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Mar 25 2012, 03:34 AM
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Perfect!!!
Let's start with your chords first! I have created a little exercise for you! It has a few cool chord changes and they are switching fast! You can start practicing this exercise very slow and than increase the tempo when you feel comfortable! It will help you with bar chords in no time! You will see progress in a few days and it will never be an issue ever again!!! Here is the track! http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/chords-mentoring Here is the tab E |--1--------------5--------5--------3L----------3----| Here is the GP file! 
Chords.gpx ( 23.33K )
Number of downloads: 129This exercise is a little tricky! Please feel free to ask me any questions! This post has been edited by Alex Feather: Mar 25 2012, 05:31 PM -------------------- |
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Mar 25 2012, 12:36 PM
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Thanks! I'll put this into my daily practice routine.
But the GP-file is missing.. would be helpful for practicing slow! |
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Mar 26 2012, 08:04 AM
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Thanks! But unfortunately I'm still using GP5 - could you please export it into that format? I'm planning to get the latest version though, but for now I get everything what I need out of GP5..
My practice schedule: First 10 minutes: For warmup I use one of these patterns (don't know from where I got them, but I tabbed them once and since then I play along with GP or a metronome)
Warmup1.gp5 ( 6.3K )
Number of downloads: 120
Warmup2.gp5 ( 7.13K )
Number of downloads: 115
Warmup3.gp5 ( 1.96K )
Number of downloads: 133I do some stretching afterwards 20-30 minutes I'm chosing a lesson I have to work on for my mentoring (last one I did was the ramones lesson from gabriel, uploaded yesterday) next one will be the rhythm lesson by marcus siepen (Cosmin mentoring) - I already uploaded a take a few days ago, but I should work on that some more and record another take.. 5 minutes working on a different lesson: atm funk rhythm (Cosmin mentoring) need to get that down to improve faster rhythm playing.. When I have some more time (normally that's the case), I do some alternate picking excercises or work on another lesson. Whenever I can I grab my acoustic and play something and try to sing along (->only when I know nobody is around me  ) atm chords from the C major scale. Or I'm just trying to play melodies I have in my head...
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Mar 26 2012, 07:07 PM
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Here is GP5 file!
Chords.gp5 ( 3.78K )
Number of downloads: 126You have a very nice and organized practice routine! I can suggest adding pentatonics into it It's very simple you have to learn every pentatonic in every position and start playing them as an exercise! You can use alternative picking! My idea of practicing is more things you can combine together better it is! So you can do pentatonics and alternative picking at the same time! I am not sure if you have all pentatonic shapes E |----------------------------|--------3--6--3-------------| Here is GP 5 file
G_minor_pentatonics.gp5 ( 8.76K )
Number of downloads: 116Let me know if you need any help! -------------------- |
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Mar 26 2012, 08:43 PM
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Wow! Thanks man!
Yes, I know all the shapes - but putting these into my warmup routine is definately the best I can do! I'm starting right now and let you know the progress! |
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Apr 1 2012, 11:27 AM
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Hi! I just wanted to follow up and check on your progress!
So you have any questions or need help with something please let me know! -------------------- |
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Apr 3 2012, 05:42 PM
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QUOTE (mad @ Apr 3 2012, 03:29 PM)  Hey Alex, thanks for checking! Well, I'm always using the new horizontal pentatonic runs in my daily warmup-routines (it's getting more and more fluent - good feeling!) And trying to get the chord changes up to speed.. When I'm going to play them faster, I have difficulties to fret the entire chord (higher strings are not ringing) but I think that's just a matter of practice hours ;P At first I played the chords with a different strumming pattern, just to get the feeling for faster changes.. I'd like to start with some jazz theory as well, if you don't mind... I am glad you seeing the progress! It takes time but you are on the right track so look at it as a long term investment! Let's start with some Jazz!!! All Jazz is based on II-V-I so if you will learn how to play over those changes you will learn to play over anything! To play over changes and sound good you have to play chords tones! Chord tones is a sequence of the notes that chord is made of! Here is a new backing track http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/ii-v-i-jam What I want you to do is to get use to this track and jam with it! The chord changes Emi7-A7-Dmaj7 So let's analyze those chords and find chord tones! Emi7 - E-G-B-D A7- A-C#-E-G Dmaj7-D-F#-A-C# The most important chord tones III-VII So when you are jamming I want you to start landing on the chords tones every time A7 comes up! Try to land on III or VII but if you can't any of Dmaj7 chord tones will work! Let me know if you have any questions or need some help! -------------------- |
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Apr 5 2012, 09:27 AM
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Hi! I just wanted to follow up and see how everything is going and if you need any help or have questions!
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May 2 2012, 06:20 AM
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Hi! I have a new assignment if you are ready!! Please let me know!!
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May 10 2012, 09:33 PM
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ok - here's something I came up after a short time of jamming.. I didn't take much attention on landing on specific notes at first, but after I jammed a little bit and I got a 'nice and easy' melody going on that sounded good to me, I recognized that these are mostly the notes to head for (if I'm not wrong..)
Did a few mistakes but all in all hearable (warning: don't get asleep while listening  )http://soundcloud.com/mad-gmc/mentoring-alex-ii-v-i |
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