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[kaznie_NL]

Hello Lcsdds (I'll call you bob, that's shorter )

I saw in Smells' post that I'm in your group, and that's good news I'm a "friend" of Jesse (MSN friend ) So I followed your thread a bit, seemed very neat! A bit about myself:

My name is Kaz, and I'm 15 and a bit. I have played many years, but not ver efficient. I got a spanish acoustic 3/4 when I was about 8, my dad learned me some chords and I played very few times a month. Oktober 2007 I bought an electric guitar, and I started to play some serious guitar. If people ask me how long I've beeen playing, I say a bit over a year, or a bit shorter then one and a half year. I know play every day, but not hours a day. My motto is, have fun with your guitar, then you'll be motivated. This is also how I practice, no schedule, just jammin! It might not be very efficient, but with a schedule I have no fun at all, and I loose motivation.

I know all the ins and outs about GMC, I've been around for quite a while, and I'm almost part of the wallpaper here
My skills:
Solo = beginner intermediate. I play lessons here that are level 4 and 5. I can do legato (weird.. I don't really practice that, but i can pulll it of..), AP, little sweeping and tapping, but I'm not very much into tapping. My vibrato could use some help

Chords= not sure how to expres this. I can play all normal chords. All minor and major without peaking, and also some 7th chords, but others I have to look how to play them (I don't find this a big problem). I can play barre chords, no problemo. I think I can actualy say my chord skills are quite ok

Riffing: It's not like I riff and awful lot, but I think I'm ok with it. I can play metal rhythms no big deal.

fingerpicking = I'd like to work on this. Not full time, but a bit more then i do now. I can play the intro of under bridge, but not on speed. I think fingerpicking (especially acoustic) can be really cool

theory = I know the minor pentatonic (and with relative minor, I can do the major). So minor and major are all fine. I don't remember the exact places of all the root notes, but I've known the penta for over a year now, and I make all my solos in it, so atm I can fly through the boxes quite well. Now comes the time where I miss some extra notes, so I started on the blues scale. I know the blue notes int he first box, and I use them a lot, but I am/was to lazy to learn where the blue notes are in the other boxes. I also know how to play box 1 and 2 from the major scale.

ATM I'm very much into Satriani. I can play Always With Me, Always with You, until the hard legato parts start, and I'm learning the intro from if I could fly, but that's not gonna be a problem. I'm always in need of songs to learn, I just don't know enough of them! As for styles, I love blues and rock. I'm into melodic solos, and I really don't like senseless shredding lesson I dig are (for instance) Mark Knopler finger picked solo (muris), In the style of Steve Lukather (muris again) and Gab's Rock lessons. There are more lessons I love, these just came up

I hope this helps and for movies, my YT link is HERE. I also have a singing video online, just PM me if you want a link to that one. I use a POD GX for recording (toneport device) with POD farm. I can record MP3 quite quickly, but I don't like shooting videos Takes a lot of time for me. I don't have a webcam, so I need to setup camera, film, sync, produce etc. etc.

BTW, I'm fine with learning theory, but I think that gives you a new task, kicking me under the but, because (not sure why) I suck with learning theory, I just don't give a lot about it. But I use penta aalwaays so i know it's important

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This post has been edited by kaznie_NL: Feb 24 2009, 03:43 PM

[lcsdds]

Hi Kanzie. Hope you are OK being paired with me. If you have Guitar Pro I would appreciate it if you would download the tab I provided. It is for learning Scales and Triads. Even if you know these already it is good to have as a reference.

I noticed you said you are not going to practice with a metronome. That is up to you my friend although I would reccomend it. The main thing I want you to learn at first is your scales and triads. You don't need to learn them overnight tho. Just slowly, maybe 10-15 min a day as a warmup would be great.

Tell me what aspect of your playing you are interested in working on and I will point you in the right direction with some GMC lesson Recommendations.

Also, since your timing is so good I would like to see a post of you playing Muris's Canon in D by the end of the week.

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This post has been edited by lcsdds: Feb 24 2009, 08:03 PM

[kaznie_NL]

Hi Kanzie. Hope you are OK being paired with me. If you have Guitar Pro I would appreciate it if you would download the tab I provided. It is for learning Scales and Triads. Even if you know these already it is good to have as a reference.

I noticed you said you are not going to practice with a metronome. That is up to you my friend although I would reccomend it. The main thing I want you to learn at first is your scales and triads. You don't need to learn them overnight tho. Just slowly, maybe 10-15 min a day as a warmup would be great.

Tell me what aspect of your playing you are interested in working on and I will point you in the right direction with some GMC lesson Recommendations.

Also, since your timing is so good I would like to see a post of you playing Muris's Canon in D by the end of the week.

Sorry if I seem a bit to positive about myself. I just tried to make an objective list. About the metronome, I'm fine with practicing using a metronome, but lots of times I'm just jamming a bit, and then I don't have a set speed! When i'm behind the computer learning songs, I can use a metronome or jam along with the GP5 file.

And the Canon in D, I've already covered that one.. just not sure where I left the video of that or not

Just to add, as I said I'm not into schedules and so, playing thingy 1 for 15 minutes, then thingy 2 for 10 minutes and then number 3 for 15 minutes, might not be ideal for me. I just mean I'm not that structured I'm going to keep up, but it is possible that it's not exactly like the schedule you "prescribe"!

Oh and paired with you... I think that's great! you're one of the active people, that's better then some mentor who stops with this two days after the start... And if I'm woried about my teeth I can always ask bad joke, i know

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[lcsdds]

Sorry if I seem a bit to positive about myself. I just tried to make an objective list. About the metronome, I'm fine with practicing using a metronome, but lots of times I'm just jamming a bit, and then I don't have a set speed! When i'm behind the computer learning songs, I can use a metronome or jam along with the GP5 file.

And the Canon in D, I've already covered that one.. just not sure where I left the video of that or not

Just to add, as I said I'm not into schedules and so, playing thingy 1 for 15 minutes, then thingy 2 for 10 minutes and then number 3 for 15 minutes, might not be ideal for me. I just mean I'm not that structured I'm going to keep up, but it is possible that it's not exactly like the schedule you "prescribe"!

Oh and paired with you... I think that's great! you're one of the active people, that's better then some mentor who stops with this two days after the start... And if I'm woried about my teeth I can always ask bad joke, i know

No worries Kaz. This program is for you to get out of it what you want. I am only here to guide and give suggestions. Ultimately you have to decide what you want to learn and how you want to go about it. I can certainly tell you how I would approach something and give you what worked for me etc., but I am not gonna force you to do anything you don't want to.

Your first assignment can be found on the main thread. You might not want to do it though since your timing is fine already.

Let me know when you find the Canon in D video, I'd love to see it. BTW, If you want help with that lesson I have done it so I could give you some tips.

Also Kaz, let me know what things you want to work on in your playing so I can make some recommendations for you.

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[kaznie_NL]

No worries Kaz. This program is for you to get out of it what you want. I am only here to guide and give suggestions. Ultimately you have to decide what you want to learn and how you want to go about it. I can certainly tell you how I would approach something and give you what worked for me etc., but I am not gonna force you to do anything you don't want to.

Your first assignment can be found on the main thread. You might not want to do it though since your timing is fine already.

Let me know when you find the Canon in D video, I'd love to see it. BTW, If you want help with that lesson I have done it so I could give you some tips.

Also Kaz, let me know what things you want to work on in your playing so I can make some recommendations for you.

Ok, I'll get busy on your assignment this afternoon, cause I share this computer with my bro, so i can't use it untill the afternoon. I'd like to get my solos up to speed, but I want to play them melodic. For instance the Steve Lukather lesson would be super cool to learn, but I think it's to hard for now. i hope to shoot the canon in D somewhere next... Year

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