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Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 5 2010, 01:20 AM

Hello Purple Hayes! Welcome to our February Mtp! smile.gif This month we will concentrate on your bending and alternate picking techniques.


Assignment 1:
This week we will start working on your bending technique. The lesson for this first assignment is an easy but very effective tune where you'll find different type of bends. It's called D Minor bending and has been composed by Laszlo Boross. I know that you'll find the lesson easy but It will let me know how precise your bending is.

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/D-Minor-Bending/


Please concentrate on your bend's pitch. It's not important to play the lesson exactly like the original so you can add some of your ideas. You should also add vibrato in the longer bends.

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 5 2010, 02:21 PM

Will do.

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 6 2010, 11:15 AM

Any ideas on the monthly assignment?

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 6 2010, 04:41 PM

This is my suggestion for this month:

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Stevie_Ray_Vaughan_Inspired_Phrasing/

This lesson is a great blues lesson with lots of bends and strong vibrato.

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Gary_Moore_Inspired_Phrasing/

Another great lesson in the same style.

What do you think? Both are amazing lessons but you can choose which one.

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 7 2010, 09:46 PM

Let's go for the SRV one.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 8 2010, 01:48 AM

Ok! Let's go for that one!

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 9 2010, 12:51 PM

I'll have the weekly lesson posted later today (tonight probably). Do you have another weekly lesson picked out, since we're running a little behind for the month?

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 9 2010, 03:07 PM

Hello Purple Hayes! Thanks for the update.

Assignment 2:
I was thinking on a short and old blues lesson of my own called "Blues licks 3" for our second assignment. I though in this lesson because it's a beginner lesson based in the rhythm style of SRV. As you are preparing Jonathan's SRV lesson this could be a nice warming up. The scales used are the dominant arpeggio of each chord and E blues scale.
Check it out!

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/blues-licks3/

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 9 2010, 04:15 PM

QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Feb 9 2010, 09:07 AM) *
Hello Purple Hayes! Thanks for the update.

Assignment 2:
I was thinking on a short and old blues lesson of my own called "Blues licks 3" for our second assignment. I though in this lesson because it's a beginner lesson based in the rhythm style of SRV. As you are preparing Jonathan's SRV lesson this could be a nice warming up. The scales used are the dominant arpeggio of each chord and E blues scale.
Check it out!

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/blues-licks3/


Great. I'll start working on that right away.

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 10 2010, 02:38 AM

I did two takes of this lesson. One is with vibrato on the bends and one is just holding the bends so you can better hear the pitch I landed on.




Posted by: purple hayes Feb 10 2010, 10:11 PM

Gabe - Can I get the backing track for the weekly SRV lesson?

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 12 2010, 03:43 AM

Both takes are very good! The intonation of your bending is perfect! I don't think that this technique is a problem for you. The thing that I note is that your bends could be wider and stronger. I feel that every bend is exactly the same in this take and it makes your playing a bit flat. Maybe it's because you were concentrated only on your bending... but that's what I noticed in this take (the first one).

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 12 2010, 07:22 PM

 backing_track_130_bpm.mp3 ( 414.59K ) : 130

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 14 2010, 03:10 AM


Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 15 2010, 05:15 PM

Great playing man! You learned every note of the lesson perfectly and I think that you did a very good job. I feel that you could improve this take even more if you concentrate on the groove that you give to your playing. It has some very little timing issues (being extremely strict!) that fixed would make this take sound more groovy. I feel this more in the fist half of the lesson. Do you understand and hear what I mean?

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 15 2010, 06:02 PM

I'll try to work more on the groove.

Any ideas on this week's lesson?

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 15 2010, 10:30 PM

Assignment 3:
I was thinking on a lesson for this week that is a killer hard rock etude with some riffing and very expressive bending and vibrato. It's a Jonathan Burgos lesson called Vintage hard rock and I think that it's an easy (excepting the faster legato lick over pentatonic) but effective lesson to train your expression. I'm impressed with Jonathan's vibrato and I think that it would be really cool if you try to imitate his way of playing the vibrato technique to incorporate a bit of it into your playing. I think that the important thing here is how you play it instead of what you play.

This is the link to the lesson: http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Vintage_Hard_Rock/

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 15 2010, 10:56 PM

Great, that's an awesome sounding lesson. It will be a lot to learn in a week, but I'll give it my best shot.

-John

ETA: Ok, I've worked on the lesson a bit. It's not as hard as it sounded. That lick at the end may be tricky though.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 16 2010, 04:43 PM

QUOTE (purple hayes @ Feb 15 2010, 06:56 PM) *
Great, that's an awesome sounding lesson. It will be a lot to learn in a week, but I'll give it my best shot.

-John

ETA: Ok, I've worked on the lesson a bit. It's not as hard as it sounded. That lick at the end may be tricky though.



Great! smile.gif

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 20 2010, 07:22 PM



I'll be submitting this to the REC today too, so look for it there.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 20 2010, 07:42 PM

wou man! This is so good! You learned the lesson perfectly and I think that with some more days of practice you'll make it sound as the original! The rhythmic section sounds excellent and you don't have any type of timing issue or groove thing to improve. The solo section is also really good and I can note that you are trying to emulate Jonathan's vibrato. I even think that you really achieved ii on some of them. This month has been very effective to improve you bending and vibrato!
I just can say that you could continue playing this solo to keep on practicing vibrato and bending. Great job! I'll be back with the 4th assignment.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 21 2010, 08:05 PM

Assignment 4:
Well man! We are in our last assignment! In this assignment my idea is to share with you some of my favorite licks from my favorite guitar players. This licks are good to train your technique and also to be incorporated in your improvisations. The lick 1 is a "Ritchie Kotzen" and "Greg Howe" style pattern that is very cool to know because it always work great when you are improvising. I wrote it in played in the 6 strings but it can be played in a shorter way. The second lick is a "Paul Gilbert" style arpeggio that is a cool lick to train your sweep but it also a nice idea to create your own "classical" oriented etudes of solo. The third lick is an "Yngwie Malmsteen" style lick that I took from his amazing song called "Far beyond the sun". It starts with a fast harmonic minor descendant lick and then I play diminished arpeggios with sweep picking technique. The last licks is a "Steve Morse" and "John Petrucci" style alternate picking lick over A blues scale. I love this lick!

Well that's all! The tempo required for this ones is the faster than you can since these players are killer shredders.

I hope that you enjoy it! smile.gif

 GMC_Cool_Licks.gp5 ( 3.5K ) : 92

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 22 2010, 03:25 PM

Great. I'll learn these and have a video up on Saturday.

I'm still getting that fast lick in the SRV lesson up to speed. Once I can get that, I'll record and post that one, too.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 22 2010, 04:26 PM

QUOTE (purple hayes @ Feb 22 2010, 11:25 AM) *
Great. I'll learn these and have a video up on Saturday.

I'm still getting that fast lick in the SRV lesson up to speed. Once I can get that, I'll record and post that one, too.


Ok, I'll wait for the videos! smile.gif

Posted by: purple hayes Feb 25 2010, 04:21 PM

QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Feb 22 2010, 10:26 AM) *
Ok, I'll wait for the videos! smile.gif


Our friendship is over. My fingers are raw from trying to learn and master the SRV lesson and your 'cool licks' by the end of the month. tongue.gif

Posted by: purple hayes Mar 1 2010, 02:36 AM

Hey, sorry about missing the Feb 28 dead line. I was sick with the flu Friday and Saturday. I got out of bed today to work on stuff, but just couldn't get the recordings done.

I'll get something up in the next couple of days.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Mar 1 2010, 07:40 AM

Ok! Thanks for notifying. I hope that you feel better soon! smile.gif

Posted by: purple hayes Mar 13 2010, 03:40 AM

Apologies for being so late with this. Got the flu (or food poisoning) on the first weekend I was going to try to record this, then my office got broken into and all the computers and 2 of my guitars were stolen. I've been working hard trying to get the office back up and running and playing/recording hasn't been my top priority. I'll get the weekly lesson recorded and posted tomorrow. Here's my monthly lesson: http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=34125

Posted by: purple hayes Mar 17 2010, 02:43 AM



Sorry I'm so late getting that posted. Life finally settled down a bit and I recorded them. The quality is kinda low, but you can still see what I'm doing.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 12 2010, 01:41 AM

Hey man! I missed your last assignment! I think that at this time you can make this licks fly! laugh.gif Well, the licks sound perfect at this tempo. Now it's time to increase the speed of this licks to allow you use them in your own improvisations,, mainly the first and the last one. I really use those licks because are relatively easy and effective. So keep on working hard!

I commented your REC take in the grading thread.

Ok Purple hayes. This has been our last month for the MTP. I want to say thank you for completing every assignment and for taking this MTP seriously. It has been a pleasure for me to share this months with you. You have interesting skills and I think that you'll became a very good player if you continue with this disciplined work.


Purple Hayes February Thread Completed.

4 assignment complete
REC TAKE: http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=34125

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