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I'm just staying out of this one... The thread from a psychological aspect was pure awesome though as I just skimmed through it.
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01-28-2017 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Vladan
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Originally Posted by R Neil
The contrast was magic. What a great use of speed contrasting with slower, more deliberate solos.
Of course, it would not have been possible if everybody played slow solos.
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i played it with just down strokes. I started out at 155bpm iwas able to do a couple of measures then i could feel I was losing the beat so I switched to down up, Im using a solid body guitar with heavy strings 1st is 13
im an old man of 78 speed is not a problem as long as I dont have to think.
pluuck
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Originally Posted by pluck
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Originally Posted by christianm77
250. That's all I got.
Too slow for jazz.
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Originally Posted by JakeAcci
tab only. ill try it this afternoon.
ive got to get the egg off my face.
pluuck
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Originally Posted by pluck
It happens every now and then to all of us.
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Another alternate picking problem I have is playing an upstroke on the B string, then a downstroke on the high E string, and going back and forth with that pattern in 16th notes at a tempo faster than about 106bpm (212bpm as 8th notes).
If I reverse the picking, I have no problems, but you don't always have the choice in the course of improvising.
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Originally Posted by sgcim
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Originally Posted by JakeAcci
No matter what you do, or how you pick (alternate, economic, sweep, etc...) this one problem is going to come up in improvisation at some point.
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Originally Posted by sgcim
the passage would look like it would be your achilles heel (if you somehow got forced to start it on an upstroke) but then one 'hammer from nowhere' and you could flip the picking.
Obviously, makes sense to have the versatility to avoid those gymnastics, but, I find things like this useful for the blazing tempos.
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If anybody was equally curious about this topic of conversation (nobody? really? haha) there's been a lot of IN-DEPTH discussion of the physical movements required to do this kind of stuff over at the cracking the code forum, and some people are starting to 'get it.' I'm working on it....
Search results for 'crosspicking' - The Cracking the Code Forum
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Did anybody ever say they could do this at tempo?
Just curious.
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Originally Posted by AlsoRan
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I totally forgot about this challenge .. actually wanted to see if I could make it work ...
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Originally Posted by Lobomov
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I can do it at tempo, but it just sounds like a mish-mash, because I can't control the accents. I can only play it starting on an up stroke with heavy pick slanting.
I've been practicing the descending dim. arp that Vai played in that movie. I didn't use any pick slanting, because it shifts too fast and too often. I just practiced it with alternate picking at a slow tempo and kept increasing it until I could play it at about 160bpm as sixteenth notes WITHOUT distortion, and on an archtop guitar.
It took me months to make the transition to the faster tempos (above 144bpm as 16ths), but once I got it, it has stayed with me all the time.
I haven't used it on any solos yet. I'm not really a lick player, and this seems like too obvious a lick.
I guess I'll eventually find some use some use for it...
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Originally Posted by sgcimOriginally Posted by sgcim
Transcriber wanted
Today, 04:35 PM in Improvisation