You can always adapt the tempo so it is a bit of a challenge but not so hard that you can't play it. Just try to have fun with it and you'll be playing it in no time!
Lack of distortion doesn't help the demonstration. Even a little bit of gain would do, the fact that there's no added sustain or help with the volume equality of the hammers/pulls leaves the line feeling pretty shoddy.
If you're familiar with Tom Quayle, one of the characteristics of his style is to level all the different note types (picked, finger picked, hammer-ons and pull-offs) so they have the same volume. This is one key components of the line, not only the note choice, and according to him one of the things he had to put more work on. Sure, I could hide flaws with compression and overdrive, but these videos are also a good way for me to check back over time and track my own progress.
@@the6stringmonk796 Yeah I'm familiar with Tom, and a comfortable legato player myself. Your reasoning is totally sound though, as a means of reflection being a great point. There is merit however in practicing your legato under "stage conditions"- I find that, while I have done a ton of clean practice as you're working through here, there's a delicacy of touch that's not afforded by the clean tone that tends to imbalance technique when you do play with it on. I can stretch and strike with just the very tips of the fingers, yet those notes wouldn't even register with a dry tone audibly. I never play with compression, live or otherwise, I kinda feel like using it to control volume equality is just cheating your technique
@@FlaxeMusic That's my opinion on compression too, and every distortion always adds a bit of it, even if only slightly. But you have a good point though. I'm quite new to recording (first time I do it actually) so I definitely can work on trying to find a more appealing "stage tone" for the next videos instead of sticking to the practice one. Thank you for the feedback!
Thanks for the ideas again! In hope you'll keep posting videos like this one regularly!
Great piece Sifu 🍻
I suspect our Tom may well be a 'Jazz Bro' in private as well as a Herge's Tintin obsessive 😂
Brilliant maestro
Thanks, hopefully it gave you some new ideas to work on!
THANK YOU
Happy that you found it useful!
He PLAYS the guitar while I fight with it.
You can always adapt the tempo so it is a bit of a challenge but not so hard that you can't play it. Just try to have fun with it and you'll be playing it in no time!
Lack of distortion doesn't help the demonstration. Even a little bit of gain would do, the fact that there's no added sustain or help with the volume equality of the hammers/pulls leaves the line feeling pretty shoddy.
If you're familiar with Tom Quayle, one of the characteristics of his style is to level all the different note types (picked, finger picked, hammer-ons and pull-offs) so they have the same volume. This is one key components of the line, not only the note choice, and according to him one of the things he had to put more work on.
Sure, I could hide flaws with compression and overdrive, but these videos are also a good way for me to check back over time and track my own progress.
@@the6stringmonk796 Yeah I'm familiar with Tom, and a comfortable legato player myself. Your reasoning is totally sound though, as a means of reflection being a great point.
There is merit however in practicing your legato under "stage conditions"- I find that, while I have done a ton of clean practice as you're working through here, there's a delicacy of touch that's not afforded by the clean tone that tends to imbalance technique when you do play with it on. I can stretch and strike with just the very tips of the fingers, yet those notes wouldn't even register with a dry tone audibly. I never play with compression, live or otherwise, I kinda feel like using it to control volume equality is just cheating your technique
@@FlaxeMusic That's my opinion on compression too, and every distortion always adds a bit of it, even if only slightly.
But you have a good point though. I'm quite new to recording (first time I do it actually) so I definitely can work on trying to find a more appealing "stage tone" for the next videos instead of sticking to the practice one. Thank you for the feedback!
ok, now let's hear you upload it with distortion and show us how it's done.