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What should i DO!?!?!?
DeeJay Krens
(325)
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8/31/2002 6:16:42 PM · 54 Views
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I'm an aspiring guitarist and bassist.. i love all types of music.. i'm working my butt off to pay for equipment so i can get in bands.... and i'm constantly playing and learning the lessons on this site.... i want to be the best in the area.... (there's only like 6 good guitarists in the area) i want to get really good ... like randy Rhoads/Zakk Wylde good but i don't know what to do..... i constantly practice... and work..... i'm just confused on how to get better.... over the summer i practice atleast .. 7 hrs a day and during the school year i play around for atleast 3hr. thats just on guitar... please help me!
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Re: What should i DO!?!?!?
8/31/2002 7:22:10 PM
DeeJay Krens
(325) wrote:
guess no one has any suggestions.... =( |
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Re: What should i DO!?!?!?
9/1/2002 12:35:07 PM
Drew Todd
(1190) wrote:
I'm going to do something horrible and make an assumption about you based upon this message. Forgive me if you can...
You wait a little more than an hour and express frustration over not receiving any replies to your original request. And you practice, practice, practice at a fervent pace. But for how long? I'm guessing you need -- in the words of the immortal Axl Rose -- a little patience.
How long have you been at the guitar? If you've been practicing for less than a year, you're a long way off from giving those six good guitarists a run for their money. Even with practice, it takes time to learn and master this fickle instrument.
My personal advice (aren't you glad you asked?) is to forget about being the best and just concentrate on being a musician who makes music to please yourself and those who listen to you.
I realize that competitiveness can be a good thing, and head-cutting goes back all the way to the invention of the instrument. But all that stuff can also get in the way of enjoying guitar-playing and making music. Especially if you don't happen to be the most gifted guy on the block. It can get discouraging real quick (take it from the least gifted guy on my block).
Anyway, do you want to know what you should do? Settle down and play for fun. Keep practicing. Find others to play with. Make music. While you're doing all that stuff, you'll discover that your playing will greatly improve. And you'll find that those six guys (and girls) will be playing with you, instead of against you.
Just my idyllic $0.02...
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Drew
drewsblues@hotmail.com |
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Re: What should i DO!?!?!?
8/31/2002 8:23:16 PM
David Mackie
(10592) wrote:
I think you probably need to play with others. I think most of the folks around here who have played in bands will agree that their playing improved the most on the bandstand. Of course you may need some specific advice to overcome some particular problem, but we don't know what that would be so we can't really address it directly.
What do you feel is wrong? |
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Re: What should i DO!?!?!?
8/31/2002 9:48:00 PM
DeeJay Krens
(325) wrote:
well i pretty much switched from bass so using all my fingers on the same brainwave isn't it.... i think it's my chord changes and my speed change on different fingerings..... their too slow and i feel dumb having to stare at the fretboard .... i just want to get better at a quicker rate.. i know i can play better than i am now i just don't know whats holding me back??? |
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Re: What should i DO!?!?!?
9/1/2002 3:37:58 AM
Shawn Strickland
(2570) wrote:
Find a guitarist in town and then both of you realize that us all musicians go through this stuff man! If you ever feel like you're getting nowhere with something, then you probably are! Get what you want out of your playing.
You say you want to be Randy Rhodes good?
Sit down and anylize his stuff. Figure out what he's doing, it will give you a good ear too.
If you want to pick as fast as Randy Rhodes, then get a metronome and Flying Fingers and learn to play as fast as you want. But most out of all of this stuff, it sounds like you aren't trying hard enough to get as good as them, keep practicing like you do, but make a schedule of what you're doing. As that I mean, "I will practice on my tapping for half an hour everyday", or whatever. Or, "I will practice my improvsing for a hour" everyday.
It helps me to keep a constant schedule, that way you can look at what you are doing and decide if you should practice more on the subject, or learn something new...
Good luck my friend.
If you have any ?'s
guitarpicker06@kc.rr.com |
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Re: What should i DO!?!?!?
9/1/2002 12:43:42 PM
DeeJay Krens
(325) wrote:
not like randy rhodes... i just want to be a prodigy like him.... yea i've only been going at it 3 week's but i'm practicing songs like Stairway to heaven and a lot of metallica stuff. i just can't seem to get it down no matter how much i practice |
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Re: What should i DO!?!?!?
9/1/2002 1:06:48 PM
Shawn Strickland
(2570) wrote:
try it with a metronome and keep at it man, we've all be there. Don't let the tough get you down. |
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Re: What should i DO!?!?!?
9/1/2002 1:21:15 PM
Allyn Walters
(201) wrote:
Speaking as another relative necomer, it sounds like you're putting too much pressure on yourself. You've been going at it for 3 weeks! Calm down and enjoy each little bit of progress, keep up the practice and just have fun. If it were possible to pick up a guitar and play like Randy Rhodes after 3 weeks (I s'pose it's been done), then everybody would be doing this. No, it takes time, persistance, and above all - patience...
Good Luck and happy picking! |
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