How long to learn cliffs of dover

I remember I played it 10 years ago You can think of this scale as a pentatonic with the 2nd added or the natural minor with the 6th removed. Try to familiarize with this scale in various position. Once you know the scale well I think you will have less problems with the notes to commit to memory. Posts: 4, Before you go any further make sure you have a decent, small hard pick and a metronome to practice your pentatonics up and down various positions to. I would perhaps start on a simpler and slower Johnson song so that you get used to the position shifts and speed.

Or start slow. Either way, you will need to work on other stuff at the same time or you will go mad. Manhattan is rather tasty, has some nice chords and there is a very good tab out there on the net.

Righteous is not too long. I had the same thing you have with "Camels night out" for a year in my teens as there was a perfect tab in one issue of Guitar that led me to start it. The ultimate solo for me has to be Desert Rose, great emotion and technique in one.

Hey, if she can do it, you can too! Hi guys, Thanks for the encouragement. To clarify: Its mainly the intro E minor scale speed licks that have me floored. I know this song is out of my league right now , but I'd like to work it for a few reasons: 1 I dont sing, so at parties and such, this is a song I can play that everyone will recognize.

There aren't that many instrumental songs that say "wow" like cliffs. This is so I dont get upstaged by 3 chord Joes who know a bunch of songs. Age: 33 Posts: I used to play it but can only play parts now. The best advice here has been to learn the E minor positions and it'll make the riffs make more sense. Some parts like the chicken pickin' at the end of the intro and the open chord "verse" around the 8th fret will just take time to figure out the technique.

That's where it's more helpful to have a teacher or see someone else do it to learn easier. Age: 50 Posts: Ha Ha Ha I'd suggest NOT learning it from the start. Skip the Intro for now, and learn the different Sections.

The Verses and Choruses, etc. Learn the Main Themes. Learn those type of Parts first. Finally, after about three months of making my friends and family crazy, shredding my fingers to the bone, and a couple of ugly moments when I almost threw the guitar through a window, I was ready to present it to the band.

The crowd loved it when we played it later that night, and it became a staple in our set for the next two years. My performance on this piece gradually improved over that period, as the experience of playing it live helped me to further kick it up a notch. The song was so difficult to execute that I still practiced it daily during this period. Looking back, Cliffs of Dover was the hardest piece of music I have ever learned. I probably put between and hours into it prior to ever playing it with the band.

But I do remember feeling instant results after I could play it. Performing less technical songs and solos became easier. My hands and fingers were stronger and my stamina had improved.

My ear had also improved making it forever easier to learn new pieces of music. I sat down with it a couple of weeks ago and have been working it back up to speed ever since. But I believe it is these kinds of challenges, self-imposed or other, and the new horizons they lead us to that encapsulate the best of the human spirit.

You must be logged in to post a comment. There are several ways you could approach it and you need to choose the way that best suits you. In general I would say start memorizing sections of it, practicing them at maybe two thirds of the regular speed at first, or even half speed if necessary.

Hypothetically, if you have 6 sections in total and you spend 30 minutes on each, then you can practice the whole thing in 3 hours.

Is that reasonable? If so, gradually start combining the sections. You can play sections 1 and 2 from memory for a couple days. If I were me, I would fake an illness and skip the festival.