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General => Musicians => Topic started by: Sourcegamer101 on February 14, 2016, 09:32:11 PM
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You wouldn't believe how much my wrist hurt after playing this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNT2h64sY9o
I also whipped up a backingtrack from my original mix if you want to make your own cover of this: https://soundcloud.com/sourcegamer101/dream-theater-this-dying-soul-unison-guitar-backingtrack
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Great job! No wonder they haven't played the song live for 10 years :lol
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Cool! Looks like you have a lot of tension though, you shouldn't have a sore wrist after playing anything!
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^ what he says. Though I can't play this part, not at this speed. I could probably legato my way through it, but my right hand isn't used to passages this fast and this long.
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actually, after prolonged practice periods of fast alternate picking like this eventually turns from trying "not to fatigue quickly and having a sore wrist" into "being hyper aware of the starting point, resting points on right hand, concentration, and whether you accidentally flub a note or two" which sounds like more things, but it really is just muscle memory. you tend to have more of a larger scrubbing motion when on the thinner bottom strings and on the top strings its more of a tighter scratching motion.
with stuff like this its easy to miss a note and not have everyone notice, but if you miss a note that throws you off time, literally one note, then it can be hard to start back up again and recover at a different point, which makes you have to switch resting points of the wrist and hand and reposition your fretting hand. tension control for me is in my left hand, there is a lot of gymnastic-like stretching on the lower frets where i have to use the tips of my fingers rather than pads. I try to not use excessive pressure when fretting a note cause that tires me out a lot. use "just enough" pressure. just minor adjustments