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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I dug in almost a year learning to read notation, but then other things to practice stole the time. It feels like there are endless rabbit holes to practicing guitar. I guess that's one of the reasons I manage to keep my unfocused brain interested

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Eipä tästä aiheesta itsellä paljon mututuntumaa parempaa tarjottavaa ole, mutta vähän vaikea on näin naamalukemalta ottaa tuota erityisen vakavasti ainakaan tuon artikkelin perusteella.
Oma mielikuvani tilanteesta on, että nyt alkaisi ihan aidosti ja oikeasti olemaan kiire etenkin energian suhteen sellaisella tavalla, että pienellä hifistelyllä ei ole kohta väliä, jos muutos ei onnistu.

Kärkkäästi sanoen tulee mieleen, että täällä voidaan änkyröidä maailman tappiin, niin voi sitten löyhemmällä kädellä suhtautuvat rakentaa tehtaat ja myllyt itselleen ja ihmetellä, miten meidän periferia on niin takapajuinen.

Toisaalta ymmärrän myös sen, että jos ei jonkin verran periaatteista pidetä kiinni, niin siinä voi olla pian niin, että me ollaan se löyhemmän käden osapuoli, eikä sekään varmaan hyvä ole.

Ylipäätään silti artikkelin argumentit jäivät vähän epämääräisen tuntuiseksi ja enemmän haastateltavan paineiden purkamiselta kuin erityisen mietityltä vetoomukselta

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since I've been working on my picking technique as well, what were the biggest flaws in your picking technique now in hindsight? I'd be interested to see if I can identify some of them as well

 

I have wanted to link a community a couple of times, but didn't because it seems unclear how to do it actually well. I've managed to do it once, I think. Another time didn't manage.
Maybe there should be a clear and simple to use button in the format area to add a community link?

 

I have pending subscriptions for several days now, and I can't seem to find any information what has caused this or if this problem is something that is up to me as an user

 

When looking at posts from "all", after a while suddenly the top of the post queue starts loading in new posts. These posts seem to be very old with little activity. Is this a bug or some functionality I'm misunderstanding? This seems to happen both when sorting "hot" and "activity" is selected

 

I initially thought about just making a community for this, but figured that would get completely lost, so I opted to post here.

I have been able to get a bit of a ground under my feet here, but still have many things that just confuse and puzzle me out. Now that there are droves of first impressions made, it feels like some really important and interesting UI / UX data is lost if common problems and weirdness isn't collected. This could be both a good exercise in solving individual quizzes and making a database for possible future UX development to mine through.

Anyways, I made the community !lemmyconfusion[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cool! Interested in learning what kind of approaches you are taking in tackling that massive project

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just saw a bass community made, join us at [email protected] and we'll be a crowd of three!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It does feedback if you hit the wrong note (or it thinks that you hit one), but it doesn't really outright tell you about your timing and will accept some horrendous timing if the note was right. In fact that is one of the major points people seem to mention as its' drawbacks.
Although I would personally say that Rocksmith has been pretty pivotal to my timing (along with recording), since at least for me it multiplied the time I was playing to a rhythm of a background track. The game allows you to loop and slow portions of songs that you like and play the parts on repeat against the original song with a relatively nice and fast interface, way faster than doing it yourself on a DAW. And that little convenience has me playing to rhythm way more than I would otherwise at home by myself, and especially work on hard parts slowed down.
(Can't stop editing this post lol) Oh and possibly worth mentioning, my experience is with the 2014 remastered edition with popular mods installed (RSMods, RS_Asio and CDLC), can't say much about the new version

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've done a bit of those myself reading the book "The advancing guitarist". Recommend that book a lot, it's kind of like guitar improvisational philosophy, the book starts by recommending different limitation exercises to study in a progressive manner.
Haven't really gotten past the first one, that was all the modes, all played with a single string at a time. I should return to that book later once I have time to dig back into improvisation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That was a really good recommendation, I really liked it. At times it felt like I was listening to some unreleased SX demo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That there was some really nice laid back phrasing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I got tired of being sloppy chunking out power chords and generally being really stiff when playing fast rhythm guitar, so a couple of weeks ago I decided to start working on a couple of Iron Maiden songs through Rocksmith, building up the speed and consistency in rhythm guitar.
So far I think I've got some pretty good results already, although most songs aren't really clean at full speed yet. Rocksmith seems to be a really good platform for this kind of practice, since it makes looping sections at slower speeds so easy.
Currently I'm psyched about Rime of the ancient mariner, it's got such a nice combination of medium-speed gallop and single note lines. Be quick or be dead and 2 minutes to midnight main riffs also make me feel awesome

 

I figured to spark some discussion by asking what kind of projects and foci you are currently working on to improve your playing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm even a little suspicious that Twitter style messaging has played a part in "gotcha" politics that seem very popular everywhere, where some populists manage to gather a large following mostly by just using slick one-liners with relatively little substance.
Now sure, these have always existed and will likely exist, but I seem to see more and more of them with ever bigger popularity.

I know it got me a bit, I used to browse subreddits dedicated to twitter owns, but realised that those were reeeally bad for me.

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I really like Symphony X, but haven't really stumbled on other progressive metal bands that I would return to listen to (although to be fair I haven't looked very deep into smaller bands).
I'm interested in hearing bands that you think are either similar to or general recommendations from someone with similar tastes.
To me SX just finds a cool balance of being at the same time over the top but still a bit restrained and melodic (with "good taste")

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