Recent content by mthw_allen

If you mean transposing (listening to the song then playing it) then try using a piano it helps out alot espescially because they stay in tune alot longer than....anything else basically. Also try listening to a pitch, hum the pitch, stop the song, then play it on your instrument.

Try messing around with the bridge if you know what your doing. Are you having trouble doing the slapping or popping?

Yea dude definatly go with the hairtie thing. I used to have the same thing when i was playing "afro blue" with the bass line on the low B. It works even better if you put it just off of the fret if your not playing that fret. I got a pretty tight one that works like a charm. Ask your girlfriend...

Another one that will definatly take longer but you could take one major and enharmonic minor (Cmaj Amin) and when your messing around on a new technique or something only play in those for about a week or so. Once you think your good on those notes play the fifth (Gmaj Emin or Fmaj Dmin). Do...

You could do some "classical" things like secondary dominants after working all the chords/notes in one scale and switch to the new scale without taking three hours if your pretty good at theory or improv. If you want a pretty good place to teach you about those go to musictheory.net. They have...