"Do not try to bend the string, that's impossible. Only try to realize the truth, there is no string." Me: "Screw off weird bald kid." (bends string two steps)! haha!
@@Cole-ek7fh true but when you tell someone that Eddie's playing is Blues based they look at you like you're crazy, it's not until you slow his playing down that they realize it and end up saying "oh yeah NOW I hear it". These days when you mention Blues music usually the first thing that comes to most people's minds is Eric Clapton, John Mayer, B.B King and maybe Buddy Guy again maybe. While Clapton and Mayer have kept the Blues alive for today's generation most of them have no clue on real Blues music and musicians are like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Son House, Robert Johnson or Lead Belly. You ask some people who Lead Belly was and they'll say wasn't that a Pearl Jam song...LOL.
@@dickdastardly2560 Largely true but I've always understood that many of the licks and phrases are blues-rock based. I've been playing guitar for 39 years but I heard this in his playing back when I first started and when you learn,..then you know for certain that it is. Warren DeMartini, George Lynch are a couple more that are very blues based players. They don't play the blues by a long shot, but there are elements to the blues or particularly Rock/blues in much of their lead work. Pentatonic minor and major, along with mixing the two and making occasional use of the Ionian/diatonic major scale for melodious sounds are about all anyone would ever need. Some guitarists are just better at phrasing and just apply it better.
@@Bryan1234580 If you feel you keep failing despite lots of practice, you need to sit down and observe closely to identify where things go wrong (use a mobile cam or webcam to record yourself and watch it), then do some isolated practice of those skills you need to get down (googling or making your own exercises) a couple of times every day - especially just before you go to bed, and as soon as you can after waking up.
Excellent Tip! I’ve had this experience with another VH Song actually! Hang em high. I’ve played it so many times all the way through over the years that it eventually got faster and faster. Then one day I listened to the song, realized I had been playing it way too fast, and when I slowed down to jam to the song, all the tricky parts felt super easy! It never occurred to me that it could be a powerful practice tool! Thanks for the shot of inspiration! Your playing is awesome too! Subscribed! 👍🏼
I just put down my guitar and was like “fuck I’ve been practicing this solo for 7 months still can’t play it well” then I open up RUclips and bam! This video pops up thanks a lot dude!
SPECTACULAR method! It seems so simple, and yet I've never thought to try it like that! Brilliant! I really like the way you walk us through the tips, too...very easy to grasp and enjoyable. "Five (out of five) stars." 😎👍
So funny this should come up as a suggested video AFTER I learned my first solo haha 😊. I know I will have watched this video before but it was so long ago I can't even remember when. So now, watching it after I learned my first solo, I see that I went through the process of learning the solo in this exact way. How awesome is that 🙂
Guitar pro is more useful for learning solos. It has a speed builder for practicing sections. It also plays back the tab (hopefully people know that) which is super useful. The solos I try to learn are normally progressive technical metal so learning them by ear takes a really good ear.
this reminds me of my favourite frugal technique for getting warm in winter; you go outside and then come back in again* *may not be suitable for the elderly or infirm. always seek advice from your physician or qualified medical practitioner before applying any new health regime.
Exactly how I practice since first time I play, it helped me play some solos like Nothing Else Matters, Sanitariums second solo, and she wolf. Thank god for rocksmith videos on RUclips
The app DJay helps a ton- you can slow down/speed up songs, change the key (so you don’t need to tune into Eb tuning, just change the pitch of the song on the app if you don’t want to change your tuning), and set markers to go back to and restart from. Super helpful for practicing and learning songs
I don't play as good as you so I would maybe start at 25% speed, depending on how fast it is. Then continue up to 125%. Edit: I do agree, playing at 125% speed makes it easier to play in 100%.
Very useful video! My advice to guitarists thought is take the solo as a sample and change it a little bit with your style, because everyone's hands and fingers are different. The feel of the solo is more important to me. Cheers!
Cool method. Buster B. Jones did this without knowing it when he was a kid. Supposedly his record player would spin faster than normal. Playing Chet Adkins at a 1.25 speed is crazy too
Wow, I actualy discovered that method by myself just about a week ago. Almost learnt Sandman solo in about 5 days despite the fact that I play guitar not so long and using wah pedal only for about 3 days of these 5.
I use the term "comfortable speed" with my students. As like an all technique/compositional speed at which you can effortlessly improvise well enough to essentially one take track for record. Like say you can play a solo of a song that is at 220 bpm and has sixteenths/sixteenth triplets very well but your comfortable speed as per my little parameters could be around 176bpm. One can have the prowess to woodshed a difficult part utilizing this method in the video but can have a considerably lower bpm level of one take tracking something with great technical execution and your brain can process harmonic/melodic/ theoretical motions at equally as interesting. Find that speed, and use the matrix method in all areas to increase it. Kind of weird thing to focus on but can help you round your game out to where the comfortable speed is the same for any technique, which pays divid ends on the back end of increasing you "woodshed speed" as well as opening up more compositional possibilities.
Thank you for this! I’ve been playing for a little over a year and I just joined a band and they need me to learn No One Like You by the Scorpions and the solos are so hard so I’ll use this until I get them right!
Now if only this worked with Glenn Tipton's solos. There's some sections in them where it doesn't matter how slowly you listen to it, you won't be able to figure out exactly what he plays. An example being Reckless.
Something that really slowed down my progress was my expectations of being able to have a song down in 10 minutes after playing green day nirvana ect harder songs take more to learn it can be quite discouraging but sick solos takes time but once u have them it's crazy scary how your hands just know what to do
This is how I learned to play all the songs my band plays. We had 7 songs at either 95 bpm or 100 bpm so I turned my metronome up to between 120 and 150 and learned to get the muscle memory for that so playing these hard riffs are easy as hell
When I'm playing a song that I've known how to play for a long time, I find myself upping the speed like this. I dunno why I do it. I think it's that I want to play the song once just to make sure the song doesn't leave my hands, but I'm not particularly in the mood to play it or hear it, so I try to get it over quickly by playing it faster. And then sometimes I do it just to hear how a song sounds at a faster speed. Sometimes it makes the song sound cooler but most of the time I think it makes it sound worse. After I do a speed run, even if I don't make any mistakes, I feel like I cheapened the song. It makes me think that the space between notes is as much a part of what makes a song good as the notes themselves.
Aye I'm late, but if you're using chrome there's a plugin called "Auto replay for RUclips". Install that and you can choose the time marks for it to replay between and keep your hands on the ol' guitar.
Just started playing my first real solo today. I’ve lost my sanity trying to dissect every note being played of a 780P RUclips video covering the solo. Now that I have a general idea of all notes being played I can start becoming faster and I can barely even play 0.5 speed. Wish me luck!
youtube now has a slider that allows you to control the speed precisely, and increase from 50% to 55% and so on up until 100%, but I prefer just putting the song in Reaper and just slowing it down to 50% and going up from there in Reaper. It's the same thing but I personally feel that reaper makes the song sound better when slowed down for some reason.
That Jackson is a beauty! I'm still salty my Floyd rose broke... Kinda for no reason, too, it was lying in its felt filled case for a long time and only was played on special occasions or gigs, while I treat my lesser pricy guitars like shit (even though they are beauties, just hanging around in my room, leaning against tables etc.) but they never break, despite being older.
I've tried it once without conscious. I'm practicing some solo without background music every night, and it seems very hard. Then someday I was playing the solo with background music, it turns out the song is slower than what I was practicing, and it becomes quite easy.
I...never thought about doing that. I was thinking the baseball bat analogy before yuo said it, and there certainly are or can be ways to use the idea in a variety of places. Might be good for anything you're doing and hit a plateau. It's definitely a hack...gets you there faster than you would, otherwise.
I managed to fix a lot of my problems with Solos that I've been practicing for MONTHS, in just a few hours. It's kind of crazy... never though to use the playback speed function on youtube videos!
At third part I was like: "Oh my god! How nobody thought this before? Get speed by practicing slow and gradually go faster and faster!", but at the end it makes sense
I think for most players 50/75/100 is not gradual enough. Start as slow as you need _with a metronome_ (that might be 40 BPM or slower!) to play in rhythm, then advance the BPM only when that feels completely effortless.
Should I stay at 125 percent for the whole day or just for a couple minutes before going back down to regular speed? How exactly should I go about that?
I know people are gonna scoff at me for saying this cause it's not a "real guitar" but no bullshit this is the exact same thing I've been doing to learn sections for Guitar Hero/Rock Band songs. You learn the notes at a slow speed and then you play it fast as shit and then when you play it at normal it's exactly like you said like it's in slow motion. I always wondered if this same thing would work for a real guitar and here it is showing that it does actually work for real guitar. That's pretty cool.
Thanks, I'll try this for solo in "Heaven" by B. Adams. Question: would this method work for remembering a song as well? I was so embarrassed last week at a music Meetup, I could remember the verse and chorus, but just couldn't remember the bridge to "Heaven". It seems so hard to remember the song, it feels very complex, not like Johnny B. Goode or a more straightforward song.
Hey man great video. I’m pretty good at learning solos when I already know the song but I have so much trouble when I’m not 100% familiar with it. I’m learning the money solo and I’m fine with it but they’re certain parts where I just can’t hear what the hell he’s playing. Everytime I listen I hear something different and it’s never the same as the tabs I got. I’m good at actually playing but I have such a hard time listening and trying to sing something if I don’t know it already. This is probably some pretty weird shit but if you have any tips that would be great
is it even faster than practicing daily? cause no matter how much practice in a day, there's this space of time in between that helps the brain "learn" it subconsciously kinda have to "allow" it to sink in or something
I was doing this to learn the solo for oddloop by frederic before i saw this video, but i never actually went up to 125%. Guess Im going to have to start doing that now lol.
Does this work for just plain riffs that are difficult? I know that sounds stupid but I’m a bass player having to play rhythm & lead together on guitar and some of the riffs are just hard af
While this is very VERY good advice... I must ask... Why would you base this on the limited percents that RUclips allows you to hear it at? We have metronomes... which allows us to select any bpm possible, and makes it so there aren't such large jumps in between steps and allows for you to more precisely clean it up. It's taking the hard way doing it like this for no reason at all. (And I mean that in a literal sense, there are tons of *free* metronomes you can download on any smartphone... Even just Googling "metronome" brings up a free and easy to use met that goes 40 to 218 bpm. There really isn't an excuse to *not* use a metronome, for the guitarists that don't already.)
Because it’s helpful to play with the music. I actually put the video in Final Cut Pro and I can make it any increment I want but not everyone has FCPX.
"Do not try to bend the string, that's impossible. Only try to realize the truth, there is no string." Me: "Screw off weird bald kid." (bends string two steps)! haha!
More like you are not bending the string. The string is bending you haha
Hehe I actually haven't been long seen that movie for the first soooooo true though
The-Art-of-Guitar Can you do a video on polyrhythm?
At 50% you can really hear the Blues influence on this song.
Dick Dastardly yeah I was about to say lmao
Dick Dastardly i hear it at full.
@@Cole-ek7fh true but when you tell someone that Eddie's playing is Blues based they look at you like you're crazy, it's not until you slow his playing down that they realize it and end up saying "oh yeah NOW I hear it". These days when you mention Blues music usually the first thing that comes to most people's minds is Eric Clapton, John Mayer, B.B King and maybe Buddy Guy again maybe. While Clapton and Mayer have kept the Blues alive for today's generation most of them have no clue on real Blues music and musicians are like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Son House, Robert Johnson or Lead Belly. You ask some people who Lead Belly was and they'll say wasn't that a Pearl Jam song...LOL.
@@dickdastardly2560
Largely true but I've always understood that many of the licks and phrases are blues-rock based.
I've been playing guitar for 39 years but I heard this in his playing back when I first started and when you learn,..then you know for certain that it is. Warren DeMartini, George Lynch are a couple more that are very blues based players. They don't play the blues by a long shot, but there are elements to the blues or particularly Rock/blues in much of their lead work.
Pentatonic minor and major, along with mixing the two and making occasional use of the Ionian/diatonic major scale for melodious sounds are about all anyone would ever need.
Some guitarists are just better at phrasing and just apply it better.
A wise man once said: If you can play it slow, you can play it fast.
violin guy?
And that man was Albert Einstein
15 notes a second easy
I N T E R E S T I N G
It was the violin guy!
Through the Fire and Flames HERE I COME
TTFAF solo at 125%......I think that's starting to break the laws of physics.
im actually learning the solo now, i dont think this could work there XD, makes me mad
nvm i can do it, i just need to keep learning the solo slow.
@@Bryan1234580 If you feel you keep failing despite lots of practice, you need to sit down and observe closely to identify where things go wrong (use a mobile cam or webcam to record yourself and watch it), then do some isolated practice of those skills you need to get down (googling or making your own exercises) a couple of times every day - especially just before you go to bed, and as soon as you can after waking up.
Dude I start at 125% and then slow down. I get the tough part over first!!! Thanks for the lesson!!! Keep Rocking it out!!!
Wait really???
You're a alien dude, or blessed either lol
Just as I'm learning the solo of One. The part right after the 3 bends at 21 is killing me right now! I'll try this awesome method
Olivier Bertrand yea I'm having difficulty with only that part of the solo. The rest of the solo is pretty simple.
3 years later, how did it go?
@@thordurinn after a month I got it haha you can do it too!
I can play at 1% speed
how's your guitar playing now?
@@eandemz1013 2% speed
Excellent Tip! I’ve had this experience with another VH Song actually! Hang em high. I’ve played it so many times all the way through over the years that it eventually got faster and faster. Then one day I listened to the song, realized I had been playing it way too fast, and when I slowed down to jam to the song, all the tricky parts felt super easy! It never occurred to me that it could be a powerful practice tool!
Thanks for the shot of inspiration! Your playing is awesome too! Subscribed! 👍🏼
Free, your *Mind*
And your wrist too
Master of puppets here I come 😂😂😂😂 dude if this works I will send you an Aussie beer of your choice!
I'll just take a few Aussie ladies. ;)
@@TheArtofGuitar so it's a week later and I can definitely say this technique works!
@@anthonycamillos3719 Did you ship the ladies yet? It's been a while brother
@@anthonycamillos3719 Just double checking the ladies have been sent, you owe the man.
Send the man his beers
I cant even do a pinch harmonic but this totally makes sense, good tip, thanks.
I wish Rocksmith would go over 100% Speed for the same reason. It's kind of frustrating that it doesn't.
You think that's air you're breathing?
i learned sweet child o mine solo in 6 months. now i am going to try this at november rain outro solo. great video man!
November rain is the easiest to learn but the hardest to nail
@@TheNickJonathan 2nd part of the outro solo is hard to play smooth but overall it is not hard like you said. an update this technic is working
I do this as well but I spend a lot of time at 90% and really only use 100% when I feel I have perfect at 90%. Love your videos!
I just put down my guitar and was like “fuck I’ve been practicing this solo for 7 months still can’t play it well” then I open up RUclips and bam! This video pops up thanks a lot dude!
SPECTACULAR method! It seems so simple, and yet I've never thought to try it like that! Brilliant! I really like the way you walk us through the tips, too...very easy to grasp and enjoyable. "Five (out of five) stars." 😎👍
At 50% it just spunds like a super tasty blies jam
Me: I know blues, jazz, classical, country, bluegrass and folk
Mike: Show me ✋
So funny this should come up as a suggested video AFTER I learned my first solo haha 😊. I know I will have watched this video before but it was so long ago I can't even remember when. So now, watching it after I learned my first solo, I see that I went through the process of learning the solo in this exact way. How awesome is that 🙂
Pretty awesome! What was the solo?
Guitar pro is more useful for learning solos. It has a speed builder for practicing sections. It also plays back the tab (hopefully people know that) which is super useful.
The solos I try to learn are normally progressive technical metal so learning them by ear takes a really good ear.
Yeah speed builder is really useful
this reminds me of my favourite frugal technique for getting warm in winter; you go outside and then come back in again*
*may not be suitable for the elderly or infirm. always seek advice from your physician or qualified medical practitioner before applying any new health regime.
Pretty smart! You younger guys got some EXCELLENT ideas! Thank you for the heads up! And all this time I've been learning my solo's by elbow!😜
You probably don't listen to Cannibal Corpse but can you do Pat O Brian and Rob Barrett for the artist series?
Solid teacher 🤘
man, thank you for saying it does take hours to learn a solo good... truth right there. Expectations have to be set right
This is honestly the best advice I've gotten about guitar.
Exactly how I practice since first time I play, it helped me play some solos like Nothing Else Matters, Sanitariums second solo, and she wolf.
Thank god for rocksmith videos on RUclips
i used to do this on guitar hero, when i couldn't play a song on hard i'd try on expert and then go back to hard again
Definitely gonna use this. I have a gig in two weeks and I have to learn all the solos in Peace Sells + the Tom Sawyer solo
The app DJay helps a ton- you can slow down/speed up songs, change the key (so you don’t need to tune into Eb tuning, just change the pitch of the song on the app if you don’t want to change your tuning), and set markers to go back to and restart from. Super helpful for practicing and learning songs
I don't play as good as you so I would maybe start at 25% speed, depending on how fast it is. Then continue up to 125%.
Edit: I do agree, playing at 125% speed makes it easier to play in 100%.
Going to be useful, just started on the tornado of souls solo
@@maxotto9877 The last 15 seconds of the solo will probably destroy both of his hands
Very useful video! My advice to guitarists thought is take the solo as a sample and change it a little bit with your style, because everyone's hands and fingers are different. The feel of the solo is more important to me. Cheers!
If only I could fail that bad 😂😂😂,great video mate
Cool method. Buster B. Jones did this without knowing it when he was a kid. Supposedly his record player would spin faster than normal. Playing Chet Adkins at a 1.25 speed is crazy too
Wow, I actualy discovered that method by myself just about a week ago. Almost learnt Sandman solo in about 5 days despite the fact that I play guitar not so long and using wah pedal only for about 3 days of these 5.
I use the term "comfortable speed" with my students. As like an all technique/compositional speed at which you can effortlessly improvise well enough to essentially one take track for record. Like say you can play a solo of a song that is at 220 bpm and has sixteenths/sixteenth triplets very well but your comfortable speed as per my little parameters could be around 176bpm. One can have the prowess to woodshed a difficult part utilizing this method in the video but can have a considerably lower bpm level of one take tracking something with great technical execution and your brain can process harmonic/melodic/ theoretical motions at equally as interesting. Find that speed, and use the matrix method in all areas to increase it. Kind of weird thing to focus on but can help you round your game out to where the comfortable speed is the same for any technique, which pays divid ends on the back end of increasing you "woodshed speed" as well as opening up more compositional possibilities.
So....was Keanu Reeves harmed in the making of this video?
I would say yes because his feelings was hurt knowing he can’t play as well as Mike did here
Thank you for this! I’ve been playing for a little over a year and I just joined a band and they need me to learn No One Like You by the Scorpions and the solos are so hard so I’ll use this until I get them right!
Now if only this worked with Glenn Tipton's solos. There's some sections in them where it doesn't matter how slowly you listen to it, you won't be able to figure out exactly what he plays. An example being Reckless.
Something that really slowed down my progress was my expectations of being able to have a song down in 10 minutes after playing green day nirvana ect harder songs take more to learn it can be quite discouraging but sick solos takes time but once u have them it's crazy scary how your hands just know what to do
Great tipe. Can also be applied to rhythm. Also starting at 50% allows you to work on playing the oarts clean and work on muting any unwanted strings.
This is very helpful and great information brother.
This is how I learned to play all the songs my band plays. We had 7 songs at either 95 bpm or 100 bpm so I turned my metronome up to between 120 and 150 and learned to get the muscle memory for that so playing these hard riffs are easy as hell
When I'm playing a song that I've known how to play for a long time, I find myself upping the speed like this. I dunno why I do it. I think it's that I want to play the song once just to make sure the song doesn't leave my hands, but I'm not particularly in the mood to play it or hear it, so I try to get it over quickly by playing it faster.
And then sometimes I do it just to hear how a song sounds at a faster speed. Sometimes it makes the song sound cooler but most of the time I think it makes it sound worse. After I do a speed run, even if I don't make any mistakes, I feel like I cheapened the song. It makes me think that the space between notes is as much a part of what makes a song good as the notes themselves.
I had no idea about the gear and that you could change the speed of videos...thanks for the tip...hope it helps make a differnce...
I think it's a good idea, gonna try it. Thank you, dude.
I played your part when you played with 125 percent speed with 200.
You became a guitar god.
Aye I'm late, but if you're using chrome there's a plugin called "Auto replay for RUclips". Install that and you can choose the time marks for it to replay between and keep your hands on the ol' guitar.
Great for watching rocksmith tabs
Just started playing my first real solo today. I’ve lost my sanity trying to dissect every note being played of a 780P RUclips video covering the solo. Now that I have a general idea of all notes being played I can start becoming faster and I can barely even play 0.5 speed. Wish me luck!
youtube now has a slider that allows you to control the speed precisely, and increase from 50% to 55% and so on up until 100%, but I prefer just putting the song in Reaper and just slowing it down to 50% and going up from there in Reaper. It's the same thing but I personally feel that reaper makes the song sound better when slowed down for some reason.
That Jackson is a beauty! I'm still salty my Floyd rose broke... Kinda for no reason, too, it was lying in its felt filled case for a long time and only was played on special occasions or gigs, while I treat my lesser pricy guitars like shit (even though they are beauties, just hanging around in my room, leaning against tables etc.) but they never break, despite being older.
Yeah badass method man!! Thanks for sharing!
I've tried it once without conscious. I'm practicing some solo without background music every night, and it seems very hard. Then someday I was playing the solo with background music, it turns out the song is slower than what I was practicing, and it becomes quite easy.
I...never thought about doing that. I was thinking the baseball bat analogy before yuo said it, and there certainly are or can be ways to use the idea in a variety of places. Might be good for anything you're doing and hit a plateau.
It's definitely a hack...gets you there faster than you would, otherwise.
TFW you're listening to your "watch later" playlist at 125% and then you get to 3:24 in this video. o.O
I managed to fix a lot of my problems with Solos that I've been practicing for MONTHS, in just a few hours. It's kind of crazy... never though to use the playback speed function on youtube videos!
At third part I was like: "Oh my god! How nobody thought this before? Get speed by practicing slow and gradually go faster and faster!", but at the end it makes sense
is that a jackson x series soloist si3x guitar
Yes.
Is the cherry blossom tree a sticker on it? I love the look of that. @@TheArtofGuitar
They are real nice , I just couldn’t get on with the Floyd but the neck is lush
“Lots of mistakes” proceeds to shred almost the entire solo
Cool, now teach me how can i master the Angra - Morningstar solo, that solo has some techniques and patterns that many guitarists neglect learning.
This sh*t works haha! I played swating bullets solo perfectly correctly like nothing, fu*k thanks man!
Im learning shepherd of fire solo by a7x wish me luck and I will use this method
imma try this on back in black solo
Gonna try this for the solo of bat country by a7x, I will update if it works.
Most of songs have decent tabs in Songsterr and app allow you to slow down to even 10% without making the sound unhearable.
Sick guitar bro 🔥
I think for most players 50/75/100 is not gradual enough. Start as slow as you need _with a metronome_ (that might be 40 BPM or slower!) to play in rhythm, then advance the BPM only when that feels completely effortless.
That is a great tip! Thanks!
Great lesson ♥️ Surely will try it :D
So you´re a fan of Assassins Creed I see. ;-) Good choice! Your content is great, rock on!
Now let’s do this with the painkiller solo
Should I stay at 125 percent for the whole day or just for a couple minutes before going back down to regular speed?
How exactly should I go about that?
I know people are gonna scoff at me for saying this cause it's not a "real guitar" but no bullshit this is the exact same thing I've been doing to learn sections for Guitar Hero/Rock Band songs. You learn the notes at a slow speed and then you play it fast as shit and then when you play it at normal it's exactly like you said like it's in slow motion.
I always wondered if this same thing would work for a real guitar and here it is showing that it does actually work for real guitar. That's pretty cool.
Thanks, I'll try this for solo in "Heaven" by B. Adams. Question: would this method work for remembering a song as well? I was so embarrassed last week at a music Meetup, I could remember the verse and chorus, but just couldn't remember the bridge to "Heaven". It seems so hard to remember the song, it feels very complex, not like Johnny B. Goode or a more straightforward song.
really helpful tips, thanks!
Try this with CHON's sweeps on Can't Wait, I dare you
I was going to make a Matrix joke but I couldn't think of anything cool to say.
Great video anyway. Haha
Tried this with the Under a Glass Moon solo... I cant feel my hands now
...this is interesting. Nice performance too.
Will try it!
All I wish is to be able to play Welcome Home full song... It's difficult for me... As a 2 year player, at 32... I am working on it...
Do this and the robot technique(if you have problems with specific part in song)
Hey man great video. I’m pretty good at learning solos when I already know the song but I have so much trouble when I’m not 100% familiar with it. I’m learning the money solo and I’m fine with it but they’re certain parts where I just can’t hear what the hell he’s playing. Everytime I listen I hear something different and it’s never the same as the tabs I got. I’m good at actually playing but I have such a hard time listening and trying to sing something if I don’t know it already. This is probably some pretty weird shit but if you have any tips that would be great
is it even faster than practicing daily?
cause no matter how much practice in a day, there's this space of time in between that helps the brain "learn" it subconsciously
kinda have to "allow" it to sink in or something
I was doing this to learn the solo for oddloop by frederic before i saw this video, but i never actually went up to 125%. Guess Im going to have to start doing that now lol.
Love your reaction to the vocals after the solo at 1.25x speed. Wish you hadn't cut it.
Does this work in 2021 or did guitars get update in past year 🤐?
You, you are a cool dude
Guess ill try this with the blackened riff? Prayers for me guys
Does this work for just plain riffs that are difficult? I know that sounds stupid but I’m a bass player having to play rhythm & lead together on guitar and some of the riffs are just hard af
It works for riffs too.
Mike: *PLAYS HOT FOR TEACHER AT 125 SPEED*
Van Halen: *DON'T YOU FUCKING MOVE*
What if they’re not a soloist?
Smart man
Currently trying to learn my own solo lol, i got all the notes down but I wrote it faster than I can play it 🤣🤣🤣
While this is very VERY good advice... I must ask...
Why would you base this on the limited percents that RUclips allows you to hear it at?
We have metronomes... which allows us to select any bpm possible, and makes it so there aren't such large jumps in between steps and allows for you to more precisely clean it up. It's taking the hard way doing it like this for no reason at all. (And I mean that in a literal sense, there are tons of *free* metronomes you can download on any smartphone... Even just Googling "metronome" brings up a free and easy to use met that goes 40 to 218 bpm. There really isn't an excuse to *not* use a metronome, for the guitarists that don't already.)
Because it’s helpful to play with the music. I actually put the video in Final Cut Pro and I can make it any increment I want but not everyone has FCPX.
Thanks! 👍✨
But the keanu reaves costume?
Stream of Consciousness solo needs a time machine, haha.