R5N

joined 1 year ago
[–] R5N@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Super cool! Can we get a picture of the controls?

[–] R5N@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I knew it would be when and not if on the advancing guitarist popping up. I got my copy of it like 10 years ago, and I definitely wasn't ready for it. Only relatively recently am I really starting to get a lot out of it.

I'm not familiar with the other one but will have a look!

[–] R5N@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've heard good things about that book, but never had a look myself. I definitely put really learning the fretboard off for way too long - felt like an asshole once I put in the time on it and realized how much it opened things up for me!

 

Anyone else really enjoy picking up new ideas from books? There are a lot of crap ones out there, but some real gems too.

Pic related is what I'm working through now and it's fantastic. Randy has another book that's a more general introduction to jazz guitar, which is probably the most useful information dense guitar book I've ever found.

What are your favorites?

 

Maybe this is useful for some of you - it's a table of optimized random root sequences for the chromatic scale.

Ive found it helpful for reducing the influence of muscle memory when working things out on the fretboard. If I'm practicing things e.g. chromatically or moving around the cycle I find myself cheating and relying on pattern knowledge as opposed to actually thinking about where my notes are.

The guy has a better explanation and some use cases on his site. Enjoy!

[–] R5N@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure about Docker integration but I use Asana for this sort of thing.

[–] R5N@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They did SUCH a good job with it. It's a love letter to the original game but done in a very modern and approachable way.

[–] R5N@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Just happened to walk by a Lamy display in a store while I was killing time before a lunch, tried the tester and loved how smooth it was to write with one. I have a safari and an al-star now and they're basically all I write with at this point.

[–] R5N@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sucking it up and actually learning the fretboard and how to spell chords so I can do cool voice leading stuff with inversions and upper structure triads. Painful, but already paying dividends!