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gert
Joined: 16 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:58 pm
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i'm practising my scales right now, and tough i play them alot and i often try to improvise in one, i'm just not capable of controlling one. i always have to keep on thinking wich frets i can play and wich i can't, and one i'm above my 12th fret, everything goes wrong.
anyone can tell me how to practise my scales better? any tips for improvising in one scale too?
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Morry
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:14 am
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i find scales r best pactised by doing the boring thing of playing them backwards and forwards over n over. dont worry so much about improvising until u no the scale shapes of by heart, which wont take long. watch ur hands while practising for a while, then without, and i find if i hav truble finding frets while looking away, i move my neck hand slightly into my perifial vision so i can see it out the side of my eye, but i dont look at it. make sense?
once u cann play the scale backwards n fowards without looking then its time to improvise. |
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gert
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:12 pm
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i can play all my sharps and minors forwards and backwards 2 octaves from the 5th and 6th string in a small 8 seconds, and from the 4th string forwards and backwards one octave 4secs without looking, so thats no longer a burden.
it's the originality part
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gert
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:24 pm
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i can run up and down all my maj and min scales from the 4th, 5th and 6th string without having to think with it, in alternate picking. now i'm practising my intervals, my 3ds for the moment, and progression in 3ds and 4s, so: 1,2,3 2,3,4 etc, u know. what i'm looking for now is other things that will improve my knowledge of things i can do in a scale, so i wouldn't have to think of that anymore and just be able to concentrate on feeling/techniques
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