I've Learned Some Stuff, Now What? Options

[waynedcoville]

To Whomever it May Concern,
I love your lessons and your teachers are great but I have a concern about what to do with everything I've learned. I've learned several lessons so far, but now what? I now have some awesome parts in my head and under my belt but how do I use what I've learned? What do I do with these pieces of music? I'm writing because I could not find anything on your site about what to do with the parts once they are learned and/or using the parts in a band setting. I hate to just lift the parts and call them mine. Obviously, the teachers wrote them but are they copyrighted? Is it okay to use the parts if I change them enough to make them my own? If so, how would I alter the pieces enough as to not infringe on copy-write laws? And if the pieces where to be altered, would they still retain what I learned in the original lesson? Otherwise, I'm not sure how to benefit from these awesome lessons. Please don't think I'm asking for permission to rip off these great teachers. I'm asking for a hint as what the next step may be. Thank you.

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[casinostrat]

download gobs of backing tracks and try to implement fragments of what you learned to a backing track that didn't accompany the lessons you learned. Practicing to backing tracks should be a ritual - devote yourself to it, and try to throw in pieces of what you've learned here and there. That will help solidify the sounds you create in a musical context that you create while playing.

Keep on keepin on!

Dear instructors ~ some lessons on how you personally practice to a backing track would be awesome.What I normally do is throw on a backing track, begin with familiarizing myself with the backing using chords to learn the key, then replacing chords with licks I've been practicing in that key ~ constantly changing it to incorporate what I've learned into a musical context.

This is excellent advice! I struggled with this type of thing as well, and only started to improve when I started to just put on a backing track I knew the key of and experiment. Sometimes I just download the backings of the lessons here at GMC, and use them to jam over and experiement with, before ever actually trying to learn the lesson itself.

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