I was telling a friend a trick for mastering parts that seem counterintuitive and at about the same time I notice another friend says the following:
“testing out the speed trainer in guitar pro for the next gary moore lick.”
I just know when I find myself mixing up [2] and [3] finger with each other a lot that’s my signal the piece might’ve been written on piano or violin first, or that it might’ve been 5 or 7 positions higher or lower before performing it.
One great trick is to find a couple other positions to start the same exact passage; maybe 5 or 7 positions higher or lower.
Here’s the best trick I can ever give away:
Pick half a dozen notes that include something you’re finding difficult to memorize and find those same notes all they way down on the open position. 0,1,2,3,4ish frets. Play the thing over and over there for a few minutes and then go back to where it’s performed, it might suddenly come easy as if you unlocked something magically.
Believe it or not I learned that from a Fernando Carulli book written in the late 1700s.Ooh, PS:
There’s a reprint of the same book at:
http://notenversand.eu/komponist/carulli_fernando/carulli-gitarre-schule-ue276.htm?pg=1
Nice!