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Oh yes, hammer-ons and pull-offs! AAAAArgh! How can it be sooo hard to just not do anything with your picking hand while your left hand makes a simple motion? And like you said, the note has faded by the time you work out what you're supposed to be doing.
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Drum your fingers on a flat surface starting with the little finger, finishing with the index finger as a steady repeating rhythm with an even beat, no pausing, creating a steady drumming and stable meter. Can you do that? It takes a moment's focus but it becomes a mechanical thing quickly and reliably constant.
Reverse the order, beginning with your index finger and ending with your little finger, attempting to accomplish the same rhythm. I can't do this. But, I can finger pick it reliably. That bugs me. Several years infrequently attempting the reverse pattern frustrates me with failure. But, if I had to do it I know I could. I found alternating thumb a piece of cake to that. |
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I'm not very good at tapping from index to pinky either, but I did spend a week practicing it every day so I'm now a lot better at it. But I've always tapped from pinky to index since a young kid so of course, that way is effortless for me. Yet neither seem to translate to the guitar at all (I guess we are not tapping, so much as plucking. But even with my left hand, I can tap from index to pinky no problem on a guitar neck, but on a flat table top, not so well. Oh the brain!). |
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Definitely. The brain is so weird. I can tap fine, but you know how people say form the shape of the chord before putting it down on the strings, or just form the shapes with your hand to practice? I can't really do that. I've done them all a thousand times, but without the strings, my fingers are all messy.
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An hour? A week? Patience grasshopper. It took me over a year to get this thumb work mostly down:
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Thanks for asking. Better, yes, I think so, although I moved on from I Want You (She's So Heavy).
I have about 60 (wild guess) songs that I like to play through from my Beatles chord book, so I don't tend to stop too long on any given one, but each time around I'm getting better. It's surprising how many Beatles song's melody notes fall right under your fretting hand, just holding down a chord, although part of the reason for that is that the Beatles chord book that I have (The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook) does a superb job of providing all the correct chords. |
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Stoners To The Rescue
And they say it damages your memory - - - -
My hat's off to the Hippy Gentleman - Colorado is proving something here heh heh heh . EZ : HR
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I'm no expert but you have things backwards. The bass is supposed to drive the song and you put the melody in on top of that. Get the bass down first. Then you can start another thread asking why melody is so hard. |
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For songs like this a flatpick may be a better solution than a thumb ...
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I think it's not so helpful, at least at the beginning, to think of the thumb movement as "independent" of the melody notes. They are in combination. I like the approach in Mark Hanson's Contemporary Travis Picking book, which does not immediately emphasize "steady thumb rhythm"; instead it talks of patterns that involve both the thumb and the picking fingers. It amounts to the same thing, but it is doing thumb and finger movements serially and in combination, so you don't have two streams of thought going at once.
I played classical piano through high school and never thought of certain fingers as being independent of others. But they did sound that way once I got the expressive part of the playing right. |