Not exactly flub-free still - but it's starting to feel more like a piece of music than an exercise π
Not exactly flub-free still - but it's starting to feel more like a piece of music than an exercise π
This video more than almost everything else screams "the master failed more times than the novice ever tried". Or what do you think?

A way that I know practicing helps is, I can pick up new stuff much better than I ever could before βΊοΈ
Like this wee study from ACPG - I mean, it's not like I've never played a spread triad before but I certainly never practiced it, or even thought about it in any systematic way & yet this is me only an hour or so after picking up the exercise for the very first time π€©πΈ
(link to tutorial below)
This arpeggio technique - which I picked up just recently from John Nathan Cordy but he apparently got it from Tim Miller - is awesome π make no mistake, some of these are pretty wild finger stretchers, but even then they're surprisingly... well, not easy exactly, but take-on-able, even to me, a not very technically proficient player - this one I did for the first time literally minutes ago π
JNC's lesson π https://youtu.be/PNpO8yVVW8M
Welp, bought my "pedal set"... π one of the reasons being that I've never really had a setup where I could play with wet effects in particular, so Imma indulge π
(gear rundown in comments for anyone who cares)
My improvised guitar mirror broke (7 years of bad luck! π±) so now I bought a dedicated one π
Is there bonus points for accidentally catching my music Mac in the reflection...? π
The last of this year's New Year Challenge videos from Adrian at "Anyone Can Play Guitar" turned out to lend itself very well to some harmonizing π really helps with learning these enclosures, too - haven't been doing much of it but I'm pretty sure I will now π
Having been under the weather over Xmas I haven't seen a soul & barely talked to anyone but... well, I'm pretty intro so I'm OK & at least I've been able to work on my atrocious picking technique πΈ for many, many hours π
Yes, it's an ongoing struggle; turns out I revert to bad habits when I don't pay attention - this little mirror trick is actually helping a lot, because looking down at my picking hand is really awkward π
I never really found a tucked-pick finger picking technique I felt comfortable with - until I saw Chris Buck demonstrating this one just recently, in a masterclass with Justin Sandercoe π
Now I just have to keep at it until the side of my thumb stops hurting π«π