Alternate Picking Workout #7, Lesson By Darius Wave Options

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Original lesson: Alternate Picking Workout #7 by Darius Wave

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[Kristofer Dahl]

Nice!

You start this off well, a few general pointers for the first half:

* Sound is problematic, not only is it a turn off for the listener but from an insturctional perspective it can a littl ehard to hear how you are doing. Again this is related to how you record the guitar - your actual tone might be fine (though we can't tell from this video).

* Since this lesson is about preparing your picking chops for harder tasks, I would imitate Darius' right hand movement more closely- It appears to me he gets more movement from the wrist than you do.

* You look just a tad tensed in your left hand, see if you can think more consciously about relaxing it when practicing.

From 00:31 things start to sound more shaky and I cannot really tell exactly what is going on (again the audio recording makes it hard to give you specifics). This drags down your grade to a 5.

It shows you are putting serious work into this and I am looking forward to your coming takes. Keep it up!

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[Todd Simpson]

Great to see you back in the game!!! Welcome back!!! It looks like you are getting a very good handle on the Pedal Point Technique! This is a VERY crucial technique for playing anything with a NEO CLASSICAL vibe to it. Your Hand synch looks good and your pick strikes look clean!! I say "looks" good because I'm having trouble hearing it. It sounds like you are recording this on your cell phone or web cam maybe? For my QUICK LICKS and even BOOTCAMP stuff, that's fine, for REC TAKES, it's probably better to actually record as you would in a home studio situation where you record your guitar either using a recording interface, (they make them for cell phones which are very handy, like the ORANG OMEC which costs about $150.) that way we can hear what you are playing along with the backing. If you get an interface that works for your phone, you can also use it with your laptop/desktop even a tablet. Many options are available that work with all of the above. You can use the live record feature in youtube to record your videos so you don't need to do any video editing.

There are many ways to go about it depending on what gear you have and what you need. If you want some ideas on production, start a thread in the forum in the production section and we will be happy to provide help!!

I can't tell if you are actually playing what I think you are playing on this one, so I can't really grade it very well. The quick way to fix it is to just turn up your guitar using whatever amp you are using so that we pick up more guitar sound via your cellphone/web cam etc.

Todd

Original lesson: Alternate Picking Workout #7 by Darius Wave

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[Gabriel Leopardi]

Hi mate,

I think that Kris has already summarized all the elements that need attention here, starting with the mix/sound issue but also focusing on your right hand movement which definitely needs to be adjusted.

Work on those things and share a new take is some days to let us monitor your progress.

Keep on the hard work!

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[Darius Wave]

Hey there!

First of all I have to agree on Kris note about the audio. It is slightly hard for us to judge some aspects like timing - we hear some kind of latency between your dry guitar tone and sound from your PC speakers.

Besides this it looks like you start quite well but when the first pattern ends, the second one brings much more trouble specially on teh string skipping moments. Try to spend a while and "load" a picking direction into your muscle memory. In the 1st run of second pattern it's clearly visible that's the picking direction that caused you to fail both - timing and hand sync(string skipping moments became a serious problem for a second)

Around 0:44 you need to remember that it should not sound like a slide at all. You need to delay the moment of finger position shift as long as possible. It should sound just like it would be played with different finger.

You have problems with long notes that ends the sections. You play them with sort of "shifted" timming - note exaclty quantized to beats, not the way as in original lesson.


In general the concepts of this lesson was to deliver a simple tool to focus more on muscles than on different notes to be played. I think using this lesson in your practise schedule is a good idea. It seems that a fter few times on each lick you warm up and start to fit the lick even better. That's a good sign.

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[Fran]

Almost there, 5.5

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