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Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi May 17 2012, 04:45 PM
Hi Sparrow!! Welcome to yourhttp://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=43110&st=20 thread!!
Could you please tell me a bit about you, your musical tastes, influences, strengths and weaknesses? I would need some videos of you playing rhythm and solo guitar, so please post your best material here. If you have some music or ideas of your own, also post them here. Also let me know how you think that I can help you and what are your expectations for our job. You can check the other Army's thread to discover the different modalities of this project.
The principles of our Army are:
+ Improve your technique
+ Make music and solos
+ Have fun
+ Destroy the enemy (hahaha not realy just kidding... )
Posted by: Sparrow May 18 2012, 01:06 AM
Thanks for the thread Gabe
Some of my favorite bands are AFI
The Stooges
Funkadelic
Mother Love Bone
John Lee Hooker
I could go on for a while 
anyways, I wanna write punk songs and play good solos. I don't have too many videos of me playing so I will make some this week.
I think you can help me get faster with my Alternate Picking, and understand more about song structures.
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi May 18 2012, 06:50 PM
Hi Sparrow! Those are really cool songs! I'll wait for your video to start giving you assignments. 
Posted by: Sparrow May 31 2012, 11:24 PM
Here are some song ideas I have. I haven't played my acoustic in a while so I was making some mistakes, but I think you can get the point. I want to write more punk songs that are fast and aggressive like The Stooges or Rancid, but I don't have a band yet so I've only been writing on acoustic.
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 1 2012, 03:21 PM
Nice videos mate! Are these ones your own compositions?
Posted by: Sparrow Jun 1 2012, 06:23 PM
Yeah. I have words for them too and want to play some solos over them if I can get a band together someday.
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 1 2012, 06:30 PM
Cool! Do you have any software for creating drums and basses? That would be a good solution by now until you have the full band.
Posted by: Sparrow Jun 3 2012, 03:31 PM
Nah not at the moment. I just bought my computer recently and I can't figure out how to get it to work with reaper/ASIO (I think it might just be incompatable) so maybe this year I'll try to get a really good one with firewire and a really good music program.
I have been learning a solo by ear for the past month (thought I would be done in 3 weeks, but the journey continues!) I'll post it here once I have it all down
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 3 2012, 08:33 PM
I have been learning a solo by ear for the past month (thought I would be done in 3 weeks, but the journey continues!) I'll post it here once I have it all down
Have you tried the asio4all driver? It works with every soundcard, no matter if you have an onboard one. If you can find the way to record your ideas in Reaper, it will be easier to arrange them and to work on different rhythms and experiment with structures.
What solo have you learn?
Posted by: Sparrow Jun 4 2012, 12:27 AM
I downloaded ASIO4all and installed it, but when I open Reaper there is no sound. I searched a bunch of forums and a lot of people said the driver has problems with windows 7, which I'm running on.
Learning Comfortably Numb. One of my favorite solos. I know the whole thing now and I'm just working on the speed. played 90% today 
David Gilmour could actually play a bit fast sometimes, he just barely ever did.
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 4 2012, 05:39 AM
Learning Comfortably Numb. One of my favorite solos. I know the whole thing now and I'm just working on the speed. played 90% today
David Gilmour could actually play a bit fast sometimes, he just barely ever did.
Excellent! Do you think that you could upload a video playing the solo?
I didn't know about the issue with asio4all combined with Win7
Posted by: Sparrow Jun 7 2012, 01:39 AM
I'll put a video up once I can play at 100% speed. I played 96% today, so hopefully only a couple more days.
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 7 2012, 04:53 AM
Ok! Looking forward it!
Posted by: Sparrow Jun 7 2012, 06:48 PM
If you are learning an AP lick do you learn starting with downstorkes and starting with upstrokes at the same time? Like would you practice it starting with downstrokes, then practice it starting with ups?
I have been trying this but then sometimes my picking hand will get confused
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 7 2012, 08:05 PM
I have been trying this but then sometimes my picking hand will get confused
mmm no, I start working with the direction that I think is more effective for that lick. Then If I find it useful I practice it starting with the inverse direction.
Posted by: Sparrow Jun 8 2012, 11:25 PM
Ah, thanks. This will cut down my practice time a lot.
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 9 2012, 01:04 AM
yes, you will notice that there are famous guitar players that play the same lick with different picking directions so there isn't one correct way to play a lick.
Posted by: Sparrow Jun 15 2012, 08:13 PM
I grabbed some of your warm up techniques from some other people's threads and I have been doing the exercises before I play each day for the past 3 or 4 weeks.
warming up everyday has helped me a lot 
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 16 2012, 06:39 PM
Nice videos mate! The exercises sound good! You should continue playing them everyday to be able to play them faster but without losing the good tone of each note.
Let's add this two lessons to your diary routine to start working on your Alternate Picking technique:
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=42828
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=42829
and also please choose any solo lesson from our archive and let's work on it! Before learning it please post your ideas here.
Posted by: Sparrow Jun 17 2012, 04:31 AM
I like the sound of this lesson by Muris
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/blue-note-in-a/
Some really tasty licks in there. I will get started
I also have all these songs I want to learn on rhythm guitar by Rancid, Sublime, and AFI, and different things on bass too
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 18 2012, 02:43 PM
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/blue-note-in-a/
Some really tasty licks in there. I will get started
I also have all these songs I want to learn on rhythm guitar by Rancid, Sublime, and AFI, and different things on bass too
Hi man! This sounds great for me! Please post here the progress and videos of you playing the lesson and also if you learn any of the songs. Also let me know if you need some help with it.
Posted by: Sparrow Jun 19 2012, 04:52 PM
I will work on those new exercises you gave me eventually, but right now I want to focus on the AP patterns you gave us in the last video chat. Those are really useful and I want to get them down!
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 19 2012, 10:28 PM
Cool Sparrow! Yeah, those "Outside & Inside Picking" exercises are the best! Work on them and let me know if you notice progress.
Posted by: Sparrow Jun 26 2012, 01:50 AM
Been practicing the first set of outside and inside picking patterns for a week now. Inside picking is good but outside picking is tough! I'll post a video in another week after I make a little more progress.
I'm having a bit of trouble with part of that Muris lesson "Blue Note In A" 1. In the 3rd part of the instruction for the video you can see a part where he does a really wide vibrato over and over like Jeff Beck. I am having trouble copying this!
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 26 2012, 06:14 PM
I'm having a bit of trouble with part of that Muris lesson "Blue Note In A" 1. In the 3rd part of the instruction for the video you can see a part where he does a really wide vibrato over and over like Jeff Beck. I am having trouble copying this!
yes, that wide vibrato is something that requires much strength and precision. The way to achieve it is just working on that type of vibrato over the backing, play long scale notes and try to add that vibrato. Concentrate 100% on that and do it every day. After some days you will master it.
Posted by: Sparrow Jul 5 2012, 01:36 PM
Damnit Man! I thought your chats were on Friday, not Wednesday. I missed it 
I am moving to a new place this week so everything is a bit crazy, I'll try to post a video at the end of this week or the next for the AP exercises. Getting faster......so slowly
I have fallen out of practice with Muris' lesson but I will try to practice it too!
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jul 5 2012, 03:47 PM
I am moving to a new place this week so everything is a bit crazy, I'll try to post a video at the end of this week or the next for the AP exercises. Getting faster......so slowly
I have fallen out of practice with Muris' lesson but I will try to practice it too!
yes, but this was a change only for this week. The next one I will do one on Wednesday and another one on Friday.
I-m glad to know that the exercises are getting faster with hard work!
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