Tonights Practice

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BenoA said:
@Nashville Riff Co so I decided to let go any of my "shyness" and here is my very humble take. I called it "Day 1". I slowed down your clip and learned the up and down sequence you did. Lots of brain farts while learning and still not tight but best I could do today was 60 BPM. I decided to use this as a personal challenge and will try to work on it everyday and see how it goes.

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dude you nailed it, I promise you'll be up to double that speed in no time, I was doing what you're doing not long ago at all!

edit: well I worked on the solo but computer has decided I will not be able to upload because somehow it keeps speeding my track up to 100% speed from 85% lol
 
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@Nashville Riff Co man, dude, you look just like Paul Gilbert and can shred like him too.

What're the odds? Unbelievable. :LOL:
 
Nashville Riff Co said:
dude you nailed it, I promise you'll be up to double that speed in no time, I was doing what you're doing not long ago at all!

edit: well I worked on the solo but computer has decided I will not be able to upload because somehow it keeps speeding my track up to 100% speed from 85% lol
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You are too kind! :giggle: Got some questions for you (it may sound dumb), but what is the best way to practice such sequence? How many minutes should I keep playing it? And when do I up the tempo? Every dayI bumped it up or stay on the same tempofor a few days?

Before I recorded this, it must have taken me like 30-45 minutes to not have any brain farts while running it up and down. Now, as I can feel it and know where to move my fingers, I'd like to use it as a personal challenge and try to stay focused on it and to see how I can improve over time.
 
BenoA said:
You are too kind! :giggle: Got some questions for you (it may sound dumb), but what is the best way to practice such sequence? How many minutes should I keep playing it? And when do I up the tempo? Every dayI bumped it up or stay on the same tempofor a few days?

Before I recorded this, it must have taken me like 30-45 minutes to not have any brain farts while running it up and down. Now, as I can feel it and know where to move my fingers, I'd like to use it as a personal challenge and try to stay focused on it and to see how I can improve over time.
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i'll share my viewpoint but please feel free to adjust to your likes/dislikes...so i break my practicing up in a way that makes it fun for me to play guitar

i have three specific days:

day 1: alternate picking
day 2: sweep picking
day 3: working on solos i want to learn

i keep rotating those three days in consecutive order. so i'll practice that lick amongst others on "day 1" and then everytime "day 1" comes back in rotation

to answer your exact question more directly, i will only increase tempo once i can play the full pattern three times without break cleanly. then i'll usually up tempo 3-5 bpm at a time. if enough time passes with me practicing the pattern that i can't seem to make progress, i'll drop tempo by 10 bpm because it likely means muscles are not adjusting/recovering.

i wouldn't play the same pattern for more than 5-10 minutes, because i tend to get bored haha. so i'd just have a whole bunch of patterns to practice along with that one. for example, all the other patterns in that video i shared!

i hope this helps, feel free to let me know if i can help in any way. and again, the above info is just what works for me, i'd highly recommend adjusting it to your needs!
 
Nashville Riff Co said:
i have three specific days:

day 1: alternate picking
day 2: sweep picking
day 3: working on solos i want to learn

i keep rotating those three days in consecutive order. so i'll practice that lick amongst others on "day 1" and then everytime "day 1" comes back in rotation

to answer your exact question more directly, i will only increase tempo once i can play the full pattern three times without break cleanly. then i'll usually up tempo 3-5 bpm at a time. if enough time passes with me practicing the pattern that i can't seem to make progress, i'll drop tempo by 10 bpm because it likely means muscles are not adjusting/recovering.

i wouldn't play the same pattern for more than 5-10 minutes, because i tend to get bored haha. so i'd just have a whole bunch of patterns to practice along with that one. for example, all the other patterns in that video i shared!

i hope this helps, feel free to let me know if i can help in any way. and again, the above info is just what works for me, i'd highly recommend adjusting it to your needs!
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Same here, I am easily bored. All good advices. Thanks for sharing. My main problem is focus and I get easily distracted in exploring the guitar as I want to learn so many different things. I am all over the place!
 
BenoA said:
Same here, I am easily bored. All good advices. Thanks for sharing. My main problem is focus and I get easily distracted in exploring the guitar as I want to learn so many different things. I am all over the place!
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haha same problem on my end, thats why taking it a day for each type of thing helps my brain focus, hope it helps!
 
Corey James said:
Better than I can pull off right now! You sound awesome, is that the wizard?
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hah thanks man!, thats just two axe fx patches (FM3) dual tracked (one on right one on left). Its a HBE patch and a Rectifier patch (recto by Mark Day).

All standard patches, no knobs tweaked or anything and no EQ either. I've been really impressed the tones out of the box on the latest Axe units. As just a plug and play guy who doesn't like to turn knobs, its been pretty great!
 
That’s great. I don’t know if it works on the FM three or not but I’m enjoying the hell out of the recent Maroon 5 presets that they gave away. I know it works on the FM nine.

Never would have guessed that I’d be enjoying Maroon 5 presets, but they are freaking killer and they were free!

When you say double tracked, is that just 2 Amps in onepatch or did you double track the take?

Soooo good

 
Corey James said:
That’s great. I don’t know if it works on the FM three or not but I’m enjoying the hell out of the recent Maroon 5 presets that they gave away. I know it works on the FM nine.

Never would have guessed that I’d be enjoying Maroon 5 presets, but they are freaking killer and they were free!

When you say double tracked, is that just 2 Amps in onepatch or did you double track the take?

Soooo good

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dang I'll have to see if I can get those for FM3 to check out

I acutally recorded it twice over on two separate tracks. It's one of the things I'm working on as part of increasing speed, aiming to be more accurate and precise.

Basically I can double rhythm parts accurately so why can't I double lead parts accurately, so I don't move to a faster tempo until I can accurately record something over itself without too much shenanigans if you will
 
Nashville Riff Co said:
dang I'll have to see if I can get those for FM3 to check out

I acutally recorded it twice over on two separate tracks. It's one of the things I'm working on as part of increasing speed, aiming to be more accurate and precise.

Basically I can double rhythm parts accurately so why can't I double lead parts accurately, so I don't move to a faster tempo until I can accurately record something over itself without too much shenanigans if you will
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You’re gonna be like Randy Rhodes doubling solos!
 
Corey James said:
Well, if you wanna shot for some of the younger ones, you might want to learn some new kids on the block. You’ll be five years ahead of the curb and the hottest game in town 🤙🏼
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fuck it, i'm skipping ahead, what are the 20-30 years olds listening to these days? probably not randy rhoads? :hys:
 
Picked a different Gilbert exercise tonight working up to 160 bpm

you can hear the double tracked notes starting to drift apart, anything higher bpm wise than this and its good night lol

but monkey man, I'm now 10 bpm closer to the top of fuck mountain :hys:

 
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BenoA said:
@Nashville Riff Co you are inspiring. Later today, I'll be on day #4. Last evening I managed 72 bpm from my first day video of 60 bpm. Felt like a huge bump for me and it was fun.
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dude thats awesome progress, i'm just glad we're playing, making progress and moving forward. that is what its all about :cheers:
 
170 BPM....really starting to fall apart as I got towards the end of the run...but it is progress I guess!

forearm was on fire, but all that practice thanks to monkey mans CGI efforts is paying off \:D/

 
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