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@Blueingreen for years I struggled on my own, then got some lessons, which pointed me in the right direction. A few lesson with a good teacher will put you well ahead of where you'd be on your own.
I can't say for definite whether all the sight-reading stuff, now, and even when I was taking lessons, was that simple, but it certainly seemed to be with what I saw. All around 120BPM, and low end of the fretboard.
It'd be worth trying something brand-new, which you hadn't seen before (well 2 minutes to get an idea), then record as you play. Listen back and see how you got on. Again I should take my own advice here.... I mean literally look at the music through, then play it, don't be looking to learn the piece, you're looking to up your sight-reading first.
Then, if you like the piece, sit down and learn it right through.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
The 2 main points that stood out for me were:
1, the amount of tension we hold in our muscles when playing, which has a domino effect to the other parts of our body i.e. why are my toes pointing up to the sky or why is my tongue hanging out of my mouth. And how to deal with it.
2, Jamie has a technique which she calls "no tempo practice" where you come to a part of the music that things start to break down, like a finger crash ( as opposed to a car crash) , just before that point you hold the chord or the note and mentally work out the next finger (s) movement before doing it.
Most method books will tell you to "play a ?chord" Jamie tells you how to play the ? chord, and the muscles that are involved in so doing.
another lil' thought...
A couple of things that made me stand apart from my peers when I was making the transition from noob to something a little more accomplished were:
Timing / Phrasing – being able to play nice and tight with time and also be able to place nice rhythmic content into my licks.. it seriously helped that I was a drummer before I was a guitarist
Vibrato / Bending [given that these are essentially variants of the same technique] – bending notes nicely to the target pitch in a positive and smooth way and having a strong, even and positive vibrato
You don’t need to play a millions notes per sec, or have a massive arsenal of tricks up your sleeve, but if your timing / phrasing is good and solid, and your bending / vib is smooth and strong, your playing will gain a massive and huguely valuable coat of polish…
Being a lefty who plays righty I'd neglected my picking for over a decade. To finally put some work in (and re-learn how to hold a pick) really opened up a load of stuff I'd previously thought impossible.
A bloke at a gig shouting "You guys are f*cking shit!"
A wonderful motivator...
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.