Tips and tricks to keep you practicing.

[MaxMaps]

I am thumbing through my guitar scales this morning and I fucking realized that I am friends with a bunch of amazing musicians.

If you do practice or have small pointers to play for any instrument, post that shit here.

[alexa.]

Victor Wooten - The Music Lesson lol!
But seriously.

Also, Benny Greb's approach to playing is also revolutionary.
For instance:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XI2aHSBTnU[/youtube]

[Achtane]

I go over my friend's house and fucking embarrass myself into being motivated to practice. Seems to work so far.
I can't have a (primarily) guitarist playing bass better than me; it's shameful. Our styles are different but his technique is better and his knowledge of theory is light years ahead of mine.
Although...it's hard to get pumped when you have to play really quietly in his apartment.

[snipelfritz]

Victor Wooten - The Music Lesson lol!
But seriously.

Also, Benny Greb's approach to playing is also revolutionary.
For instance:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XI2aHSBTnU[/youtube]

Nice vid! I knew a drummer who pretty much watched everything Benny Greb ever put out. Unfortunately, he still wasn't all too great of drummer. Greb's stuff is really unique though. His whole alphabet/vocabulary approach to rhythm is pretty insane but makes perfect sense at the same time.

That form improv exercise would be really helpful for me.

And that last bit with just the snare

[phantasmagorovich]

Victor Wooten - The Music Lesson lol!
But seriously.

Also, Benny Greb's approach to playing is also revolutionary.
For instance:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XI2aHSBTnU[/youtube]

Nice vid! I knew a drummer who pretty much watched everything Benny Greb ever put out. Unfortunately, he still wasn't all too great of drummer. Greb's stuff is really unique though. His whole alphabet/vocabulary approach to rhythm is pretty insane but makes perfect sense at the same time.

That form improv exercise would be really helpful for me.

And that last bit with just the snare

Never heard of the dude but the german accent made me cringe. So I looked him up and the only bands I know that he is in (there are lots) are both shite.


But that snare part is ridiculous.

[Ashahalasin]

I go over my friend's house and fucking embarrass myself into being motivated to practice. Seems to work so far.

This or I join a new band that forces me to practise to be better.

Or I get my friends to play a really hard song and demand I play it, so I have to practise so I can play it with some form of competence.

Lacklustre!

[Greenfuz]

just think about all of that fresh outta the oven poontang pie you'll be eating when you can shred up and down the neck at 250 bpm

[Ashahalasin]

just think about all of that fresh outta the oven poontang pie you'll be eating when you can shred up and down the neck at 250 bpm

Really? Must be different where you are, but in Aus, unless you play something with a breakdown or on acoustic guitar, ain't no girls wanting anything to do with you.

[dubkitty]

my major trick, if i have one, is to always have something on tap that i'm trying to learn to play or do. having a song, an idea, or a technique to bother me makes me pick up the instrument and work on it. i'm wired oddly that way...i enjoy learning things much more than i enjoy having mastery of them.

[snipelfritz]

Victor Wooten - The Music Lesson lol!
But seriously.

Also, Benny Greb's approach to playing is also revolutionary.
For instance:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XI2aHSBTnU[/youtube]

Nice vid! I knew a drummer who pretty much watched everything Benny Greb ever put out. Unfortunately, he still wasn't all too great of drummer. Greb's stuff is really unique though. His whole alphabet/vocabulary approach to rhythm is pretty insane but makes perfect sense at the same time.

That form improv exercise would be really helpful for me.

And that last bit with just the snare

Never heard of the dude but the german accent made me cringe. So I looked him up and the only bands I know that he is in (there are lots) are both shite.

I've never heard any of his actual professional material other than instructional shit, which is pretty interesting. Doesn't surprise me that his playing is just technical wankery though.

[Haki]

my major trick, if i have one, is to always have something on tap that i'm trying to learn to play or do. having a song, an idea, or a technique to bother me makes me pick up the instrument and work on it. i'm wired oddly that way...i enjoy learning things much more than i enjoy having mastery of them.

Yeah, I don't mind practicing the same little thing over and over, but once I go 'meh, that's good enough' I'm done. Which is why I'm happy to have a teacher that makes me play up to a certain standard. Oh, and having a huge crush on her helped raise the standard of the 'meh, that's good enough'.

[phantasmagorovich]

Victor Wooten - The Music Lesson lol!
But seriously.

Also, Benny Greb's approach to playing is also revolutionary.
For instance:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XI2aHSBTnU[/youtube]

Nice vid! I knew a drummer who pretty much watched everything Benny Greb ever put out. Unfortunately, he still wasn't all too great of drummer. Greb's stuff is really unique though. His whole alphabet/vocabulary approach to rhythm is pretty insane but makes perfect sense at the same time.

That form improv exercise would be really helpful for me.

And that last bit with just the snare

Never heard of the dude but the german accent made me cringe. So I looked him up and the only bands I know that he is in (there are lots) are both shite.

I've never heard any of his actual professional material other than instructional shit, which is pretty interesting. Doesn't surprise me that his playing is just technical wankery though.

Not exactly technical wankery, much to the contrary, but just shitty music:


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSok34MsJEM[/youtube]

[alexa.]

I don't know about you but I really love this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWQQYZ3uoc[/youtube]

[madmax1012]

Listening to people like Carson mcwhirter always makes me go into "fuck I need to get better" mode.

[DarkAxel]

Always try to find something that's difficult for you

MAKE UP your technical excersices, in a way so they're difficult for you

don't practice what you think you could use, practice what you're interested in and whatever that catches your eye... you can never use it until you know how to do it, sou you'd be taking it by the wrong end