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I feel ya there, I did the same thing. When I first started playing, I hated using my pinky, so I just didn't and used my 3rd for everything. I've only really started using it in the last year, and only now doing things properly lol. We'll get it though, just a long process as you said!
Thank you soooooo much!!! I had a quick mess around trying it with a few bits I use to warm up, and it's still a little tough, but hopefully it will get better as I keep going!! ❤️ ❤️
Yesterday, @Jak Angelescu mentioned that I should look to improve how I use my pinky finger, and so that's what I focused on today! A few notes:
1. The tucking-behind problem seems to be sorted, I think?
2. It still tends to stray from the fretboard a lot, it's hard to keep it close.
3. I think...
Ahhhhh, thank you so much, Momma Cat!! It was definitely a real tough practice session this morning, but I know if I keep at it, I'll start making some good progress! I was wondering about my pinky, honestly, it's always been such a pain to control. I'll make that my focus for tomorrow, and if...
Trying to get back into things - Again!
Working on the A Minor Pentatonic Scale, but all across the fretboard today, as shown to me by Bill. A few things to note that I'm trying to work on with this:
1. Keeping my thumb behind the fretboard
2. Using the tips of my fingers, not the pads
3. When...
Damn, that's an incredible story from the man himself!! I've been seriously enjoying this album for the last few days so it's awesome to hear your take on it!
I think I'm in agreement with everyone else that it's mindblowing how you were so young yet so insanely skilled and recorded all these...
So I found a lot of my old guitar videos recently, and figured that while I haven't gone crazy in learning new things (I'm planning to go ham on it once I'm out of my last month of college! :eek:🤩) I know for sure that I've certainly improved on a lot of the songs I do know, since I use a lot of...
Well holy damn!! Let's put it this way, Violent and Funky is an understatement for this whole album!! I'm seriously enjoying this one, and it's so great to hear something so entirely different to what I'm used to (I don't listen to too much outside of my comfort zone, so it's great to...
Just finished up my workshop and holy shit, it was AMAZING! Radu, you did an incredible job! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us, I really learned a lot and you were great with explanations! 🤘 💀 🤘
A very happy birthday to both of you wonderful ladies!!! I hope you have a wonderful day, you guys deserve it the most, and I hope you're both doing well too! Sending loads of love to you! 🤘 💀 🤘
Ahhhh, thank you so much Alicia!!! You're such a badass too and I love ya so much!! Dude, pinky fingers are the most stubborn things in all of existence, I swear - One minute they co-operate and then they'll never do it again! :ROFLMAO:
A bit of a bizarre one to come back with, but it's something I've been working on (by ear, as usual), and I thought I'd share it with you as I'm super proud of it! I need to get my pinky finger working a bit more, as there's plenty of opportunity, it's just making sure it sounds good and is...