Re: Stick Tune - Happy Together
Jzzb8ovn wrote:
yes that is sweet. Very happy tune indeed
Staying happy. Gotta play happy tunes! I bet you would slay this one, Rob! It was pretty easy, and it's a lot of fun!
BSharp wrote:
The luxury is fast approaching. Stylized bass and melody voices together. Bass 4ths tuning serving you well. Blazing lead guitar lines to follow.
Thanks for checking it out. I have some hurdles to overcome before I can do some of that "next level" stuff, but it's coming. Blazing "lead Stick" lines to follow, complete with a refusal to compromise the bottom end. Coming soon.
rodan07 wrote:
Loved it. My band covers that tune! You've come so far in the last year. How do you do it?
R
Thanks for checking it out, man!
Good question. I still suck, but I am getting better and making steady progress I believe. I play a lot!
The "real" improvement came once I addressed the issue that I was actually having troubles with. Simply put, it was "dealing simultaneously with two separate things". Once I realized that it was my ability to multitask that was the heart of the problem, I devised a bunch of strategies to deal with that. Sightreading is the best way (for me) to deal with the issue in a focused manner. It started off pretty slow, but I noticed immediate gains. There is a lot more to it than simply reading down "Twinkle, Twinkle", but that's a major component. I started out with a bit of an advantage, 'cause I play other instruments well, and am a music school grad with a ton of performance and recording experience. Anyways, the repertoire composition and improv are side effects of this...
It's allowed me to take what I can already do on a guitar or a bass and leverage it in a practical manner. And in very, very reasonable timeframes. More practice time equals more improvement, which was not the case previously. I started out by running myself into a wall. Very frustrating. I'm past it, though.
I've been through the Stick Book, GH Songbook and Stickology pretty completely since, but it's the Free Hands book that seems to keep yielding new information, even on topics I thought I'd covered pretty completely.