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09-26-2005, 10:24 AM
| | Nocturnal Blood Spawn | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Finland
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| |  Guitar practices
I think this part of the forum should be used more actively.
So how do you train your speed, accuracy, picking, fret knowledge...? What are your favourite songs or scales or patterns to work with?
For a few days I have trained some classical songs... for example Yngwie's "Fuga" and Paganini's Caprice 5. In the meantime I continue to train my E minor scale on the whole neck. Some harmonic minor too. Do you have any other classical work outs for me?
So what do you do to keep yourself in tune?
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09-27-2005, 07:33 AM
| | Unholy Grave Desecrator | | Join Date: Jul 2005
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Answering the first question: Repetition.....work on both left and right hands. When I practice nowadays, I just come up with new rythyms and (more recently) "lead parts" and if I like'em I'll play'em until I can get'em right-sounding, and keep on them until they're good. If I don't like'em, I start on something else. I play some "favorite songs" during practice also
(Deathexplosion by THE CROWN-still working on the solo's to that one...Replica by Fear Factory is a great rythym picking workout....and some old Judas Priest), but not all the time.
Answering your second question: Nope. I don't play any classical (I used to know how to play a BACH tune on guitar), although I do respect it a lot since I can hear some classical influences in some forms of metal.
And the third: Since I don't use Floyd Rose tremolo's (overated time-consuming crap), I try to stretch the livin' shit out of the strings during a practice, while constantly retuning....it works for me with the vintage-type Strat trems and the Bigsby I use also. I find my usual set of strings (.011-.054 or .013-.056) stay in better tune than the thinner "regular gauges" do. No guarantees though.  |
09-27-2005, 10:30 AM
| | Nocturnal Blood Spawn | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Finland
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I myself don't listen to classical music, but I have find them to be quite effective excercises. And they look good if you play them somewhere  .
I noticed this a year ago. When I started playing couple of years back I didn't give any attention to my picking hand, it seemed to work then. I simply concentrated on my fret hand. Now my fret hand seemes quite easy, and the picking hand is the constant fuck-upper. |
09-28-2005, 09:21 AM
| | Unholy Grave Desecrator | | Join Date: Jul 2005
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My fretting and picking hand's are still not quite where they should be, but the ambition is always there. The other guitarist I've been practicing with can speed-pick a hell-of-a-lot better than I can, and is very precise. He inspires me to work more on my "problem areas" so I can reach that level of proficiency.
It'll take time. I got time. |
10-11-2005, 04:19 PM
| | Unholy Grave Desecrator | | Join Date: Oct 2005
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| | My schedule
I have a Metallica tabs book from the school so I practice that sometimes, but I mostly just make up my own stuff, but I have to memorize it. I am much better in the summer, because my ps2 broke so I practiced on average 8 hours a day. But school and football kills it all.  |
10-26-2005, 12:48 AM
| | Metalcoholocaustist Metal Throne Super Moderator | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: The Mountains of Thor
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| | Re: My schedule
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Originally Posted by chudmacgud I have a Metallica tabs book from the school so I practice that sometimes, but I mostly just make up my own stuff, but I have to memorize it. I am much better in the summer, because my ps2 broke so I practiced on average 8 hours a day. But school and football kills it all. | Same here. The only time I really play it is when I don't have a game to play or my PS2 is broke down. I think the last time I played my axe is when my PS2 broke last year...
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07-04-2008, 04:56 PM
| | Soul Raping Tyrant | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: shepparton vic...
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| | Re: Guitar practices
i try to practice every day... i go over a scale book with a metranome.... and i do a lot of runs that i know... and i practice my sweeps..5 string 4 string and 3 string... and ill usually go over chromatic stuff... and if i get borred with that ill play songs i know...stuff of metallicas master of puppets album -or ride the lightning.. or death... or satyricon.. oldmans child... classical stuff sounds killer... i like playing yngwie... |
10-13-2008, 11:49 PM
|  | Unholy Grave Desecrator | | Join Date: Oct 2008
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| | Re: Guitar practices
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Originally Posted by FinnRage  I myself don't listen to classical music, but I have find them to be quite effective excercises. And they look good if you play them somewhere .
I noticed this a year ago. When I started playing couple of years back I didn't give any attention to my picking hand, it seemed to work then. I simply concentrated on my fret hand. Now my fret hand seemes quite easy, and the picking hand is the constant fuck-upper. | I got the same problem, if only we were John Petrucci  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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