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...the thing is, I need you to start progressing faster then ever, but to achieve that I need your help:
* Don't know where to start? Just pm me and we will sort it out directly, I am online every day.
* Join My Army. Sounds aggressive? It is! We can study anything from the most fearsome picking techniques to bombastic songwriting. A medal of honor awaits the brave. Seriously, this is an opportunity for you to get a personalised learning experience...what are you waiting for?!
* Join my next video chat! GMC startpage holds a video chat schedule. We always cover a lot of ground and have fun. Remember that you don't need any previous knowledge, and you can be passive in the chat.
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* Finally I want to tell you a secret. Nah I changed my mind - pm me instead ;)
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Jan 21 2014, 09:27 PM |
Hello Phil!! Welcome to your personal thread for Gab's Army. Here I will help you with your learning progress, giving assignments and feedback, suggesting lessons, sharing music and other inspiring stuff.
I hope that you enjoy your stay! Here I have some important questions for you. 1. How long have you been playing guitar? 2. What level do you think you're? based on GMC lessons level. 3. What do you know about theory? 4. Favorite styles and musicians. 5. Could you please post videos and audios of you playing? 6. How many time a day can you dedicate to guitar? This post has been edited by Gabriel Leopardi: Aug 11 2014, 04:20 PM -------------------- My lessons
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Sep 28 2014, 10:07 PM |
Hey gab! Here are two more videos to share. Thanks for your advice on the tuning, i tried it for these takes and I think the tuning is more stable in these takes. Firstly the second stoner rock lesson below. I have a question to this lesson. Do u let the open string you pick on the first two riffs ring out over the over notes? I kind of did it like that but it maybe sounds a bit too messy at the moment. Hi mate, good job with this lesson! Your question is very important. My answer is "so so", hahaha. If you don't mute the open string, the overall sound because too noisy and you can't understand the riff well. If you mute the open string, the riff sound will be lacking some rocker feel. My trick to solve this is to mute just a bit the string, giving the string a more palm muted sound. This keeps the noisy sound but it sounds less aggressive and let the high melody sound clearer but still rocker. You can use a weak palm muting even when you pick the open strings, but you have to experiment with different levels of pressure and palm positions to find the right sound. About your playing on this lesson, besides that open string riffs that need some polish I think that the most important thing to work on your playing is vibrato. Your vibrato is not consistent, you seem to be using more finger movement than wrist movement and the result is a weak vibrato. Please add this lesson to your diary routine: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Bens-Vibrato-Odyssey-5/ The tuning issue is much better but there are still some pitch issues in some melodies and also in some power-chords. Keep on exploring with guitar tuning, calibration and off course fingers pressure. The soloing section in the end has some timing issues as well as sync between hands problems. Isolate those licks and practice them as a loop to polish the solo. Here is the third john frusciante take. I am struggling mostly with parts 6 and 8 i think and the whole lessons needs to be smoother i know, but here is my first go at it! This one is also close to be mastered but there are some things to work> - Timing: I find timing issues at 00:06, 00:13, 00:28 and from 00:36 to the end. Please practice the lesson over the original take to adjust your timing. - Vibrato: The same that I said for the Stoner lesson, you need to polish vibrato. - Bending: All the bends of this take have problems (for example at 00:22, 00:28) so you definitely need to work on this technique. I've already gave you some good exercises for this so keep on working on them. -------------------- My lessons
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