Really? I didn´t notice any big timing issues. Where do you mean exactly?



BTW, I just listened to the "Happy Head" solo that you did for Monte. That sounds so great and you just played without big thinking. Can´t believe it. How do you do it?

Those are not timing issues that jump out,
it's more like playing in a hurry, out of groove,
hard to notice at high speeds but
not so hard at slow tempos.
Playing in groove is another important topic we will discuss later on.



Thanks.

Hard to explain but probably has something to do with my big head,
I upgraded it with extra 2 terabites lately.

Now I hear it a bit. It´s in the 16th slide part and in the triplets pentatonic runs, right?
Actually, I don´t know what it means to play in groove.

Here are 2 new takes, master!

It's actually more noticeable on slower parts but never mind,
we'll come to groove later on.




Thanks Tolek, my audio card doesn't work atm, happens from time to time,
I'll have listen first thing when I reboot my PC

Great, I can´t wait for it.


Haha. It seems like your audio card doesn´t want to play my fooling around.

And I also wanted to record something, you'll get the idea

Two more takes. This time pentatonic lesson at 75 bpm and 90 bpm.

I hope that your sound card works as I can´t wait to hear critique and to correct my mistakes. I´m in recording fever.

Knopfler is much better Tolek,
there are still some timing issues but lets
have a rest for this one for a while,
you did very good job so far!

Luke was also better this time
but I still miss more vibrato in this sweet melody you've made.
I think we could work much more on vibrato at this point,
what do you think of playing the same thing with using
and focusing on vibrato 100%?
You can apply it on everything, regular notes and bended ones as well.
However it would be good to get a video of it,
that way I could see your posture when playing vibrato
and give some suggestions if needed.

Also, we can try working more intensely on bending,
here's one lesson that I've recommended for
almost every student in my MTP,
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...bending-lesson/ .

Again it would be great to have a video
but Mp3 is fine too until you get home.





Yeah, take at 90bpm was overally better IMO,
there were some sloppy parts over those faster runs,
Em Pentatonic,G Pentatonic and the last skipping part.
But timing was very good and tight compared with
75 bpm take, maybe you still have troubles
to fully understand what I'm saying but believe me,
slower is sometimes harder.
I truly hope that you'll get some recording session job
to do in near future and then you'll realize,
producer will ask for 100% timing and if tune
is in slower tempo you'll have more problems,
that's very common thing,trust me!

Lets try with 2 more takes, both speeds,
think more of timing for 75 bpm (tapping with your foot will help)
and eliminate that noise in faster runs at 90 bpm.
And one thing about your tone, you can try with less gain and reverb
this time for better articulation.

Sounds great! Do you know a free video editing software? If yes, I can make a video here. I´m looking forward to learning this new lesson, I love it. What about the pentatonic takes?

But now, I´m going to a drummer friend. See you!

Windows Movie Maker?

And for Pentatonic takes, read reply before.

Ok, I´ll do it. I´m still not sure about the groove. Maybe you can explain me this when you´re in the chat?



About Movie Maker: I just realized that I won´t need it because today´s my last day at my father´s. Tomorrow, I`ll be at my mother´s and then from Friday to Sunday at my sister´s.

I'll explain it to you here in MTP when the time comes,
that's pretty advanced field.



Ok then, good!

Sure

Could I have the backing for the blues lesson, please?

Just another quick question: How do you slow down or speed up the backing track so that it doesn´t loose its quality? I see BTs at 180 bpm and then the same at 100, 80, 60,... . When I do it in Reaper it becomes so unclean and delayed.

And I´d like to know how you proceed when creating a backing track.

Yeah, trick is to work in Midi with VSTs, not with audio files,
Midi has no problems with stretching while audio does,
you just change tempo in DAW and export it without any problems.
There are some cool programs for audio stretching like Ableton Live
but even with Ableton you can go like 20-30% of speed down tops,
if you try more you'll probably hear "clicking".
However this "clicking" only appears
when you slow it down, not when you speed it up.

Here's the backing.

Click to view attachment

Hey Muris! I´m back! Happy Easter, btw.

I just recorded a video of the Luke Solo:


I´ll do some other ones later.

Another topic. Can you give me some exercices for arranging/composing a song? At first maybe, I could do a BT in a style. Don´t know. Just an idea.

Once in the chat, you wanted to comment a piece of music by me. Dunno if you still want to, but here it is: http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...c=26544&hl=

Happy Easter Tolek and nice take tho, sounds much more mature,
let me know when you post another one!

As for arranging/composing exercises I guess
I might give you few suggestions after I hear piece of music you posted,
give me some time.

Thanks. I still think that I can add some more vibrato at some places. Will do a better take.

OK, I´m looking forward to the exercices.

Btw, I have troubles with ascending runs in the pentatonic lesson. Descending runs work fine, but the others don´t. Any tips?

Focus more on ascending runs then,
it's all I can say before I "see" you playing.

After a recording blockade, I finally managed to recorded something.

Luke Solo


Pentatonic Substitution


Blues Bending

You've been busy Tolek, very well!

Luke's thing is going nicely
so you might leave it for a while,
tho you can continue jamming over it if you want
and post some new clips if something new
comes on your mind.

As for Pentatonic Substitution,
I see you're having problems with faster runs
but what concerns me is that you are not using
pure Alternate Picking,
maybe it's too small FPS or you do some economy or som??
All in all, play the same thing (even without backing) VERY SLOW,
pick every note loud and clear, good thing is to play unplugged too
so you could really hear if you pick each note equally hard.
Give it a shot, might help!

And Blues Bending was very good too,
you missed to use index on 2 semi tone bends on G string,
you used middle finger instead but nothing major.
Now it would be cool to lay a solo on same BT
using some bends etc, what do you think?

Sounds great! I´ll start practising the pentatonic lesson very slowly and play a new solo over the Blues BT.

BTW, I start learning Blue Note in A. I want to play it at a "talent search". And Turkish March as well.

Oh, and I´m using straight AP in those runs.

Give us the credits and rock the house!!

Looking forward to new takes,
specially pentatonic Substitution with cleaned runs,
let me know if I can help more.

Sure.

One question concerning the pentatonic runs. Should I accentuate the note of every beat or play them in the same volume as the others?

Good question, in order to keep tight rhythmic
I guess accenting 1st of each 4 won't hurt,
actually we do that kind of thing naturally.
Just try to play OTHER notes equally if possible.

Like this?

Accents are fine but you're not keeping pure AP all the time I think,
specially after beginning of ascending part,
what you do is that you play last 6th note in group
with an upstroke (which is ok) but then you continue with an upstroke
for 1st note in next group, that might be easier cause it's less movements
but it breaks your picking scheme a bit and leads to sloppy picking.
Focus on each 1st of 6, play them with accent as you did
AND with downstroke, that should work pretty fine to clean things up nicely.

I don´t know why I did it. I was sure I was APing all the time. Not sure if this is correct:

Probably cause you've been focusing more
on fingering an notes, might be.
You don't have to post new take every time we discuss tho ( which is great!! ),
I just wanted to gave you few insights for better
execution of the whole lesson.

Could be.
I don´t have any problems with posting a lot of videos. I think it´s a fantastic help for both of us to discuss some issues.

BTW, I have to tell you 2 great things. First, Kris allowed me to be an instructor and student (in order to participate in the MTP, collaborations, etc.) at the same time. I want to be instructor because I want to get some money for my university years. Second, I think I found my university: BIMM Brighton Guees who´s a teacher at this school? This mister.

That's just awesome Tolek, good luck!

Thanks! I just sent my application to Kris... I hope he´ll accept.

Anyway, here´s my solo over the blues BT. I guess there are not enough bends, or? It was also a bit improvised.



I just noticed my funny movements and faces.

If you like you can have a look at my finished composition.

Bends were very fine tho I expected some extra vibrato too,
apply more next time, ok!
Oh, one thing, at approx 0:29 you played repetitive lick
using F#,A, and C notes, that would would perfectly over D7 chord
but you had G7 in progression, go for F note instead.

Ok, great!

I´m still working on the pentatonic runs. As soon as I see a big improvement, I´ll show you a video.

Great, keep me posted and ofc ask if I can assist more.

Muris, what about developing my composition skills? I have two days of holidays left and I want to spend them on music, especially composing. Just tell me what style, etc. and I´ll try to do it in those 2 days.

Sure thing, why not!

You can try to make a simple backing , don't bother a lot with arrangement,
focus on progression and lead line of course.
Pick any style you want tho, all works fine for me!

Status: I started doing a BT yesterday, but I´m not satisfied with it. I think I´m gonna do a new one on rock style. Today, I didn´t practise much the MTP stuff. Instead, I rearranged Canon Rock which I´m gonna play in the Talent Show (instead of Blue Note in A ).
Tomorrow, school begins, so I´ll have much less time... However, I´ll try to find as much time as possible for music.

Cheers!

Sorry to hear Tolek but it's not the end of the world!!
Keep me posted tho.

Muris, I just recorded my take on "Canon Rock". It´s not really good, I´m tired and didn´t practise some places much, but I just wanted to get some hints on performance. It´s set as private, so only you can see it!

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

Well, the only hint I can think of is to learn it properly
and clean up all tricky parts, like the one when you stopped playing.
Locate those sections and do them one at the time,
sweeping lick in the break must be a lot more articulated (A major I think),
spend few hours just on those 3 shapes if needed!
And watch out on timing, I'm not sure if you can hear
backing properly when you record,
maybe if you set volume of backing bit louder might help.

Yeah, I know that a lot of parts new polishing. I tried to make the BT louder and it helps.
Anyway, could you give me some hints on performing? I mean what could I do instead of standing there and staring at my fretboard. Sometimes, I feel so unnatural on stage...

Hmm, well you can't do a lot on performance indeed
until you nail the piece 100%, otherwise you can jump around
and make grins but it'll be sloppy, no doubt!
However if you really wanna see how you look on the stage
when you ARE ready to play what you play
then you could play something lets say "easy" or anything you feel comfortable with,
record it and we'll discus it, why not.

Ok, I´ll try to. Thanks!

No problem!