Mad's Mad Rhythm Corner Options

[Cosmin Lupu]

Hey buddy Welcome to your thread

Let's see what we can do to improve things improvisation is a long journey - the same as learning how to speak fluently and natural in a foreign language, being expressive and truthful!

Tell me, have you ever done any ear training exercises? And please let me know what lessons from GMC are you working on at the moment

all the best

Cosmin

[mad]

AWESOME, THANKS!

Ok, beside my warrior tasks in ben's guitar bushido temple, I'm working on ben's vibrato odyssey - lessons.
When I grab my acoustic I'm doing sinisa's acoustic arpeggios.
I didn't have any professional ear training excercises, I just did some silly pitch recognition games I found on the internet..

Well, yes.. it's a long journey - let's start

[Cosmin Lupu]

Good morning there mate!

In order for things to evolve in a healthy order, you should be able to know your neck and be able to talk about notes on the neck not numbers tabs are good in order to make things simple when communicating over the internet, but in a real situation when you're talking to someone with an instrument in hand, speaking in terms of notes will help A LOT!

My recommendation would be to start with this series:

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Improvising-Workshop-1/

and in parallel do ear training exercises and we should start with this one:

- find a note on the neck (C for instance, on the 3rd fret, A string)
- play the C note and immediately after it, a D note
- play the C note and then SING the D note and play it again on the guitar, to check if it's accurate

Try this with the other intervals around C (D was it's 2nd) see how accurate you get when singing. Once you can sing a note, it means you internalized it and you can sing it again -> that's the first step to being able to recognize what you are singing and being able to lay down on the guitar, the stuff you are hearing in your head. Pretty lengthy process but it's worth EVERY minute spent!

What do you think about this?

Cosmin

[mad]

What I think about this?
That's great and I'm starting right now!

[Cosmin Lupu]

What I think about this?
That's great and I'm starting right now!

Let's rock n roll! I'm here for guidance and I was also curious if you would like to set a goal of let's say 4 lessons/ month for which we would work together so you can get a 10/ piece

Is that doable?

[mad]

Man, that would be really awesome.. but we should start with easy ones - even for those I need some time. So nailing down 4 lessons a month + guitar bushido temple + time for my new goal to become a more musical ear (I reserve 15mins a day especially for this) will be tough. Just give me a lesson to start with - I'll post my progress on that particular lesson here, until you say it's ok for a REC..

GoGoGo

[Cosmin Lupu]

Man, that would be really awesome.. but we should start with easy ones - even for those I need some time. So nailing down 4 lessons a month + guitar bushido temple + time for my new goal to become a more musical ear (I reserve 15mins a day especially for this) will be tough. Just give me a lesson to start with - I'll post my progress on that particular lesson here, until you say it's ok for a REC..

GoGoGo

That sounds perfect! What do you prefer? Lead or rhythm?

[mad]

We sould start with rhythm.. I'd like to go more into lead when my ear is more trained - hope that makes sense..

[Cosmin Lupu]

Ok it does make sense, as I think a good rhythm player can become a good lead player much easier

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-gu...c-metal-rhythm/

this one - it may seem easy, but that's why I want you to chug your way with it as smooth and tight as possible let's take it from here and see where we are please take a look over it, practice it, till you feel ready, record it and let's discuss on it

Of course, it's important that you also like it so the fun level will be greater

[mad]

Like it, very basic stuff, let's rock!

[Cosmin Lupu]

Like it, very basic stuff, let's rock!

Perfect! Looking forward to helping you making it sound perfect

[mad]

Ok so far for the REC-take.. currently I'm just struggling a bit with the fast power-chord to open-chord changes in the galloping section.. But I'm isolating and fixing the problem going to upload a take for you to check next night!

[Cosmin Lupu]

Ok so far for the REC-take.. currently I'm just struggling a bit with the fast power-chord to open-chord changes in the galloping section.. But I'm isolating and fixing the problem going to upload a take for you to check next night!

Awesome mate! Let's see whatcha got!

[mad]

hey cos, i did a few takes with some parts that are too sloppy - I will record another take this night for you to have a look at it!

[Cosmin Lupu]

hey cos, i did a few takes with some parts that are too sloppy - I will record another take this night for you to have a look at it!

Perfect, I'll be in front of the PC in about 5 hours!

[mad]

OK - that's the best of the last 10^5 worst recordings.
I'm still struggling with several chord changes, muting etc.



Need more practice...

[mad]

Update on ear-training: I'm able to sing along the c-major scale. I did this: played the major-scale on the 5th string starting on the 3rd fret and tried to sing the note I'm hearing. stopped the note ringing and checked with a mic-tuner, if I'm really singing the correct note
then I started to increase the intervalls starting from C while singing the notes. Then I did the same but I sang the note before I played it.. it turned out quite easy after a few minutes. Then, I started to play all the chords in the C major scale and was able to sing along it - that was quite an amazing experience, never did that before (don't know why - everyone playing an instrument should do that )...

So, I'm making some progress

[Cosmin Lupu]

OK - that's the best of the last 10^5 worst recordings.
I'm still struggling with several chord changes, muting etc.



Need more practice...

Not bad man! Actually it's very good! There are slight tightness slips here and there but with a little more practice, I think you can get a straight 10 in the REC section! I think this one can go there as well would you like to expose it there?

Update on ear-training: I'm able to sing along the c-major scale. I did this: played the major-scale on the 5th string starting on the 3rd fret and tried to sing the note I'm hearing. stopped the note ringing and checked with a mic-tuner, if I'm really singing the correct note
then I started to increase the intervalls starting from C while singing the notes. Then I did the same but I sang the note before I played it.. it turned out quite easy after a few minutes. Then, I started to play all the chords in the C major scale and was able to sing along it - that was quite an amazing experience, never did that before (don't know why - everyone playing an instrument should do that )...

So, I'm making some progress

hehehe! Very good! It;s wonderful if you can do that! Now a next step would be to focus on a certain type of interval, perfect fifth let's say and do the following:

1) Play C and its 5th -> G
2) Play G and it's 5th -> D
3) Play D and its 5th -> A

see, you're practically ascending from 5th to 5th and so on until your ear gets accustomed to jumping from one tonality to another.

Repeat the same process with every interval type it does WONDERS!

Let me know what else can I help you with - I think we can jump on to another lesson as well, if you'd like!

[mad]

In my Metal Metrics 4-REC Ivan said, for rhythm I should make my right hand more floating. I thought, I give it another shot and keep an eye on that, this is what I got..



And yes, I'll continue with the intervals, let's see where I'm going from here
Next lesson please

[Cosmin Lupu]

In my Metal Metrics 4-REC Ivan said, for rhythm I should make my right hand more floating. I thought, I give it another shot and keep an eye on that, this is what I got..



And yes, I'll continue with the intervals, let's see where I'm going from here
Next lesson please

Mate, this take is very very good, aside from some slight timing issue at 0.29, I think it's great!

Let's see now since your gallop needs a bit more care, I thought this could be a good one to tackle, as it also has some single string lines with a little vibrato implemented

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/beginners_metal_riffing/

Would you like to give this a shot?