Many beginning and lower-intermediate guitar players I work with have a tendency to cut all the notes short… and it’s just one of those things the separates the pros from the amateurs quickly.
Luckily, it’s not something that takes hours and hours in the woodshed. Like many things, simply being aware of it, and focusing on it for a few minutes each day usually solves it.
So in this video we’ll talk about the problem of cutting all of your notes short, and how you can focus on the problem and play slowly to correct it.
13 replies to "Keeping Notes Ringing"
Nice tip Griff, never thought about that before
I agree for the most part. However, there are times when a more staccato approach is appropriate. 98% of the time legato for sure.
Thanks Griff! This is a great lesson, deserves more maybe. The jerky ‘plinky’ sound is exactly what is heard at open mic everyplace. I too suffer from this problem. All of us learners need this lesson! When I recorded myself recently, this problem jumped out at me!
Smoothly moving thru the notes good advise. I believe You would not want to be sounding digital either . You realize that not all is perfect in music . Humans are not perfect I think all players sound different because that is their personality that reflects to the strings . Just like every guitar does not sound the same no two guitarists sound exactly the same .A Guitarist playing the same song is not done exactly the same way each time. There are some who can sound like their recordings over and over again . Then there is the human thing verses a digital recording when it could be slowed and sped up . Just saying when you make a mistake you are only human .
Perfect for me, always complaining about my picking sounding lerky jerky. Thanks
Another Great lesson Griff! Keeping it smooth and ringing…
I have one wish…a lesson on counting through a bar of eight and sixteen notes.
One E and a…Two and 3 E and a 4 and… The timing, the counting are exact, but the notes in a solo seem so random. Trying my best to explain the frustration and see how you do this all the time Griff, in lesson’s and in solo’s and I follow along in your books. Yes I know and agree, how important it is to be counting. Maybe, I still don’t have down the counting.
I’m a student of BGU2.0, Soloing without Scales and now working on How to build Blues Songs. I hope that this makes sense and I’m not the only person that has this issue.
Yes, a lesson on counting, and how to sub dividing. For us who have resisted counting. Thanks, Griff for all the lessons.
Never mind found the lesson. Thanks Griff
Great! Something else to think about. But it does make sense. Thanx Griff.
I don’t have this problem until you throw in a bend, where you have to purposefully mute the bent note with your right hand. This extra step causes the choppiness which I find is unavoidable.
This the exact problem I have….now I have a fix. Thank you!!
Another good tip. Thanks, Griff!
Hi Griff
Yes guilty as charged, I do that but never noticed before.
Thank you for another brilliant lesson