This is my final week to work on this project. Honestly, I'm surprised and proud of myself for getting this far while balancing school, family, and personal things along with learning this solo that I was very uncomfortable with. I started out with being overwhelmed and foreign to Van Halen's playstyle. Now I'm still overwhelmed at some points, but I expect it which makes the experience a whole lot better and makes it easier for me to pick up some of his new concepts. I'm happy with the progress I've made, but I also know that I could've done a lot better time-wise. There were times when I could have been working on this but I chose to wind down and not stress myself out. Don't get me wrong, it's a good thing that I didn't concentrate all my energy on this, but I could've been doing this instead of something less productive.
In short, though, I don't think I will be able to learn the complete solo. I am still having troubles with the tremolo picking and the part before the tapping section I've heard is very complicated. So, my plan is to get the tapping section down first and then perfect the tremolo picking. I have already started on the tapping section and ironically it's the easiest part for me so far. Even more ironic is the fact that it's only really "easy" for me to play when I do it fast. This is also the section that I enjoy the most because, well, it sounds the coolest. The only trouble I'm having with it is moving my right hand at the right times in correspondence with my left hand. I should be done with this section by the end of today, and that will give me time to work on the tremolo picking and possibly the really difficult section. To show that I learned the solo, I'm planning on putting a video of me playing it on the slideshow. If I can't learn the part before the tapping section in time, then I'll play up to the end of the tremolo picking section, then cut the video, then show me playing the tapping section. I'm not proud of the fact that I couldn't learn that one part, but before I started this I never would have thought I could get even halfway through this solo, let alone dang near every part of it.
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