Post by jack1982 on Aug 4, 2019 11:48:41 GMT -6
I had a decent week hours-wise, practiced most every day. Don't seem to be making much progress though lol. Still working on "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac. As I mentioned before, the verse is easy enough but the chorus, at least with the Songster tab I'm using, is fairly complex and not terribly easy to get up to speed on a 12 string. I watched a Marty Schwartz video and he played the chorus in a way that was as simple as the verse, but I really like all the beautiful stuff going on in the Songster tab. What's been slowing me down lately is that, well here's some tab of the verse:
My playing of that just didn't seem to "fit" with Stevie's singing until I realized that (I think) you really emphasize that 4th note, the last of the first quadruplet, and then de-emphasize the next note, the first of the second quadruplet (then do the same with the next pair of quadruplets), which creates a a very subtle rhythmic shift, a sort of "ebb-and-flow" throughout the song. That's easy enough with a simple Travis picking pattern like that, but when you get to the chorus where you need to maintain that ebb-and-flow but you can't really use Travis picking because you've got a couple notes in a row on the same string etc., well that keeps me well below full tempo
Ah anyway, I suppose the best way to proceed would be to practice more
I should probably analyze the tab more thoroughly (go back to 50% tempo) and see if I can somehow incorporate Travis picking even through the more complex portions, maybe by replacing some stuff with hammer-ons or pulloffs, or just replacing a note or two with different ones. Apparently there's not going to be a "challenge" this month at that other site, so I guess I can concentrate fully on this.
I'm sure watching Phil's video this week will get me all fired up to work harder
My playing of that just didn't seem to "fit" with Stevie's singing until I realized that (I think) you really emphasize that 4th note, the last of the first quadruplet, and then de-emphasize the next note, the first of the second quadruplet (then do the same with the next pair of quadruplets), which creates a a very subtle rhythmic shift, a sort of "ebb-and-flow" throughout the song. That's easy enough with a simple Travis picking pattern like that, but when you get to the chorus where you need to maintain that ebb-and-flow but you can't really use Travis picking because you've got a couple notes in a row on the same string etc., well that keeps me well below full tempo
Ah anyway, I suppose the best way to proceed would be to practice more
I should probably analyze the tab more thoroughly (go back to 50% tempo) and see if I can somehow incorporate Travis picking even through the more complex portions, maybe by replacing some stuff with hammer-ons or pulloffs, or just replacing a note or two with different ones. Apparently there's not going to be a "challenge" this month at that other site, so I guess I can concentrate fully on this.I'm sure watching Phil's video this week will get me all fired up to work harder
