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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6380356" data-attributes="member: 177">I spent some time this evening fiddling with knobs to find a base sound that works for practice.  I ran through the faux-scales 5+ times, and then noodled around with the riff Janx suggested.  My poor white-collar fingers are a tad tender now, and I can see that buildup of callouses will be called for.While running scales, paid a goodly amount of attention to not touching other strings - occasionally plucking neighbors to see if they still rang clear. - some of that is going to have to come with added flexiblity and strength, I can see.  I can tell when I'm not fingering right, as I get buzz when I don't.I found the riff quite useful for a few things - I rant it for a while fingering with just my index finger, and then experimented a bit with reaching up with other fingers, so see what that'd feel like.  When I was doing that, it led to less sliding my way up or down the string.Tried picking with a pick, and bare handed.  I was getting clearer notes bare handed, so I may tend to that for a while.And, as suggested, I wiped it down afterwards.  Geeze, does that shiny body show that it was touched by a human!My current target is to do a half-hour a day.  I might even get into the habit of using this thread to post on when I do new stuff.Installing GuitarTuna on my phone - for tuning mostly, though apparently it has some exercises that might be cool.Ordered a guitar stand, and a power brick for the amp - both have already shipped.</blockquote>

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