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HEY MAN, I really need your help...
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Jan 30 2019, 03:59 PM
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It's funny because BB is known for struggling with chords
 Have you not seen that whole video before? It's great, it was the first documentary of a five week period. If you watch it all it is the history of the electric guitar. The following four weeks had concerts from Seville Expo '92, Rock Night, Metal Night, Blues Night and Jazz Night. I have them all on VHS  Have no player to watch them though  Here is my "progress" buddy, I AM BB KING https://youtu.be/SJttefB3Iu0 This post has been edited by Phil66: Jan 30 2019, 10:07 PM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE  “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Feb 1 2019, 08:02 PM
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Hi Phil!
Thanks for the video. Here I'm sharing some examples of what you should start practicing during the following week. The idea is to combine everything we've learnt recently and make some music: Dominant chords, dominant arpeggios and dominant triads. I'm basically playing the triads or chords with some kind of rhythm followed by a phrase using the arpeggio. I play two meassures on G7 and two meassures on C7, as a loop. -------------------- My lessons
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Feb 1 2019, 09:25 PM
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Wow thanks Gab,
You read my mind!!!! I was going to ask you if it was possible to put a video up of you playing the triads with quick changes because I thought my brain had convinced itself it wasn't possible as I wasn't improving. You did it and much more, thank you so much for this buddy. Tomorrow (2nd Feb) is my wife's birthday and we are away for the weekend so no practise and next weekend it is my birthday (10th Feb) and we are away that weekend too but it's all good for the spirit Now I've see what you can do with what I have, I'm inspired I was starting to wonder how it was "bluesy" but as I said, I am not rushing ahead any more, I am waiting "for all to be revealed" as we go along. Can you explain what you're doing here please?  CHORDCheers buddy, I really appreciate your help  Phil -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Feb 3 2019, 02:39 PM
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Hi Phil!!
Yes! We are going exactly in the direction that you want, but after all this time working together, I'm starting to know your times in order to incorporate concepts so this "course" is specially designed for you. I don't rush things, it doesn't make sense, however I need that you are patient and follow the tasks. If you trust in me, be sure that you'll be mastering blues. In the videos I'm showing what you can do with the concepts that you've already learnt. There can be a few extra things that I'm using because I was jamming. That's what happens exactly in the print screen that you've shared. It seems that I'm playing an extra triad that I haven't showed you yet but I'll do it as soon as you show me a video playing like me in the vids. 
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Feb 4 2019, 10:09 PM
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Thanks Gab,
I'm really struggling with tapping my foot and playing two bars of each like you are doing in the videos. For now I've had to set Reaper up like in the picture below, it's a one bar count in and then markers every two bars for a visual cue. I hope this is okay Gab, I had to do something, I was getting so frustrated. Obviously I can't use it all of the time but I am hoping that it will help me along a little.  I still can't play those full barre chords without the high E and/or the G string being muted  Here is my first recording of playing the triads and arpeggios, it's awful but hopefully it will get better in time. I tried at first to not look at the markers in Reaper but realised immediately that I came in too early. I will practise this as much as possible Gab. https://soundcloud.com/gmcphil-1/playing-triads-and-arpeggios-take-1 -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Feb 5 2019, 03:45 AM
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Hi Phil! Great to see you working like this. Here I've recorded some audios to give you inspiration on how to practice this over metronome.
Phil_sample_1.mp3 ( 2.31MB )
Number of downloads: 65
Phil_sample_2.mp3 ( 1.36MB )
Number of downloads: 67-------------------- My lessons
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Feb 5 2019, 09:58 PM
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Thanks Gab,
I really appreciate you taking the time to do that for me. Unfortunately I've had CRAZY computer issues, you know how frustrating they can be  If you want the details look HERE. All I was trying to do was make things a little quicker for me withl videos for lessons with a web cam and direct sound recording to the video, and just use my main video camera and sync the sound for collabs and REC, then I go and lose a whole load of time trying to set it up I did sort it in the end though. Anyway, I notice on the first example, the second triad is played on the offbeat in each pair of triads. I also notice that the single note lines are very simplistic making me realise I was trying too hard to play melodic things. The second example is more comlex and the triads weren't so obvious to my ears though I did notice that ALL of the triads are played on the offbeat. I played along a little bit to work out which triads are being played and discovered that they are in the same order as the first example, ie; the G7 ones first and the C7 ones second etc. Hopefully I got this right. Anyway, I need to go to my wife now. I will get back onto this tomorrow. This post has been edited by Phil66: Feb 5 2019, 10:00 PM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Feb 6 2019, 07:04 PM
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Hi Phil! You've described perfectly everything that I've played in these samples. The idea is to give you some inspiration for your practice. You don't have to play the same notes than me, but you have ideas on how to give some rhythm to the shapes that you are learning. Everything I'm playing here is part from the things that you've been learning. The triads that you couldn't detect from the second file, are basically the chord shapes but not playing all the strings.
Experiment and share a new vid as soon as you could! -------------------- My lessons
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Feb 6 2019, 10:03 PM
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Thanks Gab,
Not much time this evening but I had a good practise at a jam in the style of the first example. It does seem to be slowly coming together. What I find though is that I drift off into a meditative state and the bars/measures disappear and it's just the beats I can hear  I'll get there though Here is the English correction that you asked for "You don't have to play the same notes than me" Should be, "You don't have to play the same notes AS me". You would use "than" when you say things like, "I'd rather eat steak than tofu", "I'd rather go to Malibu than Delaware". "Everything I'm playing here is part from the things that you've been learning. Should be, either, "Everything I'm playing here is part OF the things that you've been learning", OR, "Everything I'm playing here is taken from the things that you've been learning", but the first one would be considered more correct in this case. It's always, "A part of" or "It is taken from". eg; "That is a part of that.", "That is taken from." "Experiment and share a new vid as soon as you could!", should be "Experiment and share a new vid as soon as you CAN!", You would say "could" in a sentence like, "He/I did it as soon as he/I could", or, "I/he could have done it sooner", or, "I could do it but I don't want to", I could have done it but I didn't", it can get confusing especially when you think about "would" aswell, see HERE. I hope this helps I don't have a degree in English so when you get to working with the past participle I will be lost but for general things I'm okay Especially when to use "I" and "me"
This post has been edited by Phil66: Feb 6 2019, 10:08 PM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Feb 7 2019, 09:01 PM
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heheh this is fantastic! It helps a lot!! Thanks my friend!
Everything makes sense! I promise that I'll be a good English student.
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Feb 8 2019, 09:50 PM
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QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Jan 28 2019, 01:26 PM)  I think that you'll like this musical concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_cluster That was interesting, I'd forgotten to look Gab, thanks. Away for the weekend tomorrow, video next week of the triads and arpeggios Cheers -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Feb 11 2019, 07:35 PM
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QUOTE (Phil66 @ Feb 8 2019, 05:50 PM) That was interesting, I'd forgotten to look Gab, thanks. Away for the weekend tomorrow, video next week of the triads and arpeggios Cheers Great! I'm just back home after a Cirse's nice weekend. Looking forward your video! -------------------- My lessons
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Feb 12 2019, 02:14 PM
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I'm glad you had a good weekend Gab
My birthday weekend away has killed all of my very small skill improvements with the triads and arpeggios . I'm back to square one . I still can't do the full barre chords either, I'm starting to think I have some kind of weird deformity  .I'll get a video to you as soon as I have something better than what I'm doing at the moment Cheers buddy -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Feb 12 2019, 03:43 PM
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QUOTE (Phil66 @ Feb 12 2019, 10:14 AM) I'm glad you had a good weekend Gab My birthday weekend away has killed all of my very small skill improvements with the triads and arpeggios . I'm back to square one . I still can't do the full barre chords either, I'm starting to think I have some kind of weird deformity .I'll get a video to you as soon as I have something better than what I'm doing at the moment Cheers buddy When was your birthday?? -------------------- My lessons
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Feb 12 2019, 04:32 PM
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I see you've seen Ben's thread now
It was very nice of Ben to do that video wasn't it?
-------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Feb 12 2019, 06:23 PM
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QUOTE (Phil66 @ Feb 12 2019, 12:32 PM) I see you've seen Ben's thread now It was very nice of Ben to do that video wasn't it?Very nice!
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Feb 12 2019, 09:48 PM
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It brought a tear to my wife's and my eyes.
Here is a quick video I did tonight just to get something to you. I'm really struggling with ideas and following the measures, I suppose I've never really taken notice of bars, I've only ever listened to beats so that is something else that I am a complete newbie with. I'm afraid the sound sync is out slightly, this is because I'm just using my new webcam and direct recording at the same time. This is to help me a little with workflow for normal lessons and Todd's quick licks as I don't have to sync the sound as I do with my normal camcorder https://youtu.be/_yqLa1QUiE0 Cheers Gab -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Feb 13 2019, 01:54 PM
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It's what I said to you on Facebook Ben
-------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Feb 14 2019, 03:53 PM
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QUOTE (Phil66 @ Feb 12 2019, 05:48 PM) It brought a tear to my wife's and my eyes. Here is a quick video I did tonight just to get something to you. I'm really struggling with ideas and following the measures, I suppose I've never really taken notice of bars, I've only ever listened to beats so that is something else that I am a complete newbie with. I'm afraid the sound sync is out slightly, this is because I'm just using my new webcam and direct recording at the same time. This is to help me a little with workflow for normal lessons and Todd's quick licks as I don't have to sync the sound as I do with my normal camcorder https://youtu.be/_yqLa1QUiE0 Cheers Gab Great mate!! This is exactly what you need to work! Please check my samples from time to time to get ideas on rhythm for both the triads and phrases. You can also check blues masters for that. Again, don't worry about notes or shapes when listening to other guitarists, focus on rhythm to apply it in your own improvisations. -------------------- My lessons
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