Mith's Guitar Journey, for Gab's Army |
HEY MAN, I really need your help...
...the thing is, I need you to start progressing faster then ever, but to achieve that I need your help:
* Don't know where to start? Just pm me and we will sort it out directly, I am online every day.
* Join My Army. Sounds aggressive? It is! We can study anything from the most fearsome picking techniques to bombastic songwriting. A medal of honor awaits the brave. Seriously, this is an opportunity for you to get a personalised learning experience...what are you waiting for?!
* Join my next video chat! GMC startpage holds a video chat schedule. We always cover a lot of ground and have fun. Remember that you don't need any previous knowledge, and you can be passive in the chat.
* Jam with me - you will find active collabs here.
* Post a topic on this board, guitar related or not - doesn't matter! You will find that chatting with instructors boosts your motivation to practice.
* You haven't missed my latest video lessons, have you?
* Finally I want to tell you a secret. Nah I changed my mind - pm me instead ;)
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Oct 1 2014, 04:44 PM
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Hi Mith! how are you? Well, about the guitar tone, my trick to have more sustain and keep a clean tone is using a tube screamer before the amp. I do this in both real and virtual situations. This allows you to set the amp with less drive and use the pedal's drive to gain the sustain that your tone is lacking and keeping it clean and clear. Check out this lesson where I use a similar setting: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/As-I-Lay-Dying-Style/
Regarding the alternate picking exercises, I don't know which ones you are referring to... -------------------- My lessons
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Oct 1 2014, 05:05 PM
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Ahh yeah! Those are part of my Intensive Technique Course. You can check the whole course for more alternate picking exercises as well as other techniques exercises that I consider very useful.
Check it out HERE. -------------------- My lessons
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Oct 1 2014, 05:06 PM
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ooooo intensive, makes it almost sound like i know what I'm doing
-------------------- I don't suffer from insanity, I love every minute of it
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Oct 1 2014, 05:38 PM
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QUOTE (Mith @ Oct 1 2014, 01:06 PM)  ooooo intensive, makes it almost sound like i know what I'm doing hehehe yeah! It becomes intensive if you practice 2/3 hours every day. 
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Oct 2 2014, 02:47 AM
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Its turning out that way lol
-------------------- I don't suffer from insanity, I love every minute of it
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Oct 2 2014, 01:34 PM
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QUOTE (Mith @ Oct 1 2014, 10:47 PM) Its turning out that way lol hehehe great. 
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Oct 8 2014, 03:42 PM
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Hi mate! Great job with all this stuff! I can also notice that your improvisations are getting more and more musical, but off course there is still a lot of room to improve. You are improving a lot as a guitarist, improviser and composer, so I don't see why you should feel bad about your slow progress.. let me say that your progress is average/fast. You are a hard worker.
Your routine looks excellent, and let me say that dedicating more time to learning licks and creating your own licks and phrases is the best you can do. You can use GMC lessons for this. You can choose musical lessons that use major or minor scales, learn the licks, and practice over the backing track, creating variations and your own stuff. This is very important, and need to be a priority. Remember that the main goal of the course is to make music all the time, so please dedicate more time to making music than playing exercises, scales and arpeggios up and down. This exercises will help you to understand the fret-board, open your possibilities and train your ear, but working on your phrasing will help you to find your own voice on guitar, and that's our goal! About your recording, you are a great analyzer of your own playing. I agree with everything you said. Your phrasing is getting more melodic, but it needs more silences and the use of call and response. Sometimes your phrases sound more like a guitar arrangement than a melodic solo, this is not a bad thing but I'm sure that it's not what you are looking for... Check this song for inspiration: -------------------- My lessons
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Oct 8 2014, 09:55 PM
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yes, I always recommend to dedicate time to use the backing track of the lessons and play along with the suggested scales, it's as important as learning the lesson. I think that you can even just learn some licks from the lesson but I consider essential to improvise over the backing and create your own stuff.
New custom guitar?? Awesome!! What shape? What wood? What electronics?
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Oct 9 2014, 09:04 PM
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Wou! That sounds killer! It would be cool if you share some pictures of the process. It's very interesting to see how a guitar takes shape from wood to the final thing. I also think that it's a great idea to add your custom logo on it, it will make it very unique and very personal. I'm sure that it will bring lots of inspiration!
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Oct 11 2014, 04:39 PM
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QUOTE (Mith @ Oct 10 2014, 01:52 PM) With some of these arpeggio's. I notice some of them are kind of meant to be done in a way that makes the pinky have to bar strings (Middle of A shape for example) or very fine movement (like the bottom of D shape). Is using my ring finger to bar these going to affect my ability to play them alot faster down the track. Should I focus on make sure the fingering is proper since it will be more beneficial down the line. Oh I've taken to doing all the drills at once since it helps be visualize where the patterns relate to each other. so I play the Pentatonic, Then the Diatonic, then the Arpeggio then the 3 NPS. During the next few days I'll practice going down on one then up on another. yes , the use of fingers as a bar is a good trick for arpeggios. It has the advantage of being easier to play fast, but at the same time it becomes a bit tricky to to each note totally clean or using a different order (instead of descending or ascending). So I think that practicing both options could be the best decision on this, and being able to adapt to each situation... QUOTE (Mith @ Oct 11 2014, 01:49 AM) Also the book you mentioned in your last vid, Creative guitar. Who was it written by. I missed the name The great Guthrie Govan. -------------------- My lessons
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Oct 12 2014, 08:34 PM
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QUOTE (Mith @ Oct 12 2014, 06:12 AM) Ok I feel like I have the shapes under my fingers. I take it the next step is to follow the chord changes with one pattern and the more advanced step after that would be to follow the chord changes while changing patterns? Exactly. That's a great exercise that will give you skills to be able to improvise on every style and over every backing track. The course will be covering it, so you can start experimenting or wait for the tasks that I will be giving in the next weeks. You could also check out GMC lessons archive to learn different musical applications of arpeggios: Click HERE, to find all the lessons based on Arpeggios. These are some of my favourites: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Combin...ios-And-Scales/ https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Creati...ggios-Phrasing/ https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Melodic-Shred-Arpeggios/ -------------------- My lessons
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