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Trills are (unfortunately) one of those things that only constant repetition will aid.
Your body is not naturally used to the movements required for trills. When you constantly practice them, your brain will eventually pick up on the movements and it will become natural to you. Note, by "constant", I don't mean a two hour crash course session playing ...
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The USB guitar link is for recording your guitar into a computer. Useful, but not relevant to your needs here.
To play something like a CD player through a guitar amp, it is sometimes enough to connect the headphone output of the CD player, to the instrument input of the amp. You will need to turn the headphone volume right down, and turn down the ...
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I'm no expert.
From what I understand, the idea isn't to make your hand stronger. The idea is to play so relaxed that playing a long time feels like a breeze.
So don't work on tempo until you've got the relax thing down.
The relax thing will only get burned into place from slow exact careful practice and (many) good night's sleep(s). Practice is the ...
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Here are some thoughts:
I would absolutely avoid using pillows / towels as a practice set for many obvious reasons.
Since you have an electronic kit, noise should not be an issue - you can either turn the volume way down, or plug in the kit to headphones and hear yourself that way through analog.
You could purchase practice pads to go over your kit drums ...
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Start small and work your way up.
Start with a hammer-on, for example, on the A string between frets 7 and 9, between index and ring fingers. This is probably the easiest place to trill, at least it is for me.
Get that hammer-on good and solid. Try your best to make it faster.
Once you master that hammer-on, immediately do a pull-off, and let the lower ...
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Here is a great exercise I used to give to students as they get started doing hammer-ons and pull-offs, just pick it the first time and make a trill drill out of it.
Starting in the first four frets, where the 1st finger is on the 1st fret, 2nd finger on the 2nd fret, 3rd finger on the 3rd fret, and 4th finger on the 4th fret: Do every possible combination, ...
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I use arpeggios: major 7, minor 7, and dominant 7 in 5 positions (essentially CAGED). Go through the circle of fifths, playing major 7ths in one of the 5 positions; repeat for other positions; repeat for minor 7 and dominant 7. Practice with a metronome, and gradually increase speed (over weeks/months/years).
At the moment, I'm also working on tremolo ...
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I'm someone who is currently learning the piano.
For Grade 8 AMEB, I slacked off quite a bit, I barely practiced in the beginning of the year (learnt songs around March), just the 1 hr a week in lessons, then did at most an hour a day for 4/5 days a week towards crunch time. Examinations were in November. Assuming I had 35 weeks to practice, I would've ...
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If I understand right, you say the pads and kick pedal of the electric kit are making too much acoustic noise. You could try to improve their isolation from the floor (which is probably responsible for transmitting most of the noise to your neighbours).
It is apparently possible to build a simple drum riser out of plywood sheets and buckets: see here for ...
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Practicing on pillows being wrong or bad for many obvious reasons is not correct. You can still practice on pillows and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it if you don't confuse it with the actual drumming. Just Google to see more elaborate pros/cons before you actually start building it. There are tons of pages that discuss this contrary to the other ...
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