Well, the end of the year is approaching, and that means more work. Because of that, I wasn't able to get a lot of work done on Eruption as I wanted to. When I do have time off from school related activities, I'm usually spending that time with my family and friends, because I value that. I was able to get some work done on the solo, but it wasn't as much as I wanted it to be.
The tremolo picking I surprisingly am still trying to grasp. I thought it would be a relatively easy concept to pick up, and I wasn't wrong, but I can't stay consistent with it which was my main struggle. If your right hand is basically having a controlled seizure, it's pretty difficult to keep it synced up with the rest of the picking patterns that you previously played. As always, I'm starting slow and working my way up to getting it to a speed I feel comfortable with. I like playing guitar, but when things like school get in the way, it's hard to do the things that I want to. I know it's not only me experiencing this, it's just how things go and I'll be attempting to find a way around it or to balance the two things out. Yes, I'm at the last part of the solo, but I don't want to cut it too short. That won't leave any room for buffing out the rough surfaces. I know this was way below 350 words, but there wasn't a whole lot of work done between school and home work.
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This was a much needed week for me. I was able to take a complete break from schoolwork, spend more time with my family, and just relax. With all this time I had on my hands, I was able to do some work on Eruption. I am proud to say that I am pretty much in the final stretch and close to having all of the parts down. My next step after this will be mastery, which will be a tedious process depending on how I decide to execute it.
This week I worked on the next part of the solo, the tremolo picking section. This, as I mentioned previously is the rapid movement of the right picking hand on one string. Similar to the prior sections in the solo, this part is rather speedy and will take some getting used to for someone like me who doesn't play like this too often. Since I'm not the greatest with this technique yet, all I'm doing is memorizing the regular frettings, getting them up to speed, and practicing them again and again. When I do this I'm only picking them once. When I have all the frettings memorized and up to speed, I'll start to work on the tremolo picking in hopes that my only trouble will be getting the picking to be fast enough. While this section shouldn't be too hard, the following part will probably be the hardest of them all. This part occurs in between the tremolo picking section and the infamous tapping section. I really can't describe what it is accurately. It's all over the fretboard. There's a mix of pull offs, slides, and hammer ons all over the place. If you look up any Eruption covers on YouTube, it's common that most people covering the solo will only play a few of these because of the sheer difficulty of them. In that case I really don't know what I will do. If I'm really having trouble with them, then I'll just move on to the tapping section since it's easier and shouldn't take as long. I guess I'll figure out what to do as I move on. |
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