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 Apr 24 2012, 09:05 PM
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QUOTE (Alex Feather @ Apr 24 2012, 04:27 AM)  Perfect! Let me know if you need help!!! I think in a few days I will make a new assignment for you! And we will add more complicated things to your playing  Great! I will look forward to the challenge!! I'll try and post something with new Cmaj to Amaj version in the next couple days. --------------------  |
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Apr 25 2012, 07:37 AM
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QUOTE (DeGroot @ Apr 24 2012, 08:05 PM) Great! I will look forward to the challenge!! I'll try and post something with new Cmaj to Amaj version in the next couple days. Perfect! I am looking forward to hear your take! New challenge will be posted very soon!
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Apr 29 2012, 03:17 AM
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Experienced Tone Guru Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 16-January 12 From: Chicago, Illinois Member No.: 14.899 |
Hi Alex,
I haven't been able to get to my lessons because of working long hours every night. Im hoping things will settle down in a week and I'll get back into this. I can't wait to get back into the lessons!! -------------------- |
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Apr 29 2012, 07:50 AM
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Instructor Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 4.332 Joined: 21-November 11 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 14.398 |
QUOTE (DeGroot @ Apr 29 2012, 02:17 AM) Hi Alex, I haven't been able to get to my lessons because of working long hours every night. Im hoping things will settle down in a week and I'll get back into this. I can't wait to get back into the lessons!! Sounds good! Let me know when you are ready! I have prepared a new assignment for you so as soon as you are ready I will post it!
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May 4 2012, 07:18 PM
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Experienced Tone Guru Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 16-January 12 From: Chicago, Illinois Member No.: 14.899 |
QUOTE (Alex Feather @ Apr 23 2012, 03:24 PM) Sounds very good!!! Some notes were off but I can hear that you are trying to use a lot of scales I asked you to! Good job! Now I would like you to start landing on chord tones every time the changes hit! Try to get 3rd and 7th so you can really accent the changes! Let me know if you need help or have any questions! Ok, I finally have time to get back into more lessons. Just a quick question. When you are referring to 3rd and 7th, you are talking about the 3rd and 7th note in the pentatonic scale? -------------------- |
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May 5 2012, 07:25 AM
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Instructor Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 4.332 Joined: 21-November 11 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 14.398 |
QUOTE (DeGroot @ May 4 2012, 06:18 PM) Ok, I finally have time to get back into more lessons. Just a quick question. When you are referring to 3rd and 7th, you are talking about the 3rd and 7th note in the pentatonic scale? Great! No I am talking about chord tones 3rd and 7th of each chord -------------------- |
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May 5 2012, 11:48 PM
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Experienced Tone Guru Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 16-January 12 From: Chicago, Illinois Member No.: 14.899 |
I've been improvising for about hour on this today. I'm not really coming up with anything structured that I'm happy with. I was concentrating on trying to accent the chord changes. Every take I did was different... I thought this was one of the better ones even with couple unsure moments.
http://soundcloud.com/degroot-2/cmaj-to-amaj-2 -------------------- |
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May 6 2012, 05:37 PM
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Instructor Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 4.332 Joined: 21-November 11 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 14.398 |
You did a really good job! Nice tone and good chord tones! Very nice take!
I am gonna create a new challenge for you today! In the meantime please download this track: http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/ii-v-i-jam I will create a new challenge based on it! -------------------- |
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May 6 2012, 06:15 PM
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Experienced Tone Guru Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 16-January 12 From: Chicago, Illinois Member No.: 14.899 |
Thanks! That backing sounds great! Can you make it downloadable when you get a chance. -------------------- |
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May 7 2012, 05:41 PM
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Instructor Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 4.332 Joined: 21-November 11 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 14.398 |
Sorry
Here we go! http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/ii-v-i-jam Just click on it and you will be able to download the track! This post has been edited by Alex Feather: May 7 2012, 05:42 PM -------------------- |
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May 8 2012, 06:43 AM
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Experienced Tone Guru Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 16-January 12 From: Chicago, Illinois Member No.: 14.899 |
Thanks! I look forward to the new challenge!
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May 8 2012, 09:31 AM
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Instructor Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 4.332 Joined: 21-November 11 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 14.398 |
QUOTE (DeGroot @ May 8 2012, 05:43 AM) Thanks! I look forward to the new challenge!Great! So here it is! I want to start getting into playing over 7th chord! You know mixolydian already now it's time to add some new scales! Let's start with a whole tone scale! It's a very cool scale to play especially if you like Holdsworth! So what I want you to do is to learn a whole tone scale and use it over A7 chord   You can use both! The chord changes are: Emi7 - A7 - Dmaj7 I want you to play E dorian over Emi7 - A whole tone scale over A7 - Bminor pentatonic or D major scale over Dmaj7 It might sound weird at first but more you will play it better and cooler you will feel! Try to experiment and let me know if you have any questions or need help! -------------------- |
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May 8 2012, 07:40 PM
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Experienced Tone Guru Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 16-January 12 From: Chicago, Illinois Member No.: 14.899 |
I think Holdsworth is fantastic!
I've been coming up with ideas and the whole tone over A7 is sounding real cool. I'll post something after jamming to this for a couple days! -------------------- |
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May 8 2012, 07:49 PM
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Instructor Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 4.332 Joined: 21-November 11 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 14.398 |
QUOTE (DeGroot @ May 8 2012, 06:40 PM) I think Holdsworth is fantastic! I've been coming up with ideas and the whole tone over A7 is sounding real cool. I'll post something after jamming to this for a couple days! Perfect! Let me know if you have any questions! P.S. You can use a whole tone scale for any 7 chord! Just start with a root! -------------------- |
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May 11 2012, 08:12 AM
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Experienced Tone Guru Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 16-January 12 From: Chicago, Illinois Member No.: 14.899 |
I'm still in the experimental stage with this lesson. This take isn't structured but more for a example. I wanted to see if I'm doing this correctly...specifically with the whole-tone scale?
http://soundcloud.com/degroot-2/ii-v-i-experiment -------------------- |
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May 12 2012, 05:12 AM
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Instructor Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 4.332 Joined: 21-November 11 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 14.398 |
It sounded really good! You did very good on the whole tone scale!!! Now I want you to try to combine a whole tone scale with a mixolydian mode and use it over A7!
Let me know if you need help with it! -------------------- |
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May 12 2012, 05:59 PM
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Experienced Tone Guru Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 16-January 12 From: Chicago, Illinois Member No.: 14.899 |
Thanks! I added the mixolydian mode over A7. I used the whole tone over A7 and I think it turned out more natural this time. I'll let you be the judge.
http://soundcloud.com/degroot-2/ii-v-i-mix-olydian -------------------- |
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May 13 2012, 02:51 PM
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Instructor Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 4.332 Joined: 21-November 11 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 14.398 |
QUOTE (DeGroot @ May 12 2012, 04:59 PM) Thanks! I added the mixolydian mode over A7. I used the whole tone over A7 and I think it turned out more natural this time. I'll let you be the judge. http://soundcloud.com/degroot-2/ii-v-i-mix-olydian Sounds very good! I can suggest to keep it less busy and try to focus on the melody instead of shredding! Also I would like you to build the solo over this chord progression using everything we have covered so far! I want you to work on: Dynamic, building melody, developing the solo! You can do a few loops through the track! Let me know if you have any questions! -------------------- |
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May 14 2012, 02:53 AM
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Experienced Tone Guru Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 16-January 12 From: Chicago, Illinois Member No.: 14.899 |
QUOTE (Alex Feather @ May 13 2012, 01:51 PM) Sounds very good! I can suggest to keep it less busy and try to focus on the melody instead of shredding! Also I would like you to build the solo over this chord progression using everything we have covered so far! I want you to work on: Dynamic, building melody, developing the solo! You can do a few loops through the track! Let me know if you have any questions! Cool, sounds like a plan!
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May 14 2012, 05:03 AM
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Instructor Group: GMC Instructor Posts: 4.332 Joined: 21-November 11 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 14.398 |
QUOTE (DeGroot @ May 14 2012, 01:53 AM) Cool, sounds like a plan! Awesome I am looking forward to hear your take! -------------------- |
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