Hello,
i have practised on many things, bends, vibrato, trill,
scales, arpeggios, chords, rhythm, tapping, songs, theory, sight reading, transcribing, fingerstyle, slide guitar,
i feel i am into a rut, can you tell me something else to try, what do you do when you are into a rut?

Blues Shredder

Have you ever thought of being in a band and doing that thing?????? That will keep you interested.

zepo's got it right, man. If you're not in a band, just what is you're practicing for???

If all you ever do is play with yourself, there's a word for that. One not commonly associated with guitar! :D

Youve had two good reply's. And apart from the beauty of playing with others( in the guitar/band sense ) if you **** up you can learn from the other's advice/input. Or the moment you drop a clanger stop playing and use a get out of jail phrase, like, angon my amps crackling, or my guitar has gone out of tune, then go red, kick yourself and hope youve not be caught out in youre dispicable ruse.

Riff and be merry....

Write a song. Or a ditty.

You can do what I like to do sometimes if I'm by myself. Put the Eric Clapton "Blues" cd on and play along with Eric. Most of the songs only have 3 basic chords that I can take and improvise and just make solos and play along with Eric.

By the way it's a really good cd. It a 2 disc set (one studio blues and the other live blues). It's got a lot of good classics.

Try that, it might help.

Why don't you learn how to do some artificial harmonics?


Kirk Hammett is God!!!