The Soulful Ballad Collab, Instructors/Students Video Collaboration Options

[Cosmin Lupu]

Hey guys! Time to explore our sensitive side with a Soulful Ballad Collab! As you may have guessed, we are aiming for sweet melodies which should flow over the different parts you will choose to solo over. The backing is friendly and it will most likely inspire you to come up with tasty lines, so let's take a look over the collab details and then get to work!

Working and participating in collabs will give you the type of input you cannot achieve when practicing on your own - so even if you feel shy about this, you should give it a serious try. You will improve in unpredictable ways for certain!

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BACKING TRACKS:

Intro:  The_Soulful_Ballad_Collab_Backing___Intro.mp3 ( 737.12K ) Number of downloads: 359


Verse:  The_Soulful_Ballad_Collab_Backing___Verse.mp3 ( 1.24MB ) Number of downloads: 302


Chorus:  The_Soulful_Ballad_Collab_Backing___Chorus.mp3 ( 1.83MB ) Number of downloads: 258


Verse+Chorus:  The_Soulful_Ballad_Collab_Backing___Verse___Chorus.mp3 ( 2.84MB ) Number of downloads: 344

This collab is based on Jonathan Burgos' 'The Tasty Etude' lesson, which you can find here as a reference: The Tasty Etude

Tempo: 70 BPM

Key: C major

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Here's everything you need to know about how to enter this collaboration:

1. Download the backing track and open it in your recording software
2. Record your part in the recording software and with your video cam (if you have the possibility to record video).
You can record anything - a short fill part, rhythm based ideas, or a full lead part (solo).
3. Render one track containing your recording only - 16 bit wave file 44,1 kHz
4. Render one track containing both solo and backing track in an .mp3 format
5. Send us your video (preferably in .mp4 format)

As always, you can send us the last 3 files mentioned, using a dropbox link, or any other transfer service you are used to, by posting them in this thread or attaching them to a private message.

If you can't submit a video, you can send us only the audio files and some pictures of you - it will work out great as well!
The more pictures you send, the better will it be for editing in the final video!

When attaching/sending the collab files, please include the source file of the video as well.

Very important: IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE A BEGINNER/ ADVANCED/ PRO/ GOD - all styles, approaches and all levels are welcome and you can even play just a short fill if you feel like it!

Bringing your contribution to this track and tribute to the GMC community is what really matters!

Collab tips:

As in the previous collabs, we want this one to stand out as much as possible, because this will give your playing and progress maximum exposure. So here's what we suggest:

Making short but polished and detailed lines will always give you better results! If you focus on a short part of the backing track, then you will most likely amaze yourself and others! No explicit need to play over the full backing track length, so just pick up any amount of bars you feel most comfortable playing over, as it's always better to come up with something short but catchy or memorable!

Check out these lessons for inspiration:

The Tasty Etude 2 - a lot of phrasing inspiration and articulation elements which will be invaluable in this context

The Voice of Your Guitar 1 - based on articulation control, this one will show you how to gain absolute control over your bends and vibrato

The Voice of Your Guitar 2

Scales you could use:

C major (Ionian)



Chord progressions:

Intro : C –F –C –F –G

Verse : C –G –Am - G – F (x2)

Chorus : Dm – Em - F - G - Am – G - F - Am –G –Am/F# - F

Advanced tips:

If you guys want to dive a bit deeper into the possibilities offered by the chord progressions, you could try the D Dorian mode over the Chorus progression and you can also throw in an F# over the Am/F#. Also, the A minor pentatonic and A minor blues modes will work fine over the Am-G-F-Am sequence, for instance.

These are just tips, so experiment having these directions in mind, as I am sure you will discover a lot of interesting possibilities!

Remember - the only thing we require is that you participate and be yourself - there are no rules, and no limits!
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Deadline: October 9th

Participants: Cosmin Lupu, Gabriel Leopardi, Rhida, Monica Gheorghevici, bleez, Jeroen, Sensible Jones, Huargo, Caelumamittendum, Deleted, SirJamsalot, Kristofer Dahl

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This post has been edited by Bogdan Radovic: Oct 27 2014, 06:21 PM