QUOTE (thefireball @ Mar 13 2012, 02:23 PM)
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
QUOTE (vdcraats @ Mar 13 2012, 03:10 PM)
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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