How to play with vibe and attitude, just like your heroes! - Week 11

Welcome to week 11 of the Technique weekly challenge!

Today we look at simple techniques to help add vibe & attitude into your playing!

Exercise 1 - Define What Your Vibe Is

To help with finding your own vibe, we should look towards our inspirations

• Think about some of your favourite guitar players

• Try narrow down to 1, 2 or 3 players who’s style inspires you

• Have a clear image of them, the songs/music they play, the vibe they put out

Writing exercise;

• What do you connect with in their playing? 

• What words come to mind when you think of them?

• Energetic? Swagger? Laid back? Quiet? Loud? Iconic? 

Without this vibe & attitude sometimes the things we play sound like ‘going through the motions’ or sound/feel like we’re still in the practicing stage rather than having that performance edge to it, like our guitar hero’s have.

Exercise 2 - Practice How You Want To Perform

• Choose specific songs you want to play

• Practice the parts & songs well, until you’re really comfortable playing them

• Think of a player you’d love to hear play a particular song & what they would specifically add to it with their playing

• Finally, give it some vibe! 

However big or small the changes with this process, you are adding that vibe, style & attitude of the greats to your own playing. 

Remember to write your key thoughts down on a print out of this PDF as a reminder of what vibe you’re looking for & keep coming back to it for that boost in your playing, to raise performance level or just to have fun exploring all these great ideas!