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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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Jun 29 2017, 03:51 PM
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Hi mate!! This stuff is very interesting. I'll save the video for watching later. I always think that days should be longer because there are lots of amazing things to learn / do. That's why I don't really understand that people that says "I'm bored".
 About the guitar voicing question. I wonder if you've ever studied drop 2 and drop 3 voicings. If not, there you'll start finding your answer. We have many lessons about it at GMC. -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 13 2017, 08:56 PM
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Gab, so the soloing over chords started to get a bit boring, and I was playing guitar less and less so I decided to change things up. I played a few easy lessons and jammed over some backing tracks for a while. I mentioned in another thread, how I wanted to write music, but I feel like I just don't know how. I was hoping you could help, maybe guide me through the process with small assignments to help me a finish a single track. Just so I could see how it's done... I tried to sit down and force myself to write something today, and got about as far as I usually do, 4 bars and a drum loop and now I'm stuck. I'm not sure what to do next, I was trying to make something Pink Floyd-like. The piano patch is just the default for the synth I was using. I like the chords, but am not sure what to do next. Do you think we can work on this somehow? Can you teach me how to do this?
http://soundcloud.com/pragmapack/chords/s-Zj46P This post has been edited by yoncopin: Aug 13 2017, 08:58 PM --------------------  |
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Aug 15 2017, 05:03 PM
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Hi mate, here I am!
I would really like to help you. I have a teaching method that is similar to develop your own licks and phrasing, but applied to a whole song. It's not how you'd compose your own album, but it's the best way I know to train our composing skills and to incorporate the vocabulary learnt by analyzing our favorite songs. What do you say? -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 15 2017, 05:21 PM
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Well, at first the secret is to not stop, not think too much. Be confident and focus on one goal: finish the song.
You'll start writing down the structure of a song that you like and that will be your structure for the song. You don't have to think on what's next, you have it there. Now that you have the structure, it's time to write midi drums. You can take the groove of any other song that you like and write it down. At this point you don't have chords or riffs so it can be simple, and then you adapt it. You don't need to have a 3 minutes drum track yet, it's ok if you have 1 minute (intro, verse, pre chorus, chorus) to start working on other stuff. So, that's the first assignment. I'll wait for the structure in words, and drums in a one minute track. Deal? -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 15 2017, 09:48 PM
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Ok, done. I chose to model my song after Velvet Revolver's Slither
The parts break down to this: intro riff verse chorus riff verse chorus bridge/solo riff chorus riff and here is my drum track to match the song. https://soundcloud.com/pragmapack/drums1 -------------------- |
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Aug 16 2017, 04:33 PM
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Hi mate, is the track working for you? I don't know why but it doens't play in my computer. Please upload a mp3 file here.
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Aug 16 2017, 04:41 PM
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Hmmm, maybe I can see it because I'm logged into Soundcloud... dunno here's the file
drums1.mp3 ( 5.53MB )
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Aug 17 2017, 04:11 PM
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Excellent! It's time to start building some chord progressions and riffs. The idea is to get a cool riff now but first you need some inspiration. Learn a few cool riffs from other bands than Velvet Revolver. Go for Audioslave, STP, Black Stone Cherry, Alice In Chains. Learn 2 from each and write down the scale used for each.
Then, jam over your drum track creating variations of the riffs. Try things like this: - Divide the riff in 2, and see keeping one part and changing the other. - Play one of the riffs but with the rhythm of other riff learnt. - Took one riff made with Minor Scale and transpose it to pentatonic. - Transpose a riff, and change the rhythm. Share here the cooler ideas that you get. -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 18 2017, 02:36 AM
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I listened to a few Audioslave and Alice in Chains songs and learned a couple riffs from them. There were a lot of songs in the key of Em, so I went with that because then you can use the open strings. So, here's tonight's riffs kinda merging those two bands into one. What do you think?
riffs.mp3 ( 426.94K )
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Aug 18 2017, 03:40 PM
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Hi mate! Well done! Can we have at least 5 possible riffs to choose?
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Aug 19 2017, 01:54 AM
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Yes, I'll keep them coming. Here's tonight's Riff #2 For this one I tried Drop D tuning
riff2.mp3 ( 480K )
Number of downloads: 63This post has been edited by yoncopin: Aug 19 2017, 01:55 AM -------------------- |
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Aug 21 2017, 04:19 AM
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That's really cool! Keep the riff coming until you reach #5.
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Aug 23 2017, 06:57 PM
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It's tough to come up with all these ideas... but here they are riff 3,4 & 5. Some of the later ones I don't think are the best, but I decided I was thinking about it too hard and that was slowing down the creativity, so I just banged them out.
riff3.mp3 ( 200.41K )
Number of downloads: 55
riff4.mp3 ( 267.35K )
Number of downloads: 64
riff5.mp3 ( 373.47K )
Number of downloads: 59This post has been edited by yoncopin: Aug 23 2017, 07:17 PM -------------------- |
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Aug 24 2017, 04:37 PM
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Hey mate! This is getting better and better!
My favorite riff is number 4, and number 5 is also interesting. However, you can go for your favorite from the 5 that you've composed. I even think that both 4 and 5 could be part of the same song. The, we'll see. The next step is to compose the stuff aroung the riff, so now you have to get back to the first inspiration, Velvet Revolver song. Analyze how the other sections are related to the main riff: - What's the relationship between the main riff and the verse? - What's the relationship between the main riff and the pre-chorus? - What's the relationship between the main riff and the chorus? Ideas of answers: Is the verse and variation of the main riff? Is it the same riff but muted? Is it anything else? How long is the pre-chorus if there is one? What's the relation between the last chord of the verse and the pre-chorus? Do the drums keep the same groove? The same with the chorus... relattion between last chord from the pre-chorus and the first from the chorus. Chorus structure: how many chords? how many measures? How many chords per measure? I think that you can do this analisis with the original song, but also with some other songs of the same type. Write down all the answers and conclusions. -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 28 2017, 03:15 PM
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Ok great, I'm on it. Sorry for the slow response, I was having a beach weekend with the family.
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Aug 28 2017, 06:41 PM
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Ok! Enjoy your vacation!
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