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Location: Denmark | Has anyone some good exercises inorder to improve speed-picking? Besides just playing scales up and, up and down, hour after hour? I have been practicing the G-major scale for several years as I have found out that if you are able to play G-major all over the fretboard you can play allmost everthing! Sometimes I just move the scale ½ a tone, but the pattern is the same. Friday night in San Fransisco, I think Mediterranean Sundance, is just G-major. I change the notes by listening, but its all G-major! | |
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Location: NJ | christian
there is no need for cross posting.
if you post a question for Matt he will get back to you. Please realize he is sometimes on tour and does not have access to answer everything quickly | |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Christian
I know you are a jazz person and I have played country and bluegrass for many years. There are some similarities and I have played lead mandolin in some blugrass bands where speed was a requirement and there was no place to hide if you couldn't cut it, so I will make a suggestion that you can ignore or even disagree with and I won't care at all. Two things, practice SONGS, and find someone to play with, a band, a friend, a rythym machine, but I reccommend humans. The work you have done with scales will pay off when you graduate to songs, real playing is playing with other musicians and no matter how bad it starts out, in the end you will find that nirvana.
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