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Jolly McJollyson

03-17-2006, 05:35 AM

So, instead of sleeping last night I learned economy picking. I mean, I knew about it and what it was before, and I'd messed around with it, but I'd never actually sat down and disciplined myself with it. At first the two up or downstrokes in a row are very broken and static, but after twenty or thirty minutes they really start flowing a LOT more smoothly.

jeffhx

03-17-2006, 05:39 AM

interesting... economy picking...

yea so wat is it???never heard of it

Jolly McJollyson

03-17-2006, 05:48 AM

Well, I'm sure you've heard of Alternate picking, right? Up down up down up down ad infinitum. In addition to that technique, there is also sweep picking, which is upstroke up ascending strings and downstroke down descending strings. Economy picking combines the two, using alternate picking on each string, but sweep picking to change strings. Let's say you have a three-note-per-string run up the Am scale. On the low E you'll play 5-7-8- picking Up down Up. Normally with alternate picking, you'd go to the next string and use a downstroke, which most of us naturally do to stay in sync and whatnot. However, it's faster to sweep those two strings with a second upstroke, and the pattern would continue. Honestly, the hardest thing about it is breaking the habit of alt. picking, but all you have to do is start it slowly, which makes habit-breaking simple. Keeping it smooth just takes practice, and as with anything guitar, honestly, your left hand is probably going to slow you down more than your right.

Cryptic Excretions

03-17-2006, 07:33 AM

Sounds cool, I think I may tinker with that idea a bit tonight. It'd be nice to add a new dimension to my sweeping.

Jolly McJollyson

03-17-2006, 08:29 AM

Sometimes I write poetry instead of sleeping.

acapella

03-17-2006, 10:35 AM

Sometimes I go on the computer instead of sleeping. Well, not so much sometimes as always.

earthman buck

03-17-2006, 10:40 AM

On the rare occasions that I can't sleep, it's usually because I'm feeling very aware of everything; almost as if my room is a part of my body (or mind). When I get this way, I just take careful note of exactly how everything looks and feels to me, then write it down, either in poem/song form or just prose.

alucard0941

03-17-2006, 10:46 AM

Man dude, when I read the title of this thread, it thought it was gonna be a dirty story...

Maaaaaan :mad:

acapella

03-17-2006, 10:47 AM

Man dude, when I read the title of this thread, it thought it was gonna be a dirty story...

Maaaaaan :mad:

You're creepy

alucard0941

03-17-2006, 10:55 AM

You're creepy
haha just playing man...

Cryptic Excretions

03-17-2006, 10:56 AM

Sometimes I curse at my neighbors for waking me up at 2:30 in the morning because they were arguing and rather than going to a different part of the house so I couldn't hear it they turn the tv up louder than them.... yeah, that was really gay. I didn't get back to sleep until 4:00.

acapella

03-17-2006, 10:56 AM

haha just playing man...
Leave me alone! Why won't you leave me alone? Help, stranger!

earthman buck

03-17-2006, 10:58 AM

Leave me alone! Why won't you leave me alone? Help, stranger!
I'll save you!
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d51/ab200/sailor.jpg

acapella

03-17-2006, 11:00 AM

:eek: Stop stealing Akira's humor style!

earthman buck

03-17-2006, 11:02 AM

:eek: Stop stealing Akira's humor style!
No. I'm like Akira-lite: same sort of thing, but less good.

acapella

03-17-2006, 11:03 AM

No. I'm like Akira-lite: same sort of thing, but less good.

Your MOM isn't as good

earthman buck

03-17-2006, 11:05 AM

Your MOM isn't as good
At least my mom isn't stackny's mom.

acapella

03-17-2006, 11:06 AM

At least your mom...loves...you....*bursts into tears*

jeffhx

03-17-2006, 11:34 AM

dude!!! i do the same thing!!! either that or photography... or digital art... yea i love to draw thru photoshop... i have this little stickman dude that represents me...

either that or i drink and get high so that everything in my world seem like a better place... like now... i love GT man

cheers mates

Jolly McJollyson

03-17-2006, 11:56 AM

PRSplaya

03-17-2006, 12:42 PM

I find that I usually economy pick. I do more alt. picking, but if I pay attention to how I'm picking, I realize that I'm economy picking as well. Also, if I pay attention to how I'm picking, it screws me all up. For instance, I was running through a pentatonic scale the other day, and decided to slow down to see how I was picking each note. Well, I couldn't even make it to the 3rd string withought screwing up. So I said the heck with it and played at normal speed, not paying attention to how I was playing, and had no trouble at all. :confused:

Oh, and things I do instead of sleeping..... I usually come up with my coolest riffs late at night, when I'm tired and should be sleeping. So, I just piddle around on my guitar, and keep Sonar handy for when/if I come up with something cool. I also draw a lot (digital art) in Illustrator. I've pretty much become obsessed with it.

ericthecableguy

03-17-2006, 12:49 PM

I also come up with my best riffs late at night. I think it's because my mind isn't in the same place it is in the daytime, so I have different playing habits.

I also find it easier to record at night.

jiujitsu_jesus

03-17-2006, 01:32 PM

If I can't sleep, I usually study for Legal Studies. That gets me back to sleep soon enough.

earthman buck

03-17-2006, 02:06 PM

So, when you're high?
No sir! Down with dope, up with hope!

jeffhx

03-17-2006, 02:08 PM

when ur'e high... inspiration comes in a snap...

and ull become more creative

aschleman

03-17-2006, 02:23 PM

when ur'e high... inspiration comes in a snap...

and ull become more creative

Studies show that with marijuana... that is, infact, correct... BUT only in people that have a naturally creative mind. In people that scored well in an artistic and creative portion of an aptitude test showed that it enhances the senses and stimulates the mind to act in a way that makes certain things standout. Like certain sounds or patterns of sound (as with guitar). Some subjects were able to pick out certain sounds that they weren't able to pick out when they did the control experiment in a sober state... Some people react to different patterns of light or colors as well... The subjects that scored well on the scholastic portion of the placement test were found to have more of a depressent reaction to the drug. The subjects overall senses were dulled and weren't any more or less creative. Brain function was slowed in an experiment that tested basic mathematics and literary skills... The numbers were obviously a lot lower in the literary skills but surpriseingly not significantly lower on mathematics... It was thought that since basic math is done in a different portion of the brain than deductive reasoning marijuana only effects certain parts of the brain or certain functions of the brain... That was a little bit from a research paper I did in high school....

jiujitsu_jesus

03-17-2006, 03:11 PM

Studies show that with marijuana... that is, infact, correct... BUT only in people that have a naturally creative mind. In people that scored well in an artistic and creative portion of an aptitude test showed that it enhances the senses and stimulates the mind to act in a way that makes certain things standout. Like certain sounds or patterns of sound (as with guitar). Some subjects were able to pick out certain sounds that they weren't able to pick out when they did the control experiment in a sober state... Some people react to different patterns of light or colors as well... The subjects that scored well on the scholastic portion of the placement test were found to have more of a depressent reaction to the drug. The subjects overall senses were dulled and weren't any more or less creative. Brain function was slowed in an experiment that tested basic mathematics and literary skills... The numbers were obviously a lot lower in the literary skills but surpriseingly not significantly lower on mathematics... It was thought that since basic math is done in a different portion of the brain than deductive reasoning marijuana only effects certain parts of the brain or certain functions of the brain... That was a little bit from a research paper I did in high school....

Bottom line: drugs are pointless. Don't touch 'em.

ericthecableguy

03-17-2006, 03:33 PM

It's funny. To me drugs have just been like wearing a dress-something I just didn't want to do. I was never afraid of them, I just never felt like filling myself up with smoke to look cool for the guys.

jeffhx

03-17-2006, 08:06 PM

hmm.. interesting point... perhaps i can take this issue into consideration as an experiment for my shrink study thingy....

rockonn91

03-17-2006, 08:32 PM

i dont like shrinks. they freak me out.

jeffhx

03-17-2006, 08:36 PM

generally ppl hate shrinks... why is that???!!! shrinks are kind and helpful people... lol... tht sounded abit scary but... y do shrinks freak u out?

rockonn91

03-17-2006, 08:43 PM

just how they talk to you. its supposed to be so soothing or whatever, but it always ends up making me want to punch their faces in.

now if i came into an office with someone who talks to me like a normal person... that would work.

R. Shackleferd

03-17-2006, 08:50 PM

generally ppl hate shrinks... why is that???!!! shrinks are kind and helpful people... lol... tht sounded abit scary but... y do shrinks freak u out?
Cuz they answer everything with a question...you're well on your way. How does that make you feel? j/k:rolleyes:

jiujitsu_jesus

03-17-2006, 08:56 PM

i dont like shrinks. they freak me out.

I'm thinking about becoming a shrink... I guess I'm destined to be a pariah :o

rockonn91

03-17-2006, 09:04 PM

no man... NOT YOU TOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*backs away with sheer horror*

jiujitsu_jesus

03-17-2006, 09:06 PM

no man... NOT YOU TOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*backs away with sheer horror*

*speaks in breathy, soothing voice* Relax, rockonn. Why don't you sit down and tell me about your childhood?

:rolleyes:

jeffhx

03-17-2006, 09:37 PM

LMAO!! imagine michael jackson's saying that man... that is downright freaky

geez guys... i guess it depends on the shrink... its good feedback..so i know how to go my way arnd it in the future... replying with too much questions is annoying huh... well i dont really think i wanna be like the ones u see in movies... i have passion for the anatomical side of psychology... yessss yesss

*thunder crashes

mwahahahahaha.... the braaaaiinnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!! yesss yessssssssss

earthman buck

03-17-2006, 10:03 PM

6strngs_2hmbkrs

03-17-2006, 10:21 PM

Up down up down up down ad infinitum.
yep, that's what I do instead of sleeping :D

jeffhx

03-17-2006, 10:25 PM

Jolly McJollyson

03-17-2006, 10:56 PM

yep, that's what I do instead of sleeping :D
HA! excellent.

rockonn91

03-18-2006, 10:13 AM

*fixes glasses due to slap... runs to 19th century car in white lab coat... opens door starts engine..."COMEEEEEEE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKKKKK YOU EARTHMAAAANNNN!!!

*thunder crash

youuuu da devillll you da deviiiiillllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!
*rockonn still backed into corner*

*starts rocking back and fourth saying "not you too... NOT YOU TOO!"*