QUOTE (Mario Garza @ Jul 5 2012, 04:55 PM)
Hi Alex! Thanks for letting me join your mentoring program
GoalsUltimately, I would like to be able to play with control and creativity, like you do. Your profile video portrays perfectly how I would like to play.
But I know that it will take years for me to achieve the above, so i
n the short term I'd like to improve my timing, vibrato, increase my lick vocabulary, and be able to improvise over chord changes.
WeaknessesMy vibrato and knowledge of the fretboard.
Strongest PointsI think I have a good grasp of alternate picking.
Favorite PlayersMarty Friedman, Eric Clapton, Guthrie Govan, Jimmy Hendrix, Paul Gilbert, and many more
Awesome!!! So let's start with a neck learning process! And I will start preparing a vibrato exercise in a meantime!
So to learn the neck might seem very complicated, but it's not as hard as it seems!
Let's simplify it!
First and sixth strings are the same and after 12 fret everything is starting over!
So all you need to learn is 5 strings up to 12 frets!
Here is the trick!
First I want you to learn all the dots and open strings!
Open strings are easy to remember if we will use a little rhyme
starting with a low E
Eat
All
Day
Get
Big
Eeasy
So for now I want you to memorize this:
To speed up the process play a note and call it out loud and than check if you are correct!
Don't go any farther just yet! Let me know when you feel comfortable and I will show you what to do next!
Let me know if you have any questions or need help!
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