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• Charles Meadows WV✭✭✭ ALD Original, Dupont MD50

  January 2014 Posts: 432

  I found it really cool to see that Stochelo plays his ascending diminished runs as sequential 2 note sweeps using all downstrokes. Made it much easier.

  
• Scoredog Santa Barbara, Ca✭✭✭✭

  January 2014 edited January 2014 Posts: 872

  Charles Meadows wrote: »

  I found it really cool to see that Stochelo plays his ascending diminished runs as sequential 2 note sweeps using all downstrokes. Made it much easier.

  
  could you explain this.
  
  I know all the other ones above but find them useless once I start playing...:)
  
  I can add another useless tip Charles.
  

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• kevingcox Nova Scotia✭✭✭✭ Dupont MD50

  January 2014 Posts: 298

  1. Putting my metronome on the two and the four.
  2. Enclosures.
  3. Not using playalongs, just my metronome and forcing myself to know where I am in the song (work in progress)
  4. Stop looking at grilles and tabs and learning songs by ear
  5. Yummy tritones.
• Lango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator

  January 2014 edited January 2014 Posts: 1,855

  I think Charles meant that Stochelo would play a Gdim arp starting from the sixth string like
  
  
  -------------------2-----5. Etc
  --------1----4-----------------------------------------------
  ----3---------------------------------------------------------
  
  instead of
  
  ----------------------5-----8. Etc
  -----------4-----7---------
  --3----6---------------
  
  I tend to play my dim arps the same way because I originally learned it from Eddie Lang's 1927 record with Bix "Singin' the Blues". I deliberately tried not to make the run sound like Django because I was playing in a 1920s band and didn't want to be inauthentic.
  
  Naturally, I suspect that Stochelo, like me, can also play the arp the "Django" way if he really wants to, but somehow the first way just fell under my fingers a bit easier.

  Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
  
  Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
  
  Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
  
• Charles Meadows WV✭✭✭ ALD Original, Dupont MD50

  January 2014 Posts: 432

  I'm sure Stochelo can do it about any way he wants! I'd love to hear what Denis would say about this. The sweep way feels much smoother to me and seems to lend itself to "swinging" the notes. I'm not sure he does this all the time but I'm pretty sure I've seen him do it this way at least some of the time.
• Lango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator

  January 2014 edited January 2014 Posts: 1,855

  My 'aha' moments are when I'm not consciously thinking about theory and just being 'in the moment'.
  
  This is something that jazzaferri aka jay is fond of talking about--- that magical feeling you get when you are somehow simultaneously inside and outside yourself and just relaxed and listening to the music almost as if someone else was playing it.
  
  I can hit this level fairly often now when I play with backing tracks, but it's still a real challenge for me to do it when playing unaccompanied or with a metronome...

  Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
  
  Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
  
  Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
  
• Stringswinger Santa Cruz and San Francisco, CA✭✭✭✭ 1993 Dupont MD-20, Shelley Park Encore

  January 2014 Posts: 465

  getting the upstroke incorporated into my pompe

  "When the chord changes, you should change" Joe Pass
• adrian AmsterdamVirtuoso

  January 2014 Posts: 545

  For me, a big aha moment was realizing that you can play horizontally on the guitar neck instead of vertically. I came from the blues/rock world, where basically everything was in the pentatonic "box."

  

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• AApollo02 ✭

  January 2014 Posts: 8

  For me learning the Circle of 4th's has helped me a great deal with memorizing notes on the fingerboard and the roots of my arpeggios. I struggled for a good while learning note positions and realizing that the guitar is tuned in 4th's (with the exception of the gap between G and B which is then one fret up) has helped me tremendously.

  
• Jazzaferri Victoria B.C.Moderator Dunn Ultrafox, DuPont MDC20 Gretsch Chet Atkins CG

  January 2014 Posts: 3,707

  when I realized notes were less important than the spaces between them

  

  The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed