GMC:er Posts: 25.297
Joined: 23-December 09
From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Impressive work Soldier!!!! You are playing it faster than I am in the Demo Video!! I think it's one of the fastest and cleanest passes I've ever seen in bootcamp. It's meant to be played briskly to show you that your hand can slide down the neck at speed as long as your picking hand can keep up! For you it's no problem!!
Let's Debrief!!
MEDALS OF HONOR
ALT PICK OF DESTINY: Alternate Picking is at the core of this lick. It's the first thing I'm looking at in this Mission. The good news is your alt picking is solid as a ROCK!!!! Nice and even, smooth as glass, no rushing or lagging. SCORE!!
TRAVERSAL OF FORTUNE: Non stop fret traverse is required on this one. It NEVER stops moving on the neck. It forces your hand to adapt and you adapted well!!! You are shredding the living daylights out of this!! NICE!!!
PINKY TIME: Good use of the pinky here! On the lower frets, Pinky Power is crucial. Lastly, I want to see your use of the pinky. IF you don't use the pinky on this Mission, I will usually send the soldier back for a second try. Your pinky is up to the challenge!!
BTW: Always a treat to see that fine Ibby!!!!!!! Spiff.
You KRUSHED it and ..
LEVELED UP!!!!
Onward!!
Sarge
QUOTE (Ybritt @ Jul 1 2020, 08:06 AM)
So here is M#12. Can’t wait to hear your feedback in this one. I found it kind of hard to play this slowly so I hope I’m not doing it sloppy. Also I was uncertain on whether to use the metronome or not, finally I decided not to. Let me know if I should. Brand new strings on the Ibby as well 😊 Cheers!
GMC:er Posts: 47
Joined: 13-May 19
From: Stockholm, Sweden
Hi Sarge!
Thank you for that feedback! It strengthens my confidence. Summer holiday and I have brought my gutar with me. Wokring hard to nail M#13 and it is a pretty tough one i must say. But I do progress. Funny enough I find the double strike per note hardest to get right, I don't know why. But even that one is getting better. Hope to post the result soon.
Take care!
QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Jul 2 2020, 03:47 AM)
Impressive work Soldier!!!! You are playing it faster than I am in the Demo Video!! I think it's one of the fastest and cleanest passes I've ever seen in bootcamp. It's meant to be played briskly to show you that your hand can slide down the neck at speed as long as your picking hand can keep up! For you it's no problem!!
Let's Debrief!!
MEDALS OF HONOR
ALT PICK OF DESTINY: Alternate Picking is at the core of this lick. It's the first thing I'm looking at in this Mission. The good news is your alt picking is solid as a ROCK!!!! Nice and even, smooth as glass, no rushing or lagging. SCORE!!
TRAVERSAL OF FORTUNE: Non stop fret traverse is required on this one. It NEVER stops moving on the neck. It forces your hand to adapt and you adapted well!!! You are shredding the living daylights out of this!! NICE!!!
PINKY TIME: Good use of the pinky here! On the lower frets, Pinky Power is crucial. Lastly, I want to see your use of the pinky. IF you don't use the pinky on this Mission, I will usually send the soldier back for a second try. Your pinky is up to the challenge!!
BTW: Always a treat to see that fine Ibby!!!!!!! Spiff.
GMC:er Posts: 25.297
Joined: 23-December 09
From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Always good to bring your guitar on Holiday! Glad to hear you are still fighting on summer break! M13 is a bit tricky to be sure. it's worth working through to gain the skills that will come from it. All of these skills will start stacking up as you move through. Multi picking, single and double and triple and quad, is a great thing to add in to your solo work. It makes a lick sound like there are a LOT more notes than are actually happening. Looking forward to your Mission Soldier!!
Sarge
QUOTE (Ybritt @ Jul 27 2020, 07:07 AM)
Hi Sarge!
Thank you for that feedback! It strengthens my confidence. Summer holiday and I have brought my gutar with me. Wokring hard to nail M#13 and it is a pretty tough one i must say. But I do progress. Funny enough I find the double strike per note hardest to get right, I don't know why. But even that one is getting better. Hope to post the result soon.
GMC:er Posts: 47
Joined: 13-May 19
From: Stockholm, Sweden
Finally! Reporting back from the field, eager to be debriefed. When doing the four strokes per note I know I am off synch with the metronome but I think I am keeping a consisting tempo though. Anyway, it’s up to you to judge.
GMC:er Posts: 25.297
Joined: 23-December 09
From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Well Fought Soldier!!! It's more important that you play with consistency than you lock step with the click. I can tell you are playing in a consistent manner which is they big takeaway in this mission. You play the single in good synch with the click so I can see you can play with a click. I'm guessing you were having a good take so you just kept playing rather than go over and change the metronome 3 times in a row to find a click that matched up with your multi picking. As long as your internal metronome is good enough to keep you on beat, you can skip the click track. It's just there to help you stay on beat after all.
This is NOT an easy Mission. Single pick all the way through Quad Pick and with a complicated way of running a scale that really confuses the fingers. You did all of it in one take. I'm guessing you had a few takes that you scrapped before this? Usually, folks break this up in to several takes and edit them together. I'm impressed that you were able to play all of it in one go. This way of running a scale (inversion) can be applied to any scale and so can multi picking! multi picking is a great way to make any scale based lick sound much busier. To the listeners ear, it sounds like a TON of notes being played when in fact it's mostly the same notes being repeated. They are repeated because of the inversion and they are repeated in multi picking. Try to use multi picking in a solo while it's still fresh on your mind. It can add a lot of density to any solo.
Lets Debrief!!!
MEDALS OF HONOR
*TACTICAL PRECISION: The first thing I look for on this is your pick precision. This requires a TON of traverse picking (moving the pick between strings) and it's very easy to get tripped up due to the pattern being insane and due to the multi picking. You keep it tight and smooth. Nice!
*STEADY PACE: The second thing I want to see on this is a steady pace of play. Your internal metronome is doing a great job. It allows you to ignore the click when it doesn't suit the multi pick and still stay consistent in terms of your timing. The external click doesn't distract from your timing once you start using your internal metronome which is great. Double Score!
*QUIET AS DEATH: With all of the constant string traverse, this lick can get very noisy, very quickly unless one keeps a good mute. So I'm looking for a good mute the entire time. Your mute doesn't drift a bit. Solid as a rock. Triple Score!!!
This is a very tough Mission and you KRUSHED it!
Well fought Soldier! You just..
LEVELED UP!!!! Also, you just got your Second Chevron on you Badge! Congrats!!!!
Can't wait to see what you do with the next one Soldier!!!
sarge
QUOTE (Ybritt @ Aug 22 2020, 07:13 AM)
Finally! Reporting back from the field, eager to be debriefed. When doing the four strokes per note I know I am off synch with the metronome but I think I am keeping a consisting tempo though. Anyway, it’s up to you to judge.
GMC:er Posts: 47
Joined: 13-May 19
From: Stockholm, Sweden
Hey Sarge!
Thanks for the great feedback on M#13. I must admit that I am continuing to work on M#13 in order to polish the technique over other scale positions. But that hasn't prevented me from attacking M#14 with ferocity. Yesterday I felt that the time was right to make a first recording of it in order to report back.
GMC:er Posts: 25.297
Joined: 23-December 09
From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Well Fought Soldier!! This is a very tricky bit to play and you nailed It makes a cool solo lick as well as long as you are playing in one of the open string keys. For example if a backing is in A minor, just play this lick on the A string. The open string licks are great for drills and solos!
Let's Debrief!!
MEDALS OF HONOR
*PICKING-This is all about single string picking technique. It's easy stumble due to the odd picking patter but you didn't miss a beat!!! NICE! *TIMING-Timing is crucial in this lick. If the timing is off at all, the lick falls apart. You keep it high and tight on every single string!!!!! KILLER!
*DIFFERENT STRINGS-Being able to pull this lick off on different string shows that you can traverse to new strings without losing control of your technique.That's a big part of what this one is all about. Being able to play it on every string and not get a bunch of string noise or skipped notes. DOUBLE SCORE!!
In short, your picking is really impressive here. Great hand synch and blazing speed with precision!! You just..
LEVELED UP!!!!
Forward! Sartge
QUOTE (Ybritt @ Sep 4 2020, 08:37 AM)
Hey Sarge!
Thanks for the great feedback on M#13. I must admit that I am continuing to work on M#13 in order to polish the technique over other scale positions. But that hasn't prevented me from attacking M#14 with ferocity. Yesterday I felt that the time was right to make a first recording of it in order to report back.
