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Sep 26 2017

Consistency, bro

I’ve set out to work consistently on alternate picking for 100 days, mostly because I’d seen a lot of lessons online of people saying how, really the only thing holding you back from playing like this is dedicating the time…

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Sep 25 2017

Mapping as it relates to speed picking

I’m finding this to be the biggest hurdle.  In terms of improvisation and composing, a lot of what is holding us back (this could possibly apply to repertoire as well) is that we’re not strong with our fretboard knowledge.  Ear…

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Sep 24 2017

The motion is a lot like strumming a chord

Notice the circular motion of your right hand.  This is what people always say is “like buttering toast.”  If you make it more minute, it’s going to be a bit more like turning a key in a door, or even…

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Sep 23 2017

Maybe science is holding you back

I have a hypothesis that there are a few global tempos that everyone feels more accurately than others, perhaps due to the nature of old school metronomes not providing such precision as digital metronomes, and up until the 80s or…

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Sep 23 2017

When you shred, go to your happy place

I try to find a musical happy place, something that I know I can play at higher speed cold, with no warm up.  I go there, and then I switch back to whatever exercise or guitar solo I was trying…

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