WTF! Somthing more revolutionary then tapping - What the ___

[mojo]

http://website.lineone.net/~fretboard/index.htm

Anybody care to commen on this "revolutionary" new technique? Like what can it be?
Please fill the site in... Anybody?

J

[Given to Fly]

Well personally I think it is a gimick, first becasue great speed and accuracy does not come just like that. You have to put lot's of time and energy into it. Hard work and practice are the only things that produce true results. Also EVH did not invent to hand tapping or anything. Jazz and classical players and other people have been using extended range, guitars, harmonic playing, and loads of other techniques before they became popular. *So maybe I will be proven wrong but those are the reason's I don't really think it is as great as it sounds. Just my $.2 though.

[jay ratkowski]

Seems even cheesier than that little plastic thing you put on the fretboard to "play any chord with one finger"

[jem7vwh]

if they have to sell it to you, it's a gimmick. *It's likely going to be some wacky-ass variation on a *hammer on or some other basic technique. *If it were that great, there would be samples of it, plus they wouldn't need all the secrecy.

[Pryde7]

maybe its... LOL a scalloped fretboard!!!!! :laugh:

bubble technique = holes in your fretboard (not really, but sorta)

who knows, seriously

and either way, scalloping your board isn't gonna make you much faster anyways (against popular belief)

[davester1234]

sounds like a crock of...doodoo to me. *
Whatever it is, its been done. *I bet 5 bucks. *Okay, I retract my statement!!

[Galtero]

*I remember someone posting about this on a different message board long over a year ago. *The thing that I love about guitar, is it's not something you can fake. *There's no shortcuts. *To be good, you have to dedicate a lot of time and practice on it. *This thing is BS.

[Beavis]

I think i might have it......

What is the Meditation of the Bubble?

Inner Way Meditation

This meditation provides a minimal structure to facilitate your becoming aware of your own consciousness.
The purpose of this meditation is to facilitate your inner rhythm or timing and allows you to experience thoughts, feeling etc. without needing to make connections.

Picture yourself sitting, or scuba diving, at the bottom of a lake. You notice bubbles slowly rising from the bottom to the top and disappear. Imagine each thought, feeling, perception that you are having is encapsulated in the bubble and let it rise to the top of the lake and disappear. Repeat this procedure for 15-20 minutes.

This techinque could work, me and a few mates had a bit of fun with this idea at GIT, now what you do is take your 3 note per string major scale and imagine playing it, imagine every note, feeling of your hand playing the fretboard, visulize playing it in your mind. Now this is true for the majority of people, you will notice you can only play that scale on the guitar as fast as you can imagine/visulize playing it in your mind, thus if you meditate playing it faster in you mind without guitar, on the bus, in class, at work etc, you will find that you can play it faster, if you practice imagining it faster, its an odd concept but i sure as hell works but need discipline to visulize.

Now you can go crazy with this idea if you want, practice visulization with a metronome, no guitar and belive me you will be able to play as faster as you can visulise. You can visulize whole songs, as long as you can play the entire song in your mind then you will be able to play the whole thing on guitar, visulize everythiing, rhythm, chords, phrases, women (oops).

Any comments would be cool too.

Beavis

Can a few of you try this as i have only tried this out with a few people.



(Edited by Beavis at 12:38 pm on Mar. 31, 2002)

[Pryde7]

now wouldn't it have been easier if they just came out and said that in the first place? :biggrin:

this idea seems like total nonsense, but it actually seems to make alot of sense if practiced. the way alot of us play guitar is we pick up the damned thing and we play scales and chords that our hands and fingers have memorized. this seems to take it a bit further by forcing our mind to understand what our fingers are doing so we can play better.

what i said didnt' seem to make much sense, but let me give you an example. there was a prominent pianist/composer, i forget which one though, who used to "practice" his pieces on the train (or other mode of transport) by basically playing "air piano," and whenever he would make a mistake, he would start all over until he got it perfectly right. this is also, imho, how people can compose music away from their instruments or "hear" music by looking at a piece of staff paper... they have internalized the way music "works" (i.e. in western music: rhythm, melody, and harmony) and have internalizing their instrument and how to play it. so by practicing internalizing music (i.e. by training your mind to play entire pieces of guitar music in your head) it'll be much easier to pick up the guitar and play without having to think "oh damn, i'm having trouble remembering this part," or some other mind-caused problem, because your mind has already mastered the piece, its now up to your fingers to be in good enough shape to recreate it.

well, that's my opinion on the whole deal anyways :biggrin:
-Pryde