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Jun 4 2012, 04:09 PM
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QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Jun 2 2012, 09:29 AM)  Hey Travis! Sorry it took so long man  Indeed the quirky ones need a bit more speed and the vibrato is to pronounced - by this I mean that you vibrate too sudden after hitting the note  you need to let it breathe and then vibrate to sustain the sound, k?Cosmin Hey don't worry about it Cosmin, you have to what you have to do. Yeah I noticed playing with you that I was moving before you and actually put me ahead of the track a little bit. Been still jamming to get better with it I like how I'm progressing overall. I may not be king of copying bends but I notice it a lot in music where before I never realized it was even there. I've also been trying to do my own little backings and adding stuff over it with a groove, that way I can use vibrato/bending for my own personal playing/touch. http://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey/song-1-real-amp I've worked on that the last 2 days. The first one I was all proud of it, went to bed, gave the ears a break and listened to it this morning. Wow, you'd have killed me, my timing was so horrible on it. So I redid it this morning with the mesa, took my solo out since I'm not sure what key it is in, thanks to never really trying to write my own stuff. But I think I can use E minor pentatonic for it, but that seems like everyone's goto key, is there anything slightly similar to it but a different key and voicings that would fit it better? I want to think outside of the box... Wow pun not intended there. 
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Jun 4 2012, 06:16 PM
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So after I worked on my song, I sat back listened to some of my past Cosmin Voice lessons and seen a whole new world of errors on my playing. The entire you need to let it breathe, well I did that, I took a few breaths myself so maybe I wasn't so tense in playing it. I tend to talk myself through it in my head. This time I just said screw the helping track, playing with your lesson, and just went at it and played more of a feeling not a copy.
I think it turned out better, some bends are out of tune, I re-tracked it and corrected a few but still a few errors in there. But I don't hear the cut off notes where I hit stop, hit bend, stop. To me it feels less robotic than when I started. I like this take just because after all that hard work I hear my own change in playing thanks to your coaching. http://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey-practice/cosmin-voice-10 Love the John Mayer lesson besides the whole backtrack is more than solo work. I enjoyed being able to sit in for one of your lessons as well. The whole classical part was fun. Seems quite out of my reach but looks to be of a great practice due to the string skipping and massive techniques used in a single passage but as you said, its more fun to use something you can see placed with music than just working down a scale. Edit: I forgot to put the link in! This post has been edited by SpaseMoonkey: Jun 4 2012, 06:17 PM -------------------- Guitars:
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Cosmin Lupu Spasemoonkey's Preparation Frenzy Mar 21 2012, 10:53 AM
SpaseMoonkey Hellos Cosmin!
Lets see a little bit about ea... Mar 21 2012, 01:25 PM
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SpaseMoonkey I think this is rather nice, even used software f... Mar 27 2012, 11:48 PM Cosmin Lupu QUOTE (SpaseMoonkey @ Mar 27 2012, 10:48 ... Mar 28 2012, 02:35 PM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Mar 28 2012, 09:35 A... Mar 28 2012, 03:40 PM
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Cosmin Lupu hey man! i think practice will solve this one ... Mar 29 2012, 12:56 AM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Mar 28 2012, 07:56 P... Mar 30 2012, 03:40 AM Cosmin Lupu Hey man! the change is obvious and it's o... Mar 31 2012, 05:53 PM
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SpaseMoonkey http://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey/bens-legato-01-... Apr 2 2012, 12:50 AM Cosmin Lupu QUOTE (SpaseMoonkey @ Apr 1 2012, 11:50 P... Apr 2 2012, 09:20 AM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Apr 2 2012, 04:20 AM... Apr 2 2012, 12:31 PM
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SpaseMoonkey http://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey/bens-legato-01-... Apr 2 2012, 05:29 PM Cosmin Lupu QUOTE (SpaseMoonkey @ Apr 2 2012, 04:29 P... Apr 2 2012, 06:07 PM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Apr 2 2012, 01:07 PM... Apr 2 2012, 06:33 PM Cosmin Lupu QUOTE (SpaseMoonkey @ Apr 2 2012, 05:33 P... Apr 2 2012, 07:59 PM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Apr 2 2012, 02:59 PM... Apr 3 2012, 09:32 PM
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SpaseMoonkey Took a few days break from intense lesson working,... Apr 7 2012, 12:43 AM Cosmin Lupu Ahoy there mate! Sounds like a very good plan ... Apr 7 2012, 07:51 AM
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SpaseMoonkey Lets see where this sits, cut down movement and a... Apr 7 2012, 05:12 PM Cosmin Lupu Hey Travis! Getting better, but still, there a... Apr 9 2012, 09:45 AM SpaseMoonkey http://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey/bens-vibrato
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Cosmin Lupu Hey there mate! You're close just a bit m... Apr 11 2012, 10:31 AM SpaseMoonkey http://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey/bens-vibrato-02... Apr 13 2012, 03:21 PM
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Cosmin Lupu hey Travis! We are definitely making progress ... Apr 14 2012, 11:53 AM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Apr 14 2012, 06:53 A... Apr 16 2012, 06:50 PM
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Cosmin Lupu Wow maaan! what a cool piece of music the la... Apr 17 2012, 06:59 PM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Apr 17 2012, 01:59 P... Apr 17 2012, 09:05 PM
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Cosmin Lupu wrist mate! That's the secret Apr 17 2012, 09:09 PM SpaseMoonkey I have not been ignoring this task tho it has been... Apr 20 2012, 11:32 PM Cosmin Lupu QUOTE (SpaseMoonkey @ Apr 20 2012, 10:32 ... Apr 21 2012, 11:50 AM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Apr 21 2012, 06:50 A... Apr 21 2012, 11:05 PM Cosmin Lupu QUOTE (SpaseMoonkey @ Apr 21 2012, 10:05 ... Apr 22 2012, 03:08 PM
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SpaseMoonkey http://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey/bens-vibrato-02... Apr 28 2012, 12:11 AM Cosmin Lupu Hey man! Sounds like improvement to me! No... Apr 28 2012, 11:04 AM SpaseMoonkey Why does work have to get in the way.
Lots of... Apr 28 2012, 11:17 AM Cosmin Lupu Hehe I am curious to see what you got!
Cosmi... Apr 28 2012, 05:53 PM SpaseMoonkey Ha didn't even take me as long as I thought, ... Apr 29 2012, 02:19 AM Cosmin Lupu Hey Travis! This is not bad at all - you skipp... Apr 29 2012, 10:22 AM SpaseMoonkey I listened to it after I posted all I can do is la... Apr 29 2012, 02:26 PM Cosmin Lupu Travis, you're slowly getting there man This ... Apr 30 2012, 08:15 PM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Apr 30 2012, 03:15 P... Apr 30 2012, 08:43 PM
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SpaseMoonkey I played until my fingers hurt from pushing and be... May 1 2012, 02:38 AM Cosmin Lupu Hehehe my friend - there are a couple of spots wh... May 1 2012, 07:32 AM
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SpaseMoonkey Take 4! My attempt before heading out to the ... May 1 2012, 02:21 PM Cosmin Lupu Travis, you're gettin better man now the note... May 2 2012, 03:00 PM SpaseMoonkey I have to do some grocery shopping here now, but ... May 2 2012, 03:40 PM Cosmin Lupu Travis! I am glad that you are discovering you... May 4 2012, 09:09 AM SpaseMoonkey http://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey/cosmin-voice-05... May 4 2012, 11:48 PM Cosmin Lupu Hey Travis! Well, on the first recording you a... May 5 2012, 06:30 PM SpaseMoonkey Posting a reply before I buckle down into some pra... May 6 2012, 02:34 AM
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Cosmin Lupu If you an feel your progress, that's great... May 6 2012, 12:11 PM SpaseMoonkey http://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey/cosmin-voice-06... May 6 2012, 01:32 PM Cosmin Lupu Travis, let's try the following - the triplet ... May 7 2012, 08:00 AM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ May 7 2012, 03:00 AM... May 7 2012, 12:33 PM
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SpaseMoonkey http://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey/cosmin-voice-07... May 7 2012, 05:59 PM Cosmin Lupu this one is definitely the best one so far! It... May 8 2012, 03:31 PM SpaseMoonkey If you feel that's best then go for it, anyth... May 8 2012, 03:40 PM Cosmin Lupu Great man! This one will be pretty different, ... May 8 2012, 04:28 PM SpaseMoonkey Muwahahaha! I was pretty fast on this one.. ... May 8 2012, 05:47 PM Cosmin Lupu Why not man? I liked it the tone you got is very ... May 9 2012, 10:24 AM SpaseMoonkey Wow this has been a crazy month. Diablo 3 kinda ki... May 22 2012, 01:36 PM Cosmin Lupu Hey Travis!
your words honor me mate thank ... May 23 2012, 09:03 AM SpaseMoonkey Yeah Diablo 3 has taken over but I've backed d... May 23 2012, 05:47 PM
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Cosmin Lupu Hey Travis
I can feel you have let those lessons... May 24 2012, 07:27 AM SpaseMoonkey Was at work thinking of what you said with the wid... May 24 2012, 10:10 PM
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SpaseMoonkey So I did around 2 hours my fingers have string ind... May 25 2012, 12:08 AM Cosmin Lupu Hey Travis! Glad to know you realized the pote... May 25 2012, 03:45 PM SpaseMoonkey I knew I was right! I asked my friend who has... May 25 2012, 09:43 PM Cosmin Lupu QUOTE (SpaseMoonkey @ May 25 2012, 08:43 ... May 26 2012, 09:04 AM
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SpaseMoonkey http://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey-practice/cosmin... May 28 2012, 05:37 PM
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Cosmin Lupu Hey Travis! Let me say that this is BY FAR wit... Jun 4 2012, 06:43 PM SpaseMoonkey I called it! I seen you post this was like gr... Jun 5 2012, 04:05 PM Cosmin Lupu You just stole a smile man it's the PERFECT w... Jun 5 2012, 07:54 PM SpaseMoonkey Alright, still struggling a bit on the finger pic... Jun 8 2012, 11:22 PM
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Cosmin Lupu No problemmo mate thanks for filling me in on the... Jun 9 2012, 02:46 PM SpaseMoonkey Giving an much needed update. Replaced every sing... Dec 5 2012, 12:38 AM Cosmin Lupu Hey maaan! Welcome back! Glad to see you ... Dec 5 2012, 10:35 AM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Dec 5 2012, 04:35 AM... Dec 5 2012, 03:37 PM
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Cosmin Lupu Wow Mate, it looks like your journey into finding... Dec 6 2012, 09:42 AM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Dec 6 2012, 03:42 AM... Dec 6 2012, 12:13 PM
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SpaseMoonkey Round 1!
I need to learn to mute my strings ... Dec 6 2012, 04:11 PM Cosmin Lupu Hey mate! Glad you started out strongly! I... Dec 7 2012, 09:31 AM SpaseMoonkey https://soundcloud.com/spasemoonkey/lian-01-sweeps... Dec 9 2012, 09:18 PM Cosmin Lupu QUOTE (SpaseMoonkey @ Dec 9 2012, 08:18 P... Dec 10 2012, 08:58 AM SpaseMoonkey QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Dec 10 2012, 02:58 A... Dec 10 2012, 07:12 PM
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SpaseMoonkey As brutal and high gain as you asked for! ... Dec 10 2012, 08:19 PM Cosmin Lupu Not bad mate, but you have to keep in mind that yo... Dec 11 2012, 08:55 AM
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