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Topic: Baseball season.. Bring me your boring exercises! |
Josh Yenne
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Posted 6 Apr 2016 2:56 pm |
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There have been a few threads but thought I'd bring it back up.
Baseball season is here and during this time of year I tend to get a LOT of practice in. I feel bad about myself if I sit and watch a whole long game unless I'm bettering myself by practicing something!
I happen to LOVE repetitive, boring, technique building exercises. Stuff that you can do with a game playing.
Of course I'll arpeggiate my string sets like crazy in every way possible, and take a good phrase and just loop it forever but I'm looking for little repetitive exercises you all do that you think help.
Although I usually put up videos as I abhor writing tab (thanks to everyone that does good tab though!) I did tab out something that I like to do lately.
Its just going through the major scale in 4 note bunches in two positions... the open and the 2 frets up from open. I'll usually do the AB position as well but didn't tab it out.. i guess I could if someone needed... I didn't want to just say "go up the scale in four note patterns" as that might be confusing so I tabbed it out... this is just the ascending part.. then of course you'd turn it around and descend.
Looking forward to what you all have.
LAST NOTE SHOULD BE 6A
Last edited by Josh Yenne on 12 Apr 2016 7:27 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Josh Yenne
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Posted 10 Apr 2016 10:14 pm
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Dick Sexton
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Greenville, Ohio
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Posted 11 Apr 2016 4:56 am Beginners Notes
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Josh, most everything I put up or have, is an exercise of sorts. Some may get hung up at the words "Beginners Notes". If you can get past that and the lack of sounds clips, lots of meat on these bones... All for nothing!
Beginners Notes #331-A Little Right Hand Odd Chord Exercise |
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Mark Hershey
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New York, USA
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Posted 11 Apr 2016 6:58 am
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| Josh Yenne wrote: |
| Ha. Or not at all! Never mind I guess. |
Your Giants are looking pretty good so far. Great pitching rotation and imo should win the West division. |
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Josh Yenne
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Sonoma California
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Posted 11 Apr 2016 10:01 am
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thanks Dick! yea i've looked at a lot of your stuff before thanks for all the great things you add to the forum. I'll look for that one specifically.
Mark the rotation is the thing thats a bit in doubt actually.. the offense should be damn lethal. Great lineup and possibly the the best infield in all of MLB. |
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Mark Hershey
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New York, USA
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Posted 11 Apr 2016 12:33 pm
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| Josh Yenne wrote: |
thanks Dick! yea i've looked at a lot of your stuff before thanks for all the great things you add to the forum. I'll look for that one specifically.
Mark the rotation is the thing thats a bit in doubt actually.. the offense should be damn lethal. Great lineup and possibly the the best infield in all of MLB. |
Really? I admit I haven't watched but I've kept a blind eye on a few of the games. Especially the one where the Dodgers had the no no going through the 7th with the rookie.
I'd assume Bumgarner, Cueto and Samardzija and Peavy would just about secure a solid rotation. Don't know much about Cain but looks like he had a near quality start last outing.
The offense for the Giants has been unbelievable for quite a while. I'll have to watch a game soon. |
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Josh Yenne
From:
Sonoma California
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Posted 11 Apr 2016 12:58 pm
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ha.. well not to turn this into a baseball thread on the steel forum.
yes the rotation has the potential to be great... Madbum is a know quantity and Cueto also for the most part. The other 3 all have question marks. We'll see.
The lineup of hitters is amazing... every single one takes a good professional at bat, knows how to adjust, etc.. we can have some power throughout the lineup but can also play small ball at ATT.  |
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Jim Fogarty
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Phila, Pa, USA
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Posted 11 Apr 2016 4:13 pm
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Thanks, Josh......
Last note should be "6A", right?
....and your squad sure is a powerhouse......and certainly better than my pathetic Phils......but I have to disagree a wee bit about ".....every single one takes a good professional at bat". I mean.......Hunter Pence? More like an ADVENTUROUS at-bat, with him!!!  |
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Josh Yenne
From:
Sonoma California
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Posted 12 Apr 2016 7:26 am
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Joseph Overton
From:
Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 12 Apr 2016 8:07 am
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a few things i've been doing recently exercise-wise
will van horn posted a thing that i've been playing http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=248356
i have maybe 6 or 7 major scale positions that i'm trying to practice and i had the idea to just make up an exercise where i'm playing over a single chord and just moving between the positions. here's my first effort in E. Ideally i'm gonna come up with more of these. anyone else do things like this they want to share or thoughts about this approach?
and talking to a really studied musician friend of mine he suggested starting on different notes of the scale. something like this maybe.
also joe wright's website has tons of little exercises
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Mark Hershey
From:
New York, USA
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Posted 13 Apr 2016 10:49 am
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The great Paul Carey passed away yesterday. A huge part of my child hood. There was nothing better than listening to him and Ernie Harwell.
Also, I promise to contribute a 'boring exercise' every time I mention baseball in this thread.
A good boring exercise is just playing one chord,note or part of a chord/harmonized scale over and over again. I got this from the Bruce Bouton DVD. He said he got the idea from Steve Vai. I like to just pick two notes and listen to the sound, work on vibrato and work on expressing emotion through those two notes.
Here my tab for it:
3rd fret strings 3 & 5
3----3~-----------
4------------------
5----3~------------
Let it stain and add vibrato. |
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