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Jun 17 2009, 03:12 PM
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QUOTE (lcsdds @ Jun 17 2009, 05:39 AM)  Hi Muris, Here is my entry for the PetrucciFever solo contest. I made some mistakes but it is the best I got right now. I don't know how much time I am gonna have to work on it in the next few weeks so I thought I better make a take now or it might not get done. I had a hard time with one of the sections until I remembered that you told me "YOU MUST USE HARMONIC MINOR IN THIS SECTION"....  I wish I had my AP to the point that I could use it for some uber fast licks.......maybe next time......  Great job on the Guitar Idol Final Muris.....\m/\m/ Nice job Monte!! Is this final take or you can still fix it? The only this that bothers me a little is ending of heavy section, you could slow things down at the end using few long and strong notes to calm down before easy section but that's just me, this is cool as well! Technique wise it was perfect, maybe we are missing some AP licks but there's plenty of time to fix that.
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Jun 17 2009, 03:38 PM
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QUOTE (lcsdds @ Jun 17 2009, 04:18 PM) No I can still fix it. I wanted to submit something because my wife informed me that she will be out of town the next two weekends and my older daughter just started working. That means no babysitter on the weekends for the rest of the month. I should be able to tweak it a little bit though.....I still have a couple of weeks. I hear you on the AP licks.....my problem with it is that my top speed on anything that sounds halfway fast for an AP run is only about 160......the tempo for this is 100bpm. 16th notes are too slow to sound cool, 16th triplets might work but they still don's sound as fast as I can tap or do legato. What would you reccomend Muris. Tell me where you would slow it down.....like the time. I'll work on it and post a new take. If It works better I'll redo it. If not I already have a submission. Well as for AP, you don't have to play it for 4 bars, you can play short licks, like 4 or 6 notes, 16ths or 16ths triplets, or even some random timing ala Malmsteen, just fire it! And you should slow it down from 1:09 till 1:18, were you played some trem picking. You can leave few faster runs there but try to come up with nice line that would lead smoothly into next section.
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Jun 17 2009, 04:24 PM
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QUOTE (lcsdds @ Jun 17 2009, 04:52 PM) Good advice Muris.....I'm gonna work on this.  NP Monte, give it a shot and post it!
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Jun 29 2009, 04:18 PM
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Ahh, I saw those AP licks, well done Monte,
it IS getting more and more natural! Notes choice was fine too, all long and string ones were right on the stop and chord, that was nicely organized. Now, it's not just notes (pitch) that gives us cool melodies but also RHYTHM!! Here's what you could do later on, doesn't have to be for this track (tho it won't hurt ).You can analyze your playing (this take as well) and locate starting point for each phrase/lick. There are many repetitions considering starting points, you might wanna mess around with that to get more color in your playing. An example, you start phrase right on the first beat, then you put next phrase on 2nd beat, 2nd 8th note etc. There are many, many options to play with rhtyhm and you will surprised with results, in a good way of course, try that! -------------------- Youtube
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Jun 29 2009, 05:04 PM
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QUOTE (lcsdds @ Jun 29 2009, 05:22 PM) Thanks Muris. I'll work on the Rhythm thing. I still have the last part to compose so I'll keep this in mind. So many cool tools when composing/improvising. I'm just trying to constantly be composing over some sort of backing so I can get comfortable with it. Thanks for the input Muris...... You're welcome Monte, let me know if you need anything else, will wait for your update.
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Jul 25 2009, 03:04 AM
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Here are 2 backings with different speeds,
great to hear you're back on track Monte!! 
Mixolydian_Soloing_BT_85_bpm.mp3 ( 877.26K )
Number of downloads: 3
Mixolydian_Soloing_BT_70_bpm.mp3 ( 1.05MB )
Number of downloads: 0This Mixolydian advanced has some nice picking licks, can't wait to see how you're gonna handle those. As for vibrato, it's hard to tell how to work on it, there are many ways. You can play single note and apply different types if vibrato, slow and wide, fast and wide etc. Then you can apply same things on bended note, to test how it works when string is bended. You might wanna record that practicing session and listen to how it sounds, your ear is best guide, you WILL notice when it sounds wrong. Now that was "only" practicing, thing is, many players kind a forget to apply vibrato when playing or just improvising. Vibrato has to become nature to you, as natural as wearing your underwear, this might be strange but I hope you get my point. You have to think of vibrato all the time, apply it on every note possible (usually longer notes), after a while you'll stop thinking of it and it'll be there, it just happens. But before it happens you have to focus on it, focus on many different types of vibrato so you could make fine selection when the time comes, what kind of vibrato works best for certain note. Let me know if I missed something.
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Jul 25 2009, 03:55 AM
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QUOTE (lcsdds @ Jul 25 2009, 04:51 AM) I'm off to buys some underwear so I can improve me vibrato.......  \m/\m/
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MySpace Website Album "Let It Out" on iTunes and CD Baby Check out my video lessons and instructor board! The Pianist tune is progress,check it out! "ok.. it is great.. :P have you myspace? Can i to personalize this for you guy?" |
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Jul 25 2009, 04:06 AM
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QUOTE (lcsdds @ Jul 24 2009, 10:51 PM) I'm off to buys some underwear so I can improve me vibrato....... \m/\m/ sorry to intrude guys but that cracked me up! |
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Jul 25 2009, 04:22 PM
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Ah, that one is cool!!
Yeah, those are symmetrical shapes as we are using same frets over 4 strings. And there is one "out" note there compared with A Mixolydian, note C on G string,17th fret. But as you can hear it blends smoothly with other notes, we have have notes B and C# on B string and the whole thing is small chromatic line: B, C and C#. Now take a look back at the beginning of the lesson, there you have the same line. So it's not pure A mixolydian but one extra notes won't hurt us, it's there to spice it up!! And if you take a look at the notes you get F#m penta (on high E and B strings) and then Am penta (G and D strings), notes C and C# are working great together here, we are getting this bluesy feel by using both major and minor 3rd. -------------------- Youtube
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