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Brian has posed this question several times: If someone handed you a guitar and asked you to play something, what would you play? So I would like to add to that question: And how perfectly could you play it?
So for this video, I just grabbed a guitar, hit the Record button, and played whatever came into my head. I didn’t run through it a couple of times to get some ideas, I just tried to play everything totally impromptu. Then I watched the video to analyze the mistakes I made, and see if I could figure out why I made them. And the answer is: They are caused by momentary lapses of attention. If I’m playing along, and a thought enters my head, like “OK, that sounded pretty good”, a mistake will happen. And my conclusion is: I need to learn to play without allowing any words to come into my head. That is, I need to think less.
Sunjamr Steve
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Nicely played Steve and your vids are as entertaining as I remember them.
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Well done mate. I heard a guitar teacher say something the other day that stuck in my puny brain – the most important thing is the rhythm section & it’s the lead guitars job to make the rhythm section sound good – hence his point was that the ultimate aim is to play the chord changes rather than thinking and playing scales. That way you’re lead is in harmony with the rhythm section’s harmony I guess.
Anyway … you kept the rhythm going well & that’s where it’s at. 😀
Be kind to yourself (especially when you're trying to play this instrument!)
Brian Clough“Got a lotta sinful ideas but they seem kinda sensible” Jim Casy the ex-preacher in The Grapes Of Wrath
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Very educative post, Steve! I didn´t even know what is Shure MV-88, you gave me a good idea to improve my recording quality. Interesting, does it fits to Huavei cell too or needs some additional connecting soft?
Well played lesson indeed.
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That’s a really interesting idea that you put into action and one that I will try for myself. I suppose it helps if you have a certain level of technique and a nice sounding guitar but in the end it was just you and your lightly farting brain (hope that wasn’t a misprint and you meant Brian instead)
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A fantastic idea and a great learning lesson for us all Steve. Love the speech bubbles along the way allowing us to know your train of thought. I’ll try this later on today and see what happens! Although I think I already know the outcome! I also really admire you’re ability to take the risk and lay it all on the line and share with the AM community. All the best!
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You hit the nail on its head, Steve! The pesky random thoughts and focus lapses are my single most annoying problems during video recording. If I just think something was wrong with one note somewhere I am sure to totally screw it up soon afterwards. I really don’t know what to do about it.
As for your playing, this familiar song and the groove is in my permanent line-up and I also experiment with different ideas. Your tasty 4th position trips showed you know the fretboard very well, triads and all. I couldn’t tell any “brain farts”, not that I would focus on them anyway because you proved you can grab a guitar and just play and that’s a skill!
I didn’t realize it until I saw your video but sometimes my best playing is when I just pick up a guitar and play (something) without recording. Maybe I should place a 24/7 surveillance cam in my house and use those recordings? 😉
🎸JoLa
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First, hats off for having the courage to try that Steve. But it sounded great and I’d have been happy with that after hours of practice. But you’re analysis was really interesting too. So often I find I make mistakes on ‘easy’ passages immediately after a ‘hard’ passage, its like my brain is so taken up with that hard passage that I forget what to do next.
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Good motto, think less when playing. Great delivery with an inbuilt educational video that not only gives purpose but raises the topic of why we make mistakes. You need a fluent vocabulary to improvise like that over the fretboard so kudos to you for the courage and great result in doing this. There was some channeling of a familiar lesson woven in there too which worked seamlessly in with your own licks.
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I bit my teeth out about this beautiful fingerstyle lesson which I left aside..
You played it very fluently and with good dynamics. Very nice sounding guitar.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. Good advice, to think less and to play more (no matter about mistakes).There is one thing I noticed: some higher notes sound a bit “synthesized”, especially at 2:29, I don’t know if this is due to the recording?
Denise
More Blues!
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What a Huge sound from that baby Taylor! That mic attachment is pretty cool, I’ve never seen that before but it seems to work great, sounds like I’m right there. A cool concept to follow up on. It’s a testament to your skill that you can just pick up a guitar and have at her. That percussive groove was solid and bold. All your licks flowed in nicely. Whatever ‘mistakes’ you told us you made, didn’t sound like mistakes to me. It’s real, it’s raw, it’s what music sounds like. Nice one Steve!
JFL
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