Guitar Aerobics

LiveeviL2000

LiveeviL2000

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I should be getting this book this weekend.
Looks interesting enough. I am going to use it to rehab my hand/wrist.
The way it works is it has a lick to play for everyday of the week. Each day will be a different technique to improve picking and fretting skills. A total of 364 exercises increasing in difficulty as you progress. The first 10 weeks or so are for beginners, then it moves into more intermediate level, then expert levels. It's recommended to skip over the stuff that will be too easy for you.
I think playing the easy stuff will help me build strength up again in my fingers.
Maybe I'll do a time lapse from the day I start, which should be in 2 -3 weeks, until I'm finished and see how much progress I gained.

As per usual, I'll give it a review for anyone who might be interested.

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Session 5 said:
I notice you are spending an awful lot of time on TTR Geoff! now take a bit of that time and get practicing!:D
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I’ve been on TTR. And guilty of not practicing enough…. Although I did dig into some acoustic work tonight. Even plucked on the bass….. no pick. Fingers tips.

In all fairness. We’ve been gone three of the last 5 weeks. Heading out again Sunday. Been a busy Jan/Feb.
 
iblive said:
I’ve been on TTR. And guilty of not practicing enough…. Although I did dig into some acoustic work tonight. Even plucked on the bass….. no pick. Fingers tips.

In all fairness. We’ve been gone three of the last 5 weeks. Heading out again Sunday. Been a busy Jan/Feb.
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Since you have been doing so much travelling, you are behind in practicing Rick, better get at it..:D
 
LiveeviL2000 said:
I should be getting this book this weekend.
Looks interesting enough. I am going to use it to rehab my hand/wrist.
The way it works is it has a lick to play for everyday of the week. Each day will be a different technique to improve picking and fretting skills. A total of 364 exercises increasing in difficulty as you progress. The first 10 weeks or so are for beginners, then it moves into more intermediate level, then expert levels. It's recommended to skip over the stuff that will be too easy for you.
I think playing the easy stuff will help me build strength up again in my fingers.
Maybe I'll do a time lapse from the day I start, which should be in 2 -3 weeks, until I'm finished and see how much progress I gained.

As per usual, I'll give it a review for anyone who might be interested.

81bwVAIMPHL._AC_UY218_.jpg
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What notation is used? Is it standard musical notation, tab, or both?
 
I wish there were more good play along exercises on youtube. There are plenty of exercises... but for me and my wandering attention span...I find it best to actually have the tedious video of the whole repetitive regime to play along with. It's like the body aerobics lady doing one jumping jack then standing there expecting you to do twenty more on your own. I see an strong opportunity for someone. Pepper the video with "Make it burn" "that's it, keep going" " Ten more, nine... eight...seven" Etc.
 
TVvoodoo said:
I wish there were more good play along exercises on youtube. There are plenty of exercises... but for me and my wandering attention span...I find it best to actually have the tedious video of the whole repetitive regime to play along with. It's like the body aerobics lady doing one jumping jack then standing there expecting you to do twenty more on your own. I see an strong opportunity for someone. Pepper the video with "Make it burn" "that's it, keep going" " Ten more, nine... eight...seven" Etc.
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It was suggested that I do series of short YT videos with bite size lessons. Call it the One Minute Jam Session. Made for people who don’t have time. Just a quick explanation of the lesson. Show how to do it and a link to a SoundCloud backing track to practice the lesson.

It’s a thought I’m considering.
 
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TVvoodoo said:
I wish there were more good play along exercises on youtube. There are plenty of exercises... but for me and my wandering attention span...I find it best to actually have the tedious video of the whole repetitive regime to play along with. It's like the body aerobics lady doing one jumping jack then standing there expecting you to do twenty more on your own. I see an strong opportunity for someone. Pepper the video with "Make it burn" "that's it, keep going" " Ten more, nine... eight...seven" Etc.
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The best routine I have ever found is to simply play along to a recoding or a video. There are many lessons on how to learn the chord structures. Mike Gross is a friend and Carl Brown also has very good lessons. Once you learn the chord structure, play along to the song. Listen for, learn and keep up with the timing.

Once you have this song down, move on to the backing track version.

I'm always available if you need direction.
 
Inspector #20 said:
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The best routine I have ever found is to simply play along to a recoding or a video. There are many lessons on how to learn the chord structures. Mike Gross is a friend and Carl Brown also has very good lessons. Once you learn the chord structure, play along to the song. Listen for, learn and keep up with the timing.

Once you have this song down, move on to the backing track version.

I'm always available if you need direction.
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Oh man thank you!! Very kind, you've seen my technique and probably just cringed in horror! LOL!!!! I 100% appreciate your reach out

One of my personal guitar quirks is I don't care much to play cover songs. I feel it's like painting somebody else's painting over and over. I've been in a couple loose crappy jam groups and learned lots of standards halfhazardly (acoustic mostly). I do understand it's the best way to make a dollar at it, but it seems I'm just more a semi-dedicated noodler/doodler, who sometimes gets up enough to poop out his own little musical turd/creation sporadically.
I do absolutely understand it's also to my developmental detriment to not learn full songs, every part. I'm resigned to the fact I'm not trying to join anyones band, or be a working pro.

What I'm more talking about is simple lick exercises to develop speed and specific fingering accuracy for general lead improvisation.

I mean, if a fellow like me is going to noodle the same pentachronic licks over and over just for the quick :poo:(s) and giggles it's nice to at least learn some new techniques to add to the quiver. Playing the whole song doesn't do that for me. Verse/Chorus/Verse/ Chorus/Solo/Bridge/Chorus/Chorus just seems to eat up all my limited available play time and bores me.

I need the muscle memory repetitive breakdown thing to work as unguided and wrong-headed as it may be. For whatever reason it's less tedious to me because I can actually FEEL when it's taking, and man is that incredibly empowering. This way forces a sort of defined harsh structure and discipline upon myself. It becomes a real physical workout, mental too. I actually sweat.

That's the new. Just watch for the OLD TVvoodoo Guitar Instruction Method Coming Soon: Grab a couple beers and head down to The Gear Grotto. Spark up the twinkly coloured lights, throw on the cans, input some goofy ambient guitar/bass/drums BS on the looper or digitech jam pedal, then get lost for twenty/thirty minutes at a time. My Guarantee To You is after 10 years of that you will see little appreciable improvement in style or techniques. However it is pretty easy and a sure way to blow off a bunch of built-up stress & steam, and just play guitar, as awful as it might be.

Lately I've been seeking out repetitive lick vids on youtube and doing the work. I may not be learning much in the big musical picture, but my lead playing is improving at a way faster pace than ever before.

Couldn't play much guitar at all for more than the whole past year, had lost any chops I ever had due to left hand finger f-ups but have been woodshredding for the past few months trying to make a little comeback.

Most certainly knowing the fretboard and chord/mode theory and all would be FAR more useful to me... especially for songwriting. But for right now learning to rip a few cool licks and connect the dots in different ways has an addictive immediate dopamine payoff that keeps me coming back for more. And staying motivated is key. I've been much more an acoustic singsong guy for the past 7 years so this is likely just another phase in the guitaring life of Brad. Who knows what's around the corner?
 
LiveeviL2000 said:
I believe it’s both. I’m not 100% sure. I would be disappointed if it wasn’t both.
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I actually found my own answer. I looked up the book on Amazon. There is an example there that shows both standard musical notation and tab.

It's a book that sounds interesting and I may get it, too. But, if it only had tab I may have decided to pass on it. I may use tab as an initial reference point, but I prefer to work on a piece with standard musical notation. It's not that I think notation is "right" and tab is "wrong". It's just that is how I learned music and I like to relate the fretboard back to notation. It makes better sense to me that way.
 
TVvoodoo said:
Oh man thank you!! Very kind, you've seen my technique and probably just cringed in horror! LOL!!!! I 100% appreciate your reach out

One of my personal guitar quirks is I don't care much to play cover songs. I feel it's like painting somebody else's painting over and over. I've been in a couple loose crappy jam groups and learned lots of standards halfhazardly (acoustic mostly). I do understand it's the best way to make a dollar at it, but it seems I'm just more a semi-dedicated noodler/doodler, who sometimes gets up enough to poop out his own little musical turd/creation sporadically.
I do absolutely understand it's also to my developmental detriment to not learn full songs, every part. I'm resigned to the fact I'm not trying to join anyones band, or be a working pro.

What I'm more talking about is simple lick exercises to develop speed and specific fingering accuracy for general lead improvisation.

I mean, if a fellow like me is going to noodle the same pentachronic licks over and over just for the quick :poo:(s) and giggles it's nice to at least learn some new techniques to add to the quiver. Playing the whole song doesn't do that for me. Verse/Chorus/Verse/ Chorus/Solo/Bridge/Chorus/Chorus just seems to eat up all my limited available play time and bores me.

I need the muscle memory repetitive breakdown thing to work as unguided and wrong-headed as it may be. For whatever reason it's less tedious to me because I can actually FEEL when it's taking, and man is that incredibly empowering. This way forces a sort of defined harsh structure and discipline upon myself. It becomes a real physical workout, mental too. I actually sweat.

That's the new. Just watch for the OLD TVvoodoo Guitar Instruction Method Coming Soon: Grab a couple beers and head down to The Gear Grotto. Spark up the twinkly coloured lights, throw on the cans, input some goofy ambient guitar/bass/drums BS on the looper or digitech jam pedal, then get lost for twenty/thirty minutes at a time. My Guarantee To You is after 10 years of that you will see little appreciable improvement in style or techniques. However it is pretty easy and a sure way to blow off a bunch of built-up stress & steam, and just play guitar, as awful as it might be.

Lately I've been seeking out repetitive lick vids on youtube and doing the work. I may not be learning much in the big musical picture, but my lead playing is improving at a way faster pace than ever before.

Couldn't play much guitar at all for more than the whole past year, had lost any chops I ever had due to left hand finger f-ups but have been woodshredding for the past few months trying to make a little comeback.

Most certainly knowing the fretboard and chord/mode theory and all would be FAR more useful to me... especially for songwriting. But for right now learning to rip a few cool licks and connect the dots in different ways has an addictive immediate dopamine payoff that keeps me coming back for more. And staying motivated is key. I've been much more an acoustic singsong guy for the past 7 years so this is likely just another phase in the guitaring life of Brad. Who knows what's around the corner?
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Awesome...

The thing that jamming along to cover songs teaches you is timing.

Many can learn the mechanics of the guitar, but fail to work on timing.

Playing along to a recording teaches you the art of precise timing, so when you get out to the club, you can deal with the drunken drummer speeding up and nobody notices the change because you have learned to "hear the train a comin."
 
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