Adele
Posted Sat, 05/23/2015 - 13:34 by Jannekedalemans
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- Tongue Blocking Study 2 – This study is for the newer player or the player new to tongue blocking
- Bending Study 5 – This is for the advanced player looking to improve their bending skills
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Great!
Good work Jan! You have a nice single note delivery and a good feel for this melody. If I were to offer a smal criticism, and it is small, I would say that sometimes your phrases tail off a bit thin at the end. That may be planned, of course, in which case it's a subtle choice! Nice job though and I enjoyed listening.
Very well played, Nice sound,
Very well played,
Nice sound, and precision in hitting the notes. It's even better than your previous share.
Luckyharp
Thank you lucky harp, indeed, try to play these melodic songs for trying to improve the sound and the precicion of my notes, there in known songs like these you emidiately hear when your off. But can I ask you Something? If I play melodic songs which requier bends, just don't sound exact exact, do you know what I mean? Even though I dear saying from myself that I control all my bend pretty accurate. I love all the bends, and like using them as much as I can when playing blues, but in covering these songs I tend to look for songs that require a minimum of bends. Can you share your opinion?? Grts, jan
To answer to your question, I
To answer to your question, I can tell you this:
Once I asked to my teacher (David) "I play my repertoire and I find I always do some mistake, nothing that stops me in the execution but small details that I forget....". He told me "The perfect execution is not a must, you should decide how many errors are good to you".
I was suprised and I asked the same thing to another well known teacher, he told me "I think I never played a entire song perfectly in my life."
Said this, we should always work trying to better our playing but without stressing the concept. If a bend is not perfect who cares ?, it depends from how much distant is the note from the correct pitch. 10%, 20% ? a 50% distance means a quarter tone, probably too much, I don't know. Try to make it to sound nice to you, your audience won't be always a crow of well trained music player or listeners :)
I was really concerned about to play perfectly until I start to jam with others in pubs or on the streets. It's always funny and we get our short time of glory. Do we miss notes ? Of course! :)
Great motivation, thanks!
Great motivation, thanks!
Adele
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