Beepster
Good choice. As for pick control ("knowing" where the pick is) practicing scales and doing various exercises regularly will help. Actually if you are talking about what I THINK you are talking about one of the most effective exercises for you might be two 8ve 1st position arpeggios. I do these using the chord steps of keys. I haven't done them in a while but basically it's an entire sequence starting in the key of C, playing the 1st position chord arps for all 7 triads to the second octave then moving on to the next key in the Circle of Fifths. I play it straight through until I come back around to the key of C again.
 
Kind of hard to explain in text (and really quite tricky to play) but it is EXCELLENT for both left and right hand technique, ear training, proper phrasing, understanding keys and basic triads/chords, etc.
 
The BEST part though is all the "shapes" the 1st position chords/arps create which can be moved up for solos and what not.
 
It's like CAGED theory on steroids.
 
Cheers.

do you have any tabs for this training?
yea. soft picks are to wobbly and i cant get the feel of timing. you just move the pick down and up hoping it will work out. with 0 control. now i have to re learn playing like its supposed to.. lol

batsbrew

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the latest looks interesting.
first one is too thin....

1.20 is too thin?
 

Jarsve
do you have any tabs for this training?
yea. soft picks are to wobbly and i cant get the feel of timing. you just move the pick down and up hoping it will work out. with 0 control. now i have to re learn playing like its supposed to.. lol

I have tons of stuff tabbed out (by hand) but alas I have not yet tackled that beast of an exercise. It will be pages upon pages of tab though when I do it in it's entirety and unfortunately it's not like other scales/exercises where you can just say "Play this, move it up the neck, play it again".
 
It will be part of the lesson plan stuff I've been working on for ages now... which I need to start working on again soon but I'm currently obsessed with finishing my old bands album.

batsbrew
1.20 is too thin?
 

Yeah it is. Of course depends on the material, but for most, that's to thin. for me that's it

Beepster

Jarsve
do you have any tabs for this training?
yea. soft picks are to wobbly and i cant get the feel of timing. you just move the pick down and up hoping it will work out. with 0 control. now i have to re learn playing like its supposed to.. lol

I have tons of stuff tabbed out (by hand) but alas I have not yet tackled that beast of an exercise. It will be pages upon pages of tab though when I do it in it's entirety and unfortunately it's not like other scales/exercises where you can just say "Play this, move it up the neck, play it again".
 
It will be part of the lesson plan stuff I've been working on for ages now... which I need to start working on again soon but I'm currently obsessed with finishing my old bands album.

this is playing through all mods of a key and take another key and fallow up?

Jarsve
this is playing through all mods of a key and take another key and fallow up?

Yanno... I totally spaced on the fact you are a piano player (an educated one too). That makes it easier to explain without reams of tab. Still a bit wacky though so let me wake up a bit and I'll see if I can slap something together that'll make sense.
 

whos Yanno?
 
well. I'm not educated, but self thought.

a long time ago...
 
the band i was in at that time, had a drummer who had an older set of paiste sound edge hi hats...
and eventually they cracked.
 
i took a piece of the hi hat, and used a jig saw and cut out TWO pieces of hi hat in the shape of a elongated heart, about the size of a standard Fender Medium (one for me, one for my other guitar player)
 
once we got the shape down, we used files and sandpaper to smooth the edges out just right...
these sounded AMAZING on fresh strings with a slightly driven marshall.
they were hell on the strings, tho, maybe you'd get two gig nights out a set.
but the sound..... whoa.
 
i don't know whatever happened to either one of them, lost to time,
but i've always kinda wanted another one like it.
 
closest i've found:
 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/121430155/bronze-cymbal-guitar-pick-1mm-351
 
but this is cool too:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/119671587/double-heart-mini-guitar-pick-in-copper?ref=related-2
 
tho this one makes more sense:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/161347456/bronze-guitar-pick-handmade-with-i-pick
 
this is cool too:
http://www.timber-tones.com/metal-tones-bronze-1-guitar-pick-886-p.asp
 
and this might be the most bad @ss:
http://www.metalguitarpicks.com/
 
 
of course, Clayton, the pick manufacturer i listed before, also makes metal picks:
http://www.steveclayton.com/metallics.php
 
 
 
 
 

batsbrew
a long time ago...
 
the band i was in at that time, had a drummer who had an older set of paiste sound edge hi hats...
and eventually they cracked.
 
i took a piece of the hi hat, and used a jig saw and cut out TWO pieces of hi hat in the shape of a elongated heart, about the size of a standard Fender Medium (one for me, one for my other guitar player)
 
once we got the shape down, we used files and sandpaper to smooth the edges out just right...
these sounded AMAZING on fresh strings with a slightly driven marshall.
they were hell on the strings, tho, maybe you'd get two gig nights out a set.
but the sound..... whoa.
 
i don't know whatever happened to either one of them, lost to time,
but i've always kinda wanted another one like it.
 
closest i've found:
 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/121430155/bronze-cymbal-guitar-pick-1mm-351
 
but this is cool too:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/119671587/double-heart-mini-guitar-pick-in-copper?ref=related-2
 
tho this one makes more sense:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/161347456/bronze-guitar-pick-handmade-with-i-pick
 
this is cool too:
http://www.timber-tones.com/metal-tones-bronze-1-guitar-pick-886-p.asp
 
and this might be the most bad @ss:
http://www.metalguitarpicks.com/
 
 
of course, Clayton, the pick manufacturer i listed before, also makes metal picks:
http://www.steveclayton.com/metallics.php
 
 
 
 
 

Really cool picks. I have a dremel and some coins, so why not trying to make my own metal coin pick.