It's About Time I Introduce Myself... |
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Feb 16 2011, 09:59 AM
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Welcome to GMC, spacebran!
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Feb 16 2011, 10:31 AM
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Nice introduction.
Welcome to GMC 
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Feb 16 2011, 11:20 AM
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Welcome to GMC Bran
That Jackson Soloist sounds beautiful... my second guitar was a Jackson Performer but the Soloist is the real deal.
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Feb 16 2011, 12:40 PM
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Great to have you here Bran! Awesome to hear about your progress with GMC lessons.
See you round the forum!
-------------------- For GMC support please email support (at) guitarmasterclass.net
Check out my lessons and my instructor board. Check out my beginner guitar lessons course! ; Take a bass course now! |
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Feb 16 2011, 12:45 PM
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Welcome Bran! would love a Jackson Soloist too! look forward to seeing you around
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Feb 16 2011, 01:00 PM
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Welcome Spacebran!
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to PM or email me. Cheers  Email: [email protected] |
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Feb 16 2011, 01:20 PM
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Welcome aboard Bran
Stick to the boards as lots of interesting stuff takes place here! Look into REC program, it might interest you -------------------- Guitars:
Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster, Ibanez RG2570MZ, Epiphone SG G-400 Amp: Vox AC4TVH head + V112TV cab Effects: Vox Satchurator, Vox Time Machine, Dunlop CryBaby, Boss MT-2, Boss CE-5, Boss TU-2, Boss ME-70 Recording: Line-6 POD X3 + FBV-Express, Pandora PX5D GMC wants YOU to take part in our Guitar-Wikipedia! Have a good time reading great articles and writing your own with us in our GUITAR WIKI! Share your playing and get Pro-advice from our Instructors: Join REC |
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Feb 16 2011, 01:53 PM
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Welcome to the site, Bran!
Mr Gilbert is my favorite as well so I know where you're heading
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Feb 16 2011, 06:13 PM
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Sure, your ear becomes better as you practice, but you can speed this up. Here are several ways:
*Use a program, or a website that will train you to recognise melodic and harmonic intervals, chords, etc such as EarMaster or Musiclearningtools.net or Good-ear.com. Practice as much as you can daily, and you'll start recognising intervals in songs and what you play a lot more efficiently. *Transcribe songs (as you've said you do). *Sing with the music. It helps to establish a link between your mind and the music. *Take a mode or scale and play it enough times so that you become familiar with it, so you know its sound. Play about with various modes/scales long enough and you'll be better at recognising them. Oh and it's perfectly normal to not be able to know which note is higher. Some parts of your ear are better trained than others. It'll all come with time and practice, perfect practice
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Feb 16 2011, 06:27 PM
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QUOTE (dark dude @ Feb 16 2011, 05:13 PM)  Sure, your ear becomes better as you practice, but you can speed this up. Here are several ways: *Use a program, or a website that will train you to recognise melodic and harmonic intervals, chords, etc such as EarMaster or Musiclearningtools.net or Good-ear.com. Practice as much as you can daily, and you'll start recognising intervals in songs and what you play a lot more efficiently. *Transcribe songs (as you've said you do). *Sing with the music. It helps to establish a link between your mind and the music. *Take a mode or scale and play it enough times so that you become familiar with it, so you know its sound. Play about with various modes/scales long enough and you'll be better at recognising them. Oh and it's perfectly normal to not be able to know which note is higher. Some parts of your ear are better trained than others. It'll all come with time and practice, perfect practice Thanks!!!!!! I was thinking last night that I should start off with simple songs and transcribe them - I'm not a huge fan, but when I started playing, I learned a lot of blink182 and sum41 songs due to their simplicity. I think I'll work at transcribing some of those (and get that nostalgic feeling, heh). I've played modes and scales over and over again, just to learn their patterns, but I don't think I was really paying attention to what they *sounded* like, in a way. I think I only ever really payed attention to if it was Major or Minor. Lately, I've been paying a lot more attention to that as I've been focusing a lot on learning music theory. I only knew basic stuff before, but for example, I want to know how all of the scales/chords are created (among other things), which modes are embedded in which (e.g. G Mixolydian contains directly contains C Ionian) - With putting a lot of focus and effort, I've created so many tricks and patterns in my mind that help me remember these things. I made a position diagram that shows all of the mode number positions to show their relations to each other. Since I've been doing all of this I've made a lot of progress and it feels great because I'm not only able to learn and play things, but I'm *understanding* now (rather than just understanding what I need to get by) and I think all of this is coming together to make me turn into the guitar player I've always wanted to be (e.g. Paul Gilbert! HA!). Instead of knowing all of the mode scales and types of chords, I know how to create them, and my eyes and ears seem to be opening new doors (is that possible for ears to open doors? or eyes?? haha) Good to know about the ear being trained and tuned better to different frequencies. Definitely a great boost to my confidence. Thanks for the great reply and I apologize - I tend to get typing and write really long messages  -Bran |
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Feb 16 2011, 10:45 PM
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I really liked that introduction! I have a Inferno Red Jackson SLSMG. Welcome to this site!
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Feb 16 2011, 11:40 PM
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Welcome to GMC and you are gonna LOVE it here! I'm Todd and I teach the Saturday Video Chat lessons and we focus on Alternate Picking and Building Speed quite a bit. Please do join us
We meet each Sat at 5:00 PM EST. Sounds like the lessons would be right up your ally. Here is a link to all 40 some odd lessons we have done thus far.http://bit.ly/lessonnotes We are thrilled to have you here Todd |
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Feb 26 2011, 12:56 AM
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Welcome to GMC man! Wow, that is an impressive intro, I hope you will find time to post on the boards, and share experiences and ideas. Also, if you have any questions, please ask, we will be glad to respond!
-------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
- Check out my GMC Profile and Lessons - (Please subscribe to my) YouTube Official Channel - Let's be connected through ! Facebook! :) |
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