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Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You

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Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You

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Expressive Outcome I'm Trying to Achieve

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Expressive Outcome I'm Trying to Achieve

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Start of the song:

sad

grief

End of the song:

hopeful

inspiring

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The fast lines need to be clean and fluent. Also the volume of the notes need to remain equal.

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I like how smooth the main melody is. It blends so well with the backing. I want to emulate the dynamics and the places where Satriani palm mutes.

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Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You (Official HD Video)

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I don't like how "extra" this cover of the song is. It loses the subtlety of the original recording.

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'Always With Me, Always With You' - Alessandro Zilio (Joe Satriani Cover)

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All the notes need to be played cleanly and without touching other strings. Also the volume of each note has to be balanced.

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Between 1:10 and 1:15, all the notes have the exact same dynamics and each note can be heard clearly.

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Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You (guitar cover with tabs & chords)

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Weaker fingers like my pinky don't have the same level of coordination as my pointer or middle finger.

Also, my left hand very quickly loses endurance, leading to sloppy playing.

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This exercise incorporates hammer-ons, pull-offs, and practices the slide in the middle of the line.

It uses a lot of the same shapes as the lines in the song.

play with a 6/8 metronome at 200bpm

Things to focus on:

Technique:

focusing on clean notes and balanced volume.

repeating the exercise to build endurance in the left hand.

Dynamics:

can repeat the exercise while demonstrating different dynamics

Examples:

making sure the high and low notes are the same volume

playing quieter at the start and then getting louder

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Technique:

improves hammer-ons and pull-offs

improves endurance

improves coordination with weaker fingers

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I need to make sure my middle finger on my right hand is cleanly tapping the right string and is not touching other strings.

Taps and pull-offs need to be very consistent to maintain a constant volume level.

A compressor pedal can help with volume issues.

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Exercise 2 - Tapping Expressive Exercise

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Exercise 2 - Tapping Expressive Exercise

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This exercise consists of a very similar tapping pattern that is in the song.

It also consists of playing the same pattern on different strings.

Play with a 4/8 metronome at 200bpm

play for 1 bar, mute for 3 bars

The tapping part of this song is the right before where the song explodes in tension. Satriani plays the tapping lines so smoothly and really brings out the inspiring emotion of this part. When I play the line, at times it can sound rigid and not flow as cleanly. So it takes away the emotion that is meant to be brought out. This exercise will help me with smoothly playing notes and bring out the inspiring emotion.

Things to focus on:

Technique:

focusing on making the volume of each note the same

focusing on not touching other strings and limiting unwanted noise.

Rhythm:

this exercise can be used to practice internalizing the pulse

the metronome can play every beat on the first round and then after each repeat, there are fewer clicks

this is to practice whether I can stay in time after not hearing the metronome for a while

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improves tapping technique.

practices a very similar pattern to the song.

improves coordination of the tapping finger to eliminate accidental touches of other strings.

helps to internalize the pulse of the song

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Between 1:54 and 2:08, all the notes are really clear. Each note has the same dynamic and there is no accidental touches of other strings. The level of distortion in this song requires this section to be played really cleanly, otherwise the song will be muddied with unwanted noise.

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Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You (guitar cover with tabs & chords)

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Expressive Outcome I'm Trying to Achieve

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Expressive Outcome I'm Trying to Achieve

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At the start of the song:

Calm

Melancholy

chill

In the middle of the song:

starts calm and builds up to be more confident and full

During the solo:

confident

optimistic

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I find it hard to play double stops while playing hammer-ons and pull-offs

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This is the first time I have really used double stops to this level. So, I'm struggling because I haven't learnt the technique yet.

I need to improve my coordination in my left hand to make sure I'm holding the right frets. Also, I need to practice with my right hand to accurately play two strings and not hit other strings.

Also I need to practise double stops with my thumb around the neck.

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I struggle with consistency and coordination when doing chord slides

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When I try and do the chord slides in this song, some of my fingers often get stuck. So, the slide is not smooth and looks and sounds janky.

Also, my fingers need to space slightly differently as I go up or down the fretboard as the frets change length as you go up. So the spaces between by fingers need to change smoothly as I play

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Expressive Outcome I'm Trying to Achieve

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Expressive Outcome I'm Trying to Achieve

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Exciting, upbeat and confident

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I want to get better at playing the 16th strumming pattern in the song

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I need to get better endurance in my wrist and I need to improve my picking accuracy of single strings while plucking multiple strings. Meaning I will need to mute strings with my left hand. Also switching between muted stringing and single string plucking smoothly

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The strumming part

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try to be really loose with your wrist

Variations:

focus on muted strumming

focus on single string picking

practise switching between the two

Muted Strumming:

play the line while strumming multiple strings and muting with your left hand

Single Line Picking

play the line while picking one string at a time

Things to Focus on:

Articulation:

during muted strumming, make sure there is no unwanted ringing of other strings and only one note is playing at a time

during single strum

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Cory Wong of Vulfpeck on His Funky Right Hand Picking Technique | Reverb Interview

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improves picking accuracy of single strings

improves speed and feel of muted strumming

helps with endurance in the wrist

practises better coordination with muting/fretting with the left hand and strumming/picking with the right hand

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The notes he plays are all really clean. Even when he is strumming multiple strings, only the one note or the three notes are actually ringing.

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Exercise 3 - Double Stops Expressive Exercise

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Exercise 3 - Double Stops Expressive Exercise

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This exercise consists of having your thumb around the neck and playing double stops within a E minor scale.

First variation is just double stops

Second incorporates hammer-ons

Third incorporates pull-offs

Forth incorporates both

This is an expressive exercise. When I currently double stops, they sound rigid and don't flow nicely. This doesn't allude to the emotions Jimi expresses when he performs this piece. This exercise will help me bring out the more sad and melancholy emotions through the notes.

Things to focus on:

Dynamics

focusing on making the volume of each note the same

variations:

soft to loud to soft

loud to soft to loud

Articulation:

focusing on not touching other strings and limiting unwanted noise.

accuracy

bringing out the melody notes cleanly

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This exercise consists of keeping your fingers in a chord shape and sliding the same shape around the fretboard.

Variations can include:

up slides

down slides

both

Things to focus on:

Dynamics:

try to keep the chord that is slid into the same volume as the strummed chord

Articulation:

be able to change the space between fingers as fret length changes

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improves coordination with left and right hand

helps develop control of dynamics

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improves coordination with left and right hand

helps develop control of dynamics