Best way to practice tricky licks/song parts

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• DLM Frets: 2513

  March 2019

  MatthewShreddery said:

  @Adi It's very funny you should be learning The Final Countdown because I recently had to play that song and found the solo deceptively difficult.
  
  This would be much much easier to explain in a video
  

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• Adi Frets: 331

  March 2019

  MatthewShreddery said:

  @Adi It's very funny you should be learning The Final Countdown because I recently had to play that song and found the solo deceptively difficult.
  I've been playing for over 20 years, and that solo was a bugger for me to master.
  The tricky thing is achieving that 'swirling' effect created by the rhythmic motif of those arpeggios, maintaining the integrity of the demi-semiquavers and the semiquavers, without it all sounding like semiquavers.
  
  For me, the trick was so practice very slowly, and really being aware of where in the beat the demi-semiquavers occur, and really making a point of accenting them, and pretty much playing them as quickly as I could to make time for the next note.
  
  I also found focussing on the demi-semi that lands on beat 3 and using that as an 'anchor' to keep the timing solid really helped.
  
  This would be much much easier to explain in a video
  
  
  

  Thanks for your post , it's weirdly encouraging knowing that I'm not the only one struggling with it, especially that I've only been playing for 2 years, having started learning guitar at the ripe age of 33.

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