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DarkAxel wrote: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

Exactly, do crazy shit like covering Dub Trio or sth.
Took me 2hours to do one minute *shy*
But now I feel like a champ, LVLUP!
(I still suck tho )

I switch my pedalboard around a lot to try and find new sounds. Also like taking just a few pedals and seeing what I can do with them.

madmax1012 wrote:Listening to people like Carson mcwhirter always makes me go into "fuck I need to get better" mode.

Ding ding ding. He's a big influence on me and as I watched the terror eyes video for Watchers today trying to be aware of his patterns/progressions. I wanna do that again and try to consciously learn from it.

I also really liked that form improv idea. Gonna have to try that one, too.
I wish I had a drum set/place to play.

Yeah, listening to good people and watching their videos on youtube also keeps me motivated

Take up studying a type of music you normally don't play even for a little while.

whenever I want to improve upon technique and that sort of thing, I play without plugging in at all. Usually results in me picking up the Mosrite, bending the bridge as I finger pick. Also, trying to emulate non-guitar/bass music with guitars and bass helps me come up with a few neat things.

DarkAxel wrote:Yeah, listening to good people and watching their videos on youtube also keeps me motivated

Yup. I've lately taken to finding a riff I dig, figuring it out, then taking that same idea and tweaking it and looping over it. Having both of my basses and my pedalboard less than 5 feet away from me at my desk helps a lot with that regard.

Mudfuzz wrote:Take up studying a type of music you normally don't play even for a little while.

this. breaks your comfort zone

blooghost wrote: Also, trying to emulate non-guitar/bass music with guitars and bass helps me come up with a few neat things.

yes. especially when effects get involved, there's lots of ideas to be found here. ring modulators and octavers can get you into sitar territory; the right fuzz into a volume pedal and deep reverb is a horn section, add some envelope filter and they're muted; your chorus pedal can be a poor man's Leslie with a knob twiddle or two. when you've got a moderately complex pedalboard, you've really got a hella primitive modular synth. if you approach it thus, all kinds of timbral mischief is possible.

nieh wrote:I switch my pedalboard around a lot to try and find new sounds. Also like taking just a few pedals and seeing what I can do with them.

THIS. It keeps me playing. Also, rad new avatar.

Mudfuzz wrote:Take up studying a type of music you normally don't play even for a little while.

yeah this is a great one!
also, trying to cover something on an instrument you don't normally play works wonders too.

or playing something on a different instrument than it was written/intended for. trying to play keyboard music, which often has huge leaps between pitches, will keep your guitar fingers busy.