Another interesting exercise tonight. Nothing too complicated, just a run of notes in triplets, and yet, it took me a certain tempo to actually play the triplets properly. Somehow, played too slow it’s hard to keep the tempo going and you end up playing notes longer than others. It’s a bit of a far cry from sweep picking but there you go. Mind you, the top speed was challenging in getting my hand coordination to keep up. This is something I really hope this series of exercises will eventually correct. I try to ever remain mindful of any tension in either arm, shoulder, wrist, fingers what have you so with practice I should hopefully relax into a blaze of notes when the time is right.
Meanwhile, I seem to favour certain rhythms to play over. For instance, I can’t quite say why but trying to jam over the Blue Noize backing track again, I just can’t seem to find the right notes to play over it. I can find 9ths but other than that it’s pretty empty. For grins I tried other backing tracks at similar speeds and was able to find a nice groove, so it really is hit and miss, though I don’t despair that one day it won’t matter so much. Incidentally, I’m really starting to enjoy string-skipping experiments I put in my playing, this really adds a nice flavour.
Finally, The Mighty Turtle Head is going to be a challenge, but, I’m hoping to make it easier to practice with my copy of Guitar Pro 6, assuming I can find either the right file to download or the right settings for the right sound. Either way, there’s a lot of work ahead.