Tell me about your guitar playing or practice habits

SillyOctpuss said:
To anyone who's struggling with practice or stuck in a dad blues rut. Try learning something totally new and I don't mean something new in a genre you already know.

I had to learn Hold on I'm Coming by Sam & Dave and If you want me to stay by Sly and the Family Stone and it's completely reinvigorated practice time for me. I've learned bunch of new chord shapes and they're in a style I've never spent much time playing before.

I'm planning on starting to learn how to use a slide properly next. The way I currently use a slide is with a ton of gain and delay for the purpose of making weird noises.
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This is key! Learning chord shapes or revoicing chords you already know. I also like to take simple pentatonic shapes and play them in weird patterns and permutations.

Lately I have been listening a lot of hip hop and taking the vocal phrasing patterns and trying to apply them to soloing.

I also transcribe my favorite vocals and try to replicate them.
 
In an attempt to force myself to play differently and understand the fretboard better I stumbled across this organically, nothing earth shattering but here is a stupid long run using the major scale using 4 notes per string and a 5th note on the higher E. I have been trying to flesh this out for about a week so haven’t had much time to practice it, but just learning it has helped clean up how I play the major modes, open up the fret board, and tame the flailing pinky some… 7B9126D9-A45B-4D3B-8412-B92680F7D0E5.jpeg
This is a great addition to practicing the major scale… at least has been for me so far.
 
Paradox916 said:
In an attempt to force myself to play differently and understand the fretboard better I stumbled across this organically, nothing earth shattering but here is a stupid long run using the major scale using 4 notes per string and a 5th note on the higher E. I have been trying to flesh this out for about a week so haven’t had much time to practice it, but just learning it has helped clean up how I play the major modes, open up the fret board, and tame the flailing pinky some…View attachment 68737
This is a great addition to practicing the major scale… at least has been for me so far.
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The book “the advancing guitarist” has some pretty interesting open ended exercises to improve fretboard knowledge. Highly recommended.
 
Paradox916 said:
In an attempt to force myself to play differently and understand the fretboard better I stumbled across this organically, nothing earth shattering but here is a stupid long run using the major scale using 4 notes per string and a 5th note on the higher E. I have been trying to flesh this out for about a week so haven’t had much time to practice it, but just learning it has helped clean up how I play the major modes, open up the fret board, and tame the flailing pinky some…View attachment 68737
This is a great addition to practicing the major scale… at least has been for me so far.
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What do the different colours mean @Paradox916? Does it signify which finger should be playing the notes?

Edit - sorry nevermind I looked at it a different way and it made more sense.
 
giovanni said:
Your wife plays guitar too?!? :)
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Not really, she plays cello but grew up in a family where everyone plays music and between her dad, brother and grandad has been used to having lots of guitars about. If I'm looking at a guitar I'm interested in buying and I hear "ooh that's beautiful" or "that's colours amazing" then I know I'm good to go ahead and get it. :cool:
 
SillyOctpuss said:
Not really, she plays cello but grew up in a family where everyone plays music and between her dad, brother and grandad has been used to having lots of guitars about. If I'm looking at a guitar I'm interested in buying and I hear "ooh that's beautiful" or "that's colours amazing" then I know I'm good to go ahead and get it. :cool:
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Well, I’m jealous. If I show a guitar to my wife she goes “uhu”.
 
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