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The proof of muscle memorie (session 4)


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hello folks,

something amazing happened to me today.

I have practiced session 4 (except sharp and flats) over and over and part of my warming up is the octave exercise.

In the beginning i had to say the notes in my head, ee-ff-gg-aa... and i could do this exercise at 50bpm but part of my mind slowed me down because of that counting in my head.

Than the first part (ascending) went naturaly without saying the notes but the descending part still slowed me down because i had to say the notes.

Now my fingers know where they have to go (ascending and descending) and i tried to do the exercise while watching tv and without saying the notes.I speed up the metronome and suddenly I can do the octave exercise alternating 3-4 times in a row without stopping or mistakes at 80bpm!

This really is a proof what muscle memorie can do :) 

I am very happy with this and i gonna watch the session 4 dvd completely today so i can start with the sharp and flats.

greetings from belgium

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Great progress Limatje!  Thanks for telling us about this.

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Weel done Limatje! Keep us posted on how the sharps and flats are coming along, I will start those myself once I build up more speed on the 5th and 6th strings exercises.

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thanks matonanjin,

@guitarben i will keep you posted. It's cool that you are also following session 4 at this moment :)

I will at least practice sharp and flats and the whole session four until end februari.

i will see from there if i gonna move on to session 5 in march or stay a few more weeks.

Ps, what songs are you practicing in the easy pop melodies? I like to play dust in the wind and stand by me but now i can choose a couple of songs with sharp and flats too.

greetings

 

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19 hours ago, Limatje said:

@guitarben i will keep you posted. It's cool that you are also following session 4 at this moment :)

I will at least practice sharp and flats and the whole session four until end februari.

i will see from there if i gonna move on to session 5 in march or stay a few more weeks.

Ps, what songs are you practicing in the easy pop melodies? I like to play dust in the wind and stand by me but now i can choose a couple of songs with sharp and flats too.

greetings

 

Yes it is cool! It seems that we are the two people on session 4 right now so we get to learn and grow together. I am really looking forward to the sharps and flats, this will allow us to play any music (in the first position) from sheet music without tabs. 

In Easy pop melodies I have been practicing every song that we covered so far. I have an older edition which does not have Dust in the wind, so I can play Mull of Kintyre, When I need you, Let it Be, House of the rising sun and Book of love with the backing tracks. The 5th and 6th strings have "unlocked" Don't be cruel and All my loving, which I can play at the proper tempo but I didn't try them with the backing tracks yet.

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that new version has a lot of other songs then those that you mentioned . And with the sharps and flats i can choose some other songs, i think i will go for i shot the sheriff first :)

And i am glad that there is at least 1 other student in session 4, so keep me posted about your progress at well. I've practiced the sharp and flats a bit today and it was confusing at first but like every new part i am going to get used to it. I can play fur elise already :)

greetings and have a lot of practice fun

 

 

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Every edition of Easy pop melodies has a total of 20 songs.

Lert's keep each other posted, and good luck on the flats and sharps!

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I think most of us have had problems with the Octave jumps. After reading your posts I went back to see if I could complete it error free. I failed miserably. Felt like I was playing an 8 string guitar with moving frets.

I was reading my Acoustic Guitar January 2018 yesterday when I came across an interesting article on playing faster by practicing slowly. Here is the link if you're interested. 

http://acousticguitar.com/video-lesson-learn-to-play-fast-by-practicing-slowly/?utm_source=Acoustic+Guitar&utm_campaign=bb28dbf134-AGN_RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e3d13d8433-bb28dbf134-73770213&mc_cid=bb28dbf134&mc_eid=6c94c50776

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hey tim, thanks for the link, i gonna look at it when i have time. lol, an 8th string with moving frets :)

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