Trying to learn a song

long4theblur · Post by **long4theblur** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:33 am

Is damn near impossible when you're trying literally the minute you wake up. Your fingers and your brain are in different universes.

Spoke · Post by **Spoke** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:42 am

long4theblur wrote:Your fingers and your brain are in different universes.

Sounds like my last date.

Hunter/Killer · Post by **Hunter/Killer** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:49 am

i have the same problem if im playing in a cold room

Cheyenne fucking Buffet · Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:50 am

Well, it's probably due to the fact that you've been sleeping.

Kellan · Post by **Kellan** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:01 pm

well your body was just asleep, so it takes time to wake up.
Eat, shower, make sure you're clean (paticularly your hands), run through some scales for about 15 minutes at least, and then try to play.
It takes me about at least an hour of scales, songs, practicing in general till I'm really "in the zone" per se. But after that I can nail all kinds of shit.
But the time is all relative to how complicated the stuff you're playing is gonna be. It doesn't take me an hour to warm up to power chord progressions. Takes me an hour to warm up to nailing fast 6 string sweeps cleanly.

But the most important part I think is cleanliness. If my hands are sweaty and shit from the night before, forget about it. I play like shit.
Even if I haven't taken a shower, I kinda play shitty. Anyone else experience this too?

dead forever · Post by **dead forever** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:23 pm

Marry me.

SuicideNote · Post by **SuicideNote** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:52 pm

Kellan wrote:well your body was just asleep, so it takes time to wake up.
Eat, shower, make sure you're clean (paticularly your hands), run through some scales for about 15 minutes at least, and then try to play.
It takes me about at least an hour of scales, songs, practicing in general till I'm really "in the zone" per se. But after that I can nail all kinds of shit.
But the time is all relative to how complicated the stuff you're playing is gonna be. It doesn't take me an hour to warm up to power chord progressions. Takes me an hour to warm up to nailing fast 6 string sweeps cleanly.

But the most important part I think is cleanliness. If my hands are sweaty and shit from the night before, forget about it. I play like shit.
Even if I haven't taken a shower, I kinda play shitty. Anyone else experience this too?

An hour? Wow.

long4theblur · Post by **long4theblur** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:47 pm

I think this is due not to me just being asleep but the fact I just put brand new low gauge strings on last night.

Hunter/Killer · Post by **Hunter/Killer** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:01 pm

if i just woke up and lying in bed doing nothing, the few times i got up to play because i had a riff in my head. i didn't have much trouble. just got the shit down, recorded it if possible and leave it
go jack off in the shower and probably come up with more shit to add to it, then go dick around somemore on guitar

Dimejandro · Post by **Dimejandro** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:10 pm

Kellan wrote: But the most important part I think is cleanliness. If my hands are sweaty and shit from the night before, forget about it. I play like shit.
Even if I haven't taken a shower, I kinda play shitty. Anyone else experience this too?

yeah man, me too (kinda). I dont like to play guitar unless my hands are washed and clean. I'm really picky with my left hand contact with the neck and fretboard.

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