Ac/dc Style Rythm And Solo Options

[Gert1973]

Hello Monica,

I have been studying and practising the rythm part of this lesson. Everything is clear to me. Except one little thing I can not get my hands on 100%.

Slow video number 5: The 4th bar starts with the E-powerchord one downstroke not muted (quarter note). Then you have a pause before you have 13 downstrokes (eight notes) and build up the sound from muted to totally unmuted.

It's the pause between the quarter note and the first 8 note where I have some trouble with. I can not seem to find the right timing. I tried out some things like counting measures but I can not find it. I try to 'feel' the pause and most of the times I get it right. But I'm guessing there must be another way to always get the perfect start of the 13 'eight notes' downstrokes.

Have a good day!

Gert

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[Gert1973]

Hi Monica,

I have been working on the solo and here is a new take on the solo part.



7: maybe I should let it ring a little bit longer before going to the bend?
8-15: I think the bend, the dynamics and letting the bend go slowly, has improved
16: I could not fully understand or hear what you wanted me to do here. So I tried to go to C as fast as possible.
24-28: I think I have figured out the back swim on these bends here

I think this take is an improvement.

Let me know where I need to do some more work...

Cheers,
Gert

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[Monica Gheorghev...]

Hi Monica,

I have been working on the solo and here is a new take on the solo part.



7: maybe I should let it ring a little bit longer before going to the bend?
8-15: I think the bend, the dynamics and letting the bend go slowly, has improved
16: I could not fully understand or hear what you wanted me to do here. So I tried to go to C as fast as possible.
24-28: I think I have figured out the back swim on these bends here

I think this take is an improvement.

Let me know where I need to do some more work...

Cheers,
Gert

Hi Gert!

First of all, your guitar sounds out of tune (mostly the G and B strings).

0:07 - yes, you need to let these notes ring longer before to start the bend.

0:08 - 0:15 - this part is highly improved. The dynamics it's great and that's why this part really shines.
Now you let the pitch go down slowly but not enough. Don't lower the pitch more than you have it at 0:13. This means that you need to minimize the movement of the hand even more.

0:16 - actually you succeeded in managing this detail quite nicely. Now, you go faster in C and that is awesome. I'm proud of you.

0:24 - 0:28 - l can notice an improvement but we are still far from what we need. Practice this kind of back swimming a little more. The problem occurs when you take off the finger from the string. That's the moment when you cut the sound.
Hmm....I will try to make you a different explanation.
Imagine that, with your right hand, you need to use your finger instead of the pick. This means that your finger needs to pluck the string to make it ring.
Now, for our detail, make a bend without to touch the string with the pick. Just move the string up with your finger without making any kind of noise. Now, without using the pick, you need to make the string ring when you take off the finger from it. How do you solve this? By making a "pull off" in the opposite direction. This will help you fix the hand movement for this particular section.

About your left hand index finger (0:24 - 0:28). Put this finger to press both strings like Darius did. Don't keep it rounded because when you change the pressure from one string to another, you stop making the notes sound overlapped and we don't want this to happen.

Overall, you are going in a good direction. Try to fix the details that I pointed out and everything will sound much better.

Have a great evening!

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[Gert1973]

0:24 - 0:28 - l can notice an improvement but we are still far from what we need. Practice this kind of back swimming a little more. The problem occurs when you take off the finger from the string. That's the moment when you cut the sound.
Hmm....I will try to make you a different explanation.
Imagine that, with your right hand, you need to use your finger instead of the pick. This means that your finger needs to pluck the string to make it ring.
Now, for our detail, make a bend without to touch the string with the pick. Just move the string up with your finger without making any kind of noise. Now, without using the pick, you need to make the string ring when you take off the finger from it. How do you solve this? By making a "pull off" in the opposite direction. This will help you fix the hand movement for this particular section.

About your left hand index finger (0:24 - 0:28). Put this finger to press both strings like Darius did. Don't keep it rounded because when you change the pressure from one string to another, you stop making the notes sound overlapped and we don't want this to happen.

Hi Monica,

Aaaah ok... I think I understand the mechanism now!

Just one follow up question...

The reason why the G-string stops ringing is because I mute the G-string with my index when it comes back to 0. I mute the G-string when I put my index on the B and high E-string 5th fret. I looked at Darius and I thought he was muting the string with his index finger on the B and high E-string.

But I guess that's not the idea? I have to let the G-string ring after the 'pull off' when the G-string comes down to 0?

Cheers,
Gert

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