CraigHollander
Blues Newbie
Hi Braylon
All of us have things that work for us . What happens though is it is very easy to become Tab Dependent. Orchestra yes play from sheet music but bar band professional rockers blues players do not read tab when performing they have. it memorized and when you memorize I would think you really have the lick ingrained in your head and fingers. Maybe I was unclear not playing with tab or video is after you have the general timing and have the notes memorized . Griff I think does say in multiple videos to memorize the licks.
I think what was happening to me was even when I memorized the licks I was sometimes screwing up timing. The licks are movable as to when you are improvising what beat they start on but some things sound better then other I suggest when trying to get comfortable with the backing tracks what works for me is use the same starting beat as griff uses initially for that lick .
What I added recently that is helping me as some put it feel the pulse and the chord tones by ear to stay tighter is what I said above . Listen to the sound of the lick from start to end point . Once I learn it to me I just think of the BPM speed 1 2 3 4 I know if its triplets sixteenth or sextuplet or eighths etc so since I have it memorized at that point if I start at the right place and I listened to the speed of the song and I have the sound of especially the tonal center in my head because a ton of this resolves to the root or if not the root where its got to get to it kinda starting to just work?
I forgot earlier something so easy that I never did before but helped me a ton. I was tapping with the song by lifting the toe end of my foot up and down. I noticed that I think Griff lifts his heal and whole leg comes up? I tried felt weird at first but... holy cow for some reason I am playing more in time that way. Anything that works for you do it. works means you make progress if no progress it aint working . We all need to self check ourselves are we using practice time efficiently or else it's just twiddling with no progress? So yes I agree use tab and videos to learn the lick to the point you can play it with Griff audio or video and then looking at tab without griff but....after you need to play it both totally on your own while tapping and counting it out and with backing track if you can do that you know it if not you dont. If you play to much with tab and dont try to do it without tab you become to dependent. Apologies for any confusion . I am distracted by Taylor Swift at the KC game their up 17 to 7 .
All of us have things that work for us . What happens though is it is very easy to become Tab Dependent. Orchestra yes play from sheet music but bar band professional rockers blues players do not read tab when performing they have. it memorized and when you memorize I would think you really have the lick ingrained in your head and fingers. Maybe I was unclear not playing with tab or video is after you have the general timing and have the notes memorized . Griff I think does say in multiple videos to memorize the licks.
I think what was happening to me was even when I memorized the licks I was sometimes screwing up timing. The licks are movable as to when you are improvising what beat they start on but some things sound better then other I suggest when trying to get comfortable with the backing tracks what works for me is use the same starting beat as griff uses initially for that lick .
What I added recently that is helping me as some put it feel the pulse and the chord tones by ear to stay tighter is what I said above . Listen to the sound of the lick from start to end point . Once I learn it to me I just think of the BPM speed 1 2 3 4 I know if its triplets sixteenth or sextuplet or eighths etc so since I have it memorized at that point if I start at the right place and I listened to the speed of the song and I have the sound of especially the tonal center in my head because a ton of this resolves to the root or if not the root where its got to get to it kinda starting to just work?
I forgot earlier something so easy that I never did before but helped me a ton. I was tapping with the song by lifting the toe end of my foot up and down. I noticed that I think Griff lifts his heal and whole leg comes up? I tried felt weird at first but... holy cow for some reason I am playing more in time that way. Anything that works for you do it. works means you make progress if no progress it aint working . We all need to self check ourselves are we using practice time efficiently or else it's just twiddling with no progress? So yes I agree use tab and videos to learn the lick to the point you can play it with Griff audio or video and then looking at tab without griff but....after you need to play it both totally on your own while tapping and counting it out and with backing track if you can do that you know it if not you dont. If you play to much with tab and dont try to do it without tab you become to dependent. Apologies for any confusion . I am distracted by Taylor Swift at the KC game their up 17 to 7 .
