QUOTE (AK Rich @ Oct 16 2011, 09:17 PM)
One thing that to me seems essential in learning Paul Gilberts style is getting down your blues scales harmonized 3 notes per per string, there are some big stretches there but well worth the effort
like Gitarrero mentioned a Paul Gilbert instructional video would be a great place to start.
Been watching alot of hes instructional videos, and building my own opinion and using certain licks for exercises, tried alot of them out, and been figuring out which one works best in my opinion, etc
QUOTE (Amir Razmara @ Oct 17 2011, 05:06 AM)
I think ,if done right, studying someone such as Paul Gilbert would increase your musical appreciation and help develop your guitar skills . It is always good to have certain Aims and expectations before devoting your self to such endeavor. It is also good that you are trying to analyze your aims and asking others for advice. I would suggest you look in his repertoire and find material that are not too far reaching in terms of your currant abilities and start from there. And always be honest with your self and ask your self "how can I develop my own style" from these things I am learning.
Amir Razmara
Yeah, I kind of want to be at a certain level before I start focusing on creating my own songs, since if I can't play fast like Paul Gilbert, I have alot less options, since I love all of those fast stuff
, currently I am just looking thru alot of the Racer X songs, and trying to figure out which one seems "easist" to learn
QUOTE (maharzan @ Oct 17 2011, 12:21 PM)
While the DVDs are helpful (doing a solo for 3 months straight is going to be very boring so refreshing yourself is important), if you start learning the licks from the song right away, you already learn so much stuff. Learn to tame your fingers, timing, sync, right hand picking, oh so many things. You don't have to actually do all the DVD and then learn the solo. It can be the reverse.
BTW, if you can start a thread when you start practicing and write up a "blog" like updates now and then, it would be really great for everyone of us to see your progress.
Well, as I said I wont start out with Scarified
, currently I will some exercises every day, and when it is around the 120 bpm (16th triplets), I can start learning all of the stuff like Technical Difficulties, since then I have the speed for it, meanwhile I want to learn some of the songs, maybe just the rhythm part, and also try and find a song that I have the current speed for
, and no I wont do a whole DVD, I got alot of hes DVDs, almost all, and then I build my own opinion from what he says, and I only pick out a few of hes exercises, that I think is really awesome, since in the Intese Rock DVD, he names around 10 different AP patterns, and I only went with one, since that one I find most useful!
, then I also got another one that I got from hes Get Out Of My Yard instructional DVD, but oh well
I'll think about the blog thing, are you thinking of a weekly or monthly update, of my repetoire progress, and how my exercises are going, etc?
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