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Posted by: Ben Higgins Feb 23 2012, 03:08 PM

Task 5 : http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Surfing-With-Satriani/ Record and upload your version of this lesson by next Thursday 1st March

As I said in the Beginner Task 5 thread, we are moving on to rhythm playing now. We've had 4 weeks of alternate picking and hand synch so it's time to get riffing !!

Notice that Zsolt tuned down a whole step to D standard so you have 2 choices : You can transpose the backing tracks up a whole tone so you can play the same chord positions in standard tuning or you can transpose the chords of the lesson down a whole step. This is more difficult and would require you to play different chord shapes..

If you have trouble transposing the backing track then please let us know on here and I'm sure somebody will be willing to post the altered version here for you to download. smile.gif


Posted by: WeePee Feb 23 2012, 04:51 PM

Transposing is easy in Reaper.

Just right click the mp3 file and select "item properties"

from there you can find pitch adjustment.

From D to E is +2.

click apply.

You're done wink.gif


 bushido_4_E_tuning.mp3 ( 901.83K ) : 116
 

Posted by: gregc1 Feb 23 2012, 04:54 PM

Right on!!

This is gonna be cool.

Posted by: Ben Higgins Feb 23 2012, 06:45 PM

QUOTE (WeePee @ Feb 23 2012, 03:51 PM) *
Transposing is easy in Reaper.

Just right click the mp3 file and select "item properties"

from there you can find pitch adjustment.

From D to E is +2.

click apply.

You're done wink.gif


Well done V-Man !! smile.gif

Posted by: Sensible Jones Feb 24 2012, 08:57 PM

Cool!! I like this lesson Ben!!
PS. Will post task 4 tomorrow!
Another finger and Toe, but hey, I'm getting there!!
biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

Posted by: superize Feb 25 2012, 09:45 AM

Really fast rock/blues riffs



Awsome

Posted by: Ben Higgins Feb 25 2012, 11:44 AM

QUOTE (superize @ Feb 25 2012, 08:45 AM) *
Really fast rock/blues riffs



Awsome


Yeah it's a brilliant sounding track.. Zsolt did a great job ! cool.gif

Posted by: gregc1 Feb 25 2012, 10:14 PM

Hey Ben! Ahead of the game this week. My wife has been out and about all day so I got some stuff done. wink.gif

I haven't posted to the REC board yet but I wanted to post here first. If it's okay with you, Bensei, for the remaining time this week I would like to go back to the last task and work on those stretches some more as well as some other endurance exercises I've been working on. If there's something else you had in mind though, by all means, I'm at your disposal. biggrin.gif


Posted by: Ben Higgins Feb 26 2012, 11:31 AM

QUOTE (gregc1 @ Feb 25 2012, 09:14 PM) *
Hey Ben! Ahead of the game this week. My wife has been out and about all day so I got some stuff done. wink.gif

I haven't posted to the REC board yet but I wanted to post here first. If it's okay with you, Bensei, for the remaining time this week I would like to go back to the last task and work on those stretches some more as well as some other endurance exercises I've been working on. If there's something else you had in mind though, by all means, I'm at your disposal. biggrin.gif



Oh Maaan, that is way cool !! cool.gif

That's made me think of the sun shining down on the streets of LA or Miami or something... your rhythm playing is totally ON ! biggrin.gif

Yes, please do feel free to spend the time working on the picking arpeggios.

Extra donuts for completing your Task early, young warrior !

Posted by: WeePee Feb 26 2012, 12:43 PM

QUOTE (gregc1 @ Feb 26 2012, 01:14 AM) *
I haven't posted to the REC board yet but I wanted to post here first.

Dude you had the same idea ! wink.gif



Here's my take.

Posted by: Ben Higgins Feb 26 2012, 02:12 PM

QUOTE (WeePee @ Feb 26 2012, 11:43 AM) *
Dude you had the same idea ! wink.gif



Here's my take.


Kick ass cool.gif

That's an incredibly chunky tone you got there, how did you get it ?

Don't forget to hit both the A & D strings in that main riff, to get the full effect.

Nice work !

Posted by: WeePee Feb 26 2012, 02:39 PM

QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ Feb 26 2012, 05:12 PM) *
That's an incredibly chunky tone you got there, how did you get it ?


It's "Satched Van 51" tone from Guitar Rig5 and I beefed it up with Ezmix.




GR5 definitely worth of purchasing.


Posted by: gregc1 Feb 26 2012, 03:39 PM

Sounds awesome weepee!

Definitely agree on guitar rig. I use GR3 but for what I do it was one of the best purchases ever.

Posted by: GrindGuer Feb 27 2012, 11:19 PM

Hey Ben,
I really need some advice here. I've recorded a shot on Zsolt lesson (which is excellent by the way). I'm confused. It seems the notes are here, but not the groove. And I don't have a clue on how to make this better... huh.gif
Would you have any lead on that topic ?
Thanks smile.gif

 Surfing_With_Satriani_Lesson_take1.mp3 ( 609.9K ) : 114

Posted by: Ben Higgins Feb 28 2012, 10:27 AM

QUOTE (GrindGuer @ Feb 27 2012, 10:19 PM) *
Hey Ben,
I really need some advice here. I've recorded a shot on Zsolt lesson (which is excellent by the way). I'm confused. It seems the notes are here, but not the groove. And I don't have a clue on how to make this better... huh.gif
Would you have any lead on that topic ?
Thanks smile.gif

 Surfing_With_Satriani_Lesson_take1.mp3 ( 609.9K ) : 114


Hey, I can definitely feel the groove here, there is no problem with that, Everything is very well played and your timing is totally on ! cool.gif

There's one thing that lets it down though, you keep hitting unwanted extra strings. I think you're accidentally fretting and hitting the G string which is ruining some of your chords... apart from that, you've got this lesson in the bag wink.gif

Posted by: GrindGuer Feb 28 2012, 12:03 PM

QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ Feb 28 2012, 10:27 AM) *
There's one thing that lets it down though, you keep hitting unwanted extra strings. I think you're accidentally fretting and hitting the G string which is ruining some of your chords...

Yes, you're totally right. I'll try to make another take paying attention to that. smile.gif
Thanks again for your help and your kind words:)

Posted by: WeePee Feb 28 2012, 06:24 PM

Here's a newer version after hearing the small mistakes.
Just polishing things up wink.gif
http://soundcloud.com/alfafirefox/guitar-bushido-task-5

Posted by: Ben Higgins Feb 29 2012, 11:10 AM

QUOTE (WeePee @ Feb 28 2012, 05:24 PM) *
Here's a newer version after hearing the small mistakes.
Just polishing things up wink.gif
http://soundcloud.com/alfafirefox/guitar-bushido-task-5


Hey V-Man, that is SO much better ! Nice one, that is chunky as hell cool.gif

Posted by: superize Mar 1 2012, 09:52 PM

Here is my take



Havent had much time to practice this week so its not as good as i wanted it to be

Posted by: Ben Higgins Mar 2 2012, 09:35 AM

QUOTE (superize @ Mar 1 2012, 08:52 PM) *
Here is my take



Havent had much time to practice this week so its not as good as i wanted it to be


Hey Ize, this is a rockin' take !! Really tight ! cool.gif

You guys have all really kicked ass with this Task ! Give yourself some donuts !

Posted by: Gitarrero Mar 3 2012, 05:11 PM

Good Day noble Sensei!

I actually just started to learn this lesson this morning, still need to brush it up here and there, but this is the result so far smile.gif


Posted by: Ben Higgins Mar 3 2012, 05:27 PM

QUOTE (Gitarrero @ Mar 3 2012, 04:11 PM) *
Good Day noble Sensei!

I actually just started to learn this lesson this morning, still need to brush it up here and there, but this is the result so far smile.gif



Yo Hef ! Cool take... generally pretty cool but I know you can do it a bit better, especially the double bend at 0:09 smile.gif

Great work, though smile.gif

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