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    How did you get better?

    We'll you need to find a guy named scratch down at the crossroads at midnight. All kidding aside. Getting better is kind of subjective. Depends on the time you have to devote to certain areas. The more spread out your practice is the longer it will take you to reach each of the goals. But by...
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    Playing the scales in a different fashion

    Patterns are a means to an end is all I am saying but what does it matter if you know that a patern has these certain intervals in it A piano has patterns Rhythms are patterns Speech is a patern A shape is easier to get into people's heads And if it sounds good it is good weather they...
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    Playing the scales in a different fashion

    If you can remember the three notes per string stuff and know the seven patterns you can do a lot but the thing after all my years of learning is that the guitar ca. Be split into two string segments or patterns so you are playing a six note sequence on two strings If you remember the guitar...
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    Understanding tapping from a theory perspective

    There are different approaches to tapping There is a scalar approach meaning you play scales using both hands by using hammer ons taps and pull offs. Etc Their is a arpeggio approach meaning you tap pout arpeggio shapes like major minor diminished augmented etc Their is also a chord...
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    A quick sweeping question

    I think it would be better to do Down hammer, down, down hammer, down, down hammer up, up, up pull off, up, up pull off There should be enough time on the high e to do an up pick descending My three cents It'll be a tendency to rush the single down picks but with practice you can...
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    Tips on Sweep Picking

    The pull off at the top is a good way to turn the lick around since you want to come back down again so it gives you time to pick the upstroke on the higher string and gives you a note to loop the phrase easier if you are doings threes if you are doing fours it would be good to hammer on the...
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    Losing pick control while strumming

    I like the sound of strumming jangly chords so I stopped using jazz IIIs because of this I like using a thinner pick around .72 mm to do this and can choke up on the pick if I want less flex to pick individual strings
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    How to refer to notes in a chord?

    Generally speaking if you have a third in the chord already and are playing the note over an octave higher it'll be a ninth or eleven respectively Usually the 4th or 2nd replaces the third so as to suspend the note either a sus4 or a sus 2 But if you do not have a third in the chord such as c5...
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    Need some clarity on the theory of Chord Progressions

    We'll you asking questions is a good start A good jazz theory and practice would do you some good One by Richard lawn is a good one The I IV V is the daddy of the progressions But ii V I is a big jazz one along with other variants I vi ii V I It's basically how each note moves to the other...
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    Cracking the Code S01E01 streams 'today'

    Thanks this is awesome I have waited for this guy to return
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    Major Scale Positions

    Really the five positions can relate better to notes added onto the 5 pentatonic shapes Meaning if you play your pentatonic shapes well you add notes around them to encompass the major scale
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    Right Hand pull-offs

    It is more natural to close your hand rather than opening it that's why when you pull off with your left hand you pull down towards the treble strings hence when you use your right hand over the top the best way is to pull up towards the bass strings also you have more strength pulling your...
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    Becoming an advanced player

    I did some theory type videos on you tube. Take a gander. I am trying to explain them in a straightforward way. and its in video form so you can watch whenever. Judd Oakes - YouTube subscribe and you'll be the first to see new vids. Just thought I'd throw it out there. Thanks
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    Becoming an advanced player

    I just want to say that sometimes it's easier to work on the modes away from the guitar. What I mean by that is just going over the harmonized chord scales for the different modes by saying them out loud to yourself as your driving or whatever or saying the scale or mode formula. Or even what...
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    Carvin 727 pickups for WTB or WTT

    PM'd
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    Which direction to bend when doing bends?

    Its basically physics. Your fingers are stronger at pulling in rather than the other way around pushing out. Same theory goes for tapping. Its easier to do a pull off towards the bass strings with the tapping hand than pushing out. If you want to get strong stick your hand in a sand box and...
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    New car purchases starting in June will have mandatory black box

    They will outlaw used vehicles soon I guess, and make you buy a new one.
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    Buying my first 7, need advice.

    I got my lefty carvin 747 about a year+ ago and it is awesome. I think its is on of the better guitar makers out their if you like medium size necks. The sustain is to die for on the neck through. Be warned however I recently change out my PUPs from stock to Dimarzios and wound up having to cut...
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    Picking up the guitar again after 12 years, question about dexterity.

    I am a total Lefty, Have been playing left handed since the start. Guitars were hard to find at first, but know they are a lot of good companies that are making lefties. When I first started it was natural for me to play left. I would take my freinds righty and flip it from day one. Steve...
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    Cab wiring question.. Is this possible?

    It could be done but you would have to bring out the speaker leads to some more 1/4 inch jacks that you have to make space for on the backside and use it like a patch panel. Than you could insert small leads to configure however you like.


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