Hi! Welcome aboard!!! I am happy to see you here and very excited to start working with you!
I know you want to learn composition and improvisation and I definitely can help you with that!
I have a few questions before we start! It will give me a better idea about what assignments to give you!
-What are your goals?
-What is your weakness?
-What is your strongest point?
-Your favorite guitar players?
Glad to see you here and very excited to start working with you!!!!
Hi Alex,
My long term goals are to compose instrumental songs/guitar solos and possible come out with one album in this lifetime. I do want to dive into short music pieces, royalty free music that filmmakers or any others can use. I want to sell them and start making little bit of money. But short term goal is definitely learning how to play guitar properly, master a scale and be able to come up with melody.
Weaknesses are a lot. I can't even play a 1 min lesson. Every time I try, it gets worse. It takes hours to record a decent take even after practicing it for a week or a month or even more than that. I can't play fast stuff.
Strongest point has been vibrato I think. Lot of people are commenting on that on my latest vids. I used to be able to compose a melody line before but since I decided to master techniques, I haven't had a chance to explore more on that. Nowadays, I can't come up with a decent melody.
Fav players are Joe Satriani, Andy Timmons, Guthrie Govan.
If you need any more info, let me know.
Thanks, I am excited to begin.
Chandra
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Do you want me to submit this or is it just a warm up exercise that I can do anytime?
Hi Alex,
So, I got around and tried this assignment. The last bit is really confusing and I always wanted to learn something like that. I have encountered in 2-3 lessons here at GMC which I have tried and this one is helpful too. 3 nps but 4notes per beat really drives me crazy until I remember that melody in my head. Stilling missing notes here and there but hope I got most right.
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/timing-practice
Waiting for your feedback.
Thanks,
Chandra
You did a very good job! A few notes towards the end were off and a couple of timing issues, but nothing major!
I would suggest to practice this lesson with a click because you can hear more details! When you are practicing with drums you can hide behind the reverb and room mics, but when you have a click only it's all out and you can hear every single mistake!
I think a little more practice and it will be perfect!!! You can also start using it as a warm up exercise do it everyday and results will impress you!
Thanks Alex. I tried to insert a metronome track in Logic but don't know how. So, I just dragged a loop. I will try with a click next.
I have been practicing with click. Just had to use drums as I couldn't get a click track during recording. The most difficult part is the last section and I have been practicing it quite a bit. Will try recording one tomorrow.
I finally came to know how to add a click track. I have recorded with click but there are few parts where I see there is slight timing issues. I have always struggled with these small timings, hope I will get better with this exercise daily.
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/timing-practice-2
Sounds very good!!!! A few timing issues but it's getting there!!! Do it every day as a warm up exercise!
I will post a new assignment for you tomorrow!!!
Thanks Alex. Timing has been my issue all these years. When I joined GMC, I was struggling with triplets or 16th triplets or even changing between quarter and triplets. I wish I had this exercise back then. It has improved a lot but still can be better. If I am composing a song, I still struggle with this though. I will practice this every day multiple times.
Looking forward to the next assignment.
Perfect! I am glad this exercise works for you! Just keep practicing it and result will surprise you!
I have a new assignment for you! This exercise will help you make your right hand stronger and will improve your technique by a lot!!!
If you feel pain stop practicing this exercise for a while and let me know! You can injure yourself if you will over do it!
It's all legato and left hand only! Practice it very slow using a metronome! It's left hand only!!! No right hand should be involved!
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Great.
I just tried it and here is a problem. When I am going from say 5 (2nd string-pinky) to 2 (1st string-index), the pinky leaves the string and makes noise. The index hammeron is weak and doesn't sound loud. How to solve this issue ?
I remember I saw a Guthrie video that said something about tapping each note with your left fingers (no right hand involved). That is different than regular legato stuff we do (mostly tapping). I am trying that in this noisy part and getting it more or less noiseless.
Its around 4:50.
It's a very good video to get ideas from! Guthrie is a great player!!! I am glad you found it!
Hi Alex,
Finally got sometime to record this. There are timing issues.
Thanks,
Chandra
The pinky and the index tapping is pretty hard.
You did a good job! But I can suggest to do it even slower the reason is you need to work your left hand and make it stronger so slower you will do it better results you will get!
Also try to play this exercise every day and do a run through maybe twice or more if you can!
Thanks Alex. I will post another take at a slower tempo. By twice you mean, do the whole thing again ? I do more for practice but didn't want to elongate in the recording.
What I meant when you are warming up just play this exercise a few times thorugh
Hi Alex,
Here is at slower tempo.
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/left-hand-practice
Its pretty hard to stop the noise. My left hand has been strengthening though.
Thanks,
Chandra
Hi Alex,
Here is another try, even slower.
Thanks,
Chandra
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/left-hand-practice-even-slower
Alex, did you forget to check this one? Didn't see you commenting my above take.
Very good take! Timing was good and I can hear that you have much more control over your hands! Keep working on this exercise and I will create a new assignment for you in a couple of days!
Thanks. This is on my daily warm up exercise. I can't wait to improve.
So here it is! I have a very cool chord exercise for you!
It will help you to develop your timing and chord playing skills!
You can start practicing this exercise very slow and than increase the tempo when you feel comfortable!
Here is the track!
http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/chords-mentoring
Here is the tab
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Hi Alex,
Here is my try. I have played over the track you gave me.
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/chord-practice-timing
Here it is 90bpm seems pretty slow. This one is at 105bpm which seems aligned with the track you recorded.
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/chord-practice-metronome
I am waiting...
Awesome!
For the new assignment we will start to get into improvisation a little bit more!
Here is a very cool II - V - I backing track in E minor
http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/ii-v-i-jam
Over A7
A minor blues pentatonic
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/scalegenerator
Over D major 7 F# minor pentatonic
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/scalegenerator
When you are playing over this chord progression try to be as melodic as possible and create phrases instead just jamming!
Let me know if you have any questions or need help!
Got your message!
You are actually ahead of me and that was the plan! Before we will start I would like to know how do you feel about the backing track I assigned you and if you got a chance to jam over it?
Let me know and we will begin
I think the backing track moves pretty fast (chords). I guess it might be helpful to say have longer chords or just one chord to start with? one scale ? and slowly move from there ? I also need to learn how to phrase. I am ready to start from basic or relearn if need be.
I understand the counting. Its just that the chords change so fast. Say, if I play a note or two, the chord is already changed so moving from one scale to another looks confusing. You know, the visualization is hard. Coming up with melody is harder too.
I was thinking if we could start with a longer duration of chords.
Thanks Alex. If I have to take this one step at a time, I am totally up for it. It just takes to be on the other side. I have been watching Guthries solos and man, I don't know if I will ever be there but the feeling of being there is just so awesome.
Any thing I can do ?
So I have a new assignment for you!
Let's simplify everything and start with a blues chord progression!
Here is the track
http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/blues-mentoring
Over A7
A minor pentatonic in this position
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/scalegenerator
Over B7
B minor pentatonic in this position
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/scalegenerator
This is a good way to get use to combining pentatonics!
Let me know if you have any questions or need help!
Alex,
Lets leave this for now. As mentioned in the chat, I am learning to master the scales / modes all by myself. I can't find any good tutorial. All I can find is learn CAGED system and some 3nps scales. I am trying both but I am confused on which route to go. CAGED has 5 scale position, 3nps has 7, obviously more to learn. I really want to master this and learn by heart. So, if I am playing G Ionian, I should be able to change to say Eb Phrygian without having to think. Please provide any lessons that might help achieve this. I know this will take years but I want to master one scale at a time or even focus on one position. I know Ionian pretty well but not perfectly.
Thanks,
Chandra
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Ah this was what I was learning, 3nps. Am into it right away.
Do we actually learn the patterns or notes ? I know the notes all over the neck but trying to find notes of a scale takes some thinking. How does it all come together? With lessons like this, I tend to learn more of pattern than the actual notes.
Thanks Alex. need to do this daily.
Alex,
I have remembered the pattern and also playing by the mode name like A dorian, C lydian, B Phrygian, E minor, DMixolydian, etc (as given in the tab). I can move around and play E phrygian or E Dorian from the E note, etc. Now, how do we play E Dorian all over the neck, not just one position ?
I am excited what the next lesson is. I will take this down all on the ground with your help.
Thanks so much.
Chandra
This is where I stuck at Alex. The chord changes are so fast, I can't even remember the pattern. I mean there is litterally 2-3 notes I could play in that chord change. I can't think of now E dorian A mix D major. Its just too fast and my thinking process isn't fast yet I guess.
Hi! How are you doing?
I have created a new assignment for you!
Here is the backing track!
http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/withguitar
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/scalegenerator
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/scalegenerator
You can use any notes from those positions !Try to combine them together and turn them into short licks!
I would like to hear what you can come up with before I will give you examples!
Let me know if you need help or have any questions!
Hi Alex,
Just noodling around the scale. Please tell me what I can improve on. I sound too monotonous but I guess this is a better start. Concentrating on one thing at a time. Thanks for the push.
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/learning-the-neck-with-alex
Here is what I have after some tries.
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/2-1
Dmi7 -> D - F - A - C
Emi 7 -> E - G - B - D
Hi Alex,
Here is a quick try. I composed the first half and 2nd half was kinda random. Its so noticeable.
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/learning-the-neck-with-alex-1
Thanks Alex. Do you have a demo of how it could sound like?
Trying this out again.
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/try-3
Thanks Alex. The 4 notes was kinda challenging. I am loving to keep things together one by one. Looking forward to next one.
PS. I have been looking and listening to improvisations on YouTube so that is helping too. I need to figure out how to play fast notes without sounding up/down or boring at times. Then, it should all come out!
I am doing that regularly. You want me to submit a take ?
Hi Alex,
Recorded this in the morning forgot to upload it lol. Here is a try, couple of misses, but its doable. I can think of modes now! B Phrygian, D Mixolydian, F locrian, oh yeah!! The shapes are more or less on the head. I am excited what is next.
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/modes-up-down-random
Thanks Alex.. doing it. Looking forward to another assignment.
Done Alex. Not sure what you are going to give me.
I am still waiting Alex.
Hey Maharzan! I just wanted to make sure you have seen a new assignment! Let me know if you have any questions or need help with anything!
Just wanted to follow up and see how everything is going?
Hi Alex,
Sorry, had been quite busy. I got a chance today and thought of recording this. Here is my take.
http://soundcloud.com/nazraham/improv-with-alex
Thanks,
Chandra
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