How well does your playing 'flow?'


TheElectricSnep
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09/08/2002 8:01 pm
I thought I'd ask you all as it's something I've been working on lately.

What I'm talking about is getting all the parts together, like intro, verse chords, choras chords, guitar breaks and solo so they flow together without messy little breaks between them. It's the kind of thing a good 'lone guitarist' masters...people like Page, Hendrix etc who dont have another player to cover up if they go wrong.

Sometimes it's hard to do a break and then remember what chord you have to come back in on. Similarly if I've improvised a solo, I might end up in a place I didn't intend and think 'help! how do I get back to where I need to be?!'

For those of you who know the song I've tried practicing along with the Smashing Pumpkins 'Bury Me' which is possible with only one guitar....I'm almost getting it to run through smoothly, the main problem is the solo and then getting back to the D chord as the choras bit starts imediately after the solo. Plus I've learned everything by ear and worked out the best way of playing the song for me, which may not be exactly how James Iha did it.

So how well do you guys do it and how much playing in bands or in your room did it take you to get that flow in your music?
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09/11/2002 9:48 am
No replies??? Come on people, get yer heads out of politics and back into the guitar!
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09/11/2002 10:33 am
ok man ive only been playin for 6 months but i can play **** like dream on enter sandman the world is a vampire one all the metallica somgs what i do is. u play the song till u learn it can have breaks in it and then while ur playin learn to like watch tv or listen to a different song that way u dont have to look where ur goin u allready know just get familiar with ur fret board in other words. oh yea do u know how to drop d and down tune?
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09/11/2002 10:36 am
come on dude i answered u the least u can do is answer back
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09/12/2002 9:45 am
ok when i tune it do i tune it open or on a cer tain fret and ive droped all me strings a note before is that how u do it

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09/12/2002 9:55 am
Thankyou ganjasaurous420 unfortunately I can't be on the board all the time.

Yes I do know how to drop D tune, I've tried it on bury me as the song is in D but I actually find it easier on the open tuning.
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09/12/2002 10:00 am
ok so when i drop tune i drop my e to7b my a toe and so on but when i drop my fat e to do do i tune iit open or on fretboard?

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