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Location: south east Michigan | Sometimes tedious, repeatitive, same-ole/same-ole.
The evening only redeemed by the friendly conversation.
But sometimes, like last night... creative, rewarding, invigorating and FUN. |
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Location: Flahdaw | It's like a haiku.... |
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Location: closely held secret | ...only different. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | ....yet stimulating. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Nice! |
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Location: Newington, CT | Do you go through alternating periods of rapid improvement and learning followed by frustrating plateaux, then back to good progress?
I do...The good news seems to be that steadier practicing DOES seem to shorten the plateaux. |
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Location: south east Michigan | yes.
Does "plateaux" have an x at the end or is that the French spelling? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Never play Scrabble with Alan. He manages to always use up those hard to place tiles. |
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| French plural. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Sorry 'bout that...I spend a good chunk of my time speaking French and another bunch of time speaking Russian. Sometimes they get mixed up in my head. I suspect the correct English plural uses an "s". |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Say Love Eeh! |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by MWoody:
Say Love Eeh! ELP? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I'm still working on this English thing... |
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| Originally posted by AlanM:
Originally posted by MWoody:
Say Love Eeh! ELP? |
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Location: Newington, CT | Lol! I know! Wasn't something like "C'est la vie" an ELP song? |
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Location: closely held secret | And Protest the Hero, and Shania Twain, and Bob Seger, and... |
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Location: Newington, CT | I've heard only the ELP one.
And even that was, shall we say, some years back. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I kept saying "ELP" loud and rapidly, like G8r suggested, till my coworkers came running in. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | .....well, just the two British Tossers there on exchange.... |
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Location: Ohio | The British spead English...Here in America, we spekk Ahmeeerikan
Unless oyu are Canadian, and NO one understands the accent! Eh! |
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Location: San Francisco, CA | When asked about how much he practiced on the guitar, the late, GREAT Tommy Todesco (the most recorded guitarist in history) said, "I've never practiced on guitar. However, I have 'played' on the guitar and there's a BIG difference."
I'm with Tommy.
I can honestly say that since I first picked up a guitar back in 1963 I have only looked forward to playing it. Never, ever felt like I was practicing anything, just playing and enjoying the instrument. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I recently started lessons for the first time. The up side is that it motivates me to practice and I feel that I've improved faster in 4 or 5 weeks of lessons than I did in several months of trying to learn something on my own. The down side is that I spend less time playing the songs that I already know. I enjoy playing those songs, that's why I know them. I wish I could follow Matt's advice and divide up my practice time, but I don't spend enough time to do that. Fortunately, my instructor enjoys teaching different techniques as parts of songs and knows a lot of songs that I enjoy learning, so that is working well. I just hope he doesn't run out.
Fortunately for me, like Mr. Tanner, music is my life, not my livelihood, so I don't need to practice something I don't enjoy. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | As part of the resident band, we have to learn a half dozen new songs every week to go along with four or five familiar songs. I don't spend too much time working on songs that are slower than, say, 1/4 notes at 90/minute, or faster songs with familiar chords. Most of my practice work is spent on the fast stuff requiring complex jazz type chord changes including transitional/passing chords. I like it when the band obtains the music ahead of time and works through it so that when we come together for rehearsal, we work on tempo, balance and mapping rather than woodshedding notes. I also prefer, at the minimum, to be familiar with the instrumental bridge in the event they ask me to take the lead. To practice this, I'll play the bridge chords on the looper and then improvise a lead on top. It may not be the same as what I actually play when called upon, but at least I'll have a feel of what works and where I generally want to be on the frets.
As others have said, this is very enjoyable to me. Even though I don't spend a lot of time playing familiar songs, I don't see it as "practice." There are some exercises I'll go through to limber up my fingers, usually playing on top of some blues jam tracks. The hardest part of "practice" in the bandroom is selecting the guitar so as to ensure that everything gets played every once in awhile.
With SWMBO out of town for a few weeks, I've had some extra time lately. Two nights ago, I plugged the iDea preamp into the 1778RF and played through all the jam tracks I downloaded from the website last year. The variety of music genre represented in the tracks allows for a lot of creativity. That took maybe an hour and a half and loosened me up pretty good.
On another topic, I can't speak to the iDea preamp as part of the overseas guitar in which they were orginally marketed, but when used in a higher end model, I think its a fine preamp with excellent tone. The fact that it does a lot of other things makes it a very worthwhile practice tool. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I hope someday to get the chance to hear the chops ya got Prof. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Jumping back a bit....in Quebec some speak Franglish, where they use whichever word is shorter with no regard for whether it's English or French.
Very weird to hear, the uni-lingual can almost feel like they understand another language.
Meanwhile, ON topic.
'Sometimes the best thing you can do for your guitar playing is go fishing'
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