It's time to grab your camera and show what you're made of. We wanna see some attitude!

VIDEO COMPETITION : SHOW YOUR
ATTITUDE!

How to enter :
1. Choose a GMC lesson that can express your playing style,
feeling and attitude the best way possible. You can choose ANY lesson
from our archive (any style and difficulty).

2. Shoot a video of your performance over the lesson's backing track.

3. In the video - express your attitude/feeling/showmanship the
best you can! You can go wild here and rock out. Depending on the lesson
and style you choose - feeling should be appropriate (or not? hehe ).
It's your call - just show us your personality through playing.
* Show us your metal horns sign in the beginning of the video - no
matter which genre you play.

4. Post your video on youtube and in the uploads thread to enter
the competition.
You need to shoot a video specially for this competition, though if you
wish, you can play something you already know!

THE PRIZES :

1st Prize:
Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer



2nd Prize:
Monster Cable M Rock-21



3rd Prize:
Dunlop Strap Lok


No Cash or alternative prizes will be offered!

Details of competition:

- The competition deadline for entry submission will be
April 15th 2011.
- In order to simplify things, we are just going to have one thread so please post your replies here.
- Once the competition closes, voting will start and most interesting videos will be chosen by GMC Staff.

Lesson Closed: Head to page 5 to see the list of winners.

Let There Be Rock!

Cool competition great prizes!! nice

Great idea! Can't wait to watch the takes

Wow, awesome man! I really need that TS I've got some recording issues, if I can tackle hem I'll definately apply!

Hey Sean - you should definitely enter this one.

This competition is not about recording and awesome audio/video quality or perfect execution of lesson.
It's about "how" you play and feel it.

Don't worry much about the technical stuff and just try to capture the right vibe

Looking forward to seeing your take.

ooh sweet! I look forward to the videos!

wooo nice idea, i'm loving it!
i wish i could win that ts-9 :D

good luck!

Great competition. I'm definitely in

Dogukan,

Another great comp!! Good luck everyone, I look forward to seeing your takes!!!

Excellent competition ! Even more excellent prizes... !!

Wow, that's awesome indeed! Great prizes! Can't wait to see the videos, it should be a blast!

Awesome!!!!!!

WOOOOHOOOO im going to do a wickeddddd video ! i need that tube screamer ! or strap locks so i can do even more awesome stuffs with my guitar

Good luck everyone i look forward to seeing all videos

Can I enter if I won a previous competition? I got some wicked ideas I'm conjuring up.... bwahahaha....

Of course you can!!! ))

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

I'm in!





.... kidding! XD
best of luck for everyone! I'm looking forward your takes!

Haha ! Yes that would be unfair.. Lian would win the comp just by looking at it !

Best competition ever!
Feeling kinda angry these days...so I might pick one of Lian's lessons and go freaking wild!
Christian

Aside from that TS 9 there should always be a reason to go bananas with your guitar (or without it) on video! Cool prizes, cool contest!

Go everyone!!

Amen to that!

I'm gonna try to be natural with the attitude and not overdo it. Chances are if I overdo it I'll look fake.

man this is great! looking forward for the insanity!

What if your attitude is the lack of attitude?
Like this awesome guy:

Great prizes! The TUBE SCREAMER would be an awesome addition to any setup.

Todd

You run the risk of boring your audience to tears which is never a good thing

hehehe that's some "different" attitude right there!

Actually this is a very good point. Attitude is NOT just making crazy faces and going wild. This works too as you can clearly hear the attitude in the playing and feel the smoothness of execution while at the same time he makes it look "boring and easy".

This is all what is this competition about. Try to feel the tune and play it how you feel it. You don't have to go wild if you don't feel it. Just play it like you mean it!

So who is going to break the ice?

I feel so much better now. I don't have to go wild. Good. Because it's not natural for me.

This is the real guitarist attude!

Just be relaxed and natural and the feeling will come out!

Well said Bogdan Don't force it, just let it happen. How it sounds is honestly more important than how it looks but how it looks can't be ignored or we wouldn't use video. So give it a shot and be you!

Here are some tips for this competition :

- Choose the lesson you feel you are most comfortable playing.
- Select the one that expresses you and your style the best.
- Hit the record button
- Play the lesson and ENJOY it

We are not going to evaluate if you missed the bending pitch or lacked vibrato - but rather how much you felt and enjoyed playing it. For example you can try playing more aggressively then you usually do (to emulate the feeling of playing on stage). Just pick harder. Or you can play more softly if its an emotional solo that you are performing? You can make crazy faces like Kris does OR stay cool ? ) Possibilities are endless!

And it's even okay if I change the key of the backing track? I've got an idea!!

Well, you can try

Im sure having to show metalhorns at the beginning is throwing people off - its so cheesy

Hehehe gotta master the classic rock star move

Yeah!! I love that video of David!!

has noone uploadet a video for the competition yet?

Are you going to?

I'm thinking of doing Canon Rock, but I'm not really awesome at it. I'm torn between it and another lesson. :/

Great choice Just choose the one you feel most comfortable with and rock In the end - don't worry much about execution and perfectionism

I'll go for Mate's Hard Rock Insanity

Excellent!

I'm looking forward to seeing your take!

p.s. Everyone, hurry up with recording, deadline is approaching!

Ok let's remove this.

New rule : you don't have to show your metalhorns in the beginning of the video IF you think its too cheesy! ))

Okay, obviously someone has to break the ice, and I'm volunteering
As you can see, Metalhorns are not too cheesy for me...I watch a lot of Sci-Fi B-Movies, so I'm used to a lot of cheesiness (if I can call it that).
I chose Adrian's awesome "metal for rockers" lesson but had to practice over and over again to play it as clean as possible while banging my head and shaking my guitar. And I had to wait until my neighbor leaves the house, cause I couldn't use headphones...nearly broke mine when I tried it with them and they fell off my head from banging...

Enjoy!

Christian

Will the deadline stay like this? I really like to compete with you guys, but I don't really like when I have to hurry to get it in in time and then the deadline gets raised...

heheh, big thumbs up, great start to kick it off

I'm pretty sure the deadline will stay like this.

Awesome take man! It's a great start for this competition! )))
I really like your attitude!

I'm looking forward to seeing what others come up with!

I'll record Canon Rock soon! Is it okay if I play it a half step lower?

Its ok!