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Topic: speed picking - rehab |
Garry S.Pugh
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Posted 6 Jan 2006 12:50 pm |
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I had surgery in November to repair (2) herinated discs in my neck. For the past 2 years I have really had a lot of difficulty playing. It got so bad, I really thought I was going to have to give it up. However, I had a great Neurosurgeon who did an incredible job.
I am working with a band again and things are coming back slowly but surely. My question is "how do you approach your speedwork"? I have been working with a lot of rhythmn tapes that I have made, some slow, some fast. As well as all my Jeff Newman tracks.
I make sure I can get a lick clean and then just keep playing it faster and faster.
I still have a ways to go. I'm just thankful to be free of the pain and back in the game.
I would appreciate hearing from any of you with a similar experience.
Thanks
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Micky Byrne
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United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 6 Jan 2006 2:39 pm
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Hi Garry, slow and steady is the only way to go. I had a heart transplant on March 9th 1999. It took ages to be able to sit comfortably at my steel until my breast bone healed up.You will get there eventually. So glad you are playing again. I was too when I recovered and got back in a travelling band.
Micky Byrne, England http://mickybyrne.50webs.com/index.html |
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Michael Dene
From:
Gippsland,Victoria, Australia
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Posted 6 Jan 2006 7:02 pm
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Garry,
if you've got Band In A Box (or another backup program), you can make the same back up track in a dozen different versions from deathly slow to stupidly fast. eg. 80 beats per minute, 85bpm, 90bpm, 95 ....etc all the way up to impossible to play bpm.
I put them on a cd in order of speed and sit myself down and play with it from go to whoa!
The secret is to start painfully slow each time (technique reinforcement) and build gradually with each track until you make a mistake.
Immediately go back to the start and repeat until you blow it again!!
One band I occasionally play with does a version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown which is really just a race between the b@njo and guitar usually ending in mass hysterics and is good for general humor, if not hi-brow musical content.
Two weeks of about 1/2 an hour a night produced a blistering (by my standards) rendition that has given me a couple of 2nd places!! Our guitar player is very fast and stubborn.
The principle holds good for any technical problem you are trying to wrap you're hands around....
start boringly slow, and in small increments increase the speed to absurdly fast and repeat ad nauseum.
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Michael
Emmons LeGrande II D10
Fender Artist S10
Peavey Session 500
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