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Ballard:
protip: this is the one time playing Guitar Hero/Rock Band will ever help you play actual guitar
Just use the blue and orange buttons a lot and your pinky strength and accuracy will improve greatly. It's how I learned to play four finger lead guitar instead of just three.
zerobar:
Either that, or i just learned to use my pinky more by running major scales across the fretboard and forcing myself to use my pinky. After a while, it starts to feel normal.
^I have to say that, either because of doing scales the "proper way," or because of playing rock band/guitar hero at a high level, that my switches between "1 to 4" stretches and "1 to 5" stretches became much easier.
Honestly, the best way I found to get better at lead guitar was just to run scales in all different ways. Look up on www.ultimate-guitar.com the Steve Vai "10 hour guitar workout." It's got some great exercises to get your brain thinking the "lead guitarist" way.
valley_parade:
--- Quote from: zerobar on 11 Feb 2009, 12:17 ---I do this as an intermediate process when setting up floyds, so that when the guitar is in tune, the bridge is level. It helps to get the spring tension right.
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See also: standard feature on Eric Clapton Strats.
imapiratearg:
--- Quote from: zerobar on 11 Feb 2009, 23:38 ---Honestly, the best way I found to get better at lead guitar was just to run scales in all different ways. Look up on www.ultimate-guitar.com the Steve Vai "10 hour guitar workout." It's got some great exercises to get your brain thinking the "lead guitarist" way.
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I'm trying to teach myself to do this stuff while also learning how to play and read at the same time. I took a little theory, so I can read music, but it's translating it to the instrument that is difficult. I'm taking classes in guitar, and my professor always stresses the importance of running scales as exercises and I always tell myself I need to do this, but instead I always opt for playing along with songs on my computer. :\
Ballard:
Except fuck Steve Vai and FUCK guitar teachers who stress playing scales til your fingers fall off.
That is a godawful teaching method. The best thing is to inspire yourself to learn new things. Learn a few chords, then learn a song that you love that forces you to practice those chords. Learn a few scales (not how to shred them, just the notes they consist of) and then rock out to someone else's band til you feel comfortable playing a solo. And so on and so forth.
What you're doing is how people burn out.
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