Is it weird that I sometimes have a bit more issues with the slow workouts over medium or full workouts?
Josh actually speaks to that on some of the songs.
I had the same issue. It often went slower than the mental map in my head.
Yes doing it at slow pace requires extra concentration on time. You are now fully conscious in counting as well as technique. It’s great when building up skills and mapping out fretting and finger issues, left hand for beginners and right hand for intermediate and up.
Once you got this down speeding up is just putting this all on autopilot it’s much easier then.
The feel of a song, its rhythm, and flow is a fundamental part of learning and understanding the song for me. I can intellectually understand how a rhythm should count at other tempos but slowing it down a lot is challenging and an outstanding exercise to do to work on your timing.
Speeding it up us much easier in comparison, until hitting your skill cap, in my experience
I’ve been thinking about why this is and here’s my current theory:
When playing music, I don’t actually count rhythm. I don’t think about notes consciously. It’s literally a sense of rhythmic feeling. It’s like walking or talking.
You can walk or talk at a normal pace. You can walk or talk extra fast. You can walk or talk slower than normal. It’s easier to walk slow than it is to walk fast. But if you try to slow down too much, walking or talking become difficult. They lose the sense of steady rhythm and become an act of jerky stopping and starting.
And you can even hear this problem in some of the recordings. The audio gets artifacts in it because the programs struggle to slow them down that much.
On this subject, came across this video that I think explains it very well:
The slow exercises are often too slow for me to accurately audiate and feel them. I’m having to mechanically count them, and that is tough.
I have to subdivide into smaller fractions and then it works for me re counting. Feel will only get you so far, especially if you have to hit a mark.
One e and a Two e and a etc
when you say “slow down” when learning a new song i often find that works to a point but at some point it crosses the line into “wait that’s too slow” and i can’t play it anymore.
I too have a point when I go too slow I lose the rhythm
I opened this thinking I’d hate it but it’s actually pretty good.