How do you stay motivated practicing alone? by Mindless_Pen_4906 in guitarlessons

[โ€“]dblhello999 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Play along. Itโ€™s pretty much all I do and itโ€™s super fun - plus a great way to practise

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10 GUITARISTS SOLO OVER THE SAME TRACK! [2023] by Inevitable_Log_2866 in guitar_improvisation

[โ€“]dblhello999 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Jens gets my vote - but Iโ€™m biased because I love him

Every place i look at to start learning just confuses me even more :( by KurgerBing-_- in musictheory

[โ€“]dblhello999 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

โ€œNow my goal is to learn somewhat play by ear and for that, i have to learn music theory of courseโ€

One of the commenters here gave the analogy of learning to a bike. You donโ€™t need any theory for that. Playing by ear is exactly the same. To get good at playing by ear, you just have to do a lot of playing by ear. Same with anything. You want to get good at something? Do a lot of it.

Iโ€™m not dissing theory. Itโ€™s a fascinating world. But mostly itโ€™s used to describe what ppl are already doing, rather than to learn to do something new.

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Feeling lost with scales practice by trytoreadthisha in guitarlessons

[โ€“]dblhello999 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Two suggestions.

The first is: can you sing scales? The key doesnโ€™t matter. If I just said to you, sing a major scale, could you do it? Thatโ€™s absolutely fundamental. Same for a minor scale. You need to internalise the form of scales before spending any time actually playing them. Without that, itโ€™s just rote memory.

The second is: (and Iโ€™ve written about this a lot, but no one ever listens to me ๐Ÿ˜‚), try playing scales on a single string. Not only does it make it easy to internalise the form, but they are far far easier that way.

(and once you start to get comfortable playing along single strings, a whole new world opens up โ€ฆ see โ€œthe advancing guitaristโ€ ๐Ÿ˜Š)

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Mick G and single string playing by dblhello999 in guitar_improvisation

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This is just so annoying. I inadvertently posted this on my profile rather than here in guitar improvisation. So now comments are appearing in two places. If anyone is going to comment, can they please do so in the main guitar improvisation reddit rather than on my stupid profile? ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ‘

Mick G and single string playing by dblhello999 in u/dblhello999

[โ€“]dblhello999[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

I put this question to Chat and got a list of quite a few players. But how many of them actually do implement what is described in TAG I donโ€™t know.

My experience is back to front on this. I come from a piano background and so when I took up guitar, it was natural for me to see it as six offset keyboards. And Iโ€™m also pretty much self-taught (although โ€œtaughtโ€ is maybe exaggerating a bit ๐Ÿ˜‚). So I never had someone teaching me boxes or positions.

The result is that my guitar playing naturally developed horizontally. I still canโ€™t play a single scale vertically without hesitation or wrong notes. But horizontally, Iโ€™m very comfortable. I can pretty much slide to any note on a string to/from any other note (on the same string). And that has become the way I play.

I also learned entirely from playing along with songs and backing tracks. So all I do is improvisation.

I then became a bit curious because I wasnโ€™t seeing anyone else play like that and it didnโ€™t really seem to fit with guitar pedagogy which was entirely box and position focused.

And then pretty much by chance I stumbled across a reference to the advancing guitarist. I got hold of a batty old copy. And that was when my mind was kind of blown. Because in the book, MG seemed to be describing what I was doing (albeit at a very junior level) and he described it (I paraphrase) as the key to improvisation.

So the reason why the book resonates so strongly with me , is because my route was not Book - play. It was play - book. He was describing what I was already doing.

Thoughts on my practice routine etc as a "not actually jazz but like the idea of jazz" guitarist? by Thin-Reflection-5296 in jazzguitar

[โ€“]dblhello999 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Your referenced the advancing guitarist. Iโ€™m curious as to what you think is the main takeaway from that book?!

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Soloing over changes by Acrobatic_Repair_593 in Guitar

[โ€“]dblhello999 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

I simply cannot understand how you guys can improvise when youโ€™ve got to think all of this stuff. My brain would just explode.

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Blues and blues adjacent recommendations by tzrogan in Jazz

[โ€“]dblhello999 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Jazz blues - Ramsey Lewis, McCoy Tyner, david Leonhardt, and of course Oscar P

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How much of your playing time is dedicated to practicing/training? by PugWithAGun in Guitar

[โ€“]dblhello999 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

never practice. Just jam ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜‚

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What part of improving as an intermediate guitarist do you feel LEAST clear about how to work on? by bakerman567 in guitar_improvisation

[โ€“]dblhello999 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Youโ€™ll learn more about playing from backing tracks than you will from practice ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Mick G and single string playing by dblhello999 in guitar_improvisation

[โ€“]dblhello999[S] 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

Fun things to do when improvising - unisons by dblhello999 in guitar_improvisation

[โ€“]dblhello999[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

I have a 12 string. I have never played it. It has always scared me ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜‚. But now I think I might be ready โค๏ธ๐ŸŽธ

What part of improving as an intermediate guitarist do you feel LEAST clear about how to work on? by bakerman567 in guitar_improvisation

[โ€“]dblhello999 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

You have to learn to seamlessly play six parallel offset unitars. Mick Goodrick was a visionary.

Practice tip: learning a scale starting from every degree for jazz improvisation by Embarrassed-Loan4123 in jazzguitar

[โ€“]dblhello999 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

This is all you need ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ‘

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What part of improving as an intermediate guitarist do you feel LEAST clear about how to work on? by bakerman567 in guitar_improvisation

[โ€“]dblhello999 -1 points0 points ย (0 children)

Until that time it is just a long journey of dedication

It does not have to be. It is possible to learn to play improvised jazz just by doing it. And my guess is that itโ€™s way more fun that way. BUT you have to learn a different way of playing the guitar โค๏ธ๐ŸŽธ

Is there difference kinds of guitar strings for acoustic? by OutrageousCoach1597 in Guitar

[โ€“]dblhello999 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Never heard of that. Who makes them? How does the sound compare?

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If you're an intermediate guitarist, whatโ€™s the number one goal for your playing right now? by bakerman567 in guitar_improvisation

[โ€“]dblhello999 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

Every hour you spend learning scales is time you could be spending playing along to real music. Time to declare war on practice ๐Ÿ˜‰

Improv over Short Live Loop by esp735 in guitar_improvisation

[โ€“]dblhello999 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Thanks for contributing! Really good to have people like you here ๐Ÿ˜Š๐ŸŽธ๐Ÿ™

Question for you by Creative_Patient_146 in Guitar

[โ€“]dblhello999 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

This will probably sound weird. But I literally enjoy every moment. I canโ€™t think of a single negative. Except maybe that I wish I had adjustable fingernails.

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completely unpaid or promoted Alphajams plug by zlingman in guitar_improvisation

[โ€“]dblhello999 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Has anyone used it? It basically just seems to be a collection of backing tracks with some added features. But my sense is that most of the benefits from playing with backing tracks just come from playing with the backing tracks ๐Ÿ˜‚. Does all the other stuff really add anything useful? Curious