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IS THAT YOUR MAMA?
Nope didn't think so either. We all know parents don't get this.
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* Pm me and I will show you where to start. I am online every day and I will help you out directly!
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* Oh and did you know that to become a killer guitarist you just need to focus on one thing? Everything
else is secondary. Pm me and I will explain.
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Jan 13 2014, 01:51 PM
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Hey mate
 Sounds like you are pretty busy! I would love to see some recordings of the more technical stuff you are working on, deal?
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Jan 14 2014, 08:16 AM
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Cool
 Let's see some bleez style guitar playing! |
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Please focus on the things I mentioned and remember to post here more often and send me your takes so that I can help you to be more prepared for the REC |
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Feb 3 2014, 11:17 PM
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hi mate, still working on that alt picking lesson, I'll probably be able to get another recording this week for you to check over, Im starting to get through it without any obvious mistakes so hopefully Its a bit closer to the mark.
In the meantime I was hoping you would cast your ears over this soundcloud file. Basically I was just mucking around with a bass and came up with a riff similar to a really cool song by 'Unida', anyways I thought I'd just add to it and try to come up with something in their style, just for the hell of it  Its just a short riff, maybe an intro type of thing, but it posed a few questions for me. I assumed the bass line is a D or D minor progression, so with the guitar which comes in at 0.36 I just played notes from a D chord, I wanted to be a bit more interesting but I dont know which chords or notes I can play over the progression. It turns out I dont really know any interesting chords at all! How would you go about writing this type of piece, would you look at all the possible chords which go with the progression and then pick out notes or do you know straight away which notes you can play over any given progression? should I be looking at triads or just basic chord theory  https://soundcloud.com/bleez666/unida-ish ps, this is the Unida track which I was using as inspiration, if you fancy a listen - Last Day --------------------  You say 'minor pentatonic ' like it's a bad thing |
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Feb 4 2014, 09:30 AM
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Don't over think it mate
I think you did a very good job here - it sounds like Tool or APC to me, which is pretty darn good When I write something, I NEVER think in terms of theory - the process goes like this: - play what you hear in your head - record - develop by using other already existing parts which you can adapt to the context or, by playing something else that you hear in your head - polish, by using theory - what goes well with what you have? What can you use, change, add to spice things up? That's pretty much what I do What do you hear in your head next, for this one?QUOTE (bleez @ Feb 3 2014, 10:17 PM)  hi mate, still working on that alt picking lesson, I'll probably be able to get another recording this week for you to check over, Im starting to get through it without any obvious mistakes so hopefully Its a bit closer to the mark. In the meantime I was hoping you would cast your ears over this soundcloud file. Basically I was just mucking around with a bass and came up with a riff similar to a really cool song by 'Unida', anyways I thought I'd just add to it and try to come up with something in their style, just for the hell of it Its just a short riff, maybe an intro type of thing, but it posed a few questions for me. I assumed the bass line is a D or D minor progression, so with the guitar which comes in at 0.36 I just played notes from a D chord, I wanted to be a bit more interesting but I dont know which chords or notes I can play over the progression. It turns out I dont really know any interesting chords at all! How would you go about writing this type of piece, would you look at all the possible chords which go with the progression and then pick out notes or do you know straight away which notes you can play over any given progression? should I be looking at triads or just basic chord theory https://soundcloud.com/bleez666/unida-ish ps, this is the Unida track which I was using as inspiration, if you fancy a listen - Last Day |
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Feb 4 2014, 10:23 PM
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QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Feb 4 2014, 08:30 AM) When I write something, I NEVER think in terms of theory - the process goes like this: - play what you hear in your head - record - develop by using other already existing parts which you can adapt to the context or, by playing something else that you hear in your head - polish, by using theory - what goes well with what you have? What can you use, change, add to spice things up? Nice I took that approach tonight and stopped thinking about my lack of theory, just played it through and tried to go with the flow I altered the notey bit and added a simple melody part, what do reckon to it? https://soundcloud.com/bleez666/unida-ish-2 -------------------- You say 'minor pentatonic ' like it's a bad thing |
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Feb 5 2014, 09:44 AM
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QUOTE (bleez @ Feb 4 2014, 09:23 PM) Nice I took that approach tonight and stopped thinking about my lack of theory, just played it through and tried to go with the flow I altered the notey bit and added a simple melody part, what do reckon to it? https://soundcloud.com/bleez666/unida-ish-2 The wah theme needs a delay effect over it to add spaciness and if you place an inspired vocal line - you got an awesome premise for a good tune! What say you?
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Feb 6 2014, 09:24 AM
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QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Feb 6 2014, 07:25 AM) Can you sing, mate? hmmm its debatable! I try sing a bit, Theres a couple of acoustic biffy clyro songs which I practice, sometimes it sounds ok-ish  but I wouldnt go as far as saying I could sing! I played around with the track last night, put in that delay and added a little bit, got a new riff / melody at the end. https://soundcloud.com/bleez666/u4 -------------------- You say 'minor pentatonic ' like it's a bad thing |
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Feb 6 2014, 10:18 AM
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QUOTE (bleez @ Feb 6 2014, 08:24 AM) hmmm its debatable! I try sing a bit, Theres a couple of acoustic biffy clyro songs which I practice, sometimes it sounds ok-ish but I wouldnt go as far as saying I could sing! I played around with the track last night, put in that delay and added a little bit, got a new riff / melody at the end. https://soundcloud.com/bleez666/u4 Hehe - why not try some vocal ideas man? I think that instrumentally it's good enough at this point to lay down some vocals on it
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Apr 2 2014, 04:53 PM
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hey Cos
I done a little recording today, wondered if you'd check it out. here's where Im at with that Alt picking lesson Also, the Gary Moore collab, a bit simple maybe but the more complicated stuff I tried didn't pan out at all! what do you think? Ive been working on a ton of stuff these last few months. Im trying a couple lessons which are probably a bit fast for me but even playing them slow sounds pretty cool! Im also re-visiting some older lessons which I either stopped playing or never quite nailed, usually because of bending issues  Also still working on learning some solos, I finally got comfortably numb learned and can play through it, you won't confuse it for Gilmour but that was never the immediate goal A new solo Ive been working on is Alive. I tried a few years ago to play it but never managed so it was kinda cool to get through it now. I tried to keep as close to the album version as I could. The bit in the middle where the vocals come back in I found really difficult to make out the guitar and everyone on youtube seems to play something different in that bit, so I just done my own thing but the rest is as close as I can get. here's the outcome so far - cheers dude. -------------------- You say 'minor pentatonic ' like it's a bad thing |
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