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lee959
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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2009, 08:01:07 PM » |
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Hey all! I am looking for some feedback basically. The one minute changes exercise is just flippin brilliant. It advanced my chord changes and I saw loads of improvement so I added a few other open chords. I, however, found that going as fast as I could I was crunching chords. I understand the purpose of the exercise is to build up muscle memory, and perhaps I am being impatient, but I found even as I approached the magic number of 60/30 chord changes in a minute I was still crunching a lot of my chords. I came up with a possible solution. I would like some thoughts. I set my metronome at, oh say, 45BPM, and switch between the chords over a minute. Once the minute it up if I haven't crunched any chords between the changes I up the tempo with the initial goal being to 60BPM. My question is do you think this would be acceptable to continue or should I go back to the one minute changes as fast as I can and not worry about crunching the chords. An aside for a second I have found that the one minute changes has had the unforeseen benefit of speeding up the typing of my left hand.
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justinguitar
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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2009, 04:43:02 AM » |
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Not sure what you mean by crunching - if you mean the chord is not coming out so good - don't worry about it - just keep those fingers moving fast - the chord practice - where you really work on getting the chords accurate should sort that out!
J
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Night Guitarist
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2010, 07:13:56 PM » |
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Justiin im having trouble with my strumming chords and also the chord changes im having trouble with the Am To E
I Seem to put my first finger down first then add the other two down so yea having trouble with the pair moving
and also when i look at the string i can do it but when i look at the fretboard i mess up alot so should i look at the fretboard more often or the strings and let it come naturally
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should i move on the stage 3 even though im at 60BPM with the metromone My chords are not perfect but should i perfect them b4 i move on or just go stage 3
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charlieguitars
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« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2010, 07:41:55 PM » |
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K your having trouble with chord changes and strumming because you're a beginner. Just keep doing it and you'll get the hang of it. It's all about practice.
It'll "come naturally" over time so it doesn't ultimately matter where you look right now. The important thing is that EVERYTHING you practice, you practice RIGHT. That being said i might keep looking at the frets until i got it down solid.
As for moving on...There is a difference between moving too fast and challenging yourself. If you think you've got the first two sections down well then I wouldn't hesitate to move on as long as you don't neglect to keep playing the chords from sections 1 and 2
Hope it helps
-Charlie
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GaryBee
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« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2010, 03:41:54 PM » |
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Hello all, I thought it might be useful to let my fellow learners know about my improvement. I had an old cheap guitar that I have been learning on. I was doing alright and have got some of my AED changes to around 60. Today I went to a guitar shop and came back with a Crafter Electro-acoustic  One of my changes shot up to 85, all the others were 30% faster than yesterday! I know not everyone has the money to do this, but if you can the difference is amazing, though I can't explain why. Cheers, Gary. |
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charlieguitars
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« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2010, 03:49:12 PM » |
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The difference why is because you went from using a piece of plywood to a decent piece of hardware.
I'm also gonna go out on a limb and say the action on your older guitar is jacked way up and the truss needs to be readjusted.
There is a point where the quality of guitar matters. I'd say that once you break $1000 your not getting that much of a difference in quality. (some exceptions apply of course)
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GaryBee
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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2010, 03:28:26 AM » |
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Thanks charlieguitars, I think you a right about the action, my new guitar lets me fret further back without buzzing. The old guitar was so cheap I didn't want to pay for a setup and didn't have the skills to do it myself. I think I will give the old guitar away on our local freecycle.
Gary.
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charlieguitars
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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2010, 10:12:07 AM » |
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then again...Hendrix learned on a right handed guitar, since he was lefthanded this made it upside down, his first guitar also only had 3 strings. So i mean yeah i guess anything is possible, but for us non-demigods it is nice to have a good guitar |
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uknowmeitsmattp
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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2010, 09:11:24 PM » |
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I have a question about the one minute changes up to this point. I know you said the 'magic number' is 30/60 for these. Does this mean one should get to this number before going to the next stage? I did stage one and got at least 15/30 on each chord, then went on to stage two, and I'm wondering if I should get all 6 chords I now know up to 30/60 before going to stage three.
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charlieguitars
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« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2010, 01:08:56 PM » |
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yeah i'd probably get it sped up a bit, I mean you don't want to move to fast, I'd have to hear you play, but I'd get those chords down really solid before you move on.
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jnb
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« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2010, 09:23:34 AM » |
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Something that's probably a really dumb question about the JUSTIN training exercises ...
On the suggested practice schedule there's five minutes set aside for the JUSTIN exercises but having done them once you know the answers and can't use the same exercise again so what do you do to make up the ear training exercises on successive practice sessions?
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charlieguitars
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« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2010, 10:17:17 AM » |
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well 2 options. stop doing JUSTIN excercises until you are on stage 3
or just find some songs to try and transcribe, but honestly it will take more than 5 minutes a day to be useful
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Zirbo
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« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2010, 02:47:23 AM » |
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Something that's probably a really dumb question about the JUSTIN training exercises ...
On the suggested practice schedule there's five minutes set aside for the JUSTIN exercises but having done them once you know the answers and can't use the same exercise again so what do you do to make up the ear training exercises on successive practice sessions?
on the internet there are web sites that let you download the MP3 of the chord you need...once you donwloaded your chords...what you do is put em in a player and play shuffle mode... |
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Night Guitarist
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« Reply #14 on: August 14, 2010, 06:44:34 PM » |
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Ive Been Practicing guitar every day for the last week for a lil over an hour and this is what ive been doing?
A Minor To E Major for 11:30
Am To Dm For 11:30
A To Dm For 11:30
Em To D For 11:30
And I Can Do 100 Am TO E MAJOR in under a minute
and my strumming for like 10minutes a day
and i was wondering since Im doing justin guitar training course online
i was wondering can i move on to stage 3
I Can do a chord changes a sec for these chords {60BPM}
Am To dm
Em to D
A To dm for like
SO SHOULD I MOVE ON TO STAGE 3
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