ghost_of_karelia
Utrydd dei Svake
OK, so I've been hammering out tunes on a 6-string for about 16-odd months now. I've never had a lesson in my life, and I've learned pretty much all I know from learning and playing songs by my favourite bands, most notably Mastodon and In Flames. Here's the thing: right now I'm pretty much worn into a rut with my playing, and I don't know where to go. ![wallbash :wallbash: :wallbash:](http://www.sevenstring.org/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wallbash.gif)
My picking hand muting is quite sloppy (I only found out about it roughly a month ago), I miss notes ALL THE TIME, I have real trouble playing standing up, and my guitar itself is a bit of a mess - slightly-off intonation, weirdly high action further up the fretboard, whiny pickups, all sorts. I'm saving up for a new guitar, but this'll do in the meantime. Anyway, getting to the point of this paragraph, there's actually a lot for me to technically be shaping up on.
The point is that I've pretty much exhausted the learning and playing of songs. It's boring. I don't run any technical exercises whatsoever, and thus I rely on the constant repeating of the songs I've learned to get better. This is getting very monotonous, even when I learn new songs in genres I don't usually play.
(also, I can't write for shit, and want to, thus I need to get a lot better at recognising all the scales and modes and whatnot - and perhaps more importantly, where the fuck all the christ-damned notes are on the fretboard!)
Here are my questions for you lovely forum-folk, then:
- What exercises would you suggest I run as a practice routine?
- How often?
- Any help with building knowledge of where notes lie on the fretboard?
Also, linked to the "recognising frets" thing - I play in either D standard (DGCFAD) or C standard (CFA#D#GC), and thus I don't know when I'm meant to read notes as they would be in standard EADGBE, and when I'm meant to read them as where they actually are on my oddly-tuned guitar.
Thanks in advance for putting up with my clumsy writing, and for any help you can offer!
Peace!![Shred :shred: :shred:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/shredder.gif)
![wallbash :wallbash: :wallbash:](http://www.sevenstring.org/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wallbash.gif)
My picking hand muting is quite sloppy (I only found out about it roughly a month ago), I miss notes ALL THE TIME, I have real trouble playing standing up, and my guitar itself is a bit of a mess - slightly-off intonation, weirdly high action further up the fretboard, whiny pickups, all sorts. I'm saving up for a new guitar, but this'll do in the meantime. Anyway, getting to the point of this paragraph, there's actually a lot for me to technically be shaping up on.
The point is that I've pretty much exhausted the learning and playing of songs. It's boring. I don't run any technical exercises whatsoever, and thus I rely on the constant repeating of the songs I've learned to get better. This is getting very monotonous, even when I learn new songs in genres I don't usually play.
(also, I can't write for shit, and want to, thus I need to get a lot better at recognising all the scales and modes and whatnot - and perhaps more importantly, where the fuck all the christ-damned notes are on the fretboard!)
Here are my questions for you lovely forum-folk, then:
- What exercises would you suggest I run as a practice routine?
- How often?
- Any help with building knowledge of where notes lie on the fretboard?
Also, linked to the "recognising frets" thing - I play in either D standard (DGCFAD) or C standard (CFA#D#GC), and thus I don't know when I'm meant to read notes as they would be in standard EADGBE, and when I'm meant to read them as where they actually are on my oddly-tuned guitar.
Thanks in advance for putting up with my clumsy writing, and for any help you can offer!
Peace!
![Shred :shred: :shred:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/shredder.gif)