Short zig-zags.

**MeeesterHat** · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 502

Couple of songs are giving me problems improving my scores with short zig-zags. I can hit something like

: consistently through, but something like

: I cannot keep a combo on whatsoever, I just can't get my fingers to go back and forth correctly. Anyone got any tips for hitting this part on songs?
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**Nikolai3035** · Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 581 Location: Fargo, ND

For something like that I would hold down my index on the red and then play the

like a little triplet, hammering on the blue and pulling off to the yellow then again to the red. It takes a little practice to get, but eventually it'll make sense.
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**officerbarbrady** · Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 151

i learned it by just getting the muscle memory. seriously just put your hand flat on a table and try and make that motion with your dominant three fingers, 1-2-3-2-1-2-3-2-...once you can do that, you can easily do those parts in songs, even solo C of freebird if you can get it goin fast enough

**spazzmckiwi** · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 18

I know what you mean, I'm currently having trouble 5*ing CoP b/c of this.
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**nickeroo2413** · Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 1486 Location: Uncle Tom's Cabin

practice practice practice :P

well not really. I sort of had this same trouble as well, with that freebird solo that goes back and forth in sets of 3.... what i did was just occasionally move my fingers back and forth like that in everyday life.. just like twiddling thumbs or whatever, it's not really a big study session or anything, just nonchalantly go back and forth for a minute or two every so often, it will work.
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**squidy** · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:52 am Post subject:

try using your 1 2 and 3 fingers and sorta "rock" your hand back and forth, this really helped me learn how to hit those ziggies.
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**Skizzy** · Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 19

how i started fingering it was by moving my hand and going 112112112. It doesn't work for really quick ones, but it works fine for most

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**BluR930** · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 39

What song is good to practice this in GH3, I can't think of one? Not the Talk Dirty To Me ending, that's too easy.
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**squidy** · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject:

**Evers17** · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 207

Talk Dirty to Me and Cities on Flame both have parts like this. I used to realllllly have trouble with this, just practice a lot, and to hit these parts i get in the zone, sort of haha, I have to really concentrate and it works.
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**cyk0tik** · Joined: 10 Sep 2007 Posts: 21 Location: Ames, IA

Or you could get Rock Band and practice with GG&HT

**BluR930** · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 39

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