January Mtp Thread - Mirkoschmidt |
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January Mtp Thread - Mirkoschmidt |
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Jan 3 2010, 08:15 PM |
Hi Mirko!
How was your new year's? Let's get started with January's program! These are the three assignments for this month: * First week: Due January 10th - Post rhythm exercise no.1. We are still gonna drill the 2/4 time signature, this time is going to be a little more demanding. Make sure to include the accents as we saw on previous 2/4 exercises. - Post riff assignment. This is the main riff for the song "Mr. Brownstone" by Guns and Roses. It's a great exercise and it's got some interesting mixture of techniques in it. Mr. Brownstone the riff appears at 3:17 as in the GP file. - Post speed exercise no.1. Start from a comfortable speed. All alternate picking starting on a down stroke. This is a must-know type of pattern to develop speed. Go up to the fastest and cleanest speed possible and post it. week_1___Rhythm_exercise_no.1.gp5 ( 2.12K ) Number of downloads: 193 week_1___Riff_assignment_No.1.gp5 ( 17.47K ) Number of downloads: 161 week_1___Speed_assigment_No.1.gp5 ( 2.06K ) Number of downloads: 186 * Second week: Due January 17th - Post rhythm exercise no.2. For this exercise start at 60bpm. And work your way up. The goal is 160, but post your fastest possible take at the time. Make sure to include the accents as we saw on previous 2/4 exercises. - Post solo assignment no.1. We'll keep on working on the bendings. This time let's do the first solo for "November Rain" by Slash. Play the "guitar solo" part on the GP file attached. November Rain backing track The solo part appears at 3:48. - Post speed exercise no.2. This exercise has some different patterns in it and it's not square. Do it with alternate picking but don't be restricted to it if you need to use a couple of hammer-ons or pull-offs. week_2___Rhythm_exercise_no.2.gp5 ( 2.01K ) Number of downloads: 172 week_2___Solo_assignment_no.1.gp5 ( 31.56K ) Number of downloads: 156 week_2___Speed_assigment_no.2.gp5 ( 1.86K ) Number of downloads: 170 * Third week: Due January 24th - Post Rhythm exercise no.3. Make sure to include the accents as we saw on previous 2/4 exercises. - Post solo assignment no.2. This is a really fun excerpt from "Mr. Browstone" solo. Challenging but I think it will really help on your bending technique. - Post speed exercise no.3. The idea here is to break the regular up and down patterns and start combining different runs "arbitrarily". A chromatic exercise. Start on a comfortable tempo and work your way up to the fastest and cleanest possible. week_3___Rhythm_exercise_no.3.gp5 ( 2.13K ) Number of downloads: 179 week_3___Speed_assigment_no.3.gp5 ( 2.64K ) Number of downloads: 181 week_3__Solo_assignment_No.2.gp5 ( 17.47K ) Number of downloads: 146 * Let me know of the REC lesson you want to submit for this month. The REC take would have to be posted on the 29th on january. Let me know iif you have any comments and questions! This post has been edited by Daniel Realpe: Jan 3 2010, 08:21 PM -------------------- Visit my:
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Jan 10 2010, 02:13 AM |
hey daniel, im thinking about that coment from emir to my last lesson: "When you vibrate while in the bend you should still vibrate from the wrist. You're moving your whole hand and the result is not really a good vibrato" i have really problems doing vibrato while bending, and i dont know how to do that. i dont understand emirs coment, when i do vibrato from the wrist i have to moving my whole hand havent i? Maybe you can explain it for me or you can you can show me that in the next videochat! second thing is the riff-assigment: the second part on the 4. til 7. fret is very fast! i tried to play that with 4 fingers, but then i recognized that it feels more comfortable to play it qwithout the pinky. now im on 80% speed to the song and it doesnt feel very good anymore because i have to chance the frets very fast! what is the better way there? should i play it with 4 fingers or only 3? On the riff assignment, use a pull-off technique, well, this is better to show than to explain, but anyway I don't the think 4 fingers are used here, only 3 about the vibrato, I think it is important to use the rist when doing vibrato and not only your fingers vertically if you know what I mean. Don't think it over too much. Take a look at the way Emir does it for instance on his lessons. He is moving the whole rist. It's kind of like pulling the strings on a downward fashion. -------------------- Visit my:
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