How much do you guys legit practice?

How much do you guys practice?

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JamieJ said:
@finebyfine - that spider exercise is way harder than it looks! I’m going to give that one a go.
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be ready to curse your hands for not doing what you want them to do! it's a very weird experience lol

There's also a decent one where you fret this as if you are playing it as a chord:

Code: 
E|-----------6--
B|--------7-----
G|-----8--------
D|--9-----------
A|--------------
E|--------------

But play it staccato without palm muting, and only let raising that finger off the string (but not off the fretboard) mute each successive note, while keeping the general form of it intact. Brutally hard for me
 
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Username123 said:
A major 9th reminds me of the intro to Yesterday by The Beatles.
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Major 9th in the intro to yesterday? It’s been a while since I’ve listened to that track, but I don’t remember there being a major 9th in it anywhere— the melody is almost entirely stepwise motion, and as I remember it, the biggest leap is the minor 3rd on the lyrics “as though they’re here to stay” or “a shadow hanging over me”. Which part are you talking about?
 
Nevermind. Your right. For some reason I thought it went C(1st scale degree) to d(major 9th) to C (1st scale degree) to C(8th scale degree) when the vocals started. I think I was adding in the lower octave c.
 
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Ah yeah I get that. Could probably make for a pretty interesting arrangement of yesterday.

The song I’ve always thought of as a reminder of a major 9th interval is Rebel Rebel by David Bowie.
 
Harry Klippton said:
The Troy Stetina book that @BuddytheReow mentioned is where I learned finger independence when I first started playing. The book is definitely aimed at metal playing but it was really helpful for me at one point
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Metal is my main style right now. When I was younger I didn’t care for it, but I definitely had to give it props for the technique required. The heaviest thing I listened to back then was Van Halen courtesy of my guitar teacher. That all changed about 10 years ago when I started going to the gym and needed that boost to get me through the 7am workout before going to work.

Edit: I’m now a distortion junkie
 
I have to force myself to practice.. I do play live about twice a month and I'm usually cramming to learn the songs for the day before...lol Other times it's moments of randomness.
 
I try to learn new songs all the time, or else write something new to play. That's how I practise. I don't do things like scales or exercises because I'm not so interested in shredding or anything "impressive". If I need to learn a new technique learning new stuff will teach it to me. If I write a song and it needs a solo I like to listen to what I think I might want to play first before playing anything. Invariably that leads to learning new ways to play stuff because it doesn't "fall under the fingers" immediately.

Oddly enough learning to play some of Paul McCartney's solos on Beatles records is a lot harder than you'd think. He tends to put bends where you least expect them. On Helter Skelter he appears to bend with his index finger a few times which feels quite foreign to me. One of my favourite solos is the one he plays on Taxman - and that's really hard to play!
 
Practice?

Shit, I've never been very good at that.

Not that I never did...lots of hours spent in the woodshed. Mostly when I was younger. Metronomes, chromatic scales, picking and dexterity exercises. Trying to get that speeeeeeeeeeeeedddddddd.

But...I dunno. I'm still kind of a hack, even though if my guitar playing was a person it could legally drink these days. I spent so much time drifting around from guitar, bass, singing, keyboards, ukulele, and drums that had I spent all that time on one instrument I'd probably be half-decent. But my ADHD won't allow that.

Most of the time I'm practicing technique when I wanna learn a specific song...Gojira's "Born in Winter" helped me get my two hand tapping a bit further along.

But most of the time...shit...I'll just play by feel, noodling around the modal shapes that I've internalized while adding in little chromatic flourishes when the mood strikes me...or when I fuck up.

These days I'm much more interested in fucking around and making groovy atmospheric textures or fuck your face heavy riffage than the wheedles though. Maybe I'm just an angry guy.
 
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