Stuff you just can't nail..

Jenesis · Post by **Jenesis** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:26 pm

Those guitars appear to have an extra string.

Gelato · Post by **Gelato** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:07 pm

3 Universe's?

I thought you only had 2!

slash-ed · Post by **slash-ed** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:10 pm

Sweeeeeeeeeet.

(Guitars, not the baby. Baby is cute.

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Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:57 pm

Capt. Black wrote:
*UNIQUE* wrote:Stuff you just can't nail? You mean like the hot little thing next door?
Known to her closest friends as the Cusack Screamer?

You sir, are a very bad man.

I like it

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:00 pm

Gelato wrote:3 Universe's? I thought you only had 2!

me too

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:12 pm

bc_rich_ wrote:shredders... they dont play slow??

Actually, they probably play slower than anyone else, when practising

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:13 pm

dnasurfer wrote:As for the divine thing, my 7 month baby girl ....River.

She's gorgeous

Post by **Capt. Black** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:05 pm

She is way gorgeous.

I do worry about the guitars' effect on her aesthetic sense in later life.

Kloppsta · Post by **Kloppsta** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:33 pm

Do all of those guitars somehow sound different? Or do you just have each one in a different tuning?

offender · Post by **offender** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:10 am

B45-12 wrote:I feel there is a mental component to all this that works like

1) I try this, I fail; 2) I try this again I fail; 3-260) as per 2); I am now conditioned to fail each time I try thius.

My suggestion is break the cycle at about no's 10-20 as per the above posted ideas, BUT the most important IMHO is TRY the same notes a different way (leads to different expectations/stresses). You can then practice both (or umpteen) ways of playing the phrase and get over the stress/built in failure expectation.

The other, wicked, idea is dead simple - leave the awkward bit out!! Obviously there are some things you cannot leave out (for example the 'time bell' chimes in Sultans of Swing) unless you want the punters to riot, but it is surprisng what you can get away with!

I have been working with this (coincidentally) for a little while now, particularly since I posted this thread. I decided that the way I was doing the RHCP intro simply would never work out so I did change the way I fretted the parts that didn't work & found new ways which are much more reliable! It's certainly not 100%, however, before I would sit down & pretty much guarantee I would stuff it up, now I can sit down and I am fairly confident of doing it 90% correct if not 100% correct first time!

Part of this also is that in the last 3-6 months my foot tapping has become (naturally) much more useful & reliable and I find that foot tapping makes a major difference to how accurately i play something (Even with the metronome going/backing track on its still better to have the foot tapping at the same time). Previously I simply could not do both at the same time.

Also I have been simply working on parts to make sure I feel more comfortable with them in the early stages, and also someone on here mentioned about learning solos "backwards" (as in from the last bars to the first so you're always going into "familiar territory" i think was the term they used). That has been really helpful.

As such I've found that:

1. Relearning stuff you play wrong in a different way
2. Foot tapping
3. Learning new stuff with more focus on accuracy
4. Learning solos / hard stuff from the last bars first

has made a real, decent difference.

I still feel I have a long way to go but definitely glad I posted on the subject!

grolschie · Post by **grolschie** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:08 pm

Optimus_prime wrote:I like playing riffs wrong

My own versions are more fun for me to play

Yeah, for me it's the chorus from LZ's "No Quarter" played wrong. Sounds great.