possible to achieve 100% error free while playing?

Fizts

Fizts

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Heya softies!!! I've got a tiny question. So yeah as stated, just want to find out that is it possible to obtain a 100% error free while playing the lead part of songs?
I mean, as hard as i tried/practice playing songs or certain solos, I just keep missing a note or two at random parts of the song. Maybe its concentration problem :confused: or i practice wrongly? hmm

I wonder if those live bands out there made any mistakes while playing?
Well whatever it is maybe fellow softies can share a tip or two. =)

By songs i meant by those which demand quite alot on the lead like
: metallica- fade 2 black
: x japan - kurenai
: avenge sevenfold-bat country
etc etc lah just some examples
 
of course its possible to play something perfectly. and of course these musicians make mistakes too..

its abt practice. dont be discouraged even when u make lots of mistakes. the term practice makes perfect makes sense now doesnt it.
 
Haha yeah man i guess practice is the only way up. One more qn. Is it a must to practice with a metronome? Cuz i never.. maybe i think thats the reason why i get mistakes here and there?? hmmm
 
perfectionism is bad in general..
its better to learn to cover up your mistakes then forcing yourself not to make any mistakes.

And about concentration, the more you concentrate, the more you're likely to make mistakes.
 
hmm, i think its impossible to be 100% error free cause your're not the one whom wrote the solo. maybe 99.9999%? :P
 
けいた;919289 said:
hmm, i think its impossible to be 100% error free cause your're not the one whom wrote the solo. maybe 99.9999%? :P
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Yes true. For the bands that composed these songs, it becomes part of muscle memory to play these songs. And when it comes to mistakes, like someone once said, when you play a wrong note, play it twice so others will think it was on purpose. :D
 
futures said:
when you play a wrong note, play it twice so others will think it was on purpose. :D
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It seriously works meh? maybe in the ears of normal audiences. But can't fool the ears of seasoned/skilled musicians who heard the piece before.
 
well, you could say its your own way of doing it.

Anyway, just like math. you can practice and get 100%, why not do the same on guitar? Its possible, but hard to achieve.
 
maybe the stuff you're trying to play is slightly too difficult for you?

You'll also have a task on your hand to define 'perfect' ;) good luck with that one :)

And you'd have to define what an 'error' is.

Music is different from maths in that you are communicating an idea, not stating a universal fact of logic. An idea can be communicated even with errors in it i.e. you can be speaking to someone and perhaps have grammatical errors in what you are saying, but they will still understand you. therefore, even though the actual technical execution of what you were saying was full of errors, you would still have communicated the idea perfectly.

On basic terms though, yes, it is possible to play a solo exactly as the score states. But even then, there is the issue of interpretation i.e. how the score is read by the performer. There can be two performances of the same piece - both sounding completely different, yet both following the music exactly as it states.

If you mean getting through a solo without hitting a wrong note, then yes, you should be able to do this. If not, the solo's too difficult for you. Playing the notes should be the easy part.

But even then - look at Santana - he hits tons of 'bad' notes, but he uses the old trick - if you hit a 'wrong' note, play it again a few times so that people think it was meant, then if you move it up or down a fret, it will resolve to a 'correct' note. Is it therefore a 'wrong' note, as he has given it a context? If playing live, the worst thing you can do if you hit a bum note is to jump off it, as people will know you have made a mistake. If you play a bum note and then play it again a few times, what you are communicating is your intention i.e. you are meaning to play that note. So, even if it sounds strange, the audience may well think it is just an 'edgy' sounding solo, rather than realising that you are actually making a mistake. There's truth in the saying that a bunch of wrong notes played with confidence will convince an audience more than a bunch of correct notes played with doubt.

Futures joked about this, but it actually does stand true.



What is a 'bad' or 'wrong' note?
 
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even professional musicians tend to make mistakes.. we're human dude.. human tends to make mistake.. if we do make a single mistake, that's not even human.. haha!

gr8 bands sometimes do mistakes esp. solo parts at times...

take for example dragonforce, herman li and sam totman.. they can compose a very fast and long solos in every song and in a single second u guys think they're god... they did make mistakes too, especially live... or even put out a bad performance.. easier said, they suck live at times too... (:

mistakes are inevitable.. we can't run from it either.. the only thing we can do is to minimize mistakes.. e.g. practice!!


"practice makes perfect.. but if humans are not perfect, why practice??" (:

practice?? to minimize mistakes we made and maximize perfection... by practice! xD
 
Since we've already established that making mistakes is inevitable, while working to minimise mistakes, i think its a good idea also to know how to react in a situation where we fumble. Learning to 'cover up' will be good skill, be it doing a chromatic run, or heading for the nearest diminished chord in that key to fall back in key.

As i mentioned before, if you play it wrongly, do it twice so people think that you meant it. Yes, it may be a joke, but its a joke that was borne out of a lesson to be learnt. And in case you were wondering, it was Guthrie Govan who said it.
 
To make things clearer, it should be defined what each of us thinks a 'mistake' is, as we can't really talk about 'mistakes' otherwise.

Re 'practise makes perfect' - I prefer classical guitarist Anthony Glise's take on this - 'practise makes permanent' - in other words, practise something wrong for a long time, and you'll be absolutely amazing at playing it wrong. It's good to keep this in mind. Good practise makes perfect, not just 'practise'.
 
I'm sure I've made and will ever make more mistakes in guitar than you. haha

Practice lah! Stop watching cartoons! hahaha
 
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