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...the thing is, I need you to start progressing faster then ever, but to achieve that I need your help:
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Aug 2 2016, 07:19 PM |
Hi sidthekid! Welcome to your mentoring thread.
Before we start, I'd like to know a bit more about you. - How many time have you been playing guitar? - Favorite guitarists, bands and musicians. - What are your guitar goals? - How would you like to you see yourself in 5 years (related to music and guitar)? - How many time can you play guitar each day? - Do you have playing live experience? - Which are your strong and weak points with guitar? - What do you know about music theory? - Can you record videos of you playing? - Share here audios and videos that reflect your current playing. -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 5 2016, 01:58 PM |
Hi mate, thanks for the info. Based on your goals and videos, this is what I suggest as the first assignment.
ASSIGNMENT #1: Goals: - Blues phrasing development. - Polishing your bending technique. TASK 1: - Learn this lesson: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/BB-King-Blues/ - Improvise over the backing track of this lesson trying to create your own variations. TASK 2: - Read and play the examples of this section: "1. Blues Scale Theory and Application" from the Blues Theory Guide. Exam and deadline: By August 16th you'll have to share 3 videos: - A video playing BB King lesson (3 coins) - A second video improvising over the lesson's backing using B pentatonic minor (3 coins) - A video playing the scales and examples from the Blues Scale Guitar part 1 (4 coins) Each of this videos will be evaluated (check the coins value below). You need to get at least 7 coins to pass. If you pass, we can continue, if you don't you will have a second "call" that would be the last one. This post has been edited by Gabriel Leopardi: Aug 5 2016, 01:59 PM -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 9 2016, 07:34 PM |
Hi mate! Great to find your first videos here!!
It's also really cool to know that deadlines are working. Having specific guitar plans and dates to finish them is the way to go if you want to see notorious progress in your playing. The videos are on the right track. As you've commented, the BB king lesson has some timing issues that need to receive some special attention and there is also some work to do with bending, a bit vibrato, and finally dynamics. It seems to be a lot of stuff but don't worry, focus on 1 element at a time, if you adjust timing and the bends pitch, this lesson can be considered passed with a high grade. The improvisation is a good first step too. The phrases need to be more defined. Try to get inspiration by the structure of the original solo to create your improvisation. -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 16 2016, 08:58 PM |
Hi friends! Congrats on your great job!!
You've been working very hard on all these lessons. I'll give you 5 extra days to: - Polish the bends on BB king lesson. The pitches are not precise. - Adjust timing on the blues lessons (pentatonic minor, major and blues sclae lesson). - Share a free improvisation over the BB king lesson. You don't need to pre compose it, and you can use licks from the original lesson and variations of them. Ok? -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 16 2016, 09:22 PM
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Thanks Gabriel! Ok, I'll make the bends better, the vibrato too, by practising with the original. I'll try and post 3 vids soon, thanks for the feedback!
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Aug 19 2016, 03:08 PM |
Hi mate! Well done!!
Based on your submits these are your results: TASK 1: 2 + 3 coins TASK 2: 4 coins TOTAL: 9/10 coins. Everything is a lot better on this new takes! You did an amazing job man! We are ready to move forward and start with the next assignment. What are your thoughts about this first days of practice? Anything to share about the experience? This post has been edited by Gabriel Leopardi: Aug 19 2016, 03:10 PM -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 21 2016, 12:53 AM |
ASSIGNMENT #2:
Goals: - Blues phrasing development II - Polishing your vibrato technique. TASK 1: - Learn this lesson: hhttps://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Blues-Vibrato-SRV-Style-Solo/ - Improvise over the backing track of this lesson trying to create your own variations. TASK 2: - Read and play the examples of this section: "2. Blues Arpeggio and Chord Theory " from the Blues Theory Guide. Exam and deadline: By August 30th you'll have to share 3 videos: - A video playing SRV (3 coins) - A second video improvising over the lesson's backing using E blues scale (3 coins) - A video playing the scales and examples from the Blues Arpeggio and Chord Theory (4 coins) Each of this videos will be evaluated (check the coins value below). You need to get at least 7 coins to pass. If you pass, we can continue, if you don't you will have a second "call" that would be the last one. This post has been edited by Gabriel Leopardi: Aug 21 2016, 12:54 AM -------------------- My lessons
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Aug 30 2016, 11:38 PM |
Hi mate, good job!!
The two videos can be considered passed for the assignment. I also think that the main thing to improve in both of them is your vibrato technique. You need to try to do it more from your wrist, in order to get a wider and more consistent technique. The best would be to dedicate some time to play only vibrato over the backing track, focusing on your left hand movement. Your improvisation is ok! It's lacking some structure but I can start visualising some phrases there, so you are on the right track man. I'll give you two more days to finish the blues theory work, and to work on vibrato, but you don't have to provide new videos of the lesson and improv. Keep on rocking! -------------------- My lessons
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Sep 3 2016, 03:19 PM |
Hi mate! Great job!
Well, let's talk about the scales learnt. You've learnt these scales: Pentatonic Major Pentatonic Minor Blues Scale Dominant Arpeggios These are the roots to play blues, and as blues is the root of many other styles like rock, jazz, reggae and funk, that knowledge will be really useful. I think that you know that you'll use pentatonic scales very often but let's talk about the dominant arpeggios. When talking about blues with major chords, we can say that the 3 chords from the 12 bars blues progression are dominant, so you could solo over a blues backing, following the chords with each of the arpeggios. Blues masters usually combine this arpeggios with Pentatonic and blues scale. They take the arpeggio to connect their phrasing with the chords. Another blues soloing approach which has some relationship to the previous technique is to mix Major and Minor Pentatonics. This is very used, but being able to visualise the arpeggios will help you even with this approach. In other styles, you'll be able to use dominant arpeggio every time you find a dominant chord in a progression (which is the V chord of a major tonality), and also over Mixolydian progressions in which the I chord is dominant. This info can seem to be too much, or too advanced but don't worry, you'll slowly start to understand this info. By know try to experiment over this backing tracks: ASSIGNMENT #3: Goals: - 12 bars blues - Mixing Pentatonics - Dominant arpeggios TASK 1: - Learn this lesson: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/12_bar...es_progression/ - Improvise over the backing track of this lesson trying to create your own variations. TASK 2: - Practice dominant arpeggio, G major and minor pentatonics over this backing track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVapYwZkWRg Exam and deadline: By September 14th you'll have to share 3 videos: - A video playing the lesson (3 coins) - A second video improvising over the lesson's backing (3 coins) - A video improvising over the Funky backing track (4 coins) Each of this videos will be evaluated (check the coins value below). You need to get at least 7 coins to pass. If you pass, we can continue, if you don't you will have a second "call" that would be the last one. -------------------- My lessons
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Sep 8 2016, 01:51 PM |
Hi mate!
It's really cool to see how, the deeper you get into blues, the trickier it seems and the more tools you have to solo over the same progression. There are different ways to see the same things. The answer is in the masters. The best is to analyse what the biggest blues players play/played over each of the chords. Check SRV, Muddy Waters, BB King, Hendrix and analyse how they use all this tools over a progression. Besides this, experiment by yourself following this two principles: - All the notes in between the blues scale can be used as passing notes if you do it wisely, with a clear direction and start and end on chord tones. - Which are chord tones? The notes from the chord, so in the case of the dominant progression, the chord tones are also the notes that build each arpeggio. - Major scale usually sounds good over some chords and over others not. Try it by yourself and write down your conclusion. - About following the chords from the dominant progression with the dominant arpeggio of each, yes, that will work, but if will sound more interesting if you find the way to stay on blues scale and suggest the arpeggios. I mean, imagine that you have a fader that lets you mix both tools. Don't switch, move this fader from one to the other... mixing it... I hope that it makes sense. If not check this video that applyes the same princpile mixing modes with pentatonics: https://youtu.be/OkaqfgSqtHg -------------------- My lessons
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Sep 14 2016, 07:30 PM
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Hi Gabriel! I'm back with the vids!
So here's the original lesson. I really enjoyed playing the bends, timing and structure. And an improvisation over its backing track Here's the jam video in G major/minor. Its 5 minutes long, so long I played almost all of my usual licks, ran out of steam in the middle, this is basically where I'm at with improvising. I used the minor pentatonic mostly, and also the hybrid major/minor, limited to 2-3 positions mostly. Tried adding the arpeggio scale at the end, it's all very haphazard and random Guess I haven't integrated much till now from the BB King or SRV lesson. SRV is now my new favorite guitar player though \m/ QUOTE I mean, imagine that you have a fader that lets you mix both tools. Don't switch, move this fader from one to the other... mixing it... I hope that it makes sense. If not check this video that applyes the same principle mixing modes with pentatonics: https://youtu.be/OkaqfgSqtHg Watched the video, got an idea of what you're saying about mixing, the hybrid major/minor pentatonic is used by Slash alot right? QUOTE - Major scale usually sounds good over some chords and over others not. Try it by yourself and write down your conclusion. - Which are chord tones? The notes from the chord, so in the case of the dominant progression, the chord tones are also the notes that build each arpeggio. I couldn't get started on matching the major scales to chords, and couldn't figure out how to use chord tones either, this stuff seems important, can you recommend some videos/exercises for that? |
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Sep 15 2016, 03:19 PM |
Hi friend! Great to find your new videos!!
Based on your submits these are your results: TASK 1: 2 + 3 coins TASK 2: 3 coins TOTAL: 9/10 coins. There is off course a lot of work to do but this videos show that you are on the right track, and that you have been working really hard! I'd like to recommend you again to watch as many blues masters improvising as you can. The more you listen, the more you practice jamming and the more licks you learn, the better your improvisation will become. About mixing pentatonics, don't worry about it. Give time to get used to the concepts learnt during the current assignment, and keep on practising them. We'll cover everything along the assignments. -------------------- My lessons
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