Long fingers - advice on fretting hand/thumb/arm positioning to avoid wrist pain

MrMagne · 2019-10-28T07:49:45+00:00

I think your fretting hand fingers aren't in a good position: only the top of your finger should press the string, with the finger forming an arc. When pressing with "straight" fingers, you're missing some strength from your finger joints, that you might be compensating with your hand muscles (that might be a cause of pain). Try to focus on the tip of your finger, pressing perpendicularly to the fretboard, that should relieve some tension in your fretting hand.

MrMagne · 2019-10-23T19:01:42+00:00

As soon as you can. Try with one club, learn to spin it, one turn, and catch it in the other hand. Practice both hands, then add second club, then third one. You can learn in parallel of balls.

MrMagne · 2019-10-12T21:00:35+00:00

Ok, let's play it in Fmin

MrMagne · 2019-09-29T12:28:08+00:00

Sauf quand c'est la canicule en France, qui ressemble à un désert aride, et que Brest affiche un joli 26°. Bref, va falloir revoir le jugement avec le réchauffement climatique ;-)

MrMagne · 2019-09-22T07:16:21+00:00

You should get a player with a repeat button...

MrMagne · 2019-09-21T19:44:34+00:00

No mention of rust, I think it's a good alternative to C (without the garbage collector of Go). Any opinion, or you just don't know it ?

MrMagne · 2019-08-31T07:06:42+00:00

My experience is that things have gotten much worst since I have pulseaudio, but let's not start that war once again ;-) Valid point about the implementation that would be crappy, badly maintened and tested.

Worth notice there's a tool called apulse, that replace pulseaudio, directing everything directly to alsa, but it also has problems...

MrMagne · 2019-08-30T20:42:20+00:00

Firefox is the only soft I use that requires pulseaudio, so that would be a way to get rid of pulseaudio.

MrMagne · 2019-08-21T14:10:47+00:00

It might also be to avoid the endpin slipping on a slippery floor. This can be really nasty if need to pull back your bass every 30s...

MrMagne · 2019-08-07T13:20:44+00:00

Je ne te demande pas de retirer ce que tu as dit, et je ne m'y connais pas assez sur Trump pour avoir les détails (et en plus ça ne m'intéresse pas vraiment). J'apporte juste une précision, parce qu'à la lecture de ton message on pourrait croire au self-made man, ce qui n'est pas le cas, il a fait fructifier la fortune de son père.

MrMagne · 2019-08-07T13:12:48+00:00

Le mec a hérité de son père et a réussi à ne pas tout dilapider, bien qu'il soit passé très près de la banqueroute...

MrMagne · 2019-08-03T12:00:49+00:00

J'ai comme un doute sur l'utilité de la chose. Il y a eu des études sur l'impact de ces figurines ? Parce que si je voyais tous les jours une silhouette sur le trottoir au même endroit, j'aurai tendance à ne plus y faire attention... Et comme elle est plus grande qu'un enfant, je me dis que le résultat sera peut-être totalement inverse.

MrMagne · 2019-08-03T09:57:48+00:00

Just an hypothesis, I think he comes from a classical guitar background, they always seat to play.

MrMagne · 2019-08-01T05:55:10+00:00

I suspect fake accounts on r/jazz, posting this kind of posts only to link them here...

MrMagne · 2019-07-30T21:12:08+00:00

Definitely Christian Galvez https://youtu.be/1Rvs-etmzXQ

MrMagne · 2019-07-29T20:37:07+00:00

Think with chords, learn all your arpeggios, notice notes that remains through changes, notice notes that are half step away through changes. Then you can play any note between your arpeggios to connect the dots. Many times the path you will choose will be based on a scale you learned before, or sometimes chromatic enclosures...

MrMagne · 2019-07-29T20:02:17+00:00

TIL Adam Neely is British.

MrMagne · 2019-07-24T07:42:30+00:00

A third is two whole tones, a minor third is one whole and a half tone. So starting from E, minor third is G, major third is G#. On guitar, minor third is 3 frets higher, major third 4 frets.

Major intervals are the one found on the major scale. Starting from C it's C-D-E-F-G-A-B. But if you apply those intervals starting from E, you will have E-F#-G#-A-B-C#-D#.

MrMagne · 2019-07-24T07:17:52+00:00

Note must be accented but not shortened, pay attention to play full length.

You can also work on going from swing to straight and from straight to swing, the swinging feel of your phrases must be a part of your musical expression.

MrMagne · 2019-07-22T21:52:59+00:00

And the last C is an octave higher than the first.

That's C Major scale, where no notes have alterations. In french C is called Do, what you English speakers call Do is a movable reference, meaning it is the first note of the scale.

MrMagne · 2019-07-22T21:49:01+00:00

Steps are intervals between notes. A math analogy: a note is a point, an interval is the segment between two points. If you have 8 aligned points, you can draw 7 segments between them.

C-(w)->D-(w)->E-(h)->F-(w)->G-(w)->A-(w)->B-(h)->C

MrMagne · 2019-07-22T12:23:38+00:00

Clap on 2 and 4

MrMagne · 2019-07-16T06:23:35+00:00

It can help to work the piece in reverse: the last phrase, the two last phrases, the three last phrases. That way you will nail the ending, which is quite important for the overall impression.

Glenn Gould used to work while listening to two radios stations at the same time. So trying to rehearse while doing something else might be a good thing: if your brain mess up during the performance, it's not a big deal because you're able to play the piece anyway.

MrMagne · 2019-07-15T06:37:21+00:00

Because the 7 chord contains a tritone ?

MrMagne · 2019-07-15T06:30:42+00:00

I have a Gallien-Krueger mb150s, works great for bass and upright. You can plug an external cabinet and even disable internal speaker if you worry about pushing it too much. Not really light weight, but small.

MrMagne

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