Billie Jean fretting tips, tricks or hacks?

So it has been over a week… let’s see my progress!

I feel like I got way more effective due to the finger exercises and forcing myself to keep the fingers as close as I can. Although I forgot in the first bar, see it on camera and quickly fix it :smiley:

What I think I have to work on/is still not good is consistency in timing/rythm and dynamics. I guess/hope that this comes automatically with playing and I still do the groove workout. The last week my daily practice routine, using my practice website, was:

  • 1 drum track playthrough finger exercise level 2
  • 1 drum track playthrough finger exercise level 3
  • 1 drum track groove workout 1 silent bar with premeditated notes
  • 1 drum track groove workout 1 silent bar slap alternating notes - empty string/3rd or 5th fret
  • playing what I want. I sometimes practiced Billy Jean but max 4-5 reps and not daily

This is also recorded with my new DAI (Behringer U-Phoria UMC 404HD)

Tips and constructive feedback always very welcome! I make these videos mainly to see myself playing to have an external eye I can use but why not use other real pairs of eyes, too? :wink:

Also this is the premiere of the caped bassist and I contacted my friend with the cosplaying sister. In general she is open for costume orders! So… since I don’t take myself seriously, have too much time on my hands and had a weirdly huge amount of fun shooting that intro take I think I’ll pursue this further :smiley_cat:
I still have to contact her but she said I should already have a picture or idea in mind so I’m thinking about something specific before contacting her.

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