Have you ever tried something new, and you think it's going well, and then you just hit that wall where it's getting more difficult to make efficient progress on it? Well, that's where I'm at. As mentioned before, balancing school and this is difficult, but when I do get the chance to work on the solo, it just gets harder and harder when I previously thought it would be getting easier because that's the trend that the rest of the solo was taking. Ironically, it's just getting harder and harder.
I have just managed to get the tremolo picking down, and now I'm just working on getting the phrases up to speed. The picking is up to speed, but the phrases that Eddie plays aren't- yet. The phrases that I'm talking about are basically a series of pull-offs and hammer-ons going down the fretboard. They're pretty easy patterns to get down, but the speed part and sliding my hand down to the next spot correctly in time is the difficult part, but working on it should smooth it out. Another annoying thing that happens to me is my hands sometimes just lock up or I know what comes next, but my left hand just freezes on the fretboard. It usually takes me telling myself over and over again in my mind "I'm gonna play it all the way through this time" for me to finally make it through. It's a weird psychological thing that I hope will go away as I approach the end of the solo. I think with splitting up my time wisely I'll be able to finish up this section of the solo and move onto the last parts. The very last part is the tapping section, but the part before that is some weird section that people actually call the hardest part of the solo. I described it in one of the previous weeks, but I'm getting more and more nervous that I won't have enough time to finish it all entirely, so maybe I'll just move to the tapping section first and then learn the basics of the weird part before it.
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