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Dec 7 2014, 07:16 PM |
Welcome to GMC!
>I've had to fake my way through every style at least once. I think this is a trade every musician must master and if one does - it opens up quite a few doors. Modding guitars sounds so much fun, I always envy you guys as I'm really bad at even simply fixing a broken cable. It is really inspiring to hear about your experience as a working musician, when was the time that you have decided to just "go for it" and chase your music dreams instead of doing something else? -------------------- For GMC support please email support (at) guitarmasterclass.net
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Dec 7 2014, 07:34 PM |
Hi and welcome to GMC! If you like to improv, I'm sure that you will love to take part in our collaborations See you around the forum
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Dec 7 2014, 11:10 PM |
Welcome to GMC!!! This place is amazing and you are gonna dig it
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Dec 8 2014, 12:00 AM |
Yeah WELCOME here !
Hehe and i own a low level Ovation too Greetings from Swabia ! Dieter |
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Dec 8 2014, 11:17 AM |
Welcome Jase!
I'm a fender junky. My work horse guitar is my 2010 American Deluxe Ash Strat. I call my Strat "The Girlfriend" because it is where all my time goes, my money goes, and I can't keep my hands off of it. I also have a 1986 MIJ Tele named Pearl who's nickname is "The Mistress" because i'm always cheating on the girlfriend when i'm playing it. Cool, the strat is pretty similar to the one I have got (lesson). It is also Am deluxe with (swamp-) ash body. The bright sound it gives is killer, and the neck profile is perfect for me. I'd love a tele as well - and I should probably have got myself one long time ago - but the other (guitar-) ladies are so demanding. I just haven't got the time I need to play them all so I don't know what to do with yet a guitar. However that spanky tele tone is something I have had in my head for a long time - so sooner or later... |
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Dec 8 2014, 06:18 PM |
Hi friend!! Welcome to GMC! I've read both posts that you made here and I have to say that your words are very interesting! It's really good to see how things work on a city that is so important for music and that has a working industry with lots of possibilities and opportunities. It's also interesting to see how some things work similar to other parts of the world.
I find a parallelism with what happens in Buenos Aires about the 10 years thing to establish, we usually say that it's the time that take a band to establish in the music scene and industry. I had a band for 11 years and everything started to work great around 3 years ago. I can also connect with things to the fact that it's very important to be professional, have a good level of technique but also being able to play for the song, have a well trained year, and what's even more important, to be a nice person to hang with while touring, recording, and working. When you say that you are working as a musician there, is it playing your original music? being a session player? playing on cover bands? everything? what's you main job there? -------------------- My lessons
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Dec 12 2014, 01:13 AM
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Welcome to GMC! >I've had to fake my way through every style at least once. I think this is a trade every musician must master and if one does - it opens up quite a few doors. Modding guitars sounds so much fun, I always envy you guys as I'm really bad at even simply fixing a broken cable. It is really inspiring to hear about your experience as a working musician, when was the time that you have decided to just "go for it" and chase your music dreams instead of doing something else? I've been in Nashville 3 years, and for the first two years I tried to make a career type full time job, and music work. But it didn't. I found myself drained from my full time job and having no energy or time for music. So at the beginning of the year I quit my job and hit music hard. I feel called to music and doing anything is being disobedient to what I was designed to do. Since I know music is what I'm suppose to do I try to make all my decisions with that in mind. Sometimes that means doing things that aren't music so I can support music. Like right now, music is always very very slow in the winter. No one is touring, or doing studio work because of the weather and holidays. So in order to pay bills I do a few other things on the side. Right now I'm working part time in sales, and am designing a website for a client while I wait out the winter, but once we hit spring hopefully I can shed both of those again and concentrate more on music. But there is always the temptation to work on other things that pay more. I could put more hours in to my sales job but that would sacrifice my practice time, and freedom to take music work when it comes. Music is more important to me than money. Unless you are part of a small percentage, there isn't a ton of money in music. You have to readjust your priorities and your standard of living. Life was a lot more comfortable when I was working full time but now I'm a lot happier. Welcome Jase! Cool, the strat is pretty similar to the one I have got (lesson). It is also Am deluxe with (swamp-) ash body. The bright sound it gives is killer, and the neck profile is perfect for me. I'd love a tele as well - and I should probably have got myself one long time ago - but the other (guitar-) ladies are so demanding. I just haven't got the time I need to play them all so I don't know what to do with yet a guitar. However that spanky tele tone is something I have had in my head for a long time - so sooner or later... That strat is such a great guitar. It doesn't sound 100% like a strat because of the N3 pickups but the zero hum, all the pickup combinations, and quality craftsmanship make it my giging guitar most of the time. It is like a multi purpose tool. It doesn't do anything 100% but I can get about 75% there on any tone I would need at a moments notice. Thank you so much for the input, man You know, it's funny how 90% of all the stuff you mentioned is common sense, but I'll be damned if in a stressful situation, that common sense would always kick in and be your trustworthy friend I think that EVERY GMCr should take note of your words here and practice accordingly. By the way, how old are you, mate and have you lived in Nashville long time before actually getting into the business? Which was the harders job you had so far? Once again, thank you for your priceless input! I'm 25 and i've lived in Nashville for 3 years. The hardest gig i've ever had was a fill in for a country artists tour, for one show. I got the call the night before that he needed a fill in. The set list was about 40 cover tunes and 5 originals. I had played about 10 of the covers before, but the rest I didn't know. I stayed up the entire night charting out every song and uploading the charts to my ipad so I could use them on stage. I then had to drive 6 hours to the gig. Got there, had load in, had 30minutes to soundcheck & practice and then it was show time. That sucked.. but it payed well Hi friend!! Welcome to GMC! I've read both posts that you made here and I have to say that your words are very interesting! It's really good to see how things work on a city that is so important for music and that has a working industry with lots of possibilities and opportunities. It's also interesting to see how some things work similar to other parts of the world. I find a parallelism with what happens in Buenos Aires about the 10 years thing to establish, we usually say that it's the time that take a band to establish in the music scene and industry. I had a band for 11 years and everything started to work great around 3 years ago. I can also connect with things to the fact that it's very important to be professional, have a good level of technique but also being able to play for the song, have a well trained year, and what's even more important, to be a nice person to hang with while touring, recording, and working. When you say that you are working as a musician there, is it playing your original music? being a session player? playing on cover bands? everything? what's you main job there? I've done some of everything. My least favorite is cover gigs. We have a big cover gig scene here in Nashville, and for awhile I was a part of it, but it just didn't do it for me. I'm too much of a creative to play someone else's licks every night. I like learning them because they make me a better player but I don't like having to spit them back out note for note every single night. I take those gigs if they come my way but I don't seek them out. I'm gaining a growing reputation for my ability to play on the fly. I mean really on the fly. I get a call from an artist to play a show the day of, I don't know any of their songs, and they don't send me any. No rehearsals. I step out on stage with them individually or with their band and they start playing. If i'm lucky they shout me a key, but they usually don't. As soon as they play enough notes for me to know the key, style, and feel the groove I start playing with them, making everything up as I go. These gigs have forced my ear to grow like crazy, and have taught me to be very present while i'm playing. I'm getting more and more studio work all the time, which I really enjoy. It gives me the opportunity to play lots of different styles and get very nit picky about my playing. I learn a lot about my strengths and weaknesses as a player from studio work. About half of my time is split between to original projects. One of them is my own music. I'm about to release my first solo album, which I'm super excited about! I'm doing mix revisions right now for it, but it should be out in January. Next year I'll be hitting the road to do shows to promote my record. I'm also part of another band, both as a player and part of the creative team. We've been together for a year and just released our first EP. That's some of the stuff I'm doing. I don't have a main job, i've got lots of them. I make money from lots of things some being music, and some not. Just depends on the day. I think that being a nice person is VERY important - I have friends that don't play that incredibly complicated or perfect, technique wise, but they are such amazing human beings that the music simply flows through them and that's why everyone loves them and they light up the place with their presence Dude it is HUGE! Skill as a musician is only part of what gets you there. If you are good to people, people will be good to you. And you are also touching on the difference between technique and musicianship. A guy who can play 1,000 notes per minute but doesn't know how to use those 1,000 notes is useless. A guy who can play only 10 notes but knows how to use them effectively will get way more work. Plus, I consider a guitarist job to be part of the rhythms section. I spend more time sitting in the grove with some chords, or a few notes then I do playing fills and lead lines. Sure I can kill a solo if one comes my way, but only 1 in 3 songs has a solo in it, and that solo is (at most) 20 seconds of a 3 minute song. Sooooooo most of the time I'm lying in the grove. Creating texture and feel. Wellcome to GMC! Nice to know Your interests. There is a lot of players who are inspiring and who made tons of famous riffs or melodies while not being a technical virtuosos That's a cool path as well. Make sure to check out some of Javier's lessons - he's a groove man who really make's his guitar swim with the rhythm Absolutely, I'll have to check them out!! |
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Dec 13 2014, 06:05 PM |
Plus, I consider a guitarist job to be part of the rhythms section. I spend more time sitting in the grove with some chords, or a few notes then I do playing fills and lead lines. Sure I can kill a solo if one comes my way, but only 1 in 3 songs has a solo in it, and that solo is (at most) 20 seconds of a 3 minute song. Sooooooo most of the time I'm lying in the grove. Creating texture and feel. Truer words were never spoken! If you want to be a 'working' musician - i.e., pay your bills with guitar (or keys or bass or drums) in hand - you better know this and live by this. I've played plenty of solos on people's records but I only got that chance by being a good rhythm section player. A 'team' player. When you can sit in the groove of the section and make everything 'feel' good and everything and everyone sound better than they would without you - then the songwriters, singers, other players, and the engineers and producers will keep calling you and eventually you'll get that chance to add fills, riffs and a badass solo to somebody's tune. Welcome to the forum jasehackman. This post has been edited by klasaine: Dec 13 2014, 06:21 PM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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