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    Child In Time... and it's not me...

    ... cause I can't nail that stupidely fast lick both Blackmore and Lord play at the end of Blackmore's solo.
    I know the notes but I just can't get up to speed.
    Right now I'm at about 70% of the original speed and been there for the past 2 weeks.
    I don't think I have the physical habilities to go that fast.
    I can't synch the right and left hand at that speed.
    It is so frustrating!

    Anyone with a trick to acheive what I wanna do?
    There's someone in my head but it's not me.

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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    That's easy. Just relax and play it deliberately slow. Alot.

    Play it slow, not with the tension of wanting to play it fast, but with a casual ease that you will carry forward as your speed increases. If you try too hard to master a quick riff and you get all tense, you only end up practicing the mistakes you're making over and over again until you get real good at doing it bad and it all seems hopeless.

    Slow down. Get the phrasing right. And just know that you're going to be slow with it for a while. As you progress, the ease of playing the riff will progress as well. Give yourself a break and just take the time to do it. You'll get it. No sweat.
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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    Thanks TB.
    It makes sense.
    I do get real tense when I try to speed up on the fretboard.
    No wonder my axe needed a fret job.
    I'm pushing on the strings like if I wanted them to go thru the neck.

    I sense a swing feel in that lick, though it's hard to tell at that speed but at the 70% of the speed I'm doing it now, I don't feel that tension building up as I play it.
    I guess I'll just have to keep doing it this way until it naturaly speeds up.

    But it takes so long and I'm so impatient.
    There's someone in my head but it's not me.

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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    Quote Originally Posted by thetallcoolone
    the physical habilities to go that fast
    Great slip! hab - IL -it -ies n: 1. Physical dexterity born of repedatieve, habitual behavior. ...

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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    Sabby, :P
    :bwa
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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    :lol

    But seriously, I agree with T-B's approach. Trying to do it too fast will only put additional pressure on yourself. The trick is repetition. At some point, it becomes second-nature. It's better to get it 100% fine at a much slower speed and then practice that same lick over and over until you reach the desired speed as opposed to tensing up and screwing it up every single time you try to make the run at full speed.

    As a side-effect, you'd only get more discouraged with each time you fail as well. You wouldn't benifit from that.

    For the record, I've never heard the song, but I'll check it out. I'm intrigued, now. :)

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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    For the record, I've never heard the song, but I'll check it out. I'm intrigued, now
    Never heard that song?
    WOW! That's an icon song of the 70's, you must have heard it before without knowing its title.

    Anyways, the part I'm talking about start at around 5:44, both guitar and keys are playing the same riff together.
    I've tried different positions but the one I'm practicing now goes like this:

    -------12---12---12----------------------12---12----------------
    ----13---13---13---15-13-12---------13---13---15-13-12-----
    -14---14---14-----------------14---14---14----------------14--
    --------------------------------------------------------------------
    --------------------------------------------------------------------
    --------------------------------------------------------------------
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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    I love that song. I saw Deep Purple last september. When they played that song I got chills.
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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    I don't think Child In Time ever got much airplay, defenitly not on mainstream radio. But if you were a rocker in the 70's as many of us were, it was required listening. Wasn't it on Deep Purple ''Made in Japan", as well as 'In Rock'?

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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    I agree with the others, practice it slow.

    Also, how's your tone? I find that I can play faster if I have a hotter tone.

    As an experiment, turn down your guitar or drive and try the lick. Plink plink plink, right? Now try it hot. It rolls much better.

    Perhaps a hotter tone will get you there.

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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    It's on Gillan's solo album too innit?

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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    The version on "IN ROCK" is quite hard to beat,the version of "MADE IN JAPAN" is not in the same league imo.There's also the sound,i think he played that solo (of the "in rock" album) with a Gibson 335 if i'm correct. I still have chills when i hear that song after all these years.

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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    Blackmore did alot of hammers and pulls on that lick,I believe.
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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    TC1, HOW do you play the passage? Alternate picking? Sweep? Downstrokes? Do you use your lefthand pinky?
    Last edited by matsb; 08-07-2005 at 01:04 AM.

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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    Alternate picking, I think.

    And I still can't play it to speed. :bummer
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    Re: Child In Time... and it's not me...

    the only way I can manage to get all the notes in at the proper speed is with 2 hand tapping but it doesn't sound the same.
    To me, Blackmore is really picking each notes.
    There's someone in my head but it's not me.

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