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GMC Forum _ PRACTICE ROOM _ Pentatonic Workshop Vid

Posted by: Andrew6 Mar 16 2009, 05:16 PM

Me playing part 5 of the pentatonic workshop by Ivan. Still working on this one also and have been for about a week and half, which is a lot of time considering how much I play, but that last fast run absolutely kills me and when I get the run right I mess up the bends afterwards . I had to really sit down with a metronome starting at 60 bpm to get that one as the picking pattern was very difficult for me and its still not quite up to standard. After the slide to the 10 fret there is no tab for what Ivan plays so I tried to figure it out by ear I think I have come pretty close. As always tips and suggestions welcome!

Posted by: Emir Hot Mar 16 2009, 05:26 PM

Very nice playing. I like it

Posted by: mattacuk Mar 16 2009, 07:33 PM

keep up the good work, coming along nicley

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Mar 16 2009, 11:20 PM

Awesome cover mate, sounds great! i will check the lesson and insert those, tabs, thanks for notifying me!

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Mar 16 2009, 11:21 PM

Cool video, well done Andrew !

Posted by: Andrew6 Mar 16 2009, 11:26 PM

Thanks everyone

Posted by: Ramiro Delforte Mar 17 2009, 12:20 AM

Mate you have there a cool take! Congrats!

Although I want to make some remarks if you let me.

I think you were a little nervous but that's something that happend to everybody so I always recommend that you record several takes (maybe one after the other so you won't think too much that you are recording yourself in video). And one of those takes will be more fluid.

That's the second topic, your preocupation about recording I think is taking off your fluid in phrasing, so, this is blues, you have to phrase really cool and chill or it won't be in style you know. Maybe if you don't phrase in other styles like in a trash metal solo the problem won't be big like in a blues solo. By this I don't mean that your phrasing was bad but I know that you can do it better if you relax a little bit more and feel the notes and the phrasing. In order to do that you have to play like you play when you don't have any pressure and I think what I've said before will help you.

Let me know if this helped you in anyway

Keep the good work!

Posted by: Vasilije Vukmirovic Mar 17 2009, 10:59 PM

Very accurate! You're like to post videos, that's attitude!

Posted by: Andrew6 Mar 18 2009, 04:05 PM

Thanks for the comments! Yeah I am always a little nervous but I am finding it is improving the more I post videos as is my playing in front of people so I plan to keep it up until the nervousness is gone ( for the most part anyway)

Posted by: Outlaw2112 Mar 18 2009, 04:10 PM

Nice one andrew...

try to get it down with just the backing track and you.. then you can really see your playing and
any parts you need to improve on

good job, bro