Well, in this month we'll start to play some specific exercises and lessons with the acoustic guitar and the pick.
Before to start with the first assignment, let's discuss a little about the REC take.
Take a look at my Em Acoustic Lesson. Please tell me if you like it. If you have some othere lessons in mind, feel free to post here.

I have tried that a little and i dont think learning it will be a bg problem the problem will be learning it up to speed.

But as usuall i will try

First assignment!

 exercise_1.gp5 ( 2.4K ) Number of downloads: 201


I wrote the pattern for the picking hand. It's basically economy picking. If you have some extra time, it would be cool if you can record another take using the alternate picking technique for all notes!

1st deadline January 9!

Excersise 1

Economy picking



Alternate picking



Had to do it today since i have a game tomorow......

Update on the REC

I am trying to learn all the patters first and then play them togheter....

Still not sure if i will be able to play it up o speed in time but i will try my best...

Nothings impossible.

Hope the Excercise takes are good enogh

Awesome, very good takes!
Maybe I'm wrong but it sounds to me like you're playing over the Gutar Pro track.
If so, could you mute it? In this way you can still follow the green cursor while playing.
I'd like to hear YOUR playing only, which is going really really good
I will back with the next assignment in the next hours.

I had the guitar pro on but with really low sound

I just thoght i should discuss some problems i am aving with my REC....

In the last 2 videos there are sliding chords and i am having major problem getting them to ring when sliding....

You have any tips

Yeah, turn it off! You're doing your job very good with the MTP and I'm very happy if I can hear your full sound!
For the second assignment I chose some bars from my Em acoustic lesson. The bpm is a bit slower than the original lesson but it's not so important to record each assignment at the bpm you find on the GP file - hope this makes sense!

 exercise_2.gp5 ( 3.54K ) Number of downloads: 182


Please tell me if you need some further indications about the strumming pattern, here.

I can alady tell you that i am having problem wen sliding from the F#m9-/5+ to the A7 chord.

Any tips

Ok, I see what you mean (hopefully )
So, on the F#m9-/5+ chord, your middle finger is over the D string, 4th fret. It's moving with a slide to the 5th fret on the A7 chord.
The other finger (index) moves away from the 3rd fret ( F#m9-/5+ chord) while the ring finger is simply doing a kind of hammer on!
Hope you get it, it's also written on the GP file.
Let me know...

Yeah i am Hammrnig the string.....

I just have to work on it for a while and then i will get it

Yeah, maybe the best problem here is to keep the G string ringing while doing these slide+hammer.

Ok, since this second assignment is a bit more complicated than the previous ones, let's set a deadline for January 16.
If you master it before the deadline, feel free to post your take here, so we can recover some days.

Sunds good

Hey Jerry i was hopnig i could get one day extra on this assignment since i will be one all day tomorow....

By sunday night i will have a take

Why not?
Probably sunday night I will be on a trip but I will check this thread as much as I can with my laptop.
How things are going with the REC? Are you playing the whole lesson sometimes?

I am not playing it with backing or metronome but i am tring to play the whole thing from time to time

Ok, sounds fine. My suggesition is to play the lesson with the backing from the next week, so you can "have the lesson in your hands" through the end of the month.
By the way, it seems that I can't get the Tenacious D dvd here in Italy!!! Even the biggest stores have some problems while getting it from the distributors. They told me it's a problem of the Fox company.
I will check some smaller stores tomorrow and eventually I will buy it on Ebay.

Here is this weeks excercise

I still have someproblems with the sliding chords but i have feelt that it has gone much better then in the begining of the week



This post has been edited by superize: Jan 17 2010, 10:09 PM