# My consistency situation and hi from Romania
**URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/my-consistency-situation-and-hi-from-romania/51956
**Category:** Introduce Yourself
**Created:** [January 13, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/my-consistency-situation-and-hi-from-romania/51956 "2022-01-13T10:16:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Cechichan](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Cechichan)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/my-consistency-situation-and-hi-from-romania/51956/1 "2022-01-13T10:16:12Z")
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---- This proly gonna be a long one, but please read and give me some advice guys, would be much appreciated
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Hey guys!!! I will start with my music story and slowly build towards the reason I got here 😃
Story so far
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Soo, Im 22, I started guitar at 13 and the first year i basically start touching the instrument but i focused all of my energy on exams and guitar was something i really liked having fun on weekends with my friends( we were a group of 4 guys who all started ) and like 30 min a day. At 14 when i finished my exams and started Highschool, i played rhythm for a dude in a concert and like that, i met his teacher, an ex classical guitar conservatory teacher. I played around 3 years of classical guitar with him, then started my electric guitar journey, until here i almost never played more then 3h/ day and just played for fun and to get better actively ( i mean i was not thinking and researching how to get better at it 24/7 ).
'Sadly" in my 4th year it was end of highschool, exams again, and this was the time i foucsed on exams and sports(always loved sports a lot) and also started learning classical 4 part harmony and writing bach style chorales and other small piano things. My best guitar achivements at this point were: recorded On the back of angels solo at 130bpm ( 138 original) and had around 10 small concerts with classical guitar around my town, so basically i was quite decent at it, i never thought about myself as naturally good or very fast ( and still think im not and i wasnt, just, normally good id say ). I started law school after finishing highschool, which i hated, and becouse of (well life happend a lot and depression was high, i was playing a lot of guitar while watching movies and not paying any attention to my details, i was playing well.. i liked playing and nothing more.
Slowly i started to hit my head against the wall cuz i felt like i wasnt improving at all at guitar, but, my composting was getting very good and fast, i was writing 10+instruments short orchesrtas, finished 2 books of harmony( second one almost finisehd, stooped at some weird uni level modulations xdd) did around 300 4part harmony compotions, so i was investing more and more time in this, and guitar was less and less studied, i still played but not everyday adn without any attention to details.
Year 6(second year of university) when i saw how happy i was with my progress i started to thnk about becoming a professional composer, like in film or gaming industry, but around year 3 i learnt that i didnt really like the process of working 6-12 months or more for a project, especially being still ..like 20 at that time, i wanted shorter ,faster more fun on a daily kinda projects.
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-That mixed with my love for guitar playing and my sadness that i kinda stopped improving, also come in clutch the fact that, i had a very ugly injury while doing sports( i was training for my black belt in karate adn was going to open a gym with my sensei , lovely person).
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So i started guitar again, uni was kinda easy and covid started, so i was staying at home and playing 6-10h daily. My guitar sensei has a 'speed test" etude , first time i did 4notes/beat at 140bpm, and this period (2 winters ago ) i recorded it at 4n/beat at 215bpm, i recorded a small very tensed lick at 6/160 ( cant even touch that speed today anymore tho XD ) Recorded a JTC course of Mateus asato, around 20 licks, did all of them at full speeds, so i was getting good results again.
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BUT
and know starts the reason why im here
I was having a hard time being consistent with my playing, like i was studying some stuff and after recording it max speed, learnt a new thing and i was having trouble playing the last one again well.
–so i started the journey which im on right now, playing my favorite guitar players (which are all different music styles) on a quest to become more consistent and observe my technique while switching styles and techinques. (funk, blues, rock, neosoul, country, a bit of fusion)
I will be uplouding a video of me playing and asking for some advice on my technique, i found that i have quite different ways of picking for almost similar “licks” or parts and …well im having a hard time making a decision on how to do stuff 😃
Thank u for reading !!
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### Author:  [@Gravenous](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Gravenous)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/my-consistency-situation-and-hi-from-romania/51956/2 "2022-01-14T22:13:37Z")
Hey, and welcome!
Providing a video will probably be the quickest way to receive feedback on your playing, yeah - the site has a page with tips on filming your playing:
> **[Filming Your Playing](https://troygrady.com/help/technique-critique/filming-your-playing/)**
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> If you’re making a Technique Critique for feedback on your playing, it’s important to film yourself in a way that lets instructors and community members see what you’re doing. What to play This part is really simple! Platform TC videos are limited to...
Also, just as a reference, we had a thread on consistency recently, you might want to check it out as well:
> [@How to achieve consistency in musical performance?](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/how-to-achieve-consistency-in-musical-performance/50966):
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> Just to clarify, these ideas are not grammy nominated or even original! Take a solo section that I’m trying create so that I can reliablly play that may have some features of the original. Chances are that the opening licks oare iconic, possible to play and only one or two bars long so start with them and jam around from there, messing around and sounds like a hot mess. Ideas start to form, but often need to create transitions between sections or there is a point where a certain vibe is the w…
Cheers, and all the best in your guitar journey!
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### Author:  [@Cechichan](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Cechichan)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/my-consistency-situation-and-hi-from-romania/51956/3 "2022-01-15T11:31:25Z")
Thank u! i will look at that thred and keep havin fun with this string woody thing 😃 wish ya the same!
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### Author:  [@Jacklr](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Jacklr)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2022, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/my-consistency-situation-and-hi-from-romania/51956/4 "2022-01-15T12:30:31Z")
Welcome!
It’s very normal to be more accurate somedays and a bit “off” on other days so don’t worry about it too much 🙂
If you wanted something to try and work on what I like to do for consistency/stamina is take a lick I’m having trouble with and push it up to a speed where if I’m concentrating I’ll get it 8/10 times and then just live in that bpm for a while. If it’s getting to a point where I find myself not thinking about the lick and nailing it then it’s time to push it up so that I’m having to actively concentrate again
But anyway, a video is definitely the best way for us to identify what you’re doing and see if we can offer any advice 😄
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### Author:  [@Cechichan](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Cechichan)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/my-consistency-situation-and-hi-from-romania/51956/5 "2022-01-15T19:06:04Z")
Well i’ve been practicing like a madman a 2nps pentatonic lick, that i played before at max speed and recorded, but since then i’ve made small changes to my technique for example: less muting when i didnt want to mute and not moving the index finger and thump alone from the rest of the hand, besides when im hybrid picking i try to keep the hand a relaxed but together ( not literally glued without any sapce but together) And i’ve seen that it works quite well in all my technique BUT 2nps stuff for some reason. If in a few days i can’t get it done i will come back with a video 😃