• alan
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Topic: Give me methods to work speed to play joe scales

do you have tricks or methods to learn to play faster and succeed in playing eric johnson or joe scales with a mediator

2 Reply by ZeyerGTR (edited by ZeyerGTR 2010-04-28 11:04:12)

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Re: Give me methods to work speed to play joe scales

Troy Stetina's book "Speed Mechanics" has a lot of good exercises.  Also, practice with a metronome, and go very slowly, focusing on accuracy.  Be very careful not to play too fast for your own good and end up practicing sloppy.  The great thing about Joe's playing is that even though he plays really fast, it's super clean.  Every note is very articulate.  If you practice playing clean, even though you're slow at first, eventually you'll get faster at playing cleanly.  If you play sloppy, you'll only get faster at playing sloppy, and even then you'll probably hit a brick wall.

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Re: Give me methods to work speed to play joe scales

I second the Stetina's book, lots of great stuff in there. Play clean don't use overdrive while you practice. Building speed takes time believe I am still not nearly as fast as I want to be.

4 Reply by NPB_EST.1979 (edited by NPB_EST.1979 2010-04-28 14:24:48)

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Re: Give me methods to work speed to play joe scales

googled the book and found a free ecopy. Will try this!
http://tinyurl.com/39ua822
it will download as a 20something megabyte .pdf file.

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Re: Give me methods to work speed to play joe scales

NPB_EST.1979 wrote:

googled the book and found a free ecopy. Will try this!
http://tinyurl.com/39ua822
it will download as a 20something megabyte .pdf file.


cool !!

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Re: Give me methods to work speed to play joe scales

THe book also has a CD with it but I am sure you can find some of those excersises online maybe youtube

  • Matt B
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Re: Give me methods to work speed to play joe scales

Try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ZCgcsTiCM

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