every song i take little things, and thats how i compose my songs. I really never had the feeling i needed to learn technique thus far. I have to add i'm not playing crazy 200000 bpm rock licks but i'm more like a Bb King / John Mayer kinda player. I can understand you need technique when you want to emulate steve vai and those guys. But really, if you just learn every song like you have to play it live tomorrow, you work on your technique... Because thats how it will sound better. While not working on your technique with stupid lessons.

I hope i kinda made myself clear lol

Spaztikko

So practicing technique one way is stupid, btu practicing technique another isn't?

Wow, this is ******ed.

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J2G

So at the end of the day... just play and have fun.

mikey85123

Well it's not quite my point of view but I understand where he's coming from. It's like if you play basketball and during practice you can either run drills or you can play. Each have there upsides. Maybe just straight technique drills work better for some and then others do better by just playing.

Jyrgen

Technique is what you do with your hands to transfer what's in your head to vibrations in the guitar strings. It's not overrated, it's the essence of what guitar playing is.

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mdc

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Fourfourforever

Yea 100 percent with jrygen here all I do is train technique, I know my theory basically and train my ear a lot, Improv a lot and if I do hear something in a song I like I'll try to transcribe that part however long it takes me could take days weeks but i try, and I love the progress I am moving at now I am adding more writing in to my daily thing to.

mikey85123

I'm pretty sure the OP would agree with you. It was just poorly articulated. He is just saying that he does not like to do traditional drills such as chromatics when he could just find a song that has chromatic style solos and practice that song.