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Syn Etude Alternate Picking I
Jeremy Healey

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I’ve been practicing this song for a while now. The solo I can play when it’s slowed down but as you can see from this video, at speed I cannot 😂 just enjoy my facial expressions lol. Anyway, I really enjoy this song as a whole from start to finish. I also need to learn the outro 😅
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Hahahaha loved the facial expression during the solo. It obviously needs more practice ;) But still, the rest of the song you seem to know by heart! I think that it would need to be tighted a little bit but that comes with practice with either a metronome or the track! Still, keep at it dude!
 
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yeah, the face in the solo got me too. Nicely done, and well memorized. Not an easy song. I think you're overshooting your bends (see ~4:00) pushing them a little too sharp.

Practicing bends usually involves fretting the note you want to hit normally, as a "reference note" and then dropping down 1 and then 2 frets to bend up to it, being careful to hit as close to the EXACT note as possible. That's a great practice exercise.
 
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Ed Seith said:
yeah, the face in the solo got me too. Nicely done, and well memorized. Not an easy song. I think you're overshooting your bends (see ~4:00) pushing them a little too sharp.

Practicing bends usually involves fretting the note you want to hit normally, as a "reference note" and then dropping down 1 and then 2 frets to bend up to it, being careful to hit as close to the EXACT note as possible. That's a great practice exercise.
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I’ve seen a good video describing bends! Not sure if you’ve heard of Mrs. Smith or not but she (he?) describes it perfectly. Now as for me playing them during the song, sometimes I find I fall behind mentally and I’m chasing to keep up if you know what I mean. But again it comes with time and practice 👏🏻
 
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Radu-Cristian Perde said:
Hahahaha loved the facial expression during the solo. It obviously needs more practice ;) But still, the rest of the song you seem to know by heart! I think that it would need to be tighted a little bit but that comes with practice with either a metronome or the track! Still, keep at it dude!
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Definitely some tricky pauses in this one! When recording I knew I fucked some of them up but I did it live 😅 no editing, all my mistakes.
playing with a metronome always helps lol, I just need to start doing it 😂
 
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Jeremy Healey said:
Definitely some tricky pauses in this one! When recording I knew I fucked some of them up but I did it live 😅 no editing, all my mistakes.
playing with a metronome always helps lol, I just need to start doing it 😂
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If more musicians were willing to do this, younger players wouldn't develop a complex about perfect playing.
 
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Jeremy Healey said:
I’ve seen a good video describing bends! Not sure if you’ve heard of Mrs. Smith or not but she (he?) describes it perfectly. Now as for me playing them during the song, sometimes I find I fall behind mentally and I’m chasing to keep up if you know what I mean. But again it comes with time and practice 👏🏻
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😍 Ahhhhh someone else knows Mrs. Smith !!! I fucking love her ! Her videos are golden ! I have the same issue, but I saw her video on bends too and it helped a lot! You’re doing ducking awesome Jeremy ! Keep em coming brother !
 
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Alicia Willis said:
😍 Ahhhhh someone else knows Mrs. Smith !!! I fucking love her ! Her videos are golden ! I have the same issue, but I saw her video on bends too and it helped a lot! You’re doing ducking awesome Jeremy ! Keep em coming brother !
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I only know one Mrs. Smith song lol Antifa Niece. The solo in that absolutely slaps 👏🏻👏🏻
 
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