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Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi May 20 2012, 09:18 PM

Hi Vulpine!! Welcome to your http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=43110&st=20 thread!!

Could you please tell me a bit about you, your musical tastes, influences, strengths and weaknesses? I would need some videos of you playing rhythm and solo guitar, so please post your best material here. If you have some music or ideas of your own, also post them here. Also let me know how you think that I can help you and what are your expectations for our job. You can check the other Army's thread to discover the different modalities of this project.


The principles of our Army are:

+ Improve your technique
+ Make music and solos
+ Have fun
+ Destroy the enemy (hahaha not realy just kidding... )

Posted by: Vulpine May 25 2012, 03:45 AM

info about my self - HI My real Name is Kevin Ive been playing Guitar for about 2years 3months im 22 now , i play alot of video games when i have the time and I really have a passion for music, wasnt until later after I had picked up a guitar that I Discovered my dad played the piano and my grandfather played the guitar and I thought that was completely coincidence that I picked it up because up until i was 16-17ish a thought of playing a guitar never crossed my mind until I started playing guitar hero lol (sounds silly I know) long story short I heard the song ""Soothsayer" by Buckethead and I was like wow , what if i could play that song for real

" Musical taste" I listen to alot of instrumental rock,blues,post rock, Ambient music .

"Influences" - to sum it up Buckethead and Joe Satriani (Big big fan of BUCKETHEAD) i do like other artist's such as andy james andy timmons and guthrie govan but the biggest influences i always go back to buckethead who's my biggest and joe satriani(when he plays lydian). So between BH and JS I would like to develop my own music personallity with elements of both artist's (Buckethead - nottingham lace) and (Joe Satriani - Time ) lol

my strengths - I've been complimented alot on my rhythm I think I might have good rhythm, and I feel at my point in playing I can play or achieve something within my reach of course with practice i feel i can play almost anything . of course there are songs that are completely beyond me like shredding (which I would like to learn more of )


My weakness - the ability to play clean when im playing with distortion or alot of gain, atm I rely on a mixture of a hair bow on my guitar a, turning my volume knob on the guitar down alittle and raising the noise gate on my amp. would love to get better at playing clean.

I have a youtube channel "markway16" here are some links
rock metal
I link a video of my playing

Improvising rock/solo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL9f7Pm6BVY&feature=g-upl

Improvising blues solo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_hD2Pa4SGw&feature=autoplay&list=ULTJ3euRjFUhI&playnext=3

this video i play alittle rhythm n lead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ3euRjFUhI&feature=autoplay&list=ULOPnbKHVMQkc&playnext=1

and this last link tryng to play in the style of Ambient buckethead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_bdUI92Qcc&feature=channel&list=UL

Goals I've been working on improvisation would like to get better at it Technique, phrasing, shredding and would like learn more about buckethead style

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi May 26 2012, 08:30 PM

Hi mate! Thanks for this complete post about you!

I also like Buckethead a lot so I've been listening a lot to his music. I love his shreddy style but I mostly enjoy his weird effect tunes and his ambient albums. Regarding his Shred playing, we should go for Paul Gilbert stuff since he has been his teacher and also a big influence for him. The most ambient stuff comes more from his soul and the things that will help you to understand it will be to learn and analyse the chord progressions, melodies and scales that he uses.

Please check my http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=42832e, starting with the Warming up and Endurance exercises to create together a good diary routine to start training the different techniques. We should also choose any musical lesson to learn and then record for the REC program, do you have any in mind?

Finally check out my new collab called "http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=44458"... would you like to join?

Posted by: Vulpine Jun 3 2012, 12:25 AM

Hey sorry for late reply ,

ATM I was working on modal madness 1, and MM 2 and 4 were on my to do list. I can try to record my progress if ud like, i havnt checked out any of the other musical lessons yet other than that . I really like ur buckethead lesson where u mentioned him playing around chord shapes would love to learn more about that , its definately something i havnt tried before

and for paul gilbert lol he's an intense dude i like his stuff if theres a vid ud reccomend ill be glad to sit down and listen to it

and salso I have checked out ur buckethead collab , i did record something but was unsuccessful being able to upload it on GMC on that thread (might not have done something right)

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 3 2012, 12:34 AM

Hi man! Check out these exercises in the style of Gilbert, and also Buckethead.

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=42831

Regarding following chords.... have you seen the video Melodic control by Marty Friedman?
It's very important to learn the triads and the arpeggios in the whole fret-board to be able to follow the chords when you are soloing. Do you have experience with this?

Posted by: Vulpine Jun 3 2012, 02:35 AM

atm I have triads and there inversions written down and is something I do need to put some time in getting more comfortable with them same with arpeggios I can play major and minor arpeggios on the 5th string (the basic arpeggio shape) Ive been doing some arpeggio practice but again thats something i need to work on more . now do I know all the triads and arpeggios in the whole fret board without looking at practice sheet ? No I dont yet .and I havent seen the melodic control vid by marty but would love to check it out if theres a link somewhere


thanx for the exercises ill get started on them right away

Posted by: Vulpine Jun 3 2012, 05:42 AM

nice lesson , was unable to open n read the "Paul Gilbert Style Licks" guitar pro file "

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 3 2012, 08:54 PM

This is what I was talking about...





What guitar pro version do you have?

Posted by: Vulpine Jun 5 2012, 04:15 AM

amazing vid , and altho I can play arpeggios ive never really applied them into soloing but after watching this vid i really wanna practice doing that . would love to learn more

also i dont think i have a guitar pro , i just tried to download it from that thread and when I did i didnt have any thing that could open the file like winzip

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jun 5 2012, 04:08 PM

yes, this video is really inspiring and makes you want to work on the following the chords concept because it makes improvising much more fun.

This is the GP file:

 Paul_Gilbert_Style_Licks.gp5 ( 3.01K ) : 143

Posted by: Vulpine Oct 25 2012, 04:50 PM

HEY Gabrielle I knko its been a while since I've been on this thread I've been working on improving n I just subscribed for another month so I could continue full lessons with you and everything the site has to offer anyway Ive been working on my shredding for the past 4 months n I'll admit Im still struggling i dont know if thats normal but anyway heres a vid for example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEfL...eature=youtu.be

if theres anything at this time that could help further improve my shred playing im all ears = ) like routines or some scale runs to help start off

= )

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Oct 25 2012, 05:52 PM

Hi mate! welcome back! The video isn't working for me...

Posted by: Vulpine Oct 26 2012, 03:18 AM

sorry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEfLLXiJw6Q&feature=plcp

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Oct 26 2012, 04:19 PM

Nice tune mate. I think that you should work a bit more on the phrases to make the melodies more defined and memorable. Have you work on those Friedman's concepts?? What knowledge do you have about scales, arpeggios, triads?

Some technique work... Alternate Picking exercises and maybe Sweep Picking could also add more to your playing if you want to add more shred licks.

Have you checked my Intensive Technique Course?

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=42832

Posted by: Vulpine Oct 27 2012, 03:40 AM

Hey Gabrielle ,

Scales - I know major/minor, the modes, blues scale , alil harmonic n phrygian dominant scale (still working on those two)
but the scale I've really favored is the natural minor scale which is the scale I'd love to improve my shred technique with

Arpegios - I know the 5 string root major,minor n diminished arppegios as well as the 6 string root major n minor arpegios

my sweep picking def needs work I can arpegiate but not as fast that u could call it sweep picking , if you want I could record myself to show you

and the intensive technique course I will start working on first thing in the morning



oh yea I forgot

Triads - Ive actually been working on that alot the past month or two lately and I think im starting to get the hang of it , but I mostly kno the major/minor/diminished open voiced triads

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Oct 28 2012, 12:58 AM

You have a good background. Are you now working on some GMC lessons? Could you start with the ITC? Check out the Warming up, and the alternate picking lessons.

Posted by: Vulpine Oct 28 2012, 05:52 AM

Today I've practice "class 1 and 2 " pretty much all day , that and theres one "modal Madness " video i've been working on for the past 4 months (the paul gilbert style one) . but other then that this weekend I've totally focused on shredding exercises n anything thing I can find on "buckethead style shred" lol

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Oct 29 2012, 07:14 PM

Cool! Those modal madness series are really cool! Do you think that you could record yourself playing one of those lessons?

Posted by: Vulpine Oct 30 2012, 06:04 PM

its up

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Oct 30 2012, 08:17 PM

Ok mate, this is your take:



Those hands want to go fast! I think that you will be able to shred your fretboard soon if you do some hard work every day. The two things to pay attention here are: hands sync and muting other string for avoiding unwanted noises.
I think that you have to isolate each of this patterns and practice them slowly with metronome. It doesn't help to practice faster than you can, you have to be slightly over the tempo that you feel comfortable and do lots of repetitions.
Check out the patterns from my Intensive Technique Couse and incorporate them into your diary practice and let's start working on this lesson:

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/alternate-picking-thirds/

Posted by: Vulpine Oct 31 2012, 05:21 PM

Alright I'm on class 5 now in the Intense course been working on that modal madness isolating 1 or 2 patterns at a time also started working on that alternate lesson which is wow useful n last night I wrapped things up for the night with posting a solo for the Modern metal collab you've got going looking forward to see how that works out (my first collab)

WHEW!!! what a evening that was yestuday ok im bout to head for work in a lil bit but soon as I get home ill continue with these lessons

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Oct 31 2012, 05:29 PM

Amazing! It's great to see you working hard mate! The results will be very impressive!

Posted by: Vulpine Nov 4 2012, 08:02 AM

Hey Gabrielle,
was practicing n lately I've started to notice whenever I bend my right hand down I would see a small knot on the back of my wrist, not sure if its from the hours of practicing each day over the past week or maybe work related but I think I may have to cut up my practice routine like taking more breaks inbetween n doing stretch exercises before playing (which is something i should have done more often)


not sure if this wrist thing is gangolion cyst related but hopefully it will go away if im not straining my wrist as much or may have it checked out

anyway im on class 8 n about halfway in "Alternate picking Thirds" video am glad you showed me that lesson its fun to work on and it sounds pretty cool reminds me of something I would hear Paul Gilbert play ever now n then which reminds me to mention that I've still been working on the Modal Madness is coming along abit ,its starting to feel more comfortable and I feel im starting to play it with better accuracy n more smoothe although swapping my 10 gauge strings for 9 gauge strings would help abit aswell

Signing out for the Night (tho it'll prolly be morning by the time u read this)

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 5 2012, 05:24 PM

Hi Vulpine, it's great to see you working hard. Regarding that knot, it would be great if you can go to the doctor to check it. It-s very important to take care of our hands and muscles because we depend on them to play guitar... if you feel any kind of hurt, you must stop practicing. Do you do some warming up and stretches before starting a practice session?

Posted by: Vulpine Nov 5 2012, 06:13 PM

I've learned some stretch n warm up exercises , but some days i tend to just get right on the guitar with out warming up, what im currently tryng to train myself to do is to warm up n stretch before I practice every day or whenever I pick up the guitar n thanks for the advice my right hand doesnt hurt or anything but I will have it checked out

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 5 2012, 09:21 PM

Ok, check out John Petrucci's Stretches... these are really helpful.

Posted by: Vulpine Nov 9 2012, 06:47 AM

wow this vid is very helpful , I've been doing it since i watched it will try to do this as a routine ,

finished class 8 & 9 (Great lessons)

Sweep picking am getting better at it.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 9 2012, 06:51 PM

Excellent! Keep me updated!

Posted by: Vulpine Nov 15 2012, 05:18 AM

Class 10 & 11 completed

also am 10-12 sections done with "Alternate Thirds"

= ) also am going to do a Rec take of both your buckethead Lessons have learned alot

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 15 2012, 04:58 PM

Great mate! I just commented and graded your REC take. It is ok, but it has some timing issues. Do you notice the problem?
The best way to fix it, is practicing the lesson over the orignal one to be sure that you are playing it at the same tempo.

Posted by: Vulpine Nov 15 2012, 07:22 PM

I didnt notice at first but after a few listens yea during the Power chords i noticed my timing was off and I also noticed that I slurred a note man do I really need to work on timing and Clean playing

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 15 2012, 10:49 PM

Ok! that's the first step!

Posted by: Vulpine Nov 16 2012, 04:58 AM

hey do you have any advice or tips for playing clean with distortion

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 17 2012, 11:12 PM

what do you exactly mean? avoiding unwanted noises?

Posted by: Vulpine Nov 18 2012, 04:07 AM

yea

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 18 2012, 05:40 AM

ah ok. well... my trick is simple... I use the palm of my right hand to mute the lower strings, and sometimes my right hand little finger to mute the higher strings if it's necessary. However it's difficult to be precise with the palm the picking hand, so the trick is to mute the closer strings with my left hand index finger.... I mute the lower adjacent (closer) string with the tip of this finger and also the higher strings with the rest of the finger used as a bar... let me know if it's clear!

Posted by: Vulpine Nov 18 2012, 07:45 PM

thanks yes im aware of the finger of the left hand muting the adjacent lower string and the higher strings with the rest of the finger like a barr I i need to work on this a bit I think and also ur technique with your right hand I might need to try muting the higher strings with my little finger

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 18 2012, 09:36 PM

ok, please let me know how it evolves and feel free to post videos here to let me analyse your playing.

Posted by: Vulpine Nov 24 2012, 04:08 AM

I've actually been working on this song but cant really figure out where to go from where I left off, My song writing although I can generate Ideas I tend to lack how to to construct a song like what does one need to make there ideas become an actual song (n actually any tips on song writing would most likely help me go a long way)

heres the demo of the song I've been working on

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 24 2012, 06:33 PM

Hi mate, this idea sound very nice. I love it! The secret here is to analyse song structures, starting with something simple. Maybe analysing some Satrini's rock songs.. define parts (intro, verse, chorus, verse 2, chorus 2, solo) and try to build your songs using that type of structures. This will clarify what is lacking in your compositions and how to order the parts. On the other hand, Buckethead uses to create song that seems to be a leit motiv followed by a long jam.. you could try to analyse his structure concepts but it will be more difficult to follow in your own songs because it seems to be free. Once you have the structures analysed, check out how the connect the chord progressions, and finally the rhythms. Song analysis and practice are the keys to improve your compositions.

Posted by: Vulpine Feb 3 2013, 10:43 PM

Hey gabriel sorry for the long long M.I.A. i've been on my guitar and school n work has been keepn me busy . i've been working on my playing anyway i also wasnt able to continue the subscription for a while so thats prolly the big reason i havnt been on lately but i've just renewed my subscription here so hopefully this will keep me motivated and help continue my development as a guitar player...

Sooo I hope we could continue were we left off .... going to resume ur guitar intense course and the Thirds video

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 4 2013, 02:59 PM

Welcome back mate! Thanks for the update. I'll wait for your stuff!

Posted by: Vulpine Feb 28 2013, 02:34 PM

So Gabe I know we were talking about maybe doing some picking technique that could help my picking hand . if you had any lessons on that , i would be more then happy to take a look at it, Been so busy with school n work i kind of forgot about the "Alternate Thirds" and I am on lesson 12 with on ur intensive technique course I think i should resume with those aswell

Let me know what u think , and thanks for the feed

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 28 2013, 02:37 PM

Great decision mate! Do you have some samples of you playing those exercises?

Posted by: Vulpine Mar 2 2013, 07:16 AM

Well I havent yet been bit busy with school but maybe I can try to upload a video REC in a few days or so

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Mar 3 2013, 12:16 AM

Ok, the lessons that you are working are exactly what I think you should work so I'll wait for the video (or audio).

Posted by: Vulpine Jul 18 2013, 01:32 PM

Hey Gabe , is there any videos out there you would recommend regarding "timing"

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jul 18 2013, 02:48 PM

Hi mate! I just give you some comments again at your song's thread. Every lesson that can be found at this site, exactly any few case, involves timing. You could choose any rhythm lesson that you like and master it and combine it with this one that is cool to understand the different figures:

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/timing-exercise/

Posted by: Vulpine Jul 18 2013, 06:00 PM

hey Gabe ok I got your comments regarding my timing issues

im going to give you the backing track maybe you can demonstrate how my timing should be
(drums only)

https://soundcloud.com/vulpinetekneq/hot-arrow-drums-only

(rhythm n drums)

https://soundcloud.com/vulpinetekneq/hot-arrow-backing-track-rhythm

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jul 19 2013, 07:25 PM

Hi mate! Could you please also upload the guitar tracks?

Posted by: Vulpine Jul 19 2013, 11:52 PM

like the guitar part only ?

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jul 20 2013, 03:32 PM

yes!

Posted by: Vulpine Jul 20 2013, 04:22 PM

ok

https://soundcloud.com/vulpinetekneq/hot-arrow-guitar-only

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jul 21 2013, 04:55 PM

Thanks! I'll be back with an edited version.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jul 23 2013, 02:39 PM

Hey mate! Could you please allow downloads for the only guitar take at Soundcloud?

Posted by: Vulpine Jul 27 2013, 12:19 AM

k try now https://soundcloud.com/vulpinetekneq/hot-arrow-guitar-only

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jul 27 2013, 03:53 PM

thanks mate! I'll be back with this. Are you doing any rhythm training to fix the problem?

Posted by: Vulpine Jul 31 2013, 12:25 AM

I've just been playing alot with a metronome , playing rhythm chord progressions over a metronome I plan to resubscribe later this week btw = )

I've just been playing alot with a metronome , playing rhythm chord progressions over a metronome I plan to resubscribe later this week btw = )

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jul 31 2013, 03:21 PM

Hi mate! What I want to do in cubase is to put the first riffs at tempo to show you how it should sound but you haven't post the guitars with the rhythms. I would need that channel.. If it's possible send me all the tracks that you used in the song and I will fix the first measures. Does is make sense?

Posted by: Vulpine Aug 1 2013, 07:00 AM

its alright Gabrielle I'm going to redo the rhythm part anyway in hopes of making it better in time = )

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Aug 1 2013, 03:06 PM

Ok! That's where I find the problem. The rhythm guitar wasn't on time and that makes so difficult to create melodies over it at tempo.

Have you been working on this lesson? Do you have any video or audio?

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/timing-exercise/