Has There Ever Been One Thing That Just Took You So Long To Get

Hey guys, just sitting in class again and I’m curious to see if any of you all have experienced anything like this. So I’ve been working on the main lead riff in Hail To The King since late December and I typically get anywhere from an hour on it(on days to where I have to go to places and stuff) but at least five days a week I’m able to put two hours in on it, then I work on other things until forced to quit. Joe Satch said not to do any one thing for over an hour a day but I don’t know. I plateaued at 88 percent speed for over a month but then Jak stepped in and helped me, turns out I was playing it wrong by picking every note instead of using pull-offs. Thanks again by the way XD.I’ve been using pull offs since March 23rd and I had to start slow again obviously and now I’m back to that speed range but am stepping into the early 90s on speed in hopes I’ll get it soon. I practice everyday as much as I can and I don’t know it’s just embarassing that it’s took me this long. Although one good thing that came from it is I’ve definatlely started using open strings in my own playing more as Syn does for this riff and I’ve stated writing a song that I never would have came up with if it weren’t for me learning this riff. I’ve also noticed the phrasing in this song is sinking into a my playing as well. Anyone else have similar stories of something taking you a long ass time to get down?

Yeah sweeping is really different when you first pick it up. For me the hard thing about it was muting the strings while sweeping. Actually muting in general used to be so so hard for me to do, I was so bad at muting when I played Enter Sandman at my school I had to use a fret wrap for the solo XD. I probably confused everyone. Now I don’t have to think about it anymore really, except if I’m learning a new pattern or something. Also down picking, I practice it and the intro riff from Master Of Puppets for five minutes each daily and I’ve been moving up really slow with it. But five minutes really isn’t anything I guess, I basically have about an hour or so where I practice a bunch of stuff mostly techniques for like five minutes each, which idrk how good of an idea that is but yeah.

@andrew I feel you there my dude XD

@Ed yeah you’re right about that for sure. It seems like I had the biggest spped imrpvement on speed when I spent three months practicing nothing but the Enter Sandman solo. I spent all day practicing it and honestly that was the biggest jump in my playing I ever had. Kinda makes me think practicing one thing and nothing else is the best way to improve your actual playing ability. But then again technique only goes so far because like improvising and songwriting steps in and stuff.