Reading comes first, then sight reading. +1. I started practicing sight reading this year. From studying music in school, I already understood how t...
How many notes per string are you playing?If you are playing 3 notes on the 5th string (C at 3rd fret, D at 5th fret, and E at 7th fret) you should be...
For some reason (and it wasn't always this way, I can vouch for that!!!) I can practice in a disciplined way with little trouble.Noteboat is spot on a...
Give it time. I know that probably sounds a bit trite, but really, give it time. You've been playing for what a week and a half? Two weeks now? Really...
When you get the songs to performance level, do you feel like you're playing at the edge of your ability? Bear in mind, like in the JC example I menti...
BUt if I played that, I'd still sound like me.If Slash played mine, he'd sound like Slash.I'm not knocking gear. I love gear. But...it's not the gear ...
ScrybeI actually thought about the Vic line and tend to agree with you.Maybe I could him into Uncle Vic or Grampa Vic. Yup, I think that would work m...
Anything you learn from is worth doing, imo. Glad you found the comments useful. And I mean it when I said great effort on experimenting - the worst t...
it works because you're used to the f#min in the key of A, and there's just a small one note difference. you'd just write it as VI, not VImaj, since ...
Thanks aragorn! I've yet to find time to try this out myself yet, but I can't wait to try it out. I should do a little computer clean up before I star...
lmaooo, I'd forgotten all about this little thread. I'd also forgotten there was a time when I was learning about soloing over ii-V-I progressions. Th...
Sup J,First off, I'll give you props for trying a style that is highly experimental for what is usual fare on GN. Sometimes these experiments are wort...
Heh heh, I'll have to see if I can make some beef stew just from this 'recipe'! (never tried making stew before, so that should be an interesting afte...
Thanks, cnev. Just to clarify, a couple of points I failed to mention in my post above...* Coltrane practiced that one set of changes daily for that c...