How Much You Can Get Out Of Gmc Lessons? Options

[Cosmin Lupu]

I started this thread because I realized how much one can actually get out of learning a GMC lesson Gabriel has inspired this thread with some great ideas he has written down in another thread which you can read here: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...st&p=689249

Basically, when we tackle a GMC lesson we only see it as a means to learn a fixed thing, but usually, as in life, there's more to things than meets the eye - what do I want to say with this?

Well, each lesson, aside from it's initial purpose can offer you the freedom of using a concept that you understood in it in a variety of ways - how?

Well, to start off:

- learn the theoretical aspects behind the lesson - some will say 'Bah, it's too easy! Bah, I already know that! Bah, I don't need it!' Well then, why are you asking around for learning theory? Because most people are impatient and they think that information will click instantaneously and they will learn theory over night. Theory is learned IN TIME and BY APPLYING IT in as many contexts as possible. The results yielded will be astonishing, but you need PATIENCE and you need to EXPLORE.
- understand the scales used - train your ears not only your hands If you don't understand how to listen to a scale and it's intervals or the characteristic scale degrees of a mode and it's relationship with a chord progression, it's useless to learn patterns - those alone will get you nowhere.
- understand the chord progression in the provided backing track
- learn the phrases in the lesson
- after you can replicate the lesson, start to modify it in accord to YOUR OWN VISION - how?

- cut out some notes
- accentuate other notes
- invert some runs
- add more breaks
- dabble with note length
- bend instead of sliding

The possibilities are endless and these are just some starters Unconsciously or not, this is what YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN DOING in collabs

How do you see this and what examples of nice phrases YOU HAVE CREATED by this method could you share with us?

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