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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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This warm up exercise helps stretch your fretting hand. I found a picture that explains http://www.fretjam.com/image-files/hand-stretch3.jpg Push as far as you can and use all three crooks of fingers.
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I saw some really good answers and I agree with some of them.
My favorite warm up practice helps strengthen all my fret hand fingers, as well as providing coordination with pick hand and fret hand.
Starting on the
low E string 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
then the A 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
then the D 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
continue through all six strings and back up again.
Next ...
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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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Go back to the fundaments - practice your hammer-on and pull-offs. Get it solid. Make them sing! Ensure that the attack volume of these notes is equal to normal attack volume you usually do. Only the nuance of the ASDR should change, not the actual volume of the produced notes. This ensures you've got the right technique to really nail down (pun ...
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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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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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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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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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To play arpeggios like this without all the figuring out you need to practise the common arpeggios by reading them off the page. What you are trying to get is an instant eye to hand recognition of common patterns. You can't achieve this by practising arpeggios from memory.
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I would think that playing uses muscles even if they are relaxed. So my comparison here would be with someone training to run a marathon. You need to train for the long practice sessions.
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Different answer. I used to use a Tascam,and the chain was gtr - Tascam - amp., which is probably the path you mean. Yes, it'll work.The CD player in the Tascam will obviously let you play CDs,and you can plug the output from mp3 etc. into 'line in' on the Tascam. Be aware that the balance between inputs may be possible but you'll need to change the gain ...
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Your simplest option would be to replace the amp with one that has an aux in.That way, the impedences for gtr. and mp3 or whatever are better balanced, and individually controllable for volume, tone etc.Provided you eq. your own amp, the sound will not be as awful as suggested - guitar amps WILL produce clean sounds when the gain is not excessive.Or, find ...
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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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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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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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It is important to remember that in learning any instrument some skills have to be reinforced on a regular basis, as without constant repetition they deteriorate. These need to be done during most practise sessions alongside learning new repertoire.
Scales and arpeggios are important for key recognition and finger patterns, they need to be practised for ...
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