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The Inverness session is 2-4pm. See you in August hopefully!!!!
Hi Jamie, just wanted to check that the session is on this weekend - the 17th. Cheers, Alan.
Yes indeedy! My loudest guitar - Dupont Busato - at the ready. I took it last month and glad I did as there were only two guitarists. I tried to reign in my soloing volume, but I find it hard!!! ooops!!
Cheers, see you there/then.
How should i expermient to get popping sound? changing angles? how?
I never truly appreciated an acoustic outdoor space (or any reflections for that matter) until jamming in an open space where, indeed, the sound just blows away into the wind...
Should be a nice rest stroke, then play others and record yourself and see if all your notes are popping. If you listen correctly and compare to others whose sound pops you should be able to tell if your technique is working.
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There is several things you can do that are mentioned in this thread.
I just read this whole thing again, good stuff. I feel like I'm slowly implementing some of the things mentioned here. Seems like I can get a decent volume without trying super hard like in the past. Using the wrist gravity and staying soft and relaxed with both hands.
Actually one thing that helps me relax is to think "soft" instead of "relaxed". But it has to be both hands. If your fretting hand is pressing too hard, your picking hand is likely going to follow as well.
How's your picking coming along, Jamie?
Great advice from Lucky, Scoredog and Buco on how to get notes to "pop" more, which again always comes down to good technique and relaxation.
All I can add is what worked for me, which was to not really care about tone for the first 3-4 years because just becoming even moderately proficient at rest stroke was a much larger and far more important task. After I was able to develop my rest stroke technique to the point of being somewhat capable, that's when refining adjacent issues like tone & projection became productive areas of focus. Because you just really can't achieve consistent tone and projection without first getting a handle on your rest stroke technique, imo.
Also worht adding, and as many pros/great players have mentioned or alluded to, consistent La Pompe tone correlates directly to consistent rest stroke technique as well. I've certainly found that to be true because switching quickly between rhythm and single note playing is somewhat essential to the style and at least for me, that skill took me years to develop.