Damn I wish I could play lead

jsgksu · Unread post by **jsgksu** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:33 pm

So Ive been lookin at these Tim Reynolds fills and I wanna learn how to play them real bad, but Im way to slow. I look at them like "I could play that" then I listen to the song and Im like, oh yeah, hes fast as hell, nevermind. So Im lookin at Ants Marching right now and Im wondering if I should just keep trying it over and over till I get it and then try new ones or what. I seem like I just cant really play it and I also tend to be kinda sloppy when going for individual notes, Im not always straight up and down on just that string, I kinda barre a little I guess sometimes. Ive been playing for two years or so and can play the vast majority of Daves songs fairly well I like to think and other music as well. I think Im pretty good at rhythm and gettin better at fingerpicking, Ive just never ventured into learning lead, can anyone give me some tips, Id love to be able to play some lead and I feel like in the past few months Ive really hit a wall in guitar playing and this could probably really give me some chance for improvement and open up new worlds. Thanks guys.

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:37 pm

playing other people's lead licks can be tough, but there is one tip i can give you: in order to learn stuff like tim's fills, just play them over and over, starting at a slow pace and then gradually working your way up to the correct tempo[/list]

jsgksu · Unread post by **jsgksu** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:52 pm

They dont really sound right when played slow, at least I cant sound them out as easily. I guess I should just practice gettin my fingers able to go fast and hit the right notes with this exercise thing I have but its so boring. Any songs you guys know that maybe I would be familair with that would be easier to learn slow and work up to or any other tips would be sweet, thanks.

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:13 pm

jsgksu wrote:They dont really sound right when played slow, at least I cant sound them out as easily. I guess I should just practice gettin my fingers able to go fast and hit the right notes with this exercise thing I have but its so boring. Any songs you guys know that maybe I would be familair with that would be easier to learn slow and work up to or any other tips would be sweet, thanks.

they aren't supposed to sound right when you play it slow, you do it slow just to get in under your fingers

thejoe · Unread post by **thejoe** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:45 pm

chilli peppers have some nice little leads on californifcation that are proally pretty good for getting the basic thing of learning slowly and memoriazatin down... theyre pretty easy

sigh.. i hate typiing

czech · Unread post by **czech** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:48 pm

fatjack wrote:
jsgksu wrote:They dont really sound right when played slow, at least I cant sound them out as easily. I guess I should just practice gettin my fingers able to go fast and hit the right notes with this exercise thing I have but its so boring. Any songs you guys know that maybe I would be familair with that would be easier to learn slow and work up to or any other tips would be sweet, thanks.
they aren't supposed to sound right when you play it slow, you do it slow just to get in under your fingers

Ya, I am by no means a good guitarist, but when I want to learn something new. I always play at a real low tempo over and over till I have the song memorized, then play at regular speed.

Matty Boom · Unread post by **Matty Boom** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:42 am

To start my lead stuff, I learned your basic pentatonic scales and just started picking stuff up on my own. When you're first starting out, it's pretty easy to play along to a lot of songs with those scales, and then when you start getting better and you start looking at other peoples' solos again, you'll see what they're doing, it'll make more sense, and you'll be able to start doing it better. Just my method.

jsgksu · Unread post by **jsgksu** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:46 am

Matty or anyone wanna give me some sites to learn scales, Ive tried this route before and never come up with anything. That or some songs would be cool.

jsgksu · Unread post by **jsgksu** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:51 am

So can anyone play the lead for ants marching and any other tabs on here for timmys parts, think you could do some recording for me maybe? Im going by daverly's ants tab and havent really looked at much else yet.

By the way, whats the deal with the last part where hes on the 29th fret, what the hell guitar has that many frets?

Matty Boom · Unread post by **Matty Boom** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:05 am

You can use the slide up that high, but there aren't any frets. Just slide closer and closer to the bridge...it's pretty cool. http://www.guitartricks.com/2000/scales.php?input=scale There's a site with some scales...I'm kinda busy at the moment with the calc to really check it out for you. But IM me sometime if those don't help and I can tab them out for you and help you out.

jsgksu · Unread post by **jsgksu** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:07 am

Matty Boom wrote:You can use the slide up that high, but there aren't any frets. Just slide closer and closer to the bridge...it's pretty cool. http://www.guitartricks.com/2000/scales.php?input=scale There's a site with some scales...I'm kinda busy at the moment with the calc to really check it out for you. But IM me sometime if those don't help and I can tab them out for you and help you out.

I got a calc test tomorrow so I know what you mean, just felt like takin a break, thanks man.

Matty Boom · Unread post by **Matty Boom** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:00 am

A MUCH better site for scales, posted by someone last night. http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/g ... ex_rb.html Use that and you'll do fine I think.

bugman96 · Unread post by **bugman96** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 12:19 pm

http://www.zentao.com/guitar

grock · Unread post by **grock** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:08 pm

i found a lot of stuff out by playing different voicings first. like moving that D shape up. like xxx787 is a G chord. then moving the G shape up. like xxx558 is a C Chord. then you start being able to pluck out scale degrees from this. like in G, you know you can play xxx788 or xxx7810 etc. and next thing you know it you have so many chords up there that its all you can do to not be playing a solo. and while i don't bust out a lot of solos yet, i know how to play fills cuz of this.

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