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05-15-2024 09:14 AM
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This is a clip of the whole tune, slow, at 170 or so. I have tried an experiment, to play the song exclusively on my 25.5" scale guitar, and then switch to the 24.75" scale after a week and see if it's easier to play.
Not really, or maybe sort of.
This clip also illustrates my most pervasive technique flaws. My finger joints have more than the usual amount of "back flex" in them. This makes it easy to bar 2 strings when I need to, but sometimes the joint pops down on an adjacent string and creates a discordant ghost-note. In trying to avoid that, I often then use to little pressure and get a buzz.
Also, I'm playing my Epiphone Zephyr Regent with the Seymour Duncan PhatCat pickup; that's a P90 in a humbucker case. I've also switched from the Fender TMTR going direct to the Fender Princeton Reverb, mic'd with a Shure SM57. Variety, you know?
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Your sound is always good. You have some great guitars and amps. Whatever set-up that you play through has a nice jazz tone to my ear.
I have another experiment that you may want to try. I've noticed that you are intently staring at the fingerboard while you play. Would you be able to do a whole take without looking?
I wonder if it might be beneficial to use your mind to guide your fingers, rather than your eyes.
Please note that I am not a teacher or an accomplished jazzer, so feel free to ignore my observation and suggestion.
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I'm not even joking. I am working on relaxing my thinking scowl into a smile. If I don't look like I'm enjoying myself play, why should I expect anyone listening to enjoy it? I'm no Miles Davis.
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When I get stressed playing the guitar I pucker up my lips like a fish Instinctively when that happens I move my head towards the guitar body to pretend I'm kissing it. Happened a couple of times when I was recording playing Villa lobos etude 7
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I had suggested to Lawson to try to play a take without looking at the fingerboard.
I thought that I would put my money where my mouth is, and give it a try myself.
Actually not that natural for me as I usually look at what I'm playing.
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"Smile!" They said. "Don't look!" They said. "It'll be fine, even better!" They said.
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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 has anything at all to do with sight reading.
and regarding the “opposition” Christian suggested … sight reading a piece requires an inattention to mistakes that really is in opposition to learning something properly.
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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 fretboard while playing? I can think of a few....
You'd have a very hard time finding a studio musician who would agree with that statement.
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Ah okay. With the quote above what you said, you actually said that sight reading was diametrically opposed to the accursed habit of trying to play without looking at the guitar.
Thats not what you meant. Noted.
You'd have a very hard time finding a studio musician who would agree with that statement.
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I tried not looking for kicks. I can play the first two phrases with my eyes closed.
Then things came off the rails rather quickly. This is because I've practiced those first two lines probably 1000's of times and much more than I have the rest of the tune.
So with practice, I'll eventually be able to play the whole thing without looking. I'll post here again in 2034 when that happens.
Re: Sightreading, obviously you can't be looking at the guitar. But if you can sight read Donna Lee at tempo, what the hell are you doing on an internet forum?
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"But if you can sight read Donna Lee at tempo... "
I can't, but one wouldn't expect to be able to read anything well at tempo right off the bat - but let's drop the sight-reading discussion, it's become even less productive than discussing vanilla ice cream.
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