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Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 8 2012, 06:30 PM

Hi Nether!! Welcome to http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=43110!

Please post here all the info that you shared in the Army's main thread.

The principles of our Army are:

+ Improve your technique
+ Make music and solos
+ Have fun
+ Destroy the enemy (hahaha not realy just kidding... )

Posted by: Nether Apr 8 2012, 06:47 PM

Here you have the demos, as you asked:

http://soundcloud.com/jorge-fern-ndez/everybreath

Some of the groups i would like to emulate in the battlefield are:

Hard Rock: Led Zeppellin, Guns And Roses, Deep Purple, Foo Fighters...
Alternative / Grunge: Pixies, Nirvana, Pearl Jam...
Metal: Metallica, Rhandy Roads (playing like him has to be awesome!), Dark Tranquillity, Nightwish, Blind guardian, Dio....

My goals right now are improving my technique and my rhythm.

Theory that I now: Intervals, Scales (pentatonic, major, minor and blues), how to create chord progressions for the major and minor scales, and the chord progression of the 12 bar blues.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 8 2012, 06:56 PM

Hi mate! In the second demo I noticed that you bending technique need to be worked. Your bends don't reach the correct pitch so you have to concentrate on that. That's why the first lesson that I would like to assign you it this one: http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/john-frusciante-lesson/. Besides this one, I would like to see you playing some rhythm guitar so this lesson could be a good choice: http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Indie-Rock-III-Pixies/.

If you agree, we can go for these ones. Please post your progress and videos playing the lessons here. Then we can go for the REC program.

Posted by: Nether Apr 8 2012, 07:08 PM

Upps, i forgot to mention that this take is almost 1 year old and that's a thing a i've improved a lot. Anyway i'll follow your instructions as i'm far from perfect in that area and i really like Frusciante style

Pixies and RHCP as first assignments... i've the feelling that i will enjoy this a lot

Thank you!

Posted by: Nether Apr 8 2012, 09:22 PM

My take of the Frusciante video lesson:


w/o backingtrack:
http://soundcloud.com/jorge-fern-ndez/frusciante-solo

Posted by: Nether Apr 8 2012, 10:54 PM

I don't know what happened with the links
I hope this new ones works:

without backingtrack:
http://soundcloud.com/jorge-fern-ndez/frusciante-solo-1

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 9 2012, 05:36 PM

Hi mate! That's a good take! It just need some little improvements and you'll get a perfect take! I will give you some comments and please record a new take that could be also posted at the REC. The first phrases are not 100% tight with the rhythm. Your bending in general are a bit uncertain but most of them reach the correct pitch, excepting the one at 00:35. The phrase that goes from 00:33 to 00:36 has a different rhythm compared to the original. Besides that, there is a wrong note in the slide at 00:30. Your vibrato should be more consistent in the whole take. Finally be careful with your guitar tuning, it seems that it's a bit out of tune.

That's all! I hope that it helps!

Posted by: Nether Apr 9 2012, 06:43 PM

Ok, i'll do as you say. I was aware of the slide mistake , but i didn't notice the rest of the things, i have to have more care.

I've been looking into the Pixies lesson and i've found it to be too difficult to me at 110bpm. 70bpm or 90bpm is a more reasonable target, however i can't download those backingtracks to record over them (it lets me play them though), do you know why?

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 9 2012, 06:55 PM

Those backing cannot be downloaded but you can ask for them so here you have it!

 90.mp3 ( 1.71MB ) : 137

 70.mp3 ( 2.25MB ) : 140

Posted by: Nether Apr 14 2012, 11:14 AM

Hi Gabriel, i won't say it's been easy, but finally i've made a couple of decent takes off the Pixies lesson. At last i made two versions, one at 70 bpm and another at 110bpm.

70bpm:

70bpm w/o backingtrack:
http://soundcloud.com/jorge-fern-ndez/pixies-style-70bpm-wo



For some reason i don't see the videos that I embed into the post (i don't have any problem with videos uploaded by other users ) . I don't know if others can see them, but just in case, here i share the links to youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF36GI8Ee4M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4mIpCdKk5o

Posted by: Nether Apr 14 2012, 01:21 PM

I've also revisited the Frusciante lesson. I think I have improved my timing, but keep having problems with the bends and with the slide between the 5th and 10th fret (I can't get a smooth motion, I believe it's because I apply to much pressure to the string)

Frusciante second take:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3js4uuOSeo

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 14 2012, 04:43 PM

Hi mate! You have been working hard! Well done!
The Pixies lesson sound good. The most important thing to fix on this one is your timing. In both takes (slower and normal tempo) your playing isn't 100% tight. I also think that you should make smoother the chord changes. There is a small silence when you change from one chord to the other. Try to make that silence shorter.
The Frusciante lesson is better regarding timing (you could adjust it by the way) and it's a good take. You only have to improve your bending technique because most of the bends don't reach the correct pitch.

Both takes are around 7/8 if I would grade them to the REC program, so you did good takes that with some little improvement would be flawless ones. Keep on the good job!

Posted by: Nether Apr 18 2012, 09:34 PM

Hi Gabriel, I'm stuck with the two lessons so i would like to move on to something different. I've been looking into your lessons and I like them all . Sadly I can't do everything, so i have chosen the second part of the Frusciante Solo and the The Clash style lesson. What do you think?

Posted by: Nether Apr 20 2012, 04:10 PM

Hi Gabriel, could you give me the slower backingtracks of the The Clash lesson as you did with the Pixies?

Thanx

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 20 2012, 10:34 PM

I sounds good mate! Here you have the slower backings:

 100.mp3 ( 1.37MB ) : 134


 120.mp3 ( 1.13MB ) : 134

Posted by: Nether Apr 21 2012, 02:34 AM

Great, thank you.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 21 2012, 08:38 PM

no problem! looking forward your takes!

Posted by: Nether Apr 25 2012, 12:45 PM

Here you have my first try with The Clash Style lesson at full speed:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rutjKbKZ4eg

I'm working on my rhythm doing some exercises, i feel like i've improved a little There's still a lot of work to do though.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 25 2012, 04:03 PM

Wou man!! I'm so proud of you! This take is really good! Congrats friend! Your timing is very precise and everything sounds great. Being so demanding I will say that the only thing that you could improve here is to make the chord changes even smoother. There is a very short silence between every chord change, well, try to make it smaller.

Please post this one at the REC and let's start with another lesson. Do you have any ideas? or you want me to suggest some ones?


Keep on the great job!

Posted by: Nether Apr 25 2012, 05:56 PM

Thanks! I've a few ideas of what do next, I like your level 2 lessons and i think they are affordable to me (but all of them has their own challenges) so i'm going to do the Sex Pistols, Him and Ramones lessons in that order if you don't have another suggestion.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 25 2012, 05:59 PM

It sounds great to me man! Remember to concentrate on the silence between the chords. Let me know if you need any slower backing.

Posted by: Nether Apr 25 2012, 11:11 PM

Hi Gabriel, .as always, the full speed backing track is to much for me, the 100bpm would be very useful.

Thank you.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 26 2012, 06:51 PM

Here you have it!

 100.mp3 ( 1.37MB ) : 75

Posted by: Nether Apr 28 2012, 06:09 PM

Hi Gabriel, here i leave my first try with the Frusciante's Style Solo 2. I'm not quite satisfied with it, it seems like I make all the mistakes when I turn on the camera, when I play without that added estress I nail this lesson (well, except the bendings, those are kind of random, some times I do them well and others i completely fail)

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 28 2012, 07:36 PM

Hi Nether, the video is now private, I can't see it.

Posted by: Nether Apr 28 2012, 07:47 PM

Upps, it should be OK now.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 28 2012, 08:30 PM

Hi man, that's a good take, and even more considering that the camera is making you feel a bit nervous yet. Don't worry about it, it's just practice and experience. There are some timing issues that I'm sure don't appear when the camera is turn off but your bending really needs more work. Also, your guitar is a bitout of tune, maybe the strings are old? Check it out.

Have you tried this lesson?

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/String-Bending/

Posted by: Nether Apr 28 2012, 09:45 PM

Yeah, actually I started it as part of Ben's Bushido, but I didn't finished, in part for lack of time and in part because it's difficult . Do you know any easier bending lesson?

Posted by: Nether Apr 29 2012, 04:42 PM

Hi Gabriel, i've done another try with the second Frusciante solo, i think it's much better now, at least the bendings sounds better.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 30 2012, 03:09 AM

This take is much better mate! You have to be even tighter with the backing track and improve your slides. You should make them sound louder, some slides don't sound or sound too soft, so pick stronger and move your left hand with more strength.

This is an easier bending lesson:

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Beginners-Corner-21-String-Bending/

Posted by: Nether Apr 30 2012, 08:29 AM

Thanks, i'll look into it

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 30 2012, 04:28 PM

Great!

Posted by: Nether Apr 30 2012, 05:36 PM

Hi Gabriel, I've done a lot of practice with the Sex Pistols's 100bpm backing track, but i'm stuck, I always make a mistake at some point, I think that the slower backing track may help me , can you post it here?

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 30 2012, 05:44 PM

Here you have it!

 85.mp3 ( 1.61MB ) : 72

Posted by: Nether Apr 30 2012, 05:45 PM

Wow, that was fast, thank you

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Apr 30 2012, 06:10 PM

hahaha faster than the speed of light.

Posted by: Nether May 1 2012, 04:58 PM

My first attempt with the bending lesson:

Posted by: Nether May 2 2012, 11:14 AM

Here I put the link to my first attempt of the Sex Pistols lesson at 100bpm, I found it easier after a lot of takes at 80bpm and 130bpm (I wish i had a backing track at 150bpm to make 130bpm seems easy )

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi May 2 2012, 03:39 PM

Hi mate! Good job! The bending lesson is close! Some bends don't reach the pitch and some other are a bit insecure but you just played this one a few days. Keep on working on it.

The Sex Pistols lesson is going well. I still have the midi files so I exported a150 bpm backing for you... don't know if you were serious about it but if you need it, here you have it!

 Sex_Pistols_250_for_Nether.mp3 ( 938.78K ) : 75

Posted by: Nether May 2 2012, 04:33 PM

Hahaha, that's great, thank you. I wasn't serious, well, at least i didn't expect you to have it, but surely it will be of great help for me.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi May 2 2012, 04:42 PM

Nothing is impossible at GMC!

Posted by: Nether May 2 2012, 06:48 PM

Yeah, i'm starting to notice

By the way, as I have a lot of time right now, i'm a bit tired of doing the same lesson again and again so I was thinking in starting the Him lesson. I haven't found a description of the gear used to get the tone for this lesson, can you tell me what you used for each guitar? Thank you

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi May 2 2012, 07:28 PM

Hi mate. It's been a while since I recorded this lesson so I don't remember the exact parameters but I'm sure that it's a combination of a emulated Mesa Boggie with an emulated Tube Screamer to give it more gain and sustain.

Posted by: Nether May 7 2012, 01:15 PM

I've made a lot of practice with the backing tracks at all speeds in order to be able to do this right (The 150bpm backingtrack was very useful ) . I'm not completely satisfied with this take though because i've a few timing mistakes, specially at the beginning (with is odd, as is the easiest part for me). It's a little bit frustrating not being able to make a perfect take, there is always some mistake in one part or another.

Sex Pistols Style at 130bpm:


Can you give me the backing tracks for the Him lesson? For what i've tried so far it's gonna be very difficult for me, so i'll need the slowest backing track available.

Thank you, i'm having a lot of fun with your lessons

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi May 7 2012, 07:14 PM

Hi man! You did a good job with this lesson! You are very close.
You still have to concentrate on timing to play it even tighter with the drums, and also make the silence between chord changes smaller. Besides that, it would be cool if you can add some distortion to your tone to get a sound closer to Sex Pistols.

These are the backings...

 backing_60.mp3 ( 3.21MB ) : 70

 backing_80.mp3 ( 2.37MB ) : 66

 backing_100.mp3 ( 1.89MB ) : 70

Posted by: Nether Aug 19 2013, 08:13 PM

Hi Gab, it's been a looooong time since last time i wrote.
I'm redoing the last lesson i worked with you, the Him lesson. Here is what i have so far:

https://soundcloud.com/jorge-fern-ndez/him-style

I would love to have your feedback on this. My intention is to send it to Rec this weekend along with the blues lesson that i'm doing. Obviously i have to make improvements if i wont to have a good note (You guys have become very hard ), what do you think that i should focus on?

Thanks

PS: Todays take https://soundcloud.com/jorge-fern-ndez/him-style-20-08-2013

I think i've improved the first riff, but i still have problems with the E5 to C5 chord, how do you manage to keep the notes ringing while you change the chords, i always have an audible pause

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Aug 20 2013, 10:15 PM

Hi mate, great to hear from you here!

You are doing a good job with this and you really know what you need to improve to be able to play this one perfectly: the chord changes, the silence between chords and parts to make everything sound smoother.

My suggestion is to work on small sections, just starting with 2 chords and practicing it trying to make the silence shorter. Move from one chord to the other as a loop, over a metronome or drum rhythm concentrating on your hands movements, on where the fingers will go, first set your sigh on the target and then move your fingers. If you work on this as an exercises, everyday, you will notice a big improvement.

Posted by: Nether Aug 24 2013, 02:09 PM

Hi Gab, do you think this take is REC ready???



I'm looking for my next challenge to start when i've finished this one. I wanted to do something similar to this one, to keep working in similar concepts but changing the music, just to not get bored . Do you have any ideas?? I've seen your Iron Maiden for beginners and i think that could be an interesting challenge, what do you think?

P.S: I hope that you had a great gig yesterday . I'm looking forward to see photos and videos!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Aug 24 2013, 06:16 PM

Hi mate. At first let me say: a video take made at the lesson's main tempo is always ready for REC. Th purpose of REC is allow us to give you feedback during your progress so always feel free to post takes there, no matter if you are sure that it's not perfect.

Your take is good but there are still things to work on. The first half is the muted section. This part still needs some experimentation with your palm muting technique. You have to try different strengths and positions trying to get a tone closer to mine in the video. Another difference there is that I use on string in this part, I'm playing just the root of each chord. There are also some timing issues there.

In the chorus, the chord changes are smoother now but there is a wrong chord at 1:13, there is a variation there so please re-check the tabs starting from that minute.

Regarding lessons to work, I would choose any other rhythm lesson... checking my archive, these are the lessons that you could check and start learning:

Sum 41 Style
Millencollin style
Ratt Style
Motley Crue Style

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/instructor/Gabriel-Leopardi/

Posted by: Nether Aug 28 2013, 10:51 AM

Hi Gab!

I've been working on the Ratt lesson and i have a question. I think you play almost everything only with downstrokes (except a couple chords), am i right?

It feels more comfortable for me to use only downstrokes, but i wanted to be sure that not doing something wrong before i get any farther

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Aug 28 2013, 03:36 PM

Hi mate, yes! I'm using only downstrokes on the main riffs of this lesson. You'r right.