Hello to everyone

NickH

Just had a listen to your youtube videos. You sound great Lee. Definately ready to jam i'd say!

Keep an eye out on ebay for used Ciganos. I bought mine off ebay last week, just the basic model but i'm really pleased with it.

Nick

LeeWinter

Buco wrote:

Here's a few things that I put on my "what to practice" list, I came up with it from some threads around here:
-compose your own etude for a song with a mix of arpeggios and phrases
-when practicing soloing over a tune set your tempo to half of your performance speed goal, follow the chord changes in your head, play only one or two notes per bar or whatever you're comfortable with in order to keep your mind stay on chord changes
-come up with a lick and play it in 4 different common keys
-take the lick above and adopt it to every chord change of the song you're practicing
-play the same lick in 4 different positions on the neck

There's many, many more great advices in those threads and many others, this is just something I've been trying to focus on lately.

Buco

Hi Buco i give the lick idea on each cord a go last night starting easy on Minor Swing definitely think it will give me a better and more solid control of the lead I'm playing coz right now unless I'm playing simple arpeggios i feel as though its a ordeal to get through some of the tunes so its lacking feel and enjoyment, i relay need to take a step back and get some solid structure in my playing i think simple licks mixed with arpeggios and then id love to chuck in some cord runs, reading through the posts on here iv tried to run before i can walk.
my new motto simple but solid (i have a new motto every week) I'm going to learn All of me and see how i go. thanks for your help.

LeeWinter

NickH wrote:

Just had a listen to your youtube videos. You sound great Lee. Definately ready to jam i'd say!

Keep an eye out on ebay for used Ciganos. I bought mine off ebay last week, just the basic model but i'm really pleased with it.

Nick

Thanks Nick i will do for sure some nice looking guitars out there, I'm going to have a play on some
see how they feel iv never held one i cant wait!

Buco

Checked out your youtube vids too.
You actually sound good, I like what you play.
To me your biggest improvement would be in the picking technique, if you switched to the rest stroke and got that sound down you'd sound fantastic.
Still well done!

Buco

LeeWinter

Buco wrote:

Checked out your youtube vids too.
You actually sound good, I like what you play.
To me your biggest improvement would be in the picking technique, if you switched to the rest stroke and got that sound down you'd sound fantastic.
Still well done!

Buco

My picking could be a nerve thing although my guitar is quiet and the strings are damp when i record
my brain switches to don't make mistakes mode and i don't throw everything into it ,
i recorded this today dose it look ok right hand wise?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uAXdY9mYdM

Buco

LeeWinter wrote:

My picking could be a nerve thing although my guitar is quiet and the strings are damp when i record
my brain switches to don't make mistakes mode and i don't throw everything into it ,
i recorded this today dose it look ok right hand wise?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uAXdY9mYdM[/quote]

You don't see your hand completely in the video, only fingers holding the pick.
The way you grip the pick looks good, though I don't subscribe to many rules that it has to be done a certain way as long you as you nail the tone. Tone wise your picking is on the quieter side. And it looks that you use a very tip of the pick, try picking with a little more body of the pick
You'll hear a lot about the rest stroke in GJ playing. To me Angelo Debarre is a school perfect example of it.
For example look in this video

from about 0:05 to 0:20 that's a perfect example of a rest stroke.
You'll find a lot of info about this subject if you search for it and some of it from the true experts.
All of us who are studying this style are really lucky that some of the best in the field are active in the forums and happy to give advice.
But in very simple terms it's plowing through the string with a pick. Not just picking it but going all the way through.
The analogy I thought of once is like when a martial artist goes through a block with the hand their focus isn't the surface of block, the focus of the energy is behind it, some point past the surface.
Same with pick and strings, pick as a hand and string as a block, pick aims to not only pick a string but focus on going all the through behind the string you're picking.

Nice playing however, you keep it pretty interesting for several choruses and that's very hard.

Buco

LeeWinter

thanks fellas iv taken everything in plus a lot from the threads, I'm going to emphasize on my rest stroke more whilst practicing letting the pick drop properly its good to have pointers to work on i have no GJ contacts at all so much appreciated.

hopefully see you Lancaster next month Stuart.

swingnation

There any players/bands/jams in Leeds anyone know of. I will be there travelling there for work for a few days next week.

J

NickH

If you get a chance to see the Hot club of Cowtown take it. One of the best acoustic bands I've seen. Incredible stuff!

swingnation

Thanks for the info. I'll check out the local seen for sure. I know the guys from cowtown- I'm from Texas and live in NY so seen them a few times.

Cheers,
J