Anyone can play the guitar as fast as anyone else? Spartacus says
yes!
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Altering the perception of time is fascinating to the human being. Let's finally understand why we are attracted to hearing and playing fast guitar. Students are famous for saying that they don't want to play fast, they just want to play little songs at medium tempo. The problem is that if you can't play fast and clean, then you can't alter the perception of time for the audience or yourself, so you can't play to your highest level due to not having enough internal time for your mental faculties to be coordinated and
for the self or observer to truly be in control. Let's take a simple example that if I can run the 100 yard dash in the Olympics, then when I help an old lady across the street I really feel that I'm going slowly. The old lady may feel that she's going to fast. LOL
When I play, or I should say after I have really warmed up and then play medium tempo, it feels like everything has slowed down. It seems that I have so much time to decide what I want to do or say musically. This is a fascinating phenomenon that incorporates all of your faculties. The cerebellum being one of the biggest players at the
mental faculty board room control center. The cerebellum is the part of the brain that carries out previously learned tasks automatically.
One way to protect your precious cerebellum process and subconscious is to never go back to the beginning of the song as you practice. Just like if you get a flat tire, you don't drive home after you have fixed the tire and start the journey all over again. Do you? LOL :-) Then why do students continually stop and go home throughout their practice sessions every time they make a mistake, over and over again for years and years? As a result of doing that they rarely if ever improve exponentially.
In fact your cerebellum is trained
exactly as a dog is trained. If you keep restarting your song every time you make a mistake, the subconscious "dog" does not receive the data in a complete form. So just like a dog would,
your subconscious misinterprets what you are trying to do and then the cerebellum thinks it is better to keep stopping and going back home every time something happens differently on a walk. lol Let's say that you keep stopping with every mistake and just like the tilt light in the pinball machine, you keep starting again at the beginning of the song like you would restart a game. That means that as you go through from the beginning of the song, your experience with the song becomes less and less because if you make 10 mistakes in the first section then that means the beginning section was played 10 times as opposed to the ending being played maybe once. The musician is 10 times more familiar with the beginning section and therefor the
performance gets weaker as the song progresses.
Music is not in the fingers… Music is in the mind and goes into the fingers from the the mind using tried-and-true excellent quality techniques to program the musician's various mental faculties as well as physical capabilities to work in harmony. Honestly if you listen to most guitarists, even if you don't have a trained ear, and hear it as "talking" they sound like
they belong in the "funny farm". What is worse is that you've got perfectly sane people doing the musical equivalent of copying mental patients going around saying, "I'm Napoleon" thinking oh isn't that how you introduce yourself these days by saying that you are Napoleon? No, copying nervous tics, guitar Tourette's, or incomprehensible phrasings is
rampant musical insanity. Also if you want to reach the top of self expression of music, it would be better if you learn the equivelant of MUSICAL PUNCTUATION..... at least a period or comma would help once in a while...lol
Another aspect of the necessity of playing fast enough to break the musical speed barrier, in which it becomes so fast that it slows down again through extreme doubling, is that in order to play as fast as that properly, you must have already learned to control your pick to the point where the space between the notes is extremely even. This superfast and very uniform clean picking technique captures the mind of the listener and the player because the spacing is so even. When there is expression along with evenly spaced superfast picking, then there is the impression that this musician is a genius. Not true. The word
musician and magician does not sound similar by accident. Take it from someone who comes from a long line of musicians.... shh
The only reason why
advanced musicians seem like geniuses is because they have learned how to properly program their faculties through proper training and exercise. There is an expression, "
What one man can do another man can do" meaning that you only need basic inherent human abilities in order to complete something that seems like musical magic. Magic is not real except in some circumstances where the magician has a "super skill "or ability. In other words the magician is no different than your average person and similarly, a superfast player who has mastered the skill of guitar music is no different than anyone else. So there are no excuses…call me anytime...
Another reason why it seems so attractive when you hear a virtuoso shredding, is partially because it appears that the player is consciously controlling every note. Yes that would take a bona fide genius. In music though, that ability to function on a seemingly genius level only requires a LESS THAN AVERAGE level of brain capability, as long as it is engaged with properly trained fingers and faculties. These faculties include an overall self controller, mind, observer, hand-eye coordinator, memory bank, cerebellum, and subconscious. Ct scans will show that any guitar student (who was being properly trained by a bona fide guitar Maestro) has a brain that is
lit up in many areas as he plays. The fun that results from the coordination of those brain centers is one of the reasons why guitar music is so inviting, intriguing, and JUST PLAIN FUN.
It's not so much fun though, when you are barely limping along with one or two faculties, and then making excuses. LOL I invite you to engage all your faculties in a coordinated way that exercises your control first in
your personal realm with your instrument, and then to maintain that control in response to other people playing, which requires the faculty of comprehending what they are saying musically. If you don't know what they're saying, you don't know what you're saying, and nobody really knows what's being said, then you have the opportunity for a great seventh-grade garage band to let off some steam by yelling and screaming incomprehensibly. Fun of course, but what gets me is when 50-year-old guys act like they're in the seventh grade instead of at least following some basic music etiquette like
don't play when people are talking, especially when those people are answering your question. In other words in a real session, we all share the sounds that are being made together…
The conclusion is very encouraging. The work has already been done, so all you have to do is align yourself with successes that are already there. Maestros have worked out these details for ages. This is nothing new. The details have been
understandably kept from the masses in the same way that magic, until recently, has kept its secrets safeguarded in cultish societies and disciplic successions. The secrecy is over and I'm bringing you the magic, and I'm bringing you the magic using NEW
technology such as musical biofeedback. This, along with my daily online guidance and some webcam lessons, enables you to become a perfect master musician in months and years, instead of years to a lifetime, if at all…
The surprise is that the magic is inside of you, as long as you give yourself the "TIME" get it? lol. In other words as long as you are the master of your time musically, then the magic is inside of you and you control the musical tricks. Rushing to play something that is incomplete or incoherent, or not fully articulated does not help you to get anywhere ......You must start your sessions with the feeling that
you are in control of the time and in a sense you are stopping time. If the student doesn't learn how to stop their internal "clock" and curtial their continual urge to mentally rush to the next "thing", he will never be able to go much further musically... He will be condemned to repeat the same musical stutters, idiosyncrasies, nervous speech patterns, and obvious lack of comprehensions until they get help.
It is actually comparatively quick and easy to master the guitar. If you were learning piano, I could
not save you 30 years of hard practice and study time because the piano does not have the shortcuts and capabilities that the guitar was created for.
So now there is nothing holding you back, and you don't have to feel that you are leaving anyone behind. Once you are in the revolution.... Once you are
no longer shackling yourself to a life of musical slavery..... Once you have felt the
ecstasy of true musical freedom you will find that the ultimate value is giving the freedom that you have earned to others… No need for elitism… It's time to give the
magic out freely and encourage freedom of expression instead of being paid "per note" to musically say what you are told like a
good little organic jukebox. lol FREE YOURSELF AND REVOLT!
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