Well Steve we don’t need to have a big introduction kind of thing because we already have become friends through the forum. I am obviously very excited about our match up and hope you are as well. Right now I just want to wait on the syllabus that should be posted soon and look that over. I will come up with a game plan for us and we can discuss it from there.
A few things I want us both to get out of this if nothing else is to have a whole lot of fun, show you what a great player you can become and develop a good honest friendship built on trust. I will always back up my reasons with truths and won’t mislead you in any way. If we can do this then we both win even if the end result is I don’t get help from Muris. All I ask is you take this time to do something for you. I know your really busy with GMC and your family at home but you need to dedicate some time for you my friend. This is about your playing not mine. You will be very surprised with your results in the end.
"Think of a guitar solo as a paragraph. You need a clear beginning, a middle, and an end. Look at musical phrases like sentences, and make sure you break them up using punctuation—or space. You pause naturally when conversing, right? If you don't, you'll bore the listener. The same thing will happen with your audience if your solo is one dimensional. You'll wear them out and lose their attention." —Tom Principato
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Here you go man, took YT forever to procees and it's a small file... Just a few word's, I know you really want to see me fretting the chords differently but the problem I'm having is this. If you watch Marcus when he goes into the sort of gallop, he is fretting the low E at the third fret with his thumb. I just can't seem to transition doing it like that. So, it has kind of got me fretting all of the chords the way I am.
Also, I know the lesson up through the harmonics part but lost it before I got there and was running out of time. Anyway, here's what I have...
Here you go man, took YT forever to procees and it's a small file... Just a few word's, I know you really want to see me fretting the chords differently but the problem I'm having is this. If you watch Marcus when he goes into the sort of gallop, he is fretting the low E at the third fret with his thumb. I just can't seem to transition doing it like that. So, it has kind of got me fretting all of the chords the way I am.
Also, I know the lesson up through the harmonics part but lost it before I got there and was running out of time. Anyway, here's what I have...
Hi Steve,
I wanted to give you a few extra comments on you upload. As I said before over all I think for the time you have to put in it’s good. My goal with these first few weeks was to introduce some new ideas and to correct some bad habits. This is what I am going to base these comments on.
You aren’t even trying to do the chords correct and you know that. I even expressed when I gave you this lesson as well as with your first upload that this was the reason for me choosing it and why. I am not sure why you are refusing to even try.
Go back and look at your video again. We are trying to also correct some things with your right hand, right? Things looked great till you came out of the chords at 0:44 seconds. Your picking went to mostly down strokes, your left hand went out of sync and everything started to fall apart with your timing. That is the reason we need to correct this now. You’re going to have a really hard time becoming an intermediate player with just all down strokes.
I realize you are trying to make things sound cool. But when it comes to us learning and for me to be able to hear what your playing properly I would appreciate less effects on your uploads. Look at Emirs current collab “Rock Ballad” and how he talks about the tone of the guitar. Sometimes less is more when you record your tracks. I am not saying it sounds bad, but it makes it difficult to accurately hear what your playing and harder to give you good advise.
We are in our final week bro! I hope you can work on these corrections and have made some progress with Muris’s lesson as well. I would like to see an upload on them when you can.
Thanks for the upload and I hope you will find these comment helpful
"Think of a guitar solo as a paragraph. You need a clear beginning, a middle, and an end. Look at musical phrases like sentences, and make sure you break them up using punctuation—or space. You pause naturally when conversing, right? If you don't, you'll bore the listener. The same thing will happen with your audience if your solo is one dimensional. You'll wear them out and lose their attention." —Tom Principato