which technique would you like to master?

[lalimacefolle]

Include the particular lick/song/player that makes you want to master it.

I would love to master IA's (from http://www.freakkitchen.com ) use of natural harmonics... I mean that guy knows EVERY HARMONIC'S PITCH!! even the ones you find at the bottom of the neck, like Jaco Pastorius used to do!! So he makes his guitar sound like a whammy, but without a whammy... And he plays entire solos with harmonics... Not written out ones, he improvises!

[trebledamage]

I would like to get a really solid foundation in jazz. That's my main goal Also, I would really like to learn how to do some of Jeff Beck's crazy guitar licks.

[Zeppelin]

hmmm
probably the good old lazy by deep purple. and their "painter" as well..
i also like to imrpove my sweep picking, because now i cant sweep at all...

[James]

hmm... which technique...

I'd say that right now that would be some Yngwie-like speed.

[crazyguy]

I've just started getting into jazz, but there's still some listening to be done. Presently, I'm trying to figure out Buckethead-type cheesy/crazy/sick SF noises. I want my guitar to sound like a madman tied down, trying to break loose.

[Incidents Happen]

Trey Anastasio/Jerry Garcia

[Sivert Skaaren]

hmm.. well..
Technique?
i think i know the techniques i want to learn,
only i need to learn to be more accurate(alot more too)...
as a shredder, i've found out that what i want to play,
i can learn.. as long as i can figure out the notation,
and the best way to play it(fingering).. but i'm a lazy
guy too.. only learn the start of songs i like.. cause
i don't have motivation(and maybe too little time) to
learn whole songs.. anyway.. if i was more accurate,
it would help me alot.. maybe if i knew the fretboard
alittle better (when we're talking sheet music).. and
alot of more time.. at least i'll get a good time next
year (going to a rock-school for a year).. then i'll
improve and only play guitar all day long.. = )

[kristian]

id like to play blues like clapton and SRV. claptons melodic awareness is amazing. anyone who hears him play, would probably be moved to tears. silky smooth and piercing bends. SRV on the other hand is agressive. i like his percussive stuff.

[u10ajf]

I've started playing piano and find it much more fun than guitar 'cause you can play counterpoint stuff and that's pretty taxing for me. I really love the guitar though, there's nothing like it for expressiveness but you can play more combinations of notes on a keyboard. I'd like to redress the balance by playing the wrong way round (I.e with my more coordinated hand on the fretboard) and becoming ambidextrous. Then maybe I'll be able to play a double neck like MIcheal Angelo has and arrange some piano music for guitar. I'd love to hear some Gottschalk on Guitar. The other thing I'd love to learn would be the fretless bass, it's a beautiful instrument and the bass can be a beautifully percussive or really soft sounding instrument - there's a greater range of dynamics to it than guitar I think.

[Kevin Taylor]

I'd like to master the technique of making a multitrack recording of my playing without it giving me the heeby jeebies when I listen back to it. Just once I'd like to record a song or a solo where it actually gives ME the shivers and makes me proud as hell instead of putting knots in my stomache and making me think later 'what the hell was I thinking?'

[lalimacefolle]

Originally posted by schmange
'what the hell was I thinking?'

That's why a lot of artists take drugs, because it's an excuse or a way not to ask that question...

[fendermonkey77]

Here's my wishlist:

1. Learn to read standard notation proficiently.
2. Build a foundation in Jazz.
3. Play some of Eric Johnson's stuff really well.

ETA: NEVER....never enough time to work on the things you love.

[lalimacefolle]

Originally posted by fendermonkey77

1. Learn to read standard notation proficiently.
2. Build a foundation in Jazz.
3. Play some of Eric Johnson's stuff really well.



I think the first two are really intertwined, and as you go better in Jazz, your reading will improve (use some easy reading stuff but read read read, it comes fast if you have discipline)

AS for Eric Johnson, dang that's not an easy task...

[educatedfilm]

play jazz in general... I've learnt a few jazzy songs but i dont know the ideas behind them.
Improve my rythem, I'm ok when acompanied by drums a metronome whatever, but when I play guitar along, I speed up and slow down unintentionaly, and lose count of the bars sometimes, which is really really embarasing when you play something with a band and you go past thier cue to come in.:C
Learn (well improve) to sing while playing, a task i've found nearly impossible... I have to stop singing to play :(

[lalimacefolle]

Originally posted by educatedfilm
Learn (well improve) to sing while playing, a task i've found nearly impossible... I have to stop singing to play :(

That's what made BB king play like he does, this dialog between Him and his Guitar...

[educatedfilm]

:)... That's sort of what I do... oh yeah i forgot to mention, some one mentioned being ambidextrous... Well, guess what I can do, yep play both ways... I prefer lefthanded, and I play with the strings the other way round ie 1st to 6th would be (E A D G B E)... It's not that useful to be honest, just lets you try out all the guitars in the shops, and get the odd looks when you pick up a right handed guitar and play with it upside down (actaully, a couple of things I've found are easier to play the wrong way round, like radiohead's pyramid song)...

[lalimacefolle]

I think the bluesman Coco MONTOYA does it that way too!! First time I saw a tape was pretty weird!! Bar chords are hell with that way of playing, aren't they?

[educatedfilm]

actaully they're not that bad, people are shocked when I do it, but seriously it's really easy, it's just because poeple haven't tried it...
Boby Womac, Gryff Reec (from the superfurrie animals) and jimi (form the doves with a bass) all do that..

It's really wierd though when you first try it the other way, it feel like your starting all over again, and it boosts your ego (which is good when your not very confident like myself) as you reilize you've come a long way..

I recomend trying... it also makes you light on your toes, and for some reason you get to know the frett board better... but that really for beginers and not pros like your self..

[OmegaMonster]

Here's one for you guys...how 'bout the fast extended lick at the end of "For the Love of God" by Steve Vai?! It's incredibly clean, fast, accurate, passionate and intense. If you've heard the song, you'll probably know the lick I'm talking about.

[pstring]

The one technique I have always wanted to master, is where I play the guitar and someone gives me millions of dollars for doing it, if I could just learn that secret......

[OmegaMonster]

Hey pstring...when you that guitar trick down pat - fill me in on the finer points of that guitar trick!

[pstring]

Hey Bro, their keeping that one a secret! But if I do figure it out I'll post it in the tricks section.......

[u10ajf]

I've just been listening to Pink Floyd division bell. Forget the shredmeisters, I'd far rather have
Gilmour's strain of talent, a remarkable ear for melodically interesting and yet contagious solos
that have a life of their own and make people want to sing and dance! What a dude, if you've not heard division bell give it a try, it's my favourite floyd album but I've not heard them all.

[snimbkar]

I guess I'd have to say , The ability To be able to play anything that one hears in their head. Regardless of style. Sometimes I get a classical-esque or Funk type riff in my head but can't play it because I am not that comfortable with those styles of music....yet.

[Raskolnikov]

I'd like to invent something totally new and master that.

[gooey_dan]

What technique would I like to learn?
I want to be able to get more 'contrast'
between my notes in my solos. I've learned some
good scales, but I seem to simply play the notes in a generally ascending/descending order, not very surprising or interesting to the ear if done all the time. I mix the notes up, but they are close together in the scale. I really just need to get my high 'screaming' notes to be higher, and my low, 'heavy' bass notes to seem lower. I can't ever seem to get it to sound good.

[Azrael]

...

One trick to rule them all... (labels)
One trick to find them.. (groupies)
One trick to bring them all.. (to my gigs)
and in concert bind them! (fans)

:D

-=[Azrael]=-

[mwwagg]

I'd like to say i would like to play faster or better and cleaner but thats not what i'm really striving for...

Frank Zappa said "The hardest thing i have ever been able to do is create melody"

I would like to be able to pick up a guitar and play melodious solos, not mindless shred cause anyone including myself can do that, I want my solos to send shivers down ppls' backs and make the backrow of ppl curl up in the foetal position.....

Later....