Up The Irons Collaboration, Instructors/Students Video Collaboration |
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Up The Irons Collaboration, Instructors/Students Video Collaboration |
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May 30 2014, 11:44 PM |
Any Iron Maiden fans around the house? Well, you are in luck! It's time to kick off a new collab featuring an Iron Maiden track and bringing a tribute to one of heavy metal's greatest icons!
Grab your Maiden t-shirt, guitar and attitude - and join us as we unleash the beasts. (hopefully there'll be 666 of ya!?) Remember! This is the perfect opportunity for you to jam with the pentatonic scale or minor scales, and apply some of the recnt tricks and techniques you have learned at GMC. Working with collabs give you the type of input you cannot achieve when practicing on your own - so even if you feel shy about this, you should give it a serious try. You will improve in unpredictable ways for certain! ------------------------------------------- BACKING TRACK: Up_The_Irons_Collab_Backing.mp3 ( 2.76MB ) Number of downloads: 997 This collab is based on Gabriel's Iron Maiden for beginners lesson. Tempo: 110 BPM Key: E minor ------------------------------------------- Here's everything you need to know about how to enter this collaboration: 1. Download the backing track and open it in your recording software 2. Record your part in the recording software and with your video cam (if you have the possibility to record video). You can record anything - a short fill part, rhythm based ideas, or a full lead part (solo). 3. Render one track containing your recording only - 16 bit wave file 44,1 kHz 4. Render one track containing both solo and backing track in an .mp3 format 5. Send us your video (preferably in .mp4 format) As always, you can send us the last 3 files mentioned, using a dropbox link, or any other transfer service you are used to, by posting them in this thread or attaching them to a private message. If you can't submit a video, you can send us only the audio files and some pictures of you - it will work out great as well! The more pictures you send, the better will it be for editing in the final video! When attaching/sending the collab files, please include the source file of the video as well. Very important: IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE A BEGINNER/ ADVANCED/ PRO/ GOD - all styles, approaches and all levels are welcome and you can even play just a short fill if you feel like it! Bringing your contribution to this track and tribute to the GMC community is what really matters! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Collab tips: As in the previous collabs, we want this one to stand out as much as possible, because this will give your playing and progress maximum exposure. So here's what we suggest: Making short but polished and detailed lines will always give you better results! If you focus on a short part of the backing track, then you will most likely amaze yourself and others! No explicit need to play over the full backing track length, pick any amount of bars you feel most comfortable playing over. It is always better to come up with something short but catchy or memorable! Check out these lessons for inspiration: Dave Murray Style Adrian Smith Style Iron Maiden Masterclass Iron Maiden For Beginners Iron Maiden Style Lesson Iron Maiden Style 2 Lesson Murray Vs Smith Scales you could use: Remember - the only thing we require is that you participate and be yourself - there are no rules, and no limits! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline: June 30th Participants: Cosmin Lupu, Gabriel Leopardi, bleez, huargo, Sensible Jones, Todd Simpson, Jeroen, Ulrik (maybe), Spock, Hajduk *** UPDATE : final video and instructor comments - click here
This post has been edited by Bogdan Radovic: Jul 16 2014, 11:39 AM |
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Jun 9 2014, 02:17 PM |
I'm trying. I guess I am confused on proper technique. If the rhythm ends a pattern on an A, should the note in the solo also land on the A, or, just any note within the scale? [attachment=37506:Up_the_Irons.mp3] Hi mate! Your solo sound a lot better! Congratulations!! Regarding your question. It would fit great if you end the solo on A, but also it will sound good if you end it playing the 3rd or the 4th of the chord. Some details to improve: - 00:19, now you are playing on scale but I'm not convinced of the 4 notes that you are playing to end the pattern. This is an idea of how I would end the part: I can't explain a theory concept why this sound better, but I trust on my ears. - 00:49: That bend is a 4th related to the chord sounding, I would go for chord tone in this case that the bend is very long. -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 9 2014, 11:36 PM |
Some details to improve: - 00:19, now you are playing on scale but I'm not convinced of the 4 notes that you are playing to end the pattern. This is an idea of how I would end the part: I can't explain a theory concept why this sound better, but I trust on my ears. - 00:49: That bend is a 4th related to the chord sounding, I would go for chord tone in this case that the bend is very long. Okay, I made both changes per your suggestions and like them better too: At 00:19 - Right now it's impossible for me to make that jump from the last note (10 on the B-String) immediately play the 4 to 1 fret pull-offs on the bottom E. So I tried it by skipping that last note and ending that phrase with the note just before that (8 on the B-String) giving me time to switch positions. It doesn't sound bad to do that but for the sake of this collab, I'll just have this punched in so that last note ends the phrase the way it should. At 00:49 - I wasn't exactly sure what you meant, but instead of bending the E and B as I had been doing, I jumped up to a 2 note cord - I think that is what you were suggesting. I like it and it's easier to switch to the next position and I don't have to worry about nailing that bend every time. So here it is written. Since I've been writing it in parts I haven't played the solo as a whole yet, so I'll spend the next few days getting it down. Also, I'm sure I'll polish it up more over the next couple of weeks while practicing it for the final submission. Feel free to offer any more suggestions and thanks again for all your input! http://soundcloud.com/lllspocklll/up-the-irons-collab EDIT: After listening to it again, I still feel the need to change that whole pattern around the :19 - the notes leading up to it. Maybe I just need to let it rest for a day or so and come back and listen to it - my brains kind of fried on it right now - but overall I'm happy with it. This post has been edited by Spock: Jun 9 2014, 11:45 PM |
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