What is the best way to practice this?

Hello guitarist. Id like you to shed some light on this. How do i practice this kind of playing? the kind of crazy acoustic improvisation thing. Id imagine if i knew this track id be able to get more into that kind of playing and it would be easier for me to play stuff like this?

Joe Bonamassa: woke up dreaming.... This is really a sick track! The tab is useless in my oppinion..

Any one have any good routines or drills? It's not so much the single note thing i can't get down. It's more the constant fast strumming.

Oh sorry. the link is here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulKEiHCx-k

The best way? By sleeping, eating, and breathing with your guitar 24/7! :D

Good question though, because it's hard to explain!

I would say this is a mixture between bluegrass technique (fast picking and lots of pull-offs and hammer-ons) and funk technique (all the loose stuff where his hand is off the guitar).

I would check out some really good funk players and practice "skank" technique, which means hitting single notes with BIG moves with your hand (you have to be really good at muting the strings you don't want to sound with your fretting hand).

I don't know if anyone played like this (not the bluegrass stuff) before Hendrix, but he's the first I've seen. Check out Killing Floor at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifIkNi6Ei6Q

He plays like this in many other songs too.

To sum up: Bluegrass and Funk mixed in a bluesy way!

It's pretty sick. ill try to work on it. Thanks Ben

If what you are after is playing that riff up to speed, I have some suggestions.

The main riff he is talking about doesn't appear to be too crazy, and as he mentioned it's a fairly traditional blues pattern sped up. Watch the video, and try and catch onto what he is playing at the beginning and work with a metronome to keep it up to speed (around 160.)

I know this sounds basic, but there are times when that basic routine is the best way to go. Start slow, and work your way up. By what I have heard of your playing, you are in the groove of the blues feel but with this it's a matter of you getting it up to speed. Treat the same way as any other fast lick you are trying to learn.

Hopefully this helps? :confused:

Thank you Douglas :) good to hear from you again. And i will try to figure it out. It's actually beginning to come to me. but i have to be properly warmed up really!..

can you guys play this one Doug and Ben? :)

I am not familiar with this one no, but it sounds like a really cool song. I

I think playing this song will also do great things for your technique all around, so keep working through it. To me, learning songs you love that make you a better player is a great way to practice always. Keep it up!

:eek:

Thank you Doug. Your words have always been a real inspiration to me. It makes me happy and makes me want to play even more.

If i lived oversea in the states, id buy you a beer :)

Have a good one!