ponchonlefty
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here you can share things that help you play better.
guitar techniques
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Andyman
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I hear the number 1 thing is practice.
I keep threatening to try it.
I keep threatening to try it.
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Guitars sound best in my hands when I don't play them.
But someday...
But someday...
ponchonlefty
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me too.
ponchonlefty
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now when i say guitar i meant bass or what ever instrument you play. sorry for not clarifying.just thought it might be helpful and bring more interest here.
ponchonlefty
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ive heard about that method.I hear the number 1 thing is practice.
I keep threatening to try it.
ponchonlefty
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yes, im a professional owner novice player. kinda like when welding you become a professional grinder.
Jim C
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"here you can share things that help you play better"
Be cool and make friends
Play with people better than you
Be open minded
Practice
Try and play with like minded people
Get decent gear (which doesn't mean spending big $$)
Bring beer
Practice - Develop your own style - Seek original ideas
Be cool and make friends
Play with people better than you
Be open minded
Practice
Try and play with like minded people
Get decent gear (which doesn't mean spending big $$)
Bring beer
Practice - Develop your own style - Seek original ideas
ponchonlefty
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well said,where is this place you speak of? i never see people as better though just more skillful.
ponchonlefty
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hand control,i have found video games have a certain side effect. it can help with speed in your fingers and the ability to improvise when playing music. a game with combo moves can train you increase accuracy and speed. and its fun.
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1000%
There's a lot to be said for playing with people better than you. Doing so resulted in massive growth that would not have happened otherwise.
knuckledust3r
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You have to "want to be the rockstar." That was some solid advice I got from a teacher back when I worked at the guitar store...not necessarily that you'd ever want to be specifically Eddie VanHalen, Mick Mars, or Yngwie Malmsteen, but your drive to improve has to come within; you have to have an internal vision of the player you want to be.
ponchonlefty
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i agree with that. things im more interested in is what techniques do you like to use to make the instrument play easier. or setting the action and type of strings for certain hand strengths. tips and tricks type of thing.
Yeah, that about sums me up as well.
ficelles
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I don't have one yet. Lefties aren't too common. I stole the picture from a old Reverb listing.
But I've got searches saved so I can snag one when it pops up.
armyadarkness
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I used to practice daily/ weekly... now I havnt practiced in well over a year. I don't need to practice, to do what we do, so I dont bother. It's not like the guitar players are.I hear the number 1 thing is practice.
I keep threatening to try it.
armyadarkness
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Same.
The odd part is, Ive now had three, accomplished professionals who sing and play guitar, comment on how talented I must be, because they could never do it with the bass.
I must be missing something. I cant barely play guitar at all, let alone to sing while doing it.
knuckledust3r
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How I applied this was taking 2 months of lessons and telling my instructor that I wanted to learn how to learn...I wanted to be equipped to at least look at a chord sheet or tab and bash my way through it. The result was that I learned the 5 chords and a handful of strumming patterns...2/2, 3/4, and a couple 4/4...and I have to sort of hum the lyrics to myself to feel out where the guitar rhythm hits the syllables/words. My "rockstar" moment was listening to Shooter Jennings' Lonesome Blues and realizing that it was the same strumming pattern that I'd been taught for Ben E. King's Stand By Me...I could take what I'd been taught and apply it to a song that I actually wanted to learn, and I could do it within the framework of the lessons I'd been taking.
