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Post by jack1982 on Mar 18, 2015 16:36:29 GMT -6
I think I've spent almost three months on this lol. John says "make sure you play everything accurately"; well I played every thing as accurately as I could  Gets a little messy at the very end but I'd been playing this over and over for about an hour and I think my fingers were getting a bit tired. Used my Mustang II amp for the lead, I'm pretty happy with the way it sounds. Anyhow let me know what you think  |
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Post by wannaplayblues on Mar 18, 2015 17:25:08 GMT -6
Wha... I... but... too fast... <faints>
that was *AWESOME* !!!! I hope I can play like that one day!!!
... think I'll just give up guitar now <starts crying his eyes out>
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Post by blackcountrymick on Mar 18, 2015 18:00:40 GMT -6
Man we keep talking about raisin the bar but you just broke the damn thing!!! AWESOME!!
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Post by Phil on Mar 18, 2015 18:08:57 GMT -6
Man, Jack, I was hoping you'd spend another 3 months on this so I could catch up, and then you go and post this.  Great job on a tough study. Your tremolo picking on those double stops is very smooth, and I know for a fact that those are not easy to play. So, I guess you'll be moving on to "Groovin' Easy" while I'm still stuck on "Big Bends" and "True Trem." Hold on! Stop the presses! There's still a slight chance I could catch up. I just looked at the book and "Eight-Bar Boogie" comes right after "Groovin.'"  |
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Post by bluesbruce on Mar 18, 2015 18:31:28 GMT -6
Sounding VERY cool, Jack. That song sounds really Stevie Ray-like. You keep pushing the bar higher and higher. Nicely done!
Bruce
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Post by joachim on Mar 18, 2015 23:05:47 GMT -6
Wow - Jack, that was amazing! Really well done - lots of inspiration for the rest of us, and I really like that you take your time with these difficult studies; it's tempting to just give up on the hard studies and move on - I am certainly guilty of that myself.
You should go take a lesson with John sometime - I am sure he would love to see students playing his hard studies this well.
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Post by jack1982 on Mar 19, 2015 4:55:57 GMT -6
Thanks so much guys, glad you liked it! That one was a LOT of work lol. I got to the point a couple weeks ago where practicing it had become more like work than fun, but then I started practicing it more - 45 minutes a day instead of 30 - and that seemed to really help. I could see some progress each day. I spent a lot of time each day practicing it at two-thirds tempo and slowly working it up to maybe 80% tempo, to really ingrain that "playing it accurately" into my fingers. Then I'd increase the speed by 3 BPM at a time until hopefully, on a really good day, I'd manage to get a few good takes at full tempo before my fingers got so tired that the whole thing went to crap lol. Phil - Eight Bar Boogie? Um...my book doesn't seem to have that song; maybe it's just in your Spanish version?  Joachim I'd love to take a lesson from John sometime. I don't get up to Minneapolis too often anymore, but maybe someday Here are the backing tracks: Drums: soundcloud.com/jack-c8/tremblin-tremolo-drumsBass: soundcloud.com/jack-c8/tremblin-tremolo-bassExtra little metronome bit to bridge the gap between the count-in and the beginning of the drums: soundcloud.com/jack-c8/tremblin-tremolo-metronome |
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Post by cunningr on Mar 19, 2015 15:42:49 GMT -6
That was awsome, you make it look easy.
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Gets a little messy at the very end but I'd been playing this over and over for about an hour and I think my fingers were getting a bit tired.
