JWcph, Radicalized By DecencyThis may be getting out of hand... π also, apologies to anyone who might know how to write tabs properly π
If nothing else, making these little videos works as a practice tool in & of itself... π
Also, I can't get over how good every guitar I own sounds on the Marla amp π₯°
Picking - The Next Step(s)
This is how crazy this is making me π€ͺ no amount of staring in a mirror or filming myself could rid me of the feeling that I'm still elbow picking - so I resorted to drawing dots on my arm & tracking them in Davinci Resolve π
OK, the tracking isn't great, but at least I kinda, sorta feel that I'm NOT elbow picking? I mean, most of the motion is at the wrist, isn't it...?
(also, the Black Magic camera app does very nice slo-mo π)
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Not exactly flub-free still - but it's starting to feel more like a piece of music than an exercise π
Klaus FrankThis video more than almost everything else screams "the master failed more times than the novice ever tried". Or what do you think?
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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