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[UncleSkillet]

BACKGROUND

My name is Jeff and I am 41 years young. I am pretty much self taught and learned everything I know now by ear from either learning a cover tune, or it has rubbed off on me just by being around so many other great guitar players. There were about 6 years of my life when I was in my twenties where I really tried to practice a lot and take things more serious. I could never really afford lessons but looking back on everything it might have been cheaper than all the tape players I went through.. I am very excited to have you as my mentor and can’t wait to see how my playing will progress with your help. Finally lessons I can afford! Thanks GMC!..

CURRENT STATUS

I feel like I have a good since of rhythm and can hear a piece of music and come up with ideas in my head for melodies and guitar licks. The problem is I can’t always play the ideas that I’m thinking of in my head. My vibrato is OK I think mostly. I just need to relax and make it smoother and consistent. Bending a note to pitch isn’t a problem either. I can AP, sweep and play legato style but not as fast as I would like.

THEORY

Well here probably lies my biggest challenge. Being self-taught I really don’t know that much. I know how to link together boxes and shapes if that makes since. For example once I find one pentatonic box that fits I know where the other 4 boxes are and how to move to them. Same thing with the minor scale shapes. If I find one shape or scale then I know where to go from there. I really want to understand the modes and how to use them for making my solo’s more interesting. There is a great opportunity for improvement in this area.

CURRENT ROUTINE

I have only been able to practice once a week. Usually on the weekend I get one day where I can devote 4hrs give or take. Once I get warmed up I’ll either work on a collab or find a backing track to have some fun with. I haven’t had access to the lessons since October of last year so I’m not working on any of the lessons currently. However now I have renewed my membership so this will no longer be an issue. I will be devoting more practice time to this program and adding a few more days. I am still working out the details with my wife. Maybe you can give her a call like you did Monte’s and explain how important this is.

OVERALL GOAL

I want to be a more well rounded player and be able to compose or improv something like one of my favorite players which is Joe Satriani. I would also like to work towards being a GMC Instructor. This would really mean a lot. So I will also need your help with how to put together lessons, videos and syncing the audio at some point so things will be professional.


I can’t show you any videos accept the one I made to enter this competition with. I don’t have a web cam or camcorder at this point but I am working on it. If things go well I am hoping to at least purchase a good web cam in the near future. I have done quit a few collaborations so if you haven’t already listened to them I can point some of them out so you may get an idea of where I’m at with my playing. Recently (a few weeks ago) I participated in Emir’s Rock Ballad. I think he may be able to help you understand where I am at with my current playing.

If you have any other questions, please let me know.

Thanks Muris. I appreciate your time and will do whatever it takes to get the job done.

Jeff

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This post has been edited by Muris Varajic: Oct 23 2009, 04:34 PM