This album features terrifying speed metal riffs, catchy song structures and riffs. Jeff Martin on vocals, Scott Travis of Judas Priest on drums, and Jean Alderete (Mars Volta) on bass.
#Paul gilbert shred tv
Even those techniques would benefit from greater focus, but doing them in front of the TV was better than nothing.This fast, adrenaline pumped Speed Metal album featuring a very young Paul Gilbert and his prodigy student Bruce Bouillet on guitar. Aside from the aforementioned tremolo, I've actually gotten some improvement on my sweeping technique and some classical right-hand patterns while watching TV - again, just on muted strings, getting the clicks in time. I think that only really basic mechanical things can be practiced without complete focus. One my guitar professors told me the brain can only retain optimal focus under normal circumstances for 40ish minutes at a time, and that seems about right based on my own practice sessions.
If I periodically get up and make myself tea, or do a chore or two, it helps reset my focus and I'm way less likely to end up in a loop where I'm not really thinking about what I'm doing. The other thing I've discovered is that taking breaks makes me more productive as well. It's hard to put down something that isn't 100% and move on, but over the course of a week I end up getting way more done. Dividing my time into predetermined chunks with their own individual goals has made me way more productive. They look pretty but require a lot of constant effort or they die.ĭividing stuff into segments makes learning new stuff so much more efficient! I struggle not to get trapped by one difficult passage for too long - I'm predisposed to want to get something down in one day and can end up with unbalanced practice routines as a result. Paul Gilbert once said that fast picking is like tropical fishes. it's extremely hard to teach and explain, but some people get it right away, usually by accident. The trick is that many, many people never figure out what is the right fast playing technique for them and they get stuck (you can't do it with metronome 5 bpm per day thing - try sprinting very slowly, see what happens ). Playing funk rhythms at moderat/high speed with a drummer or metronome helped a ton to loosen up/get good sense of accents.įrom real live observation, a person with good, minimum tension medium speed basic technique, good ears and rhythm sense, will probably learn high speed playing in about 3-4 years of 1-2 hours a day dedicated, focused practice.
The major thing was playing what felt (no tension) and sounded right. The technique is different when playing at mid/slow speeds.
#Paul gilbert shred how to
I basically figured it out first how to play it fast (mostly by short high speed bursts and going by the feeling of tension), then slowed down to get it in control, then did some metronome practice. Now, I didn't do any of this metronome 5 bmp per day nonsense, or I'd be still playing this lick at 90bpm. I had very good left hand technique and I could tremolo pick forever with zero fatigue and minimum movements (that took me about 4 years or so, I have started "late"), 4 months were spent on string crossing and dynamics. Took me about a month to have very good control of dynamics of it.
(When I was about 19) It took me about 4 months of about 1 hour practice a day to learn Paul Gilbert's famous picking lick to play it totally effortlessly at high speed.
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