Lester's Thread, for Gab's Army |
HEY MAN, I really need your help...
...the thing is, I need you to start progressing faster then ever, but to achieve that I need your help:
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Feb 17 2017, 01:28 PM
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Great!
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Mar 2 2017, 08:49 PM
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Yes, that's really good!
Try to relax and enjoy the sessions. Don't judge yourself and your playing every time you hold on the guitar. It can be very frustrating to judge our playing at every minute. Give yourself some time to assimilate the material. -------------------- My lessons
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Mar 29 2017, 02:58 AM
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Nice news!! I'm so happy for you! Congratulations!!
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Aug 9 2017, 05:30 PM
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Hi Lester! Great to hear from you!!
I think that it's essential to edit your own routine to make it fit in your schedule and also to keep it motivating. The current plan sounds good for me. I think that the structure will give you good results. The key is also to have some guidelines on what to work each week in order to make a wise use of the different blocks. This is also applicable for the improvisation section in which you could focus on 1 concept each day or week. By concept I mean a very wide quantity of elements that include both techniques and music theory. How are you building the internal stuff in your blocks? The video is good. I can note pitch issues here and there, so there is still more work to do. I think that it would be a good idea to dedicate at least 3 minutes every day to the first exercise of this video: -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 10 2017, 02:03 PM
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Hi Lester! That sounds very good! The technique section is exactly how I would organize it. You can add exercises that you find like the one that I've shared from Satriani, to expand your work for each day. It's important to always incorporate new exercises into these sections.
Regarding the improvisation section, I'll send you some info via PM. Check it out in a moment. -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 11 2017, 05:39 PM
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QUOTE (Lester @ Aug 10 2017, 12:03 PM)  Allright, glad you like it! I was watching some good youtube video's the other day and subscribed to channels like Paul Davids and Shut up & play.Do you have any particular channels you'd recommend? I'm subscribed to my favorites so you can check at my Youtube channel. Rick Graham's channel is fantastic but a bit advanced too. QUOTE (Lester @ Aug 10 2017, 12:03 PM) I checked my inbox, thank you for those files! So the first one is G major scale, 3 notes per string. Is there any particular reason to play it that way? what is the advantage? Usually I would play the positions in boxes of 4 frets I guess playing it like this can also help in legato runs? It's just 1 approach to scales but it's very effective for technique. Most of the rock guitarists practice scales in that way to be able to visualize the fretboard more horizontally, and to play fast alternate picking, and legato runs. -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 14 2017, 07:20 PM
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Allright, sounds good! I had a look and subscribed to some of them
I'll continue practicing and record a progress video soon! |
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Aug 15 2017, 04:01 PM
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Hi Lester, that's a good question.
The best way to find the strong notes of a scale is to be able to see the chord inside of it. That's why you'll also find the CAGED system shapes. The trick is to see G major chord (root, maj 3rd and 5th) while playing the scale. These 3 notes are the strong notes in which you'll want to stay to make this sound major. A more advanced approach is to also visualize triad shapes like in this lesson: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...ed-with-triads/ Ionian mode is what we are calling Major scale here. -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 17 2017, 02:50 PM
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QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Aug 15 2017, 05:01 PM) Hi Lester, that's a good question. The best way to find the strong notes of a scale is to be able to see the chord inside of it. That's why you'll also find the CAGED system shapes. The trick is to see G major chord (root, maj 3rd and 5th) while playing the scale. These 3 notes are the strong notes in which you'll want to stay to make this sound major. A more advanced approach is to also visualize triad shapes like in this lesson: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...ed-with-triads/ Ionian mode is what we are calling Major scale here. Sounds good! I have read about the CAGED system, but never really mastered it. I'll give it a go, thanks! 
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Aug 17 2017, 04:42 PM
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QUOTE (Lester @ Aug 17 2017, 10:50 AM) Sounds good! I have read about the CAGED system, but never really mastered it. I'll give it a go, thanks! Great! Keep me updated! -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 27 2017, 05:30 PM
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Hi Gabe!
So since I have memorized all of the previous technique lessons and am working on polishing them, I went ahead and selected a new bunch of lessons. Instead of a vibrato lesson, I chose one on the subject of trills, since I really would like to develop that and also I guess I need more time on the current vibrato lesson. I also tried to do lessons in the major scale, since I am doing the major scale in improvisation topics as well. In bends and trills I chose two Jimmi Hendrix lessons, I think that will also help me a lot in blues improvisations. Much like the bendy blues and BB's blues I did previously. And...it's cool to be able to play like Jimmi These are the lessons I picked: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/jimi_h...string_bending/ https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Hendrix-Trills/ https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...picking-thirds/ https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/legato-lesson/ https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Acoust...Hybrid-Picking/ Any thoughts or suggestions regarding these lessons? I'll try to upload a progress video on all the previous technique lessons in the coming week! |
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Aug 28 2017, 06:34 PM
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Hi Lester,
I love each of the lessons that you've picked, and I usually recommend them to students so I have to say that you've done a great research and choice. That's a lot of material so be wise organizing your time to get the most of each technique and lesson. I'll be here waiting for your updates. -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 30 2017, 10:05 PM
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QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Aug 15 2017, 05:01 PM) Hi Lester, that's a good question. The best way to find the strong notes of a scale is to be able to see the chord inside of it. That's why you'll also find the CAGED system shapes. The trick is to see G major chord (root, maj 3rd and 5th) while playing the scale. These 3 notes are the strong notes in which you'll want to stay to make this sound major. A more advanced approach is to also visualize triad shapes like in this lesson: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...ed-with-triads/ Ionian mode is what we are calling Major scale here. Hi Gabe, I've been wondering about this major soloing: In Major Blues theory, I've read that in orde to use the Major Blues scale, the scales will need to switch with each chord in the blues progression. So A7 get A major Blues, D7 gets D major blues, etc. Is this the same for the major scale over a non-blues backing track? Is that different in any way? I experimented a bit with the scale and on some backing tracks it doesn't sound good at all when I just play scale positions regardless of chords. But it could be that I am just not used to the scale yet. However, on "Moving on and getting over" by John Mayer, which I am learning right now, it sounds fine. this could be coincidence too. I'd love your input on this, these new scales are challenging
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Sep 1 2017, 05:00 PM
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Hi mate,
There are different approches to this and it's not a simple thing to explain in a paragraph. Also, it can be confusing at first so let's go slowly with this. At this point let's see Blues theory as a different thing. On the other hand, we have diatonic chord progressions wich are based and related to a major scale. In other words, these progressions are based on chords that are build from a Major scale. In this cases, you can keep the same scale along the whole progression, and it will sound good. However, some notes will sound better than others over each chord (chord notes). Please get into this: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=47852 -------------------- My lessons
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