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May 28 2010, 02:50 PM
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Hey Pedja,
Thanks for having me. I hope this is confirmed.  Anyway, so as you might have seen here and there, I have been playing since 1993. Got interested in guitar back at school and kind of stopped after I left school. Then, it was just strumming around for myself until 2003 when I bought my first guitar. I started practicing seriously only like a year back when I decided that I needed a mentor if I wanted to improve and was searching for online lessons when I found GMC. So, thats basically it. I concentrated much on AP and speed stuff during this one year and I can now do 170bpm 16th notes. Currently, I am practicing AP lesson by Muris and hoping to post a REC in next 2 weeks if I can get some time off from your assignments.  So, I have kind of "amateurishly mastered" speed. I think this speed is enough for me. Too much speed doesn't really sound like music. I just wanted to play speed licks here and there since I was like stuck with 8th notes at 110bpm all the time before joining GMC.In the middle, I started to concentrate on theory and took MTP with Emir where I learnt CAGED and few modes. I know major scales/minor scales quite well and if given a bit of thought I can do modes as well (happened practiced much). I am almost 0 at theory as I never took theory lessons. I know a few terms and can compose a song given the chord combination. I have composed like 20 songs till date. I like it. I was really famous for that back in school... Anyway, in 3 months, I want to get used to the theory terms. I want to play awkward chords.. I am stuck at major /minor and 7th (a little). I want to also learn a bit of jazz (not necessary though). I have taken a look at some members MTP thread with you and have gone through some theory stuff, but I always tend to forget. I know its very vast but I don't want to be stuck at theory only. I want to be able to start improvising on a chord combination without having to think. I know this is BIG but if its possible I want to cover this too within this 3 month period. I am ready to spend as much time as needed to quickly move along. I work from home for 3-4 hrs a day so I have time to practice even in weekends. I am ready to die to get going Pedja. ok that was too much I guess.I won't be able to make it to the chat session though.. Usually it always starts at around 2-3am my time so its really hard.. i can't wait to stay up nor wake up early to be in the chat.  I will try my best though at times.So, I hope my goals are clear enough. I know I am asking like a 10 years thing but I want to learn more of theory / composition / improvisation stuff than techniques at this point. Thanks, Chandra Ok I will also post videos.. I didn't see that in your post earlier. REC Takes: This is my composition on Daniel Realpe Collab: |
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May 28 2010, 07:13 PM
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Oh I forgot to mention. I am into more melodic stuff than just random improvisation. Hopefully, I can know the secret as well.
I love Joe Satriani.
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May 31 2010, 05:02 PM
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Great Pedja. I will look forward to the assignment.
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Jun 3 2010, 08:29 PM
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Hi Chandra,
I will open your thread with this assignment today where you can paste your work and we can continue discussion there
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