If you’ve read many of my emails or lessons, you’ve probably heard me talk about “looking at the road and not the wall” when you practice.<\/p>\n
What I mean by that is like race car drivers looking at the wall and thinking “oh I hope I don’t hit the wall,” you’ll end up sounding like what you play along with.<\/p>\n
If you always practice alone, and only hear what you are playing, and you are playing it wrong, it’s going to take a lot longer to play it right than if you play along with someone else who is playing it right. That someone else doesn’t have to actually be there, it could be the recording of the song.<\/p>\n
To that end, I made a video of how I like to play along with things using the loop and tempo functions of the Riffmaster Pro program. You don’t have to use that program, it’s just what I use and it is the best thing I’ve found for this purpose. I sure wish I had it when I was learning, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n
Also, if you have Riffmaster Pro, but haven’t figured out how to get the tracks from the CDs into the program, I show that as well.<\/p>\n