Chops Challenge -- Intervallic Line

[TwilightOdyssey]

Hi all,

Looking for a fun challenge? Try playing this intervallic line with all picking (no hammer ons or pull offs). When you get it down, try playing it up and down the neck chromatically.

Have fun!

[Davey]

o.O






*goes back to practice*

[TwilightOdyssey]

Another popular thread by yours truly. ;) PDT_008

[_tom_]

haha I've been practising it even if no one else is, I'm allready getting better at it even though I only started it yesterday, good warm up kinda thing and its getting my string skipping a bit better  :D

Heres another short thing I made up the other day whilst bored, the string skips arent quite so difficult and the whole thing is much simpler but its fun anyway :) Can do it all over the neck if you really want to.

[steve]

Hi all,

Looking for a fun challenge? Try playing this intervallic line with all picking (no hammer ons or pull offs). When you get it down, try playing it up and down the neck chromatically.

Have fun!

Ha! Thats how i play when i bust a middle string on my floyd rose strat. Panic playing.

[chrisola]

looks like a riff from my old guitar teachers tech metal band!

[Johnny Mac]

13/8  :? ...ouch!

[Davey]

Code: [Select]


e--------------------------------------------------------------------||
B--------------------------------------------------------------------||
G--------------------------------------------------------11--12--14--||
D---------------------------------9--10--12--10--12--14--------------||
A------------7--9--10--9--10--12-------------------------------------||
E--7--8--10----------------------------------------------------------||




e--------------------------------------15--17--19--||
B--------------13--15--17--15--17--19--------------||
G--12--14--16--------------------------------------||
D--------------------------------------------------||
A--------------------------------------------------||
E--------------------------------------------------||


ugh green on gray... who's idea whas that?



anyway.
1st, sorry cos i dont have any specific proggy for transcribing music, so this'll have to do.

i'm semi stuck on this one, trying to play it in an even tempo without mistakes (doh)
all alternate picking, catch is, i'm trying to play it dynamicaly. in groups of 3 notes, first three light picking and semi muted, the second 3 heavy picking with no muting. sounds easier than it is. i found out after watching gilberts intense rock that i got no dynamic control to speak of. so i am realy starting from a negative standing point cos i have to unlearn my sloppy technique and start properly, but i go through the videos once a day now and then spend some more time on certain passages like this.


have fun

[Sekhmet]

Both cool exercises, got the first at 160 sp far, tricky part was figuring out what finger pattern to use, just out of curiosity, who here would play that using rolls, and who would play that using different fingers, cause i play it using rolls, but i know my old tutor would have played that with all different fingers as he disagreed with rolling.

Had the second one at 160 too, i did alot of work on my dianamics when i changed the way i held the pick cause i couldn't pinch, i just remember reading one of the Paul Gilbert school of shread colums about accenting different beats to build up pick control, and did that with every exercise, really helps.

I've got 2 rather crazy exercises :-P

1) Rather crazy string skipping exercise.

E---------7----5-------------8----6
B-----5-----------7------6------------8
G-7-------------------8-------------------7
D---6-------------------5-------------------6  
A-------8-----------6------7------------5
E-----------6----8-------------5----7

The last 7 and 6 is the begining of the bar again, its a finger per fret.

2) Rolling madness :-P

E-------------------------------------13-12
B-----------------------------14--13-------12--13
G---------------------15--14-----------------------13-14
D--------------14-15--------------------------------------14-15
A--------13-14---------------------------------------------------15-14
E-12-13-----------------------------------------------------------------13-12

E---------------------15-12---------------------------------------14----15
B---------------14-------------13--------------------------13
G---------13------15-------12------14--------------12
D---12------14-------------------13------15------------------14----15
A------13-------------------------------14--------------13
E-12------------------------------------------15-12
 
E-12----------------------------------13----------15-12 ----------14
B-------13--------------------12-----------14--------------13------------15
G-------------14---15
D----12
A----------13---------------------13-----------15 ------12 ----------14
E----------------14----15-12------------14--------------------13------------15
 
E----12-13-------14-15----12--------13-14-------15
B-
G-
D-
A-
E-12-------13-14-------15-----12-13-------14-15----0~~~~~~~~~

Thats all one exercise, the last bars a little silly but rather fun, again its one finger per fret, and this ones all rolling, you could try it alternating fingers aswell if you wanted.

Sorry they're not written up quite as professionally as twilights, _toms_ or daveys.

Anyways Enjoy.

[Muso]

ok so fairly fancy but what does it sound like? imo all "exercies" have to sound musical otherwise theyre boring to play.

[Davey]

bit of info



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those string skipping exercises are pure evil though

[Sekhmet]

ok so fairly fancy but what does it sound like? imo all "exercies" have to sound musical otherwise theyre boring to play.

Like computer game music ;-)

It was more of just a "see what crazy exercise i can make and then try and play it" rather than worrying about melody this time.

And Cheers Davey i'l try and remember that.

[Davey]

ok so fairly fancy but what does it sound like? imo all "exercies" have to sound musical otherwise theyre boring to play.

dude... every exercise i've encountered so far, that is supposed to be played along a metronome, sounds boring as hell. you sound like a robot.


afterwards, when you apply what you learned to some music, not neccessarily repeat the whole exercise, just some passages from it, maybe some descending variation of it, THEN and only then it starts to sound like music.

the point of the exercise is to get speed, precision, to memorise the patterns and to get comfortable playing it. without this, you can have as much soul, feeling, mojo or whatever as you want, but if you'll play sloppy and start missing notes, then all that super feel is for naught.