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| NeverKillADream |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 12:18:56 AM
Hey, does anyone know some speed exercises that tim uses? tips that came from him?
-Joe
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| 23 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| victorwootenfan |
Posted - 05/02/2002 : 12:13:36 PM
thanks a lot silky! very helpful!
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi |
| pcbTIM |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 4:38:09 PM
Thanks a lot Silky!!! That is now saved permanently on my computer.
"Life is what you make of it, not what you take from it." |
| Silky The Pimp |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 1:55:55 PM
Well I'm not really sure what happened, might have been a glitch in your virus protection program, but I ran two seperate programs both with the most recent updates and came up clean both times (look ma, no std's!!!). Anyway, Patrick and Jason, I'll just post it at the bottom of this message to be safe so that in case my programs just aren't up to par, and something IS wrong, that I'm not helping to spread something bad. Oh and poole, the reason I didn't want to post here is because I didn't want to seem as though I consider myself the 'teacher' on the board or what not. Just thought it might seem a little pretentious to some of the more experienced guys, especially since it would seem as though I was taking credit for these, even though they are pretty standard exercises and only one of them is something that I came up with on my own. If you have a metronome, during these is the time to use it. Anyway here's the goods... notepad as always for it to line up.
-J
The key to improvement with every one of these exercises
is to be consistent. Do not increase speed on any of them
until you can play them perfectly at any given speed. Once
you are flawless at one speed, take it up a notch and practice
until you are perfect at a faster speed, and so on.
Finger Exercise 1: Alternate picking
|------------------------------------------1-2-3-4-------|
|----------------------------------1-2-3-4---------------|
|--------------------------1-2-3-4-----------------------|
|------------------1-2-3-4-------------------------------|
|----------1-2-3-4---------------------------------------|
|--1-2-3-4-----------------------------------------------|
|--4-3-2-1-----------------------------------------------|
|----------4-3-2-1---------------------------------------|
|------------------4-3-2-1-------------------------------|
|--------------------------4-3-2-1-----------------------|
|----------------------------------4-3-2-1---------------|
|------------------------------------------4-3-2-1-------|
Then repeat starting at the 2nd fret, and so forth all
the way up the neck.
Exercise 2: Hammering
|--------------------------------0h2h3-------------------|
|--------------------------0h2h3-------------------------|
|--------------------0h2h3-------------------------------|
|--------------0h2h3-------------------------------------|
|--------0h2h3-------------------------------------------|
|--0h2h3-------------------------------------------------|
Try this using each pair of fingers that you can. Also try
moving the hammers farther apart. Rather than just hammering
from 0->2->3, try 0->2->4 or 0->2->5 or 0->2->6. Once you
are comfortable with starting from an open string, start on
the first fret, and repeat, going up the entire neck.
Again, feel free to widen the hammer.
Exercise 3: Hammering
|-----------------------------------------1h2h3h4--------|
|---------------------------------1h2h3h4----------------|
|-------------------------1h2h3h4------------------------|
|-----------------1h2h3h4--------------------------------|
|---------1h2h3h4----------------------------------------|
|-1h2h3h4------------------------------------------------|
Then, as with the alternate picking exercise, repeat
starting at the 2nd fret, and so forth all the way
up the neck.
Exercise 4: Pulling
|--3p2p0-------------------------------------------------|
|--------3p2p0-------------------------------------------|
|--------------3p2p0-------------------------------------|
|--------------------3p2p0-------------------------------|
|--------------------------3p2p0-------------------------|
|--------------------------------3p2p0-------------------|
Again, as with the first hammering exercise, use every pair
of fingers that you can, and also move the frets you are
pulling off of farther apart.
Exercise 5: Pulling
|--4p3p2p1-----------------------------------------------|
|----------4p3p2p1---------------------------------------|
|------------------4p3p2p1-------------------------------|
|--------------------------4p3p2p1-----------------------|
|----------------------------------4p3p2p1---------------|
|------------------------------------------4p3p2p1-------|
Once again, repeat starting one fret up, and so forth all
the way up the neck.
Exercise 6: Hand control
|-----------------------------------------------2-5-12-9-|
|--------------------------------------2-5-12-9----------|
|-----------------------------1-5-12-9-------------------|
|--------------------2-5-12-9----------------------------|
|-----------2-5-12-9-------------------------------------|
|--2-5-12-9----------------------------------------------|
The idea of this one is to have to quickly move your hand
from one position on the fretboard to another that is
"far" away. The frets don't matter, so much as the distance,
and you can add in another position change if you like that
would take you from high on the fretboard back down low.
This will help develop control for playing songs that require
you to make long slides, or have chords that are in far
positions from each other.
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| victorwootenfan |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 12:44:15 PM
yeah, something might've happened to the file, i'd appreciate it if you could send it to me one more time please. thank ya!
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi |
| NeverKillADream |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 11:14:19 AM
anytime (takes a bow)
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| pcbTIM |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 11:05:10 AM
Thanks. It is much appreciated.
"Life is what you make of it, not what you take from it." |
| NeverKillADream |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 09:56:00 AM
Just letting you know i have that article in with a bunch of guitar stuff, as soon as i track it down ill send it, just letting you know i didnt forget ya guys.
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| pcbTIM |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 03:46:24 AM
email sent, Silky!
"Life is what you make of it, not what you take from it." |
| NeverKillADream |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 01:03:59 AM
more that likely, the tablature would disfigure, and render you trying to descamble hyroglyphic looking music.
a guess.
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| Poole |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 12:59:31 AM
hey Pimp, why can't you just post it here so everybody can see?
n/a |
| NeverKillADream |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 12:06:28 AM
Id have to put my money in that case, that the virus isn't "in" that file, but someother means, since two seem to be fine.
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| enthuTIMsiast |
Posted - 05/01/2002 : 12:03:55 AM
Yeah Silky, I downloaded the attachment when you sent it to me, too, and I didn't have any problems.
Today my computer totally screwed up, but I think that that's unrelated. I just shut everything down and then restarted and so far everything's been fine. So that's good.
-What- |
| NeverKillADream |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 11:53:51 PM
Hey um, i downloaded the attachment, and Scanned it, and it's fine over in my neck of the woods. No virus. So i don't know what's up with that, just thought id let ya know.
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| Silky The Pimp |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 11:28:04 PM
Jesus, thank you for letting me know... I will scan immediately. Must be something brand new because I just did a virus check yesterday. Definitely don't open that attachment then... I'll just post it here. Sorry about that.
-J
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| enthuTIMsiast |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 10:07:49 PM
So the Pimp gave you something. What a surprise.
-What- |
| victorwootenfan |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 9:27:25 PM
thanks for the lessons, but my attachment came with a virus, so my virus scanner says....
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi |
| Silky The Pimp |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 8:31:59 PM
NKAD and VWF you've got mail.
I also wouldn't mind seeing this article you have as well.
-J
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| enthuTIMsiast |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 6:46:09 PM
I'd be interested to see this article as well, NKAD.
-What- |
| dirtysloth |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 6:26:38 PM
That would be great. Where could I find this article?
Peace,
Patrick
http://members.tripod.com/one4tim/index.htm |
| NeverKillADream |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 1:23:41 PM
I have a article/lesson on Rodeo Picking (used by Tim), if anyone wants it, it made me about 60% faster...
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| victorwootenfan |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 1:10:05 PM
i want it too, i'll drop you an e-mail also.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi |
| NeverKillADream |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 12:59:42 PM
Deal.
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| Silky The Pimp |
Posted - 04/30/2002 : 12:31:54 PM
Email me and I'll get you the same thing I gave to Jason.
-J
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