are there any particular scales you know that help you get faster? i've been workin on stream for awhile but i'm like a centimeter from moving as fast as tim does on the intro and the part after it but jsut can't seem to get over the hill... ne tips?
Stream is the song that got my speed up to par... took me 9 months of hard work but I got it. Mostly I just took the parts slow enough that I could play them smoothly and moved up the tempo gradually until I could play it fast. As for exercises to help you out, really any scale will do fine to assist you. Learn major scales all over the neck in different posistions, play chromatic scales, anything that keeps you alternate picking and moving across strings. The scale that Tim uses for the bridge is D mixyolydian since the overall tonality is a D7 chord. That scale is D E F# G A B C D. Another scale that I like to use is a mode of the melodic minor scale, and is just like mixolydian except for one note, D E F# G# A B C D. This called D lydian dominant if you want a name for it. D major pentatonic/B minor petatonic are also present in Tim's playing and work well in the piece. There are probably others too but that's good enough to start out with. Working with a metronome will help you out a lot. The 'verse' idea lies kind of weird against a metronome so beware of that, but it really does help.
ii used the G Maj scale to speed up e-----------------------------5-7-8 B-----------------------5-7-8 G-----------------4-5-7 D------------4-5-7 A------3-5-7 E-3-5-7
good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody
"Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?" -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
any certain scales.....
Posted - 05/24/2003 : 11:46:28 AM
