Announcement: The Festive Challenge! Options

[Andrew Cockburn]

Well we couldn't let Christmas pass without an extra special competition, so here it is ...

The GMC Festive Challenge

You only have 9 days so get to it, here's something to keep you occupied during those seasonal holidays! For those who don't celebrate Christmas, we would love you to take part as well!

We have a great competition for you this time - our very own Gabriel Leopardi has labored mightily under extremely tight deadlines to produce a 3 level lesson of Christmas songs:

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/The-Festive-Challenge/

I am sure you will agree that he has done an awesome job, and his arrangements of these popular Christmas songs are absolutely inspiring!

Thanks for your efforts Gabriel, you did an awesome job with this!

The challenge will be for you, dear GMC members to pick a level, learn the song and post your attempt at playing it. Our panel of judges will pick a winner in each category based on playing mechanics and feel.

Each category winner will be the lucky recipient of:

Boss MT-2 Metal Zone

So, here are the instructions:

1. Pick which level you will be entering
2. Study the lesson carefully
3. When you are ready, upload your take in the uploads thread

That's it! We have a few rules as well:

1. Entries to the competition will be closed in the last minutes of 2009 (EST, GMT-5). Even if the thread remains open, no entries will be considered after this time
2. Keep it real about what level you enter - we will disqualify anyone who picks too low a level in an effort to win!
3. Audio entries will be accepted however video entries are preferred
4. No substitution or cash alternatives for prizes will be offered

So get practicing and may the best guitarists win!

Backing tracks for download:

 Jingle_Bells_115.mp3 ( 757.45K ) Number of downloads: 396

 Winter_wonderland_140.mp3 ( 738.27K ) Number of downloads: 369

 Holy_night_backing_120.mp3 ( 1.29MB ) Number of downloads: 329

[Marc_Maiden]

im doing an advanced level because i know the other ones are wayy to easy for me...even the advanced one isnt as hard as it could be


i think the judges know who the lower level and higher level players are, and can based their vote on the ones that put the most effort.


as for the advanced lesson, for that arpeggio part, learn what each arpeggio is and practice it over the backing...i feel like the backing is a tad slower than the gp version, and thus the arpeggio part will be easier over the backing

[skennington]

i think the judges know who the lower level and higher level players are, and can based their vote on the ones that put the most effort.

I think Marc just answered your questions right here amongst all of us that know one another. Can you see Smells, I mean Chris Evans, sorry bro... busting out with the beginner lesson.. Or me with the advanced one.. we will all know Chris needs a pedal and I have been sleeping with my guitar..