Guitar Progress #18 | Now, I'm going from underground (140BPM) | Bocchi The Rock!
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The solo sounds really cool in this song...
I'll be honest, I haven't really played all that much guitar in the past few weeks, simply because I wasn't all that motivated. The first time I heard the two new Bocchi songs I honestly didn't really feel like they were really good, especially compared to the other BTR songs, but the more I heard them the more I started to like them, and so here we are now xD
I really like this song's verse, and of course the tapping is also pretty cool. At first I felt kinda scared by it but it was actually easier than I had thought, though still pretty difficult especially that transition to the higher tapping notes, that's really hard. I'll try to learn the full song, but for now I thought I could share an update with you guys on my progress and I'll try to do the same for the rest of the song.
As always, thank you for watching! There is still lots of room for improvement, so if you have any tips or tricks / questions please leave them in the comments down below!
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Thanks for watching :) If you have any tips or questions feel free to comment them here!
Well played! That tapping looks amazing lol
Thank you! :)
I'm sincerely impressed-fantastic job!
Thank you lots! :)
Sick to see this my guy! I honestly have been feeling the same way about the recent BTR songs. The vocal melodies drag a bit, and sometimes they are not too interesting. I forgot the name of it, though there was a recent song that included Ano Band's lead, which was really boring to me. The vocal melody for the chorus dragged and it just felt like they were trying to add more when the interest was gone. The guitar bits were also the same thing as the other songs, and yea I guess it is the style of Kessoku Band, though it just got a little repetitive and simple to me. Nothing wrong with that, though just not enough novelty to keep me going.
You should check out some Zutomayo songs! The guitar parts are sick in those songs and if you want to embark on a new tone chasing journey, they surely have got it going on. They can achieve some sick funk tones using marshalls or boosted clean amps, so that is pretty cool since it just adds some variety to your repertoire. In general, maybe you are just in a guitar slump! You have been working pretty hard these past few months, so maybe you need to branch out a find some new things to learn or take a small break and focus on something else. Nothing wrong with taking breaks, even if they last a little longer than you'd like. The burst of motivation and drive certainly does come and go, and even if you are not playing, you are surely finding different ways to unconsciously fuel your music side by letting everything process.
For hard tapping parts, I like to try and chunk the different sections based on when the notes change. You could try practicing the pattern in 3s 4s 5s or whatever you find works best, and then hammer that out to a metronome until you can commit it to muscle memory. I have found that tapping bits are just patterns, so the hard part is moving when you are supposed to. As for getting into position fast enough, practicing moving in or out of the tapping bits to a metronome helps just to commit it to memory. You are basically trying to unconsciously move your hands to where they need to be as soon as possible.
Overall, great work here, and things sound fluent!
I think you summarized it really well lol. The new songs still have that cool kessoku band sound to them, but they don't really bring anything crazy new to the table and it's just fairly similair to the other songs. After playing Bocchi for more than a year straight it indeed doesn't really spark any novel feeling anymore xD
WHY HAVEN"T I THOUGHT OF ZUTOMAYO! A lot of their songs are really cool with funky guitar stuff, I really don't know why I never thought of learning it. I'll try it soon! Luckily I also have quite some other hobbies on the sidelines like learning Japanese and I also want to learn how to draw so maybe I can find some more time for that as well, because as you said I might just be in a bit of a slump lol.
I'll definitely also try out that tapping strategy, seems pretty similar to learning chord transitions! I think indeed knowing when to transition is a thing of its own xD
Thank you as always! :)
@@scrambled3217 Glad to have helped! I have been on the Zutomayo grind as of late which has helped boost my wrist stamina + tone capabilities. I am getting more familiar with how to dial in tones on a mid-gain amp for funk style playing which has been really fun. Hearing those clanky ghost notes do be kinda fun.
It is good you have other hobbies you've been dabbling into. I tried to teach myself Japanese a while back, and while it did not go too well (it is pretty hard to learn) it did help me with becoming familiar with what it takes to learn a new language. I am trying to teach myself German, which has been interesting to say the least lol. Really, just taking your mind off guitar might be good, as long as you are finding ways to fill that time with things that improve yourself!
@@kintokigintoki9923 Yeah those ghost notes sound so good! I think a lot of these skills we can learn can help get us into different hobbies, which is really cool :D German sounds pretty sick too lol, we'll just keep on improving 👍
DUDE your guitar progress is absolutely amazing. I’d also like to get very good at the guitar, Id like to know EVERYTHING you did to make this much progress in that time span. I’m talking exercises, songs, the whole thing. ALSO, when you’re picking is it a completely downward picking angle? Is string hopping allowed? Thank you in advance!
Thank you so much! I'll do my best to give you a breakdown of my process
Sooooo I actually didn't really do a lot of exercises . The absolute majority of the time all I did when I was playing was just play the songs I liked, over and over and over and that, along with the people in my comments, basically taught me the basics of guitar and it got me used to the instrument. Exercises would probably be more efficient and effective at drilling techniques, but I think that your subconsious picks up a lot more than you think when you're just simply playing, though of course it shouldn't be a full blown noodle session; the song you're playing has to contain something that you still find difficult or tricky. In the beginning stages it is not so hard to find because simply every song will be hard, but when you feel like you've gotten the feel of the instrument a bit more down (e.g you don't struggle with simply playing notes) I think it would be good if you search some songs that contains some difficult material for you. (You can still learn easier songs of course, you're still playing the guitar after all, not just practicing :) )
I recently learned some Maneskin songs which are pretty easy I feel like, at least a lot less mechanically demanding than Bocchi The Rock songs. It's a bit of a different genre, but if you want to you can check them out. BTR songs are pretty damn difficult so you can get really far with just them (as I did lol). The most important factor when it comes to choosing songs though is that you have to like it, don't learn a song purely because you want to practice it, you probably won't get all that far. So in my opinion the best songs to learn are ones that you really like that also contain some sort of challenge so you can grow your skills more.
There are simply too many small technique tips and tricks to list them, and the strategy I used was to just search up a problem when I had it on RUclips or on google. For example, when I just started I had no idea how to properly pull off, and so whenever I did it it would sound very quiet since I literally just put my finger off of the fretboard without "pulling" the strings every time which I found pretty weird, and so I searched it up on YT, watched the tutorial and now I know I have to pull the string whenever I pull-off. Things like this might seem pretty small but when they add up it makes up your whole technique. If I'd had to list a single thing tho then the one trick that helped me the most out of any was to keep your body and your hands RELAXED. If you don't already do this, just try to focus on your body and where you feel tension the next time you play and try to relax those area's. It's the closest you can get to an instant level-up trick.
All in all, the most important thing is ironically to not try and rush things. You're playing guitar, not just practicing it, so please make sure to enjoy as much of the journey as you can and learn things bit by bit, and before you know it you'll be a master! I still have tons to learn as well xD
Also, don't be afraid to take some breaks from it when you need to, just come back eventually and keep on playing!
So I'm not too sure if I understand what you mean with a downward picking angle, there is a thing that I discovered a while back that's called pick slanting, and it made my life a lot easier when I found out about it lol. Here's the vid I watched about it ruclips.net/video/J8Xfcm8PYM0/видео.html
If this is what you meant, then yeah most of the time my picking is slanted downwards, but I'm not too sure if that's the way it's supposed to be.
And I actually didn't know about stringhopping up till now :0 It seems to me that the pickslanting I mentioned before fixes the issues with it, but as I said I didn't know anything about this so I'm not too confident to say anything about it.
But yeah anyways, good luck with your journey! If there's anything else feel free to ask me :)
@@scrambled3217 DUDE YOURE SO AWESOME! I’m definitely keeping tabs on your channel, for such a short time frame you’ve made such great progress. I appreciate you writing all of this, was ecstatic to see your notification. Thank you, I’ll be taking your advice to heart!!
@@skadoodle24 Thank you so much again :))
@@scrambled3217NO PROBLEM!! Though as I was watching your other videos another question popped up in my head SO sorry for the multiple questions BUT I’d also like to ask about chords. Specifically, when learning how to play the chords for the Yui solo, which seems to have a complicated strumming pattern, did you learn the chords first or strumming first? Or maybe you did them at the same time?? What was YOUR process when learning the Yui solo and just chords in general? I’d love to know! And also, do you alternate pick or economy pick?? THANKS A TON AGAIN!
@@skadoodle24 I learned the strumming and chords at the same time, but splitting them up might be a good idea to make it a bit easier. I don't think it really matters whether you learn the chords or strumming first as neither of them really depend on each other, so to speak. If you have trouble with changing to the chords fast enough then this way of practicing will probably help you a lot (it did for me at least and I still use it to this day): ruclips.net/video/jqs-M67fw7I/видео.html&ab_channel=KevinNickens
I learned the basic open chords with YT vids like JustinGuitar, and I'd suggest you do that as well as their shapes are "reused" when doing barre chords. If you've already done that, you can look into the CAGED system for said barre chords (which I did as well), but I'd say that in the end most of my chord knowledge come from learning rhythm guitar songs which have those chords. Often times the same shapes are used between songs, and that basically allows for it to be an exercise as you keep seeing those chords come back. And if you ever find yourself wondering which chord you're playing or seeing in a tab, a guitar chord analyzer like www.oolimo.com/en/guitar-chords/analyze can help you find out.
Chords can get really crazy and in my opinion come a bit more to play when you want to start and try to compose some songs yourself, but learning them well will also help tremendously with learning new songs as you'll probably know most of the chord shapes and just have to learn the strumming pattern! You can learn them by sitting down and practicing them or just by learning rhythm guitar songs and figuring it out that way. I think that both options are just fine!
And most of the time I do economy picking, but for some "scaley" licks where you have to go up and down the strings I use alternate. I'm not an expert on this tho, so take it with a grain of salt xD
Hopefully this helps!
you're back!!!!
I am! :D
really nice progress holy shit 🔥
Thank you very much! 🔥
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Very lovely progress, may I ask what your setup is like in terms of amps and pedals and such ?
Thanks! I use a Tokai Les Paul with humbuckers into a RAT distortion pedal, into a focusrite 2i2, then into Amplitube 5's Marshall JCM900 model (Brit9000).
The big thing I feel like is using an EQ pedal before the amp inside of the amp-sim interface to cut off the frequencies around 200-300Hz which gets rid of a lot of muddiness which my guitar has been prone to sound with. Furthermore I also use a second and seperate-EQ VST (TDR Nova) after the sound has passed through the amp sim to further refine the sound. Hopefully this helped!
@@scrambled3217 Damn, thanks for the detailed answer, ill check that stuff out :)
sick man! how do you get such clean tapping?
Thanks! The tapping itself is honestly just a pull-off motion with the tapping finger, I found that putting the palm of your tapping hand onto the neck is pretty important for giving some stability and acting like an "anchor". But I think that finger synchronization and being able to play the notes in the tapping sequence on time is probably the biggest factor still lol
@@scrambled3217 preciate it man, keep up the good work!
ive pretty much moved on from bocchi the rock songs. Ive been trying to practice different songs now. I havent listened to their new songs yet 😅
Yeahhhh I get it tho xd After listening and playing them for a whole year it gets kinda boring lol
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dit deel is shitting ziekte 😭
(translate zegt fucking ziek tho, dankjewel he)
@@scrambled3217 dichtbij genoeg🫦
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Is there a way you make the lead guitar part only go into the right ear of a headset? your making good progress!
Thanks! Most DAW's allow panning to the right at the mixer, otherwise if ur using standalone amp sims they sometimes allow you to change the output speakers, where you can select to put them from the right.
@@scrambled3217 ok ty