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Tips on increasing picking speed?
My advice would be: 1. Stick on a Metronome to a comfortable tempo 2. Practice picking on the clicks (quarter notes) then 2 picks per click (8th notes) then 4 picks per click (16th notes) - Make sure than your grip on the pick is super relaxed during the whole thing. 3. Have your wrist move in...- Chris Johnston
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- Forum: General Chat
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Comment by 'Chris Johnston' in media 'Practicing Sweeps with Not Ready To Die 2'
Sounding great man, it's definitely more fluid this time round!- Chris Johnston
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This is an outrage #IstandwithJohnnyChrist
Just about to eat my dinner and I read the phrase 'deep-fry foreskin' :LOL: I'll give it 10 minutes- Chris Johnston
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Theory Request #4 - Building basic chords + chords of a scale
Definitely this ^- Chris Johnston
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- Forum: Advanced Techniques & Theory
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A Letter To The Students
Welcome back! Yeah, no need for drama at all on here, unless it's a dramatically good solo...In all seriousness though, this site is free of charge! Nobody's out of pocket if they don't get a question answered for whatever reason or if something goes wrong, big deal - especially navigating...- Chris Johnston
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- Forum: General Chat
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Comment by 'Chris Johnston' in media 'Practicing Sweeps to Not Ready To Die'
Gotcha! the trick to doing it slow is to sit your pick on the string you're about to pick and let it fall onto the next string in the sweep, by doing this you're picking the string you need and going straight onto the next string in one motion - if you let your hand continue it'll do a full...- Chris Johnston
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Comment by 'Chris Johnston' in media 'Practicing Sweeps to Not Ready To Die'
Sounding great man! one thing I'd work on is when you're sweeping, to treat it as one continuous down stroke, instead of down picking each note in the arpeggio. It's tricky to get but you'll get there :LOL:- Chris Johnston
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Intermediate Theory Request #3 - Modal Scales
The reason there are different modal names is because they actually represent completely different sounds - when you use different chords from the C Major Key underneath them. So they don't always act strictly as a C Major Scale. Like if you were to play the scale over an Fmajor chord, it would...- Chris Johnston
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- Forum: Advanced Techniques & Theory
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R.S.S.A Announcement & My Farewell Letter As Your Admin :)
Hope you're all good Jak! Keep on keeping on 🤟- Chris Johnston
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- Forum: General Chat
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Theory Request #1 - Major Scales explained
This is Brilliant Andrei! I had no idea that Guitar Scientist was a thing either, such an amazing resource :love:- Chris Johnston
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- Forum: Advanced Techniques & Theory
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Comment by 'Chris Johnston' in media 'SGS Collab - My Solo v2.0'
Sounding great man! Loved the tapping too 🤟- Chris Johnston
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It really is, man! Yeah I've been having trouble getting the right feel for the rhythm guitar...
It really is, man! Yeah I've been having trouble getting the right feel for the rhythm guitar, now that you mention it. The whole song's an amazing challenge- Chris Johnston
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[MEDIA] Been learning the solo in this song recently (1:17) It absolutely blows my mind that...
Been learning the solo in this song recently (1:17) It absolutely blows my mind that Bireli Lagrene just improvised this!- Chris Johnston
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Picking issues
Gotcha man! Yeah I guess it's all about finding that happy medium that keeps your pick able to move but not too much. You'll find it eventually! Also, just read your post further up about your MH - I hope you're doing okay man 🤟- Chris Johnston
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Making Of "The Descending Dragon" and my finished song!
Absolutely amazing man! All your hard work paid off! :love:- Chris Johnston
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Picking issues
How tight are you gripping your pick? For alternate & eco picking you'll want quite a light grip on the pick to help it glide and not get stuck 🤟 it should feel pretty effortless eventually if you get that down!- Chris Johnston
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- Forum: General Chat
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So I was just teaching a private student not to think too much while improvising & I realised...
So I was just teaching a private student not to think too much while improvising & I realised that I suffer from the same hesitation in some parts of my improv with 2-5-1's if I start to concentrate too much! I decided to just sit with my guitar and force my fingers to continually play without...- Chris Johnston
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Size Pick Guitar
Howling at the description of Ultex Jazz 3 :LOL: I've been playing with the stale piss picks for years!- Chris Johnston
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- Forum: General Chat