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tfw you play something you half-know on keyboard and realise it spans just over three octaves and many of the intervals involved are very close to a perfect fourth and you go 💭🎸❗️

‪tries to play something written for guitar on keyboard wow this is hard how are you expected to make these hand movements‬
‪tries to play something written for keyboard on guitar wow this is hard how are you expected to make these hand movements‬

been spending a few hours now trying to nail the iconic first few bars of [song] and i love how trying to learn to play some known material fluently on guitar is a mixture of practice and problem-solving, making gradual improvement both in skill and in strategy through repetition

oops playing with a consistent rhythm is very important when practicing. i keep forgetting i should try to play slow consistently before trying to play fast…

my dreams will be haunted by the sound of a continuous loop of the song i am practicing played at 50% time in the macos default general midi soundbank piano with metronome on

練習する、練習する、練習する、

もっと少し練習するぞ、後少し練習する、練習する、練習する、ずーっと練習する、練習ぅぅぅぅぅぅぅぅぅぅ

okay, enough teasing, here's an okay-ish recording of what i've been practicing the better part of three days now

i must have been a masochist to pick [rot13]qver qver qbpxf sebz znevb fvkgl sbhe[/rot13] as the first song i seriously attempt to learn on guitar but it's great fun

@hikari This might be in part due to me also practicing a fair few video games songs at like half speed recently, but this was definitely recognisable without needing to check the rot13 to confirm

And yeah, not the hardest iconic VGM but hardly the easiest either, you need to use most (if not all) of the strings, most of the frets are nearby only to then suddenly jump miles away for the high notes, ideally there's some chords for emphasis and either a delay or reverb or some effect to get the right vibe of that level's ambience as a rhythym guitar line to backup the lead

Nicely done! I really should buckle down on getting one song somewhat consistently (even if simplified and chordless) instead of constantly trying out new songs ^^;