How Fast Are You? Options

[Cosmin Lupu]

I was wondering how fast (in hours spent) are you on nailing a GMC lesson, by this meaning:

- Understanding what you are playing - technically and theoretically
- Being able to execute things with flow and as good as possible at the slowest tempo available (slowest backing track)
- Bringing the lesson up to the original speed, keeping the execution as before - clean, in time, tight and expressive
- Recording the lesson for a REC take?

You'll probably pick your maximum level for certain for the involved difficulty but by this I'm trying to figure out how everyone's clock is ticking

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[thefireball]

Cosmin,

I tend to tackle the lesson as a whole. I don't completely master all the parts, but I want to feel like I am progressing. To stay motivated, I just move on to the next section. Sometimes I have to come back to something later. Or maybe sometimes I will learn the "cool" part first. As in your Djent - Time Signatures lesson, I learned the rhythm part before the alternate picking part. It was really cool.

I might say that I use my ear the most in learning a lesson, and the tab to reinforce what I am hearing. To learn with your ear...I would say that is a very good thing. Right? We are musicians after all. \m/

-Brandon Burch

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[Cosmin Lupu]

Cosmin,

I tend to tackle the lesson as a whole. I don't completely master all the parts, but I want to feel like I am progressing. To stay motivated, I just move on to the next section. Sometimes I have to come back to something later. Or maybe sometimes I will learn the "cool" part first. As in your Djent - Time Signatures lesson, I learned the rhythm part before the alternate picking part. It was really cool.

I might say that I use my ear the most in learning a lesson, and the tab to reinforce what I am hearing. To learn with your ear...I would say that is a very good thing. Right? We are musicians after all. \m/

-Brandon Burch

An you are right I use my ears first hand and then the tab to see if I got everything right, the thing is that when I'm sorting out classical music for instance (Mozart Rocks stuff) I have to come up with a combination between the actual phrases played by the main violin or other solo instrument and my own ideas - so sorting out what is played there will come first and tweaking it, afterwards.

The thing is that ears helped me a lot - if you will take a peak at what Guthrie has to say about tabs for instance, you'll end up realizing that they are only meant for backing your ears up and not used as a main tool, from a certain point onward. When my ears were not that accustomed to picking up things from recordings, I was relying on tabs most of the time, but I was very frustrated by the fact that most of them were inaccurate and there is NO RHYTHMIC notation in them usually which is one of the main reasons for which I couldn't figure out things from tabs. I must admit that I was so into sorting the songs out from tabs, that I have completely forgotten that I could've used my ears instead

For me it depends on the difficulty level offcourse

I'm working on 'guitar loves piano 6' by Piotr difficulty 4

- took me about 5 hours to play it slow
- It will take me about 6 hours to get it at full speed with mistakes
- To play it for a recording that will take me about a week I think

So in total about 10 days. Depending how much I play offcourse. I have another life next to guitar playing

- Arthur -

10 days is a very good timing Arthur

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[thefireball]

When my ears were not that accustomed to picking up things from recordings, I was relying on tabs most of the time, but I was very frustrated by the fact that most of them were inaccurate and there is NO RHYTHMIC notation in them usually which is one of the main reasons for which I couldn't figure out things from tabs. I must admit that I was so into sorting the songs out from tabs, that I have completely forgotten that I could've used my ears instead

It was my frustration in the inaccuracy and no rhythmic notation of tabs that drove me to use my ears.

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