To Shred or Not to Shred
As you may have read - I've picked up the guitar again, my excitement reignited thanks in part to the new guitar and mostly to the encouragement of my wonderful wifey.
Over the last year or so I haven't played that much. My technique is a bit sloppy now and my fingers rather slow. In some ways I actually think I'm a better player than I was in my uni days where I played regularly.
That's down to having a bit more taste, experience and having listened to a lot more music. Yet the truth is it was around the time I started uni that I stopped learning and practising technique.
I felt I'd learned enough - or at least learned the stuff I could manage without dull practice. But now I've a yearning to actually learn some new chops, I don't know if I can get my fingers as fast they were when I was 21, but I'd love to be able to get them playing some more interesting stuff.
So I've actually bought my first guitar technique book since I was a teenager. I'm going back to school. I'm going to be practising scales again like a beginner. But hopefully I'll be a much better guitarist for it.
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19/05/08 @ 13:50
Yeah, being a guitarist and being a musician often don't overlap
19/05/08 @ 16:20
There's more overlap than there is with drummers.