You will find there's plenty of free videos by Pebber online already to keep you busy for years but, in case you are not aware, a lot of these are excerpts from the syllabus that's available for paying students.
I think the others who have signed up will agree that they are well worth the price. I'd spend some time working on what's already on youtube, then definitely sign up later. If you go through the older threads in the forum you'll find that a lot of us got lots of extra material on top of what we paid for.
That is precisely how I (try) to mute so I guess I will just have to pay more attention to it and put in some practice. I do have an electric guitar as well and play with some overdrive/distortion so that should help too. Vids coming soon... ;)
In particular dlraben, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your advice. The method you and Nick mentioned about how to identify which hand is slower and your point about chromatics at 7 notes per beat not being the best way to increase speed helps me a lot. I'll make a video with the exercises on the link you mentioned and another one in a week or so, after pushing the weaker hand to see if there is any progress. I'm hoping the more control I have the less string noise will be produced...
Thanks for the feedback mr gurgle and Nick! Interesting thoughts on the fretting hand not being able to keep up. I guess it makes sense as the fretting fingers move a larger distance. Nick, good idea about practising just legatos separately. In fact, focusing on each hand separately, then working on synchronising them may be the way to go for me. I remember, after a hand injury I was only able to do left hand exercises and noticed a marked improvement (while the picking hand sucked more after this :S )
However, I will keep following Dlraben's earlier advice on accentuating the 1s. I get what you are saying about throwing you off sometimes and odd counts make this even harder as the 1s alternate between up and down picks, but this is more to drill the sound of 7s into my brain. When Frakh was still posting, he mentioned using "marker notes" when picking at insane speeds where looking at a pattern as a sequence of separate notes is not practical. I think accentuating the 1s will help at higher speeds in the long run this way.
Back with the next video, this time shifting the index finger. Still doing 7 notes per beat going up to the 12th fret.
I have to say I'm a bit frustrated. Although I feel my technique improved a little bit (probably not even visible on the video, but I find it a little easier to keep the fingers in the right position), I could barely increase the speed. In fact, I think it's a huge problem for me. I find I tend to hit the ceiling somewhere and I'm stuck at a certain speed for ages.
Dlraben, I took your advice and accentuated the 1s during practice. It's probably not that obvious from the recording but it did help! I'll continue doing this. Cheers!
The first clip is at a slightly more comfortable speed (around 54-56 bpm). I've added the second one because I noticed there is a lot more string noise and I am interested in your opinion on this. Do you think I push the string harder at a higher speed and that's what's causing it?
Nice one Scottulus! And you recorded it in a day! To think I take hours just to record my practice for feedback on the forum :) I guess I'm not counting the previous years of practice :)
Btw, I can now confirm apart from doing the dishes it goes well with programming too...
Thanks for the feedback! dlraben, I'll follow your advice and will post another video soon. I will have to do the same with 5s and other less common timings. Scottulus, any ideas for a chromatic scale challenge? Because of work, I was away from the forum for a few weeks when you guys were doing the challenges, but I think they were a great idea ;)
Here is my attempt of the chromatic scale (shifting the pinky and moving up to the 12th fret). I noticed the shifts are a little jerky, especially on the low strings and up the neck, and I tense my hand as I get tired. I'm doing 7 notes per beat. Need to improve accuracy there too. Any feedback would be most appreciated.
Thanks for posting this! Just a quick one. I think the first thing the more experienced guys here will say is that you should tuck the picking hand fingers in. Also, you might find it more comfortable to place the guitar on the other leg so your fretting hand's elbow has more space. The fretting hand otherwise looks good to me. You are keeping the fingers close to the neck, which is good. Good job practising with the metronome ;)
I subscribed to the online lessons a while ago and I think most of the guys here who did the same will tell you that it is definitely worth it. The format is similar to the free online lessons (in fact most of those are excerpts from the videos we receive), but they are a lot more detailed. Some are play along videos, so you can practice what you are watching realtime. One more thing, I often get additional free material. Theory lessons, extra videos, etc. So I'd say go for it.
Hey mate, hope you recover soon! I had a right hand injury before and went through the trills for weeks phase ;) Just another thing to add to the list: you could practice chord forms and now you might have a bit of extra time to catch up on theory.
Hey Guitar Player! Thanks for the EVH video, I'm checking it out now. Yeah, I'm trying to do as much on the acoustic guitar as I can (driving my wife crazy ;) )
Thanks Ursin and Guitar Player! Yeah, I'm watching the Vlog ;) Guitar Player, I prefer heavy gauge picks too but I switched to Davas last year just to try them. I like the rubber grip ones as I've always had problems with keeping the pick in the same position between my fingers, especially when scalpel picking. As for muting with overdrive/distortion, I'll make sure I dedicate a few hours to practising with them as well as on the acoustic guitar. Cheers!
I was going to ask you about muting with the picking hand thumb. I tried it and it felt very unnatural the first time. Of course, this is often the case with correct techniques, so that didn't put me off. I'm positive it will take a while to master it. If you have time, maybe next time you shoot a video for the Vlog'O Doom, could you please address it? Just a min demonstration so I can see I'm doing it right. Another general question about muting. Do you think it helps if you practise it with distortion? Unwanted string noise is way more obvious there... Thanks for the feedbacks on this!
Cheers Ursin! So even more focus on coordination :) I'll try to keep the hand floating as much as possible and use all the techniques you mentioned. I'm at work at the moment but I get the feeling one may still be able to use sarod while the fleshy part of the palm (close to the wrist) touches the other strings. Will post a video soon. I appreciate all your feedback. They have been very helpful! Thanks!
A quick question about muting while using sarod picking. I read a discussion a while back about muting the picked string and if I remember correctly the conclusion was that this technique doesn't lend itself to muting as easily as other ones, though it is possible to achieve it. So how about muting the rest of the strings during sarod picking to prevent unwanted noise?
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