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Chromatic Enclosures, using one finger per fret and lots of slurs is what I'm practicing. This type of practice lick.
Figured I'd leave both since it's hard to describe. 2 goofy explanations is better than 1. I'm goin Pebber Brown and gonna start doing consistent hardcore technique practice. I never understood...
Yes, that is what I said, sight reading is "diametrically opposed" to the habit of looking at the guitar fretboard while playing. The question is, are there advantages to not looking at the...
Observations from fifty odd years of using and abusing valve amplifiers; A minute or so of warm up, and you are good to go. After playing at volume for maybe half an hour, yes, they do tend to...
Great so maybe edit your post and put that description in there instead of what you have in there now.
Uh …… if you’re going to sight read, don’t you need to be looking at the music? Rather than at the guitar?
I appreciate your post, I did something similar when I first got interested in jazz, but as I suggested, I approached it by constructing chord scales. I suppose there were people like George Van...
Maybe but not in the way you’re suggesting. Honestly, I’d say sight reading absolutely depends on being able to practice and play music well. But I would not say that being able to play music well...
No, we can always crawl back deeply into our cozy self that has very little to do with anything external. "External" would also be those random thoughs about squirrels. But that's cult-talk. If OP...
I had a Korean-made Epi JP, and I would consider it a solid instrument. My impression based on what I've read is that the first models after they moved production to Indonesia (about 20 years ago...
That guitar had a Blackstone non-cutaway body, Triumph neck and ostensibly a 60s peghead overlay. I can't remember if the body was 40s and the neck was 50s or vice-versa. It looks nice from ten...
Talent deserving wider recognition. https://youtu.be/2ODm3n2f2tM?si=nuidIKDArFGPxf36 https://youtu.be/De9mi4dOW8Y?si=qKyLbpOYf70k2Lx7
Is it to be played by a nice buttocks, or an icky man buttocks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4IuHaV-N2E
So show us. Anything can be read from a book or repeated from a YouTube video. Show us how you do it.
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