It's a mental game too. - improves your playing instantly!

[chilln2music]

Just a thought...

I'm use to sitting with a metronome playing through a clean amp being a slave to awful dreaded exercises and scales. Well I find out this is all wrong. At least for me. I was concentrating too much on my technique. Every single nuance or string noise I would look at as a mistake and start over or play the exercise longer.

Then one day...
I plug through my rig and just jammed for a while...I do this often but then...I starting running through scales melodically ...with structure and making it musical like a true musical exercise. Then all of a sudden I ripped a sequence I never thought of being able to play. It was incredible.

I guess the point is when your mind is set on playing the exercise "accurately" you actually play worse. You have to play almost naturally. Thats not to say don't ever practice with a metronome it just means for me...that when I do sit down with that damn clicking box that I think of the music I'm going to play and not worry so much about the mechanics. I know I'm going to have my set backs downfalls and plateaus (sp?) but I can always relax and enjoy the music I'm making right now.

ok you guys are probably thinking I'm really crazy but I don't care. Maybe this will help someone exceed their current abilities as it has done wonders for me.