Guitar Bushido - Mentoring Course !, with Sensei Ben..
Ben Higgins
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Sensei Ben's Guitar Bushido

Guitar = Guitar
Bushido = Way of the Warrior


You're 2,000 ft up in the mountains. The icy wind is blowing across your face and chilling your bones. In your hand you clutch your guitar as you make your way towards the big, wooden pillars. Each heavy, laboured step takes you closer to what lies beyond these mountain gates.. a harsh, almost cruel regimen of physical and mental discipline and forging of willpower and character.

Your knuckles are already anticipating the push ups.. your fingers are already trembling at the thought of legato on an empty stomach and your hands are almost frozen in fear at the thought of constant palm muted down strokes. Welcome... you have reached my lair of guitar abuse. This is Guitar Bushido and I will be your Sensei.

I ask only one thing: empty your cup and be prepared to give.

Now that I've set the scene in my slightly unhinged way, I'll tell you what this all about smile.gif

I'd like to mentor you in your guitar playing and help you identify problem areas and work to improve them. For those of you who are new to GMC, my main interest in guitar playing is in the rock & metal areas so this is where my main levels of experience reside although, regardless of what genre of music you like, I can help anyone reach a certain level of dexterity and ability before you may want to concentrate your focus in a specific musical area.

How I'm going to do it is have 3 groups – Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced. Some of you I already know and can make a judgement on what might suit you best but for anyone interested in attending the Temple of Guitar Bushido please direct me to some visual/audio footage of yourselves. Also, I'd like to mention that even if you feel like you're too much of a beginner, you're not, any time is the right time to start learning more. Also, being a beginner is a good place to be because I won't have to beat any bad habits out of you, unlike some of the characters here at GMC...... wink.gif

Once I've got a few of you guys into one of the 3 groups I'll make 3 seperate threads and start giving some weekly tasks which are exclusive to each group. I would call them assignments but that's too friendly and reminds me of school. Tasks are what Hercules had to do.. a task requires strength and courage. biggrin.gif

There will be a deadline set each week, a different one for each group so keep an eye on them so you know how much time you have. I appreciate that everybody has other responsibilities in their lives and a week isn't a very long time to learn something but an inspiring thing to remember is that we all get the same 24hrs in a day, which is the same 24hrs that Steve Vai or Guthrie Govan gets. It's how we use it that determines our results. Whatever time we do get to devote to something we want to excel at, as long as we give 100% during that time, even if it's only 30 mins, then we're still giving everything.

So, are you ready to make your way into the temple ? If so, grab your guitars and sign up here...

END OF GUITAR BUSHIDO COURSE, 06/02/2013


Thank you to everybody for taking part in The Tasks, Guitar Bushido has now come to a close after 52 Tasks that tested everybody's will and endurance !! It has been an honour to be your Sensei and I hope you are able to take the lessons that you learned on the mountain with you wherever you go ! You are guitar warriors now !



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Ben Higgins
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QUOTE (FrontlineGuitar @ Feb 13 2012, 04:27 PM) *
I see I am also quite a bit late to the party also tongue.gif

But I would be honoured to enter the gates of your divine temple, Master Higgins..

I'll let you be the judge of my playing.. I have no idea! laugh.gif https://www.youtube.com/user/FrontlineGuitar


Welcome to the Temple, Max ph34r.gif

Well I'd say you're straddling the Intermediate / Advanced region. You've got great melodic feel with great pick dynamics and bending. I'm not sure where your technical ability is so you'll have to just go with what you think is a good test for you each time.

Both the Intermediate and Advanced Task this week aare both based around Pentatonic alternate picking. I recommend taking a look at Intermediate Task 3 smile.gif

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Feb 24 2012, 07:24 AM
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I'm going to respectifully bow out of your mentoring course Ben. I think the Skype lessons with you once a month will give me the feedback I need for my lead chops. The pressure of getting the weekly pieces to a place I am happy with is just to great!! ha ha

I will be joining Gab's Army to get my punky Rhythm chops and composition in place.

Thanks for last night you were very gentle wink.gif

How was it Inside Men?

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Damn People are defecting Ben. We need to strengthen our army. biggrin.gif biggrin.gif JK! wink.gif

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QUOTE (PosterBoy @ Feb 24 2012, 06:24 AM) *
I'm going to respectifully bow out of your mentoring course Ben. I think the Skype lessons with you once a month will give me the feedback I need for my lead chops. The pressure of getting the weekly pieces to a place I am happy with is just to great!! ha ha

I will be joining Gab's Army to get my punky Rhythm chops and composition in place.

Thanks for last night you were very gentle wink.gif

How was it Inside Men?


Ok man no worries, you know what you need and you're the boss when it comes to your own guitar playing smile.gif

Gab's course will be great !

QUOTE (PosterBoy @ Feb 24 2012, 06:24 AM) *
Thanks for last night you were very gentle wink.gif

How was it Inside Men?


I'm very worried about how those 2 sentences look together !

I think I should explain that 'Inside Men' was a tv programme about a robbery that was done with the help of men 'on the inside', in other words men that worked at the place that was being robbed. Not a programme about literally going inside men.

Just thought I'd clear that up before rumours started ! laugh.gif

QUOTE (maharzan @ Feb 24 2012, 07:16 AM) *
Damn People are defecting Ben. We need to strengthen our army. biggrin.gif biggrin.gif JK! wink.gif


It's ok... we'll hit them behind there own lines when the time is right. They believe that we've got a Peace Treaty so they won't be expecting it !

I'll be sending my best men.. men that are loyal to The Temple ph34r.gif

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laugh.gif Too late - while I was reading these two sentences I just throw myself back laughing..
I remembered all those posts about jeans, underpants and other strange things a while ago here in the forum..... laugh.gif laugh.gif

QUOTE (PosterBoy @ Feb 24 2012, 07:24 AM) *
I'm going to respectifully bow out of your mentoring course Ben. I think the Skype lessons with you once a month will give me the feedback I need for my lead chops. The pressure of getting the weekly pieces to a place I am happy with is just to great!! ha ha

I will be joining Gab's Army to get my punky Rhythm chops and composition in place.

Thanks for last night you were very gentle wink.gif

How was it Inside Men?



QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ Feb 24 2012, 10:25 AM) *
Ok man no worries, you know what you need and you're the boss when it comes to your own guitar playing smile.gif

Gab's course will be great !



I'm very worried about how those 2 sentences look together !

I think I should explain that 'Inside Men' was a tv programme about a robbery that was done with the help of men 'on the inside', in other words men that worked at the place that was being robbed. Not a programme about literally going inside men.

Just thought I'd clear that up before rumours started ! laugh.gif



It's ok... we'll hit them behind there own lines when the time is right. They believe that we've got a Peace Treaty so they won't be expecting it !

I'll be sending my best men.. men that are loyal to The Temple ph34r.gif

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QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ Feb 24 2012, 09:25 AM) *
I'll be sending my best men.. men that are loyal to The Temple ph34r.gif

You can call them 'The Higgins Temple Clause'!!!
Or better yet....
"The Higgins Temple Claws"!!!
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*This will only be funny to those ho know of a band called the Cooper Temple Cause*

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QUOTE (Sensible Jones @ Feb 24 2012, 12:09 PM) *
You can call them 'The Higgins Temple Clause'!!!
Or better yet....
"The Higgins Temple Claws"!!!
laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif

*This will only be funny to those ho know of a band called the Cooper Temple Cause*


Yeah I think they definitely need a cool name if they're going to be a Special Ops Elite Force... biggrin.gif

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Your Special Op Elite Force should be called "The Bennykins". It is such a frightening name! Since you know I am only loyal to the temple I am sure I'll be a part of it...won't I?

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QUOTE (Gitarrero @ Feb 24 2012, 01:55 PM) *
Since you know I am only loyal to the temple


I think that could be open to dispute Herr Hefner ! wink.gif

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Never doubt the Hef!

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QUOTE (Gitarrero @ Feb 24 2012, 02:07 PM) *
Never doubt the Hef!


You should make that into a T shirt ! biggrin.gif

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Haha! I'm kinda tempted to do it...

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QUOTE (Gitarrero @ Feb 24 2012, 03:12 PM) *
Haha! I'm kinda tempted to do it...


I think the writing has to be pink ! cool.gif

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I'm in as a beginner! I'll post something as soon as I figure out how. biggrin.gif

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QUOTE (tjneal55 @ Mar 4 2012, 10:45 PM) *
I'm in as a beginner! I'll post something as soon as I figure out how. biggrin.gif


Excellent - welcome the The Temple !

For posting videos, you can upload to Youtube and then embed the youtube code in here.

For uploading just audio, you can hit the 'Add reply' button at the bottom right corner of the forum and you'll have the option to 'browse' and 'upload' files. Mp3's are best if you can because they're smaller but people upload wavs too. smile.gif

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Hello Ben,

I'm new to the site and a relative beginner but I'm in.

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QUOTE (Nodean @ Mar 9 2012, 05:06 PM) *
Hello Ben,

I'm new to the site and a relative beginner but I'm in.


Excellent, welcome aboard ! smile.gif

Here's the latest Tasks that were put up yesterday but you can start with any previous one if you like, that's what some guys are also doing cool.gif

https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=43376

https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=43377

https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=43378

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Good morning Disiciples !

I thought I'd post the latest Advanced Task here in case anybody missed it ! The Beginner and Intermediate groups are on Task 7 but the Advanced Group are on Task 6, which may have caused some confusion ! smile.gif

https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=43378

I hope everybody is still benefitting from the cruel, physical regime in this icy lair as I have much more for you yet...... ph34r.gif

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This sounds interesting, even thought I've been lacking time lately to practice other things than the songs we're recording with my band, I'd like to make it work!

I have no idea if I should sign up for Intermediate or Advanced, though. It depends on how advanced advanced actually is! biggrin.gif

But please
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QUOTE (Marcus Desaiha @ Mar 11 2012, 01:41 PM) *
This sounds interesting, even thought I've been lacking time lately to practice other things than the songs we're recording with my band, I'd like to make it work!

I have no idea if I should sign up for Intermediate or Advanced, though. It depends on how advanced advanced actually is! biggrin.gif

But please
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU7-bReQW8w
and listen to: http://www.facebook.com/desaihamusic
And be the Judge!


Come and join The Temple, Marcus !

I would suggest you participate in the Advanced Group ! Advanced Task 6 is now available.... cool.gif

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