Rock Discipline Vs. Intense Rock

[Earth Breather]

by the way, does anyone know of a GP transcription of Intense Rock I? All the transcriptions are shown on the DVD itself, but I want a print-out version as I do not have a tv in my room.

 

[progmetaldan]

That's one thing RD has over IR... I carry my little RD transcription book, and just whip it out, run over a few exercises if I'm bored, or warming up... Better than having to get the thing onto the tv everytime u wanna see something...

 

[inhe]

EXACTLY!!!!

What matters is HOW you're practising stuff, not WHAT you're practising.


Again, I'll do another exmaple.

Person 1 could learn all the licks off of Intense Rock, Speed Kills and Rock Discpline and play them all full speed and be really sloppy BUT he'd still know all the licks.

Person 2 could practise 10 licks over and over and over and get his fingers repeating 3/4/5 note patterns and get his fingers flying but not actually know any full scale runs.

I can say that person 2 will end up with the better technique because he'll be training his fingers to do the smaller "fragments" that are required for all the full string runs.

If you can't do this at 140bpm:

A----------8--------
E-8-10-12----12-10-

Then how THE HELL do you expect to be able to play the full 6 string version of it??!?!?!!?

That's what all these youtube idiots are doing. They've been playing 1 year, they can't bend or vibrato but yet they're learning all these Racer X solos when I would bet my life that they couldn't play all the BASIC "fragments" that Paul Gilbert and John Petrucci show on their videos.

It's just common sense really but most kids just can't wait so they learn it all and play it as fast as they can. It's very frustrating when you get to this point because it takes ages to progress but it will be worth it if it's what you really want.

One of the worst thing about youtube guitarists is that people actually think they are good.

 

[Mystique1721]

One of the worst thing about youtube guitarists is that people actually think they are good.

so let them. it weakens out the competition for the actual, good guitar players.

 

[Horus]

One of the worst thing about youtube guitarists is that people actually think they are good.

That's what makes it so funny.

 

[<-Warheart->]

so let them. it weakens out the competition for the actual, good guitar players.

I agree.

 

[SambaBoy]

I gained just about nothing from RD. I don't need a DVD to tell me wheter to use a metronome or not (besides I never use one anyways). IR is probably the best instructional ever made, especially number 2.