Neoclassical Solo For Beginners, Lesson By Emir Hot Options

[FreePizza]

Original lesson: Neoclassical Solo For Beginners by Emir Hot

My vibrato is just pretty bad so I have been kind of using this lesson to work on it. I need to get better at striking the note clean before applying it. My timing is a bit off on the ascending run in F# (miss a rest) and I think some of the vibrato notes may oscillate out of pitch, sorry. Thanks for listening.

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This post has been edited by FreePizza: Jul 17 2022, 03:02 AM

[Monica Gheorghev...]

Hi Bruce!

It's great to see a new take from you. What you already pointed out is correct. Your vibrato needs more work, but compared with your last take (Slow phrasing) I can see huge improvements. You go in the right direction. Be careful how you make the movement when you have notes which need a faster vibrato.

Look, some of the vibrated notes sound out of pitch because you don't let your finger return to the point zero (release point). You have moments when you keep the string pulled down before playing the next note and that's a bad thing because your vibrated note never goes back to the perfect pitch point.
Try to keep in mind these steps: hit the note, then start the oscillation and let the string go back to it's original position.


I appreciate the fact that this time you took care about the picking direction. I can say that 80% looks good but you messed this exactly at 0:38.
Now we know why your timing on F# run is a bit off. You played this part using only upstroke picking instead of alternate picking. I wonder how you succeeded in playing this run like this, because it feels unnatural.
Anyway, I want to congratulate you for writing down and learning the picking direction of the lesson. I know it's not an easy thing and it requires focus and time, but it worth.

0:13; 0:54 - You should play the first notes with PM.

0:34 - try not to overlap the sound of the notes. You need to have a perfect separation between the notes. Release the finger pressure after you play the F# note (A string).
The same kind of problem also happened at 1:02.

As overall advice, try to play with more intention. Take a little more care about the details like accents and dynamics and you will make your take to sound less square.

You get a 6 from me. Keep up your awesome job!

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This post has been edited by Monica Gheorghevici: Jul 17 2022, 10:45 AM

[Kristofer Dahl]

Cool!

I think your vibrato is pretty good already - though your own analysis is spot on. If you let those notes ring before applying it - it would sound even better.

However I suspect there might be a reason why you don't let them ring:

At ~00:39 it seems there is a serious intonation/tuning issue. To my ears this is not related to your vibrato. On the contrary you probably instinctively try to cover it up with vibrato - hence why you don't want the listener to hear the notes ring without vibrato.

It seems to be the b string giving you issues?

I think a proper intonation of your guitar (first change your strings if old, that could solve the issue straight away if you are lucky) might do the trick. If your pitch/intonation is decent all over the fretboard you will find it a lot easier to let those notes ring without vibrato.

The first part prior to the pitch issue sounds good - but I will not grade you since the second part is off.

Keep up the killer work, your playing is extremely promising!

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[Todd Simpson]

I too will wait to grade this until your next attempt but I want to say well done on learning this piece and playing it all the way through. That alone is a HUGE deal. Playing a long piece in one take is a skill unto itself. Also, playing with the dreaded "red light" recording syndrome, and not letting it get in your way is also a huge deal. So well done!!!

I did notice your vibrato is improved so well done there, but it does need a bit of work and this is a great lesson to work it. I won't repeat all that has been said since everything has been covered. I wanted to add this video in as a demo of "intentional" vibrato. Where one really means it with each bend and each sway of the note. One thing about vibrato is entry and exit speed. Starting a bit slower and speeding up the vibrato gives it a deeper impact. You have a good start on your vibrato but it could be even wider in parts. Give this a look and I hope it helps

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[Fran]

Closing this one

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