kirennia
Part of the furniture
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Nice initiative posting up some stuff you've done, couple of comments though.
First off, less talking before it Was over half the video of you talking instead of playing, hehe.
Second, my only real suggestion would be to slow things down when practicing and learn the more aggessive pull offs thouroughly. There are a lot of fluctuations in the general strength you're plucking the string by. The bass note you're doing for example would sound a lot better as a background beat. Occasionally it's plucked quite violently, bringing it from a background beat into the foreground, disrupting the general flow of the song.
Something I was going to put in another thread but I guess most guitarists will read this. I really really hope all of you are stretching before playing. When I first started a long while back, I never bothered and to a degree, even today I don't stretch all that much but it began to ring home a couple of weeks back.
Two of my friends, both studying for a performing arts type music degree came back with completely messed up tendons. The first guy plays the saxophone, keyboard and guitar and because of his lack of stretching, his arms strength has been comprimised for upwards of a year. As you can imagine, that aint good for a music degree so he's been forced into learning sampling. It's so bad at the moment, he can't even write a txt message on his phone.
The other has a similar condition after playing the double-bass, bass and guitar. He was part of a band who at the time were called 'Matt Sellers and the scientists'. He went to the doctors one day and basically was unable to play at all because he'd managed to get tendon damage through not being taught proper techniques. He's been told his hands may never be the same again and so he backed out of the band. A couple of weeks later, they ended up getting a gig supporting Joss Stone in amsterdam.
The chance of a big break could be there for anyone, he missed his for the time being Just thought I'd post this up as a bit of a warning towards people. Learning technique IS worth it, not just for speed. Warming up is also just as important, don't end up in the same boat as they have
First off, less talking before it Was over half the video of you talking instead of playing, hehe.
Second, my only real suggestion would be to slow things down when practicing and learn the more aggessive pull offs thouroughly. There are a lot of fluctuations in the general strength you're plucking the string by. The bass note you're doing for example would sound a lot better as a background beat. Occasionally it's plucked quite violently, bringing it from a background beat into the foreground, disrupting the general flow of the song.
Something I was going to put in another thread but I guess most guitarists will read this. I really really hope all of you are stretching before playing. When I first started a long while back, I never bothered and to a degree, even today I don't stretch all that much but it began to ring home a couple of weeks back.
Two of my friends, both studying for a performing arts type music degree came back with completely messed up tendons. The first guy plays the saxophone, keyboard and guitar and because of his lack of stretching, his arms strength has been comprimised for upwards of a year. As you can imagine, that aint good for a music degree so he's been forced into learning sampling. It's so bad at the moment, he can't even write a txt message on his phone.
The other has a similar condition after playing the double-bass, bass and guitar. He was part of a band who at the time were called 'Matt Sellers and the scientists'. He went to the doctors one day and basically was unable to play at all because he'd managed to get tendon damage through not being taught proper techniques. He's been told his hands may never be the same again and so he backed out of the band. A couple of weeks later, they ended up getting a gig supporting Joss Stone in amsterdam.
The chance of a big break could be there for anyone, he missed his for the time being Just thought I'd post this up as a bit of a warning towards people. Learning technique IS worth it, not just for speed. Warming up is also just as important, don't end up in the same boat as they have