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Posted by: coffeeman Jan 8 2009, 07:22 PM

Hi Harry,

My name is Andres , Im 33 years old, I learnt to play the guitar when I was 17 , I played for a couple of years and I quit and I start playing again 2 years ago.

As you may know we have been mathced up for the MTP, and Im very happy with it. Fisrt of all welcome and I hope this experience will be very helpful for both of us.

I have seen your videos and I must say that you have a very good technique and the right motivation so it will very easy for both us to work.

I read your MTP entries but I would like to tell me about yourself. How old are you? For how long have you been playing? which styles do you like? Which are you strengths and your weaknesses? What are your goals in your playing?

Welcome Harry and please tell me anything you need Im here to help you, Im looking forward to learn a lot with you.

Posted by: big harry Jan 9 2009, 10:37 AM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 8 2009, 07:22 PM)

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 8 2009, 07:22 PM)

Posted by: big harry Jan 9 2009, 01:58 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 8 2009, 07:22 PM)

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Jan 9 2009, 02:18 PM

I am very much looking forward to Andrus exercises and plan for big Harry as Harry is really hard worker and enjoys playing a lot.

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 9 2009, 05:23 PM

Hi Harry,

Thanks a lot for your introduction it gives us a better perpective to start working.

So let's get to work, this week we will be working on Timing & Rythm, on the lesson http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/beginner-strumming-and-arpeggios/

I want you to play very clean so we can start working on palm muting too , try to mute the strings that are not been playing in the chord. Also remember that we are on the Am scale so this will give us the knowledge of the arpeggios of the chords on this scale. If you can I would like you to write the notes of the chords that are been playing.

Please let me know if you have any doubts about this lesson.

I'll be on a trip for the weekend I don't know if would have internet conection.

So have a nice weekend learning this lesson , and I'll be back a.s.a.p so we can move on.

Posted by: big harry Jan 10 2009, 10:07 AM

Hey Andres

Here we go with exercise 1

Chord progression is
Am - C - Em - G
Dm - F - G - C

Played notes are (1st part ascending, 2nd part descending)
Am - A E A C E, E C A E A
C - C E G C E, E C G E C
Em - E B E G B, E B G E B
G - G E D G D, G D G D E
Dm - G A D F G, F D A G F
F - F C F A C, F C A F C
G - G E D G D, G D G D E
C - C E G C E, E C G E C

i made 3 takes yesterday, but i only put in the 3rd cause the other ones are too big
i know its not 100% correct but i thought i let you know what i can do after short time of practice

i know you are not in this weekend so i will move on according the syllabus (whatever that means ) and make the next lesson to give you a point view where i am
i will do the frusciante lesson and the slow pentatonics (started already)
i try to put the first takes on tomorrow, so when you are back we can grab the guitar and move on
have a nice weekend with your family and cya soon

Harry

Posted by: big harry Jan 11 2009, 07:20 PM

hey Andres

here we go with the promised frusciante and slow pentatonics lessons

ok i have to say in this place, that i followed the mtp test phase with these lessons and i know some of them but i recorded them new so that i gives you a real point of few.

looking forward for your comments and waiting for the next exercises and your vision of what we do next and in which direction we move on

and PLEASE dont hesitate to tell your real oppinion about my playing, i am a big boy ......

hope you find your way back home from your trip

cya
Harry

Posted by: big harry Jan 12 2009, 10:08 AM

Hi Andres

i Know its somewhere around 4am your time and maybe you are still asleep
GET OUT OF BED AND LETS GO TO WORK

just to let you know, yesterday i started a bit working around with the alternate thirds lesson from Muris
i got down the "standard fingerings" at around 70 to 75 bpm
with the changed fingerings i have some (not to say TONNS) of problems right now
but i am sure with some more work i will get it someday even if it takes me years

i have done 2 takes, one clean and one distorted just to get a feeling how it sounds in both ways
i can up them tonight if you want

i have done this meanwhile awaiting your timeshedule for our next 4 weeks and i think i will do the "alice in chains lesson" also to complete the syllabus
i have done this lesson from Gabriel 2 months ago, with rhythm i didnt hahve much problems, the solo part was way to hard that time, especially the faster patterns/runs

so thats it for now

cya
Harry

Posted by: big harry Jan 12 2009, 11:57 AM

Hi Andres

i dont know if you have seen it, but a few days ago i made the essential blues licks and posted a video

later on in the thread i put 2 more vids in
here is the link to the thread

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=22555&view=findpost&p=305868

hey man how long do you sleep in bogota ???

cya
Harry

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 12 2009, 09:43 PM

Hey Harry ,

Sorry for the delay , I was on a trip , I just came back , give me a few hours to catch up.

Thanks.

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 13 2009, 07:55 AM

Hi Harry,

Back from the family trip away from technology and civilization. Lets get back to work.

First of all , very nice work posting the three videos, for the moment I'll coment on the first assigment and I'll comment on the other 2 tomorrow.

Begginner Strumming and arpeggios

The lesson

You learned the lesson very well , there is just on note missing on the G chord in the sdtrumming and another one in the arpeggio, you are not playing the D note on the B string.

Your playing

Before commenting about your playing , and correct me if i'm wrong but I felt like your guitar was a little bit out of tune, or maybe you were pushing to hard the strings, I don't know.

Very nive hand position. As I said before you missed the D note on the G chord and thats because you are not using your first finger, use it as muris does , I think thats the better way to play the G Chord. Here is the fingering:

---3----
---3----
---0----
---0----
---2----
---3----

After strumming the chord you are playing B note instead of D , thats because you didn't use the right fingering , watch video number 2 again.

Now the picking, I don't see much troubles in that, If you feel comfortable playing the arpeggios only in one direction thats ok no problem, although I suggest to practice the arpeggios with alternate picking just for practice , so when you are soloing you can choose the best way. Try to pick only the string you want, to get the true sound of the arpeggio, and to eliminate unwanted noise.

Now the strumming, take your time , you're hurrying in the struming , it's like you are worried to reach the next chord and maybe thats why some chords don't sound entirly clean , i.e when you move from the Dm to the F and then to G. Attach all the chord with the same strength , and play all the chords in the same way , some chords sound louder than other , and some sound cleaner than others.

Tone

I know that we are practicing and I also asked you to play it very clean , but we can work on the tone too. The tone you used was to dry and to bright for my taste, I preffer for this king of struming and arpeggios more mid range, were you using the bridge pick up ? if yes try moving it to the neck pick up. Of what I want here is that you find your tone deppending on what your are playing , but from now one I want to work on this too.

Im very happy with your work, very nice take , we're going on the right path. I'll comment on the other videos tomorrow. Please upload a new video of the first assigment using the recommendations I said. If you feel that Im wrong in anything that Im saying please let me know , this is a team work.

So keep working the way you are doing it.

See you tomorrow.

Andrés.

Posted by: big harry Jan 13 2009, 08:47 AM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 13 2009, 07:55 AM)

Hi Harry,

Back from the family trip away from technology and civilization. Lets get back to work.

First of all , very nice work posting the three videos, for the moment I'll coment on the first assigment and I'll comment on the other 2 tomorrow.

Begginner Strumming and arpeggios

The lesson

You learned the lesson very well , there is just on note missing on the G chord in the sdtrumming and another one in the arpeggio, you are not playing the D note on the B string.

Your playing

Before commenting about your playing , and correct me if i'm wrong but I felt like your guitar was a little bit out of tune, or maybe you were pushing to hard the strings, I don't know.

Very nive hand position. As I said before you missed the D note on the G chord and thats because you are not using your first finger, use it as muris does , I think thats the better way to play the G Chord. Here is the fingering:

---3----
---3----
---0----
---0----
---2----
---3----

After strumming the chord you are playing B note instead of D , thats because you didn't use the right fingering , watch video number 2 again.

Now the picking, I don't see much troubles in that, If you feel comfortable playing the arpeggios only in one direction thats ok no problem, although I suggest to practice the arpeggios with alternate picking just for practice , so when you are soloing you can choose the best way. Try to pick only the string you want, to get the true sound of the arpeggio, and to eliminate unwanted noise.

Now the strumming, take your time , you're hurrying in the struming , it's like you are worried to reach the next chord and maybe thats why some chords don't sound entirly clean , i.e when you move from the Dm to the F and then to G. Attach all the chord with the same strength , and play all the chords in the same way , some chords sound louder than other , and some sound cleaner than others.

Tone

I know that we are practicing and I also asked you to play it very clean , but we can work on the tone too. The tone you used was to dry and to bright for my taste, I preffer for this king of struming and arpeggios more mid range, were you using the bridge pick up ? if yes try moving it to the neck pick up. Of what I want here is that you find your tone deppending on what your are playing , but from now one I want to work on this too.

Im very happy with your work, very nice take , we're going on the right path. I'll comment on the other videos tomorrow. Please upload a new video of the first assigment using the recommendations I said. If you feel that Im wrong in anything that Im saying please let me know , this is a team work.

So keep working the way you are doing it.

See you tomorrow.

Andrés.

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 13 2009, 05:23 PM

OK Harry , before we move to the next lessons I really want you to be comfortable with this chords. You have a very good sens of timing , but not changing in a good way from one chord to another affects the timing. I want you to practice the Muris lesson and I want you to learn this Carlos Carrillo lesson too , you don't have to play it a full time , what I want is for you to get used to changing between chords.

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/c-major-and-g-major-chords/

And then try another take of Muris lesson.

Posted by: big harry Jan 13 2009, 07:06 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 13 2009, 05:23 PM)

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 13 2009, 07:16 PM

Ok try to play it perfect , if after the practice you can't, please upload a video with a slower backing track. Any way I don't think you will have to much trouble to play this lesson perfectly. You will nail it with just a little more practice, just take in count the advices I gave you earlier.

Have a nice practice , see you later.

Posted by: big harry Jan 13 2009, 07:41 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 13 2009, 07:16 PM)

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 13 2009, 08:00 PM

Muris lesson. Carlos lesson is only an excercise to improve changing chords.

Posted by: big harry Jan 13 2009, 10:07 PM

hey andres

didnt get it perfect today
i feel pretty uncomfortable with the G but i will get it
just did a short clip only with strumming the chords so that i can concentrate more on the chord changes
from Em to G in the first part i have less problems, i changed the fingering on the Em from 2-3 to 1-2 and this way its getting better but from F to G i still have probs as you see in the clip
from Dm to F getting better in my oppinion but theres many work left

nevertheless i am not very pleased with that but i will get for sure
couldnt do the lesson all the time cause my fingertips feel some kind of bloodless now so i did the beginner solo in D from Muris in between to get a bit away from that stuff and came back after 30 mins to the strumming lesson

what about the other vids i posted ? what do you think of that ?

cya man
Harry

i will leave for bed now man, its late and i am tired for today, tomorrow is another day and i will keep on
cya man

Posted by: big harry Jan 14 2009, 08:43 AM

Hey Andres
Still awake ? What time is it at columbia ? must be somewhere around 3 in the morning, isnt it ?

still practicing ?

Harry

Hi again

Andres what time schedule do we have for the first week ? when is the first week finished ?

will we keep up on the syllabus for the rest of the time ?

what would you suggest for my practice routine in future ?

ok the first part will be "chords" in every possible position
i learned that i really need to focus on that for a while because there are many things to be done in my playing on that

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 14 2009, 05:39 PM

Good morning Harry,

You've done an excellent work with the first assigment , you complete the whole lesson , and you have a good sense of rythm and timing. So let's move on , but I want you to keep practicing Muris lesson until you get it perfect. And I would Love to watch a video when that happends. If you need more excersices please let me know. I think Carlos lesson will be an excersise too.

So now I would like to comment on your 2 other videos:

Slow pentatonics

The lesson

You learned the whole lesson with any mistakes

Your playing

Very nice played , I like a lot your hand position and you use all your fingers very nice. What I would suggest for this lesson is to stick to alternate picking, it will sound more consistent and it will help you in the future when you will play faster licks. I don't know if you do it on purpose or not but you use economy picking when you switch strings. This is not a mistake , but if your looking forward to develope speed in the future , I would suggest to develope a strong alternate picking technique. You have a nice vibrato , try to use it a little more , and experiment with it, make it wider , faster , and see what comes out of it.


Tone

I like the tone in this take more than in the first video. Try to change the position of the pickup selector while your playing it will give different tones , and that way you will finding your tone.


Conclusion

Awesom work on this lesson , try to incorporate the tips I told you and I would like to see a new video. Awesome work I loved this take.

Frusciante Lesson

The Lesson

You learned the whole lesson perfectly again.

Your playing

Very nice executed, as I have said before you have a very good techinque. As in the previous video I suggest zou to stick to alternate picking, and to add little more vibrato. Your bends are very accurate and solid.

Tone

Very nice clean tone , I like it very much. Same as in the firts video try to give it more warm sound adding some midds to it.

Conclusion

Awesome work , just try to incorporate the tips about alternate picking and vibrato.

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So harry you've done an awesome work so far.

Next assigment is choose one of the following lessons :

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/smoke-on-the-water-deep-purple/

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/blues-groove-library-part-1/

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/alice-in-chains-style-lesson/

I don't think your going to have any trouble with any of this lesson, Im looking forward to the video so we can move on to alternate picking excercises and more soloing lessons.

I will work on a routine for you so zou can have it on the futurre, for the moment lets work on our assigments, we wont have any troubles with them, so we can move on.

Have a nice day and a nice practice.

Andrés.

Posted by: big harry Jan 14 2009, 07:38 PM

Hey Andres

Here we go for the next for the next practice session

first of all, many many thx for your words, pushes me further and motivating for today
no man i never lost motivation but i was a bit unhappy with the exercise you gave me, not with the exercise but with the result of my playing
it shows me that there is still a long way to go for me and thats what keeps me up at this time

and so far i have seen that practicing chords is MUST HAVE in the routine

according my picking i need to be honest, never looked pretty much at it, just played how it felt most comfortable but i am sure you are right in fact of faster licks later on, could be a problem which i have already
i see that when i try to get faster ...... also need to improved here this will show up on the alternate thirds lesson *hehehe*

in case of the tone, i already thought about it and put treble back and middle and the bass range up a bit and you are right, it makes the sound better

week 2 assignment:

i will try to do all 3 lessons, deep purple should be no real problem, alice in chains i have tried already with the starting MTP

the blues groove should be a challange but i will try to get into it a bit, maybe some parts of the lesson

i dont want to rush but to keep practicing a bit spicy i dont want to do one thing for 2 or 3 hours otherwise my head will get stuck, so i want to try different things if this is ok for you


MANY THX again for your words according the lessons, makes me some inches bigger
maybe i should change my nickname into bigger Harry

i will keep you updated about the work with video as usual

cya
Harry

Posted by: big harry Jan 14 2009, 09:02 PM

hi Andres

here are the first takes of

- Smoke on the water
and
- Alice in chains (only rhythm part) - solo part i still need to work on, need to get the fingerings fixed

looking for your first feedback to continue the lessons with more intense

cya
Harry

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 15 2009, 07:27 AM

What's up Harry?

You've been working very hard, you're like the student every teacher wants.

So lets go to the lessons:

Smoke on the Water

The Lesson

You learned the lesson perfectly.

Your playing

Very nice played. The only thing I would suggest is to put your thumb behind the neck , this will give you more control and it will be easier for you to stretch zour fingers on the fretboard. You have very nice sense of timing and rythm, which is the goal of this week assigment.

Tone

I like it , it sounds rough and hard. Maybe try to use a little less distortion and see how it goes.

Awesome work on this one.

Alice in Chains style lesson

The Lesson

You learned it perfectly, don't worry about the solo this week we are working on timing and rythm, we'll work on soloing later.

Your playing

Very well played, good timing and good rythm , very consistent. In this lesson I liked that you put your thumb behind the neck. It is not mandatory , but sometimes you will feel better in this particular position. Try to mute the strings a littlebit more with your right hand.

Tone

Try this lesson with the neck pick up , we are looking for a darker sound.

Awesome work here too.

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You have an awesome sense for timing and rythm , now Im looking forward to watch the blues lesson, these two were to easy for you , so I really want you to practice the blues lesson.

I also agree to practice different things on one session, sometimes you can't move forward and you keep doing the same excercises, but if you change to another excercise or play a song your mind becomes clearer and than you can come back.

So keep going mate you are on the right track.

Andrés.

Posted by: big harry Jan 15 2009, 10:49 AM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 15 2009, 07:27 AM)

What's up Harry?

hey man, whats up ? i am doing great, i cannot even work, because i nearly think of the guitar the whole day
since i am part of this i have an interesting motivation, it seems i could play 24/7, hope this will keep like this for some days

i guess this will end, if there will come some kind of tricky lessons *hehehe* like Muris "alternate thirds"

what about you ? how are you doing with Pedja´s Fusion collab ?
he asked me to get into it but i think i am not so far for now, i really would love to and i also promised him to look at it (Sorry Pedja )


You've been working very hard, you're like the student every teacher wants.

come on, i have never been the teachers best friend in the past

So lets go to the lessons:

Smoke on the Water

The Lesson

You learned the lesson perfectly.

i have done it with the previous mtp already, so its not so long ago and also this is a song everybody has pretty good in mind so its quite easy, nevertheless if you start learning guitar, it could be really tricky

Your playing

Very nice played. The only thing I would suggest is to put your thumb behind the neck , this will give you more control and it will be easier for you to stretch zour fingers on the fretboard. You have very nice sense of timing and rythm, which is the goal of this week assigment.

you are right, i need to work a bit on the position of the hand/thumb, these things (position of hand or as in the last lesson economy instead of alternate picking) mostly just "happens" without thinking

Tone

I like it , it sounds rough and hard. Maybe try to use a little less distortion and see how it goes.

Awesome work on this one.

Alice in Chains style lesson

The Lesson

You learned it perfectly, don't worry about the solo this week we are working on timing and rythm, we'll work on soloing later.

Your playing

Very well played, good timing and good rythm , very consistent. In this lesson I liked that you put your thumb behind the neck. It is not mandatory , but sometimes you will feel better in this particular position. Try to mute the strings a littlebit more with your right hand.

i had this problem already in the "beginner solo from Muris, when it comes to the short sweeping part i couldnt reach the 12th fret when my thumb was over the neck, but when i put it behind the neck it´s going great, you can see it here
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=23488

Tone

Try this lesson with the neck pick up , we are looking for a darker sound.

i will try one vid with another sound, will have a look what i can get out of it

Awesome work here too.

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You have an awesome sense for timing and rythm , now Im looking forward to watch the blues lesson, these two were to easy for you , so I really want you to practice the blues lesson.

really looking forward to Ivans blues challange, hope i can get out some update tonight for you

I also agree to practice different things on one session, sometimes you can't move forward and you keep doing the same excercises, but if you change to another excercise or play a song your mind becomes clearer and than you can come back.

So keep going mate you are on the right track.
THX alot Andres, i really enjoy this work with you

Andrés.

Posted by: big harry Jan 15 2009, 09:46 PM

Hi Andres

Up for some Blues ?
here we go with the first 2 exercises of the blues library at a speed of 100 bpm with metronom
the blues rhythm itself was no problem at normal speed, just the ending was the problem so i first tried with 80 and at least with 100 bpm to give you an update for today

just a little mistake at the end of the 2nd with the finishing chord, as we have seen in week 1

maybe i will do another 1 or 2 now but dont know if i can make them sound pretty good

hope you like it and dont have too much to add
this time i used the neck pickup clean for some bluesy sound, i like it this time, hope you too

cya
Harry

Posted by: big harry Jan 16 2009, 12:59 PM

Hey Andres

In fact that this is still a testphase i thought of making a summary could be useful

THE SYLLABUS
Week 1

Timing & rhythm (Part 1) - Chords to a backing track

Beginner- Strumming and Arpeggios

Week 2

Timing & Rhythm (Part 2) - choice of 3 lessons

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Blues Groove Library - Part 1
Alice in Chains style lesson

Week 3

Soloing - choice of 3 lessons

John Frusciante Style lesson
Slow Pentatonics Lesson
Tarantella Rock

Week 4

Finger Workouts/Exercise

Alternate Picking - thirds Lesson


Summary of Week 1(from 9th to 16th January 2009)

Timing and rhythm - part 1

Beginner strumming and arpeggios - Lesson is done

Outcoming problems:
Technique:
Different fingering from Gmaj chord than in the original Lesson, switching between chords
added lesson from Carlos Carillo to solve this problem

Tone/Sound:
Use more different sounds to get the right feeling of music, work on the tone

Timing and rhythm - part 2

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple - Lesson is done
Outcoming problems:
Technique:
position of thumb

Tone/Sound:
no probs at all

Alice in Chains style lesson - Lesson is done without solo part (will be done later on)
Outcoming problems:
Technique:
position of thumb better than before

Tone/Sound:
no probs at all - just work with the tone, darker sound needed here

Blues Groove Library - Part 1 - Lesson in progress
just the first 2 exercises done yet, wil be added after finished lesson


Soloing

John Frusciante Style lesson - Lesson is done

Outcoming problems:
Technique:
used economy picking - better use alternate picking
working on bends and vibrato

Tone/Sound:
no problems here

Slow Pentatonics Lesson - Lesson is done

Outcoming problems:
Technique:
used economy picking - better use alternate picking
working on bends and vibrato

Tone/Sound:
better than in lesson 1 - still needs some variations


so far for the summary of whats going on here
if you have to add sthg please feel free to do that

cya
Harry

Posted by: big harry Jan 17 2009, 08:46 PM

Hey Andres

just a short uptdate for you

Blues groove:
i have some difficulties with the inversions at the end
needs some work more, somewhere at exercise 6 i am at the moment

i guess i need to do them a bit longer

chords exercises:
the first exercise goes better, i will get this soon i guess
not so many probs with the Dm/F/G progression left, just with arpeggios
i will get this

Carlos exercise:
this makes me some more problems, need to get confident to the chord variations
can play them pretty slow but my hand starts to feel like a claw when i do that

Alternate picking thirds:
i already started this one also
standard patterns/shapes go quite well, different fingerings need some more work

this is just a short report for you to keep our thread at live

cya soon
Harry

Posted by: big harry Jan 19 2009, 08:10 AM

Hi Andres

I did some practice on the weekend but not so much as usual

nevertheless i made some vids for you to check out

what i have done so far is

Lesson 1 Beginner strumming and arpeggios
still not "perfect" but i guess its going better, especially with the descending arpeggios the chordchanges from F to G making some probs

Blues groove - exercise 1
Blues groove - exercise 2
Blues groove - exercise 3
Blues groove - exercise 4
Blues groove - exercise 5

i slowed the tempo for the blues a bit down to 100 bpm for exercise 1, 2 and 3 and 80 bpm for lessone 4 and 5

most problems comming up at the B and the endings, the groove itself doesnt make real problems i guess

when will the end of week 2 ? wednesday ?

Posted by: big harry Jan 19 2009, 04:19 PM

Hey Andres

have just a short question

when i play barre chords after some mins my hand gets stuck, what would you suggest ?
am i having wrong position of hand or what could affect this case ?
or is it because of less playing barre chords ?

when i try to change the position of thumb doesnt help really

cya
harry

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 22 2009, 06:24 AM

QUOTE (big harry @ Jan 19 2009, 02:10 AM)

Hi Andres

I did some practice on the weekend but not so much as usual

nevertheless i made some vids for you to check out

what i have done so far is

Lesson 1 Beginner strumming and arpeggios
still not "perfect" but i guess its going better, especially with the descending arpeggios the chordchanges from F to G making some probs

Blues groove - exercise 1
Blues groove - exercise 2
Blues groove - exercise 3
Blues groove - exercise 4
Blues groove - exercise 5

i slowed the tempo for the blues a bit down to 100 bpm for exercise 1, 2 and 3 and 80 bpm for lessone 4 and 5

most problems comming up at the B and the endings, the groove itself doesnt make real problems i guess

when will the end of week 2 ? wednesday ?

Posted by: big harry Jan 22 2009, 10:39 AM

Hey Andres glad to have you back
Hope your girlfriend will like Europe, especially Madrid or Spain, but just to let you know, Austria is more beautiful

I will keep the Blues lesson in mind (already bookmarked library 2 of the blues groove )

To visualize your own mistakes is not so easy, and the video lessons are very important to get this, but its better to have someone, who tells you also some details

Warming up: i usually try to warm up with scales at the moment, but sometimes i just grab the guitar and play what comes in mind without warming up (shame on me)

Thumb behind the neck or not:
This is kind of really bad habbit, i really must concentrate on it to keep the thumb behind the neck, need to work on that

Changing positions of chords
This is really a thing that you showed me, that there is work to do
As long i was playing in a band this happens automatically, but since i am out i didnt really focus on that, now i am doing the open chords from the beginner strumming and the extended chords from Carlos Carillo as you suggested and i am really getting into it
The changes come more fluently and the fingers get used to the changing positions
Some more weeks and i can move on to advanced chords ......
Awaiting your warm up for chord changing

I am 100% with you but sometimes i „feel“ that i can do it better or even faster and then i want too much ........ also a bad habbit, and then it gets sloppy .....

I was really working on the strumming lesson and really concentrating on the chords and the fingerings, i figured out that at the first part Am-C-Em-Dm you can always keep one finger on the fretboard while changing chords, which makes the changes more fluent form e
Hope this makes some kind of sense

When i wrote that thing with pain in hand i was again trying too much
Since i have done Carlos lesson a few times meanwhile it´s getting more and more comfortable, ok after a while it still starts to get hurting but then i stop and as you suggested i continue with other things and later on i come back for some more minutes
That will work, i will just stay on path in that

So up to week 3
The alternate picking thirds is definately a tough one but i am getting slowly into it
The standard pattern is not the problem, this one i can do at around 75 to 80 bpm
At the moment i am concentrating on the other fingerings but ist a thing that i can do for sure, just takes time to get used to the fingerings – if you like i will do a vid from the status at the moment

I am also doing the Alternate Picking - 16th Note Exercises from Jose Mena to get used to this 16th notes. I also have done Muris „timing exercise“ some time ago, but i always was kicked by this 8th triplets, 16th and 16th triplets

Streching fingers:
How would suggest to do this ?

I will have a closer look on Danilos lesson and will involve it in the warm up thing
[url="http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/economy-picking-iii/"]lesson from Danilo Capesutto[/url

Here is a list of exercises/lessons i already have done or i am still doing from time to time if you are interested
i usually pick out lessons from level 3 to 6 and look if i can do it

C Major and G Major Chords
Beginner Solo in D
Fingers Independence I
Warming Up with Marcus Siepen
Finger Shifting I
Right Hand Basics I
Hands Synchronization I
Muris Varajic Alternate Picking
Timing Exercise
Alternate Picking - 16th Note Exercises
I Got Rhythm Guitar 1 - Drop D
Pentatonic Scale 1 - Position Shifting
Palm Mute Workout
Basic chord series
And the lessons of the MTP like Smoke on the water, Alice in chains, Blues groove, John Frusciante style, Slow pentatonics and the beginner strumming.

Here is a short list of my bookmarked lessons which i like to try someday
This is the result of 85 pages from 125, so i still need to work through 40 pages

- Extended Chords Lesson
- Fusion Jam - Beginner
- Country Picking - Beginner
- In the Style of Brian May
- Aeolian Lead - Beginners
- I Got Rhythm Guitar 10 - Arpeggiated Chords I
- Combining Pentatonics Major and Minor
- Minor 7th Arpeggio Boxes
- Downstrokes and Position Shifting
- Dominant 7th Arpeggio Boxes
- Eric Clapton Style Blues Lesson
- Country Solo - Beginner
- Lydian Riffing
- Drop 3 Chords
- Pentatonic Position Switch
- Lydian Phrasing - Beginner
- Basic Metal Rhythm Guitar
- Blues Groove Library Part 2
- Nickelback Style Lesson
- ZZ Top Style Lesson
- Harmonic Minor for Beginners
- Rock Rhythm with Triads
- AC/DC Style
- Five Exercises to Improve Sweep Now!
- Funky Chords
- Improvising with Arpeggios
- Double Stops
- Economy Picking I – the whole series
- Van Halen Tapping Style - Beginner
- Songwriting - Metal
- String Skipping Arpeggios Workout
- Slash Chords (Starters)
- Extended Chords Ballad
- Clean Up Your Act With Good Finger Placement
- 3 Minutes Warmup
- Blues Solo in D
- Painting the Chords
- Take Control of Your Bends
- Eddie Van Halen Style
- Beginner Rock Rhythm
- Major Arpeggios Etude
- Fireflight - Ballad Style Lesson
- Pentatonic Patterns in Five Positions
- Combining Rhythm and Lead
- Slow Bending Licks Solo Lesson
- Slow Melody Lesson
- Mixolydian Soloing - Beginner
- Blues Soloing - Beginner
- E Minor - Melodic Solo
- Rocking Tune - Beginner
- Pentatonic Solo Lesson
- Rock Solo - Beginner
- Pentatonic Licks - Beginner
- Gary Moore Style + Bonus Sound Tutorial
- Fast Pentatonic Picking Licks
- Hard Rock Licks
- Jumping Around - Beginner
- Phrygian Soloing - Beginner
- Triad Arpeggios Lesson
- Alternate Picking - Upstroke Focus
- Pentatonic Runs & Rhythmic Displacement
- Modal Workout
- Modal Madness
- Acoustic Blues Workshop - Level 1 - Delta Blues
- Alternate Picking Lesson 1
- Guitar Scales for Beginners
- Speedpicking/alternate picking basics
- Barre Chords
- Legato Exercise Lesson
- Little Finger Work-out
- Left Hand Only Exercise
- Pentatonic Workshop Level 1- CAGED Format and Timing Excersies
- Pentatonic Tapping
- Unlocking Your Scales Part 1
- Guitar Exercises (Beginner and Beyond)
- How to Practice Guitar
- Beginner Licks
- Sweep Picking Lesson
- Hand Control Lesson
- Advanced Power Chords
- Pentatonic Rock Cliches
- Open Chords Rock Rhythm
- Hard Rock Rhythm
- Progressive Power Chords and Scales

today i will be on in the evening for another practice session
i try to do a vid of the alternate picking thirds to give you a point of few

still need to write a practice routine, maybe i will do later or do you have any special suggestions on that ?
maybe we can compose it together ?

so now i will end this awesome post, hope you have time to read it

cya
Harry

Posted by: lcsdds Jan 22 2009, 11:34 AM

QUOTE (big harry @ Jan 22 2009, 10:39 AM)

Hey Andres glad to have you back
Hope your girlfriend will like Europe, especially Madrid or Spain, but just to let you know, Austria is more beautiful

I will keep the Blues lesson in mind (already bookmarked library 2 of the blues groove )

To visualize your own mistakes is not so easy, and the video lessons are very important to get this, but its better to have someone, who tells you also some details

Warming up: i usually try to warm up with scales at the moment, but sometimes i just grab the guitar and play what comes in mind without warming up (shame on me)

Thumb behind the neck or not:
This is kind of really bad habbit, i really must concentrate on it to keep the thumb behind the neck, need to work on that

Changing positions of chords
This is really a thing that you showed me, that there is work to do
As long i was playing in a band this happens automatically, but since i am out i didnt really focus on that, now i am doing the open chords from the beginner strumming and the extended chords from Carlos Carillo as you suggested and i am really getting into it
The changes come more fluently and the fingers get used to the changing positions
Some more weeks and i can move on to advanced chords ......
Awaiting your warm up for chord changing

I am 100% with you but sometimes i „feel“ that i can do it better or even faster and then i want too much ........ also a bad habbit, and then it gets sloppy .....

I was really working on the strumming lesson and really concentrating on the chords and the fingerings, i figured out that at the first part Am-C-Em-Dm you can always keep one finger on the fretboard while changing chords, which makes the changes more fluent form e
Hope this makes some kind of sense

When i wrote that thing with pain in hand i was again trying too much
Since i have done Carlos lesson a few times meanwhile it´s getting more and more comfortable, ok after a while it still starts to get hurting but then i stop and as you suggested i continue with other things and later on i come back for some more minutes
That will work, i will just stay on path in that

So up to week 3
The alternate picking thirds is definately a tough one but i am getting slowly into it
The standard pattern is not the problem, this one i can do at around 75 to 80 bpm
At the moment i am concentrating on the other fingerings but ist a thing that i can do for sure, just takes time to get used to the fingerings – if you like i will do a vid from the status at the moment

I am also doing the Alternate Picking - 16th Note Exercises from Jose Mena to get used to this 16th notes. I also have done Muris „timing exercise“ some time ago, but i always was kicked by this 8th triplets, 16th and 16th triplets

Streching fingers:
How would suggest to do this ?

I will have a closer look on Danilos lesson and will involve it in the warm up thing
[url="http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/economy-picking-iii/"]lesson from Danilo Capesutto[/url

Here is a list of exercises/lessons i already have done or i am still doing from time to time if you are interested
i usually pick out lessons from level 3 to 6 and look if i can do it

C Major and G Major Chords
Beginner Solo in D
Fingers Independence I
Warming Up with Marcus Siepen
Finger Shifting I
Right Hand Basics I
Hands Synchronization I
Muris Varajic Alternate Picking
Timing Exercise
Alternate Picking - 16th Note Exercises
I Got Rhythm Guitar 1 - Drop D
Pentatonic Scale 1 - Position Shifting
Palm Mute Workout
Basic chord series
And the lessons of the MTP like Smoke on the water, Alice in chains, Blues groove, John Frusciante style, Slow pentatonics and the beginner strumming.

Here is a short list of my bookmarked lessons which i like to try someday
This is the result of 85 pages from 125, so i still need to work through 40 pages

- Extended Chords Lesson
- Fusion Jam - Beginner
- Country Picking - Beginner
- In the Style of Brian May
- Aeolian Lead - Beginners
- I Got Rhythm Guitar 10 - Arpeggiated Chords I
- Combining Pentatonics Major and Minor
- Minor 7th Arpeggio Boxes
- Downstrokes and Position Shifting
- Dominant 7th Arpeggio Boxes
- Eric Clapton Style Blues Lesson
- Country Solo - Beginner
- Lydian Riffing
- Drop 3 Chords
- Pentatonic Position Switch
- Lydian Phrasing - Beginner
- Basic Metal Rhythm Guitar
- Blues Groove Library Part 2
- Nickelback Style Lesson
- ZZ Top Style Lesson
- Harmonic Minor for Beginners
- Rock Rhythm with Triads
- AC/DC Style
- Five Exercises to Improve Sweep Now!
- Funky Chords
- Improvising with Arpeggios
- Double Stops
- Economy Picking I – the whole series
- Van Halen Tapping Style - Beginner
- Songwriting - Metal
- String Skipping Arpeggios Workout
- Slash Chords (Starters)
- Extended Chords Ballad
- Clean Up Your Act With Good Finger Placement
- 3 Minutes Warmup
- Blues Solo in D
- Painting the Chords
- Take Control of Your Bends
- Eddie Van Halen Style
- Beginner Rock Rhythm
- Major Arpeggios Etude
- Fireflight - Ballad Style Lesson
- Pentatonic Patterns in Five Positions
- Combining Rhythm and Lead
- Slow Bending Licks Solo Lesson
- Slow Melody Lesson
- Mixolydian Soloing - Beginner
- Blues Soloing - Beginner
- E Minor - Melodic Solo
- Rocking Tune - Beginner
- Pentatonic Solo Lesson
- Rock Solo - Beginner
- Pentatonic Licks - Beginner
- Gary Moore Style + Bonus Sound Tutorial
- Fast Pentatonic Picking Licks
- Hard Rock Licks
- Jumping Around - Beginner
- Phrygian Soloing - Beginner
- Triad Arpeggios Lesson
- Alternate Picking - Upstroke Focus
- Pentatonic Runs & Rhythmic Displacement
- Modal Workout
- Modal Madness
- Acoustic Blues Workshop - Level 1 - Delta Blues
- Alternate Picking Lesson 1
- Guitar Scales for Beginners
- Speedpicking/alternate picking basics
- Barre Chords
- Legato Exercise Lesson
- Little Finger Work-out
- Left Hand Only Exercise
- Pentatonic Workshop Level 1- CAGED Format and Timing Excersies
- Pentatonic Tapping
- Unlocking Your Scales Part 1
- Guitar Exercises (Beginner and Beyond)
- How to Practice Guitar
- Beginner Licks
- Sweep Picking Lesson
- Hand Control Lesson
- Advanced Power Chords
- Pentatonic Rock Cliches
- Open Chords Rock Rhythm
- Hard Rock Rhythm
- Progressive Power Chords and Scales

today i will be on in the evening for another practice session
i try to do a vid of the alternate picking thirds to give you a point of few

still need to write a practice routine, maybe i will do later or do you have any special suggestions on that ?
maybe we can compose it together ?

so now i will end this awesome post, hope you have time to read it

cya
Harry

Posted by: big harry Jan 22 2009, 11:37 AM

QUOTE (lcsdds @ Jan 22 2009, 11:26 AM)

Harry,
I expect a video of all those lessons you have bookmarked by Sunday!! Actually Sunday might not be realistic, I'll give you until Tuesday!!

Keep up the good work Harry!!

Monte

Posted by: big harry Jan 22 2009, 03:30 PM

Hey Andres

did you have a look at this one ?

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?act=findpost&pid=319718

what do you think of it ?

cheers
Harry

Posted by: big harry Jan 22 2009, 09:08 PM

ok Andres here we go with the first take of alternate picking thirds at 85 bpm
just standard fingerings

lets see what you have to say :-))

Posted by: big harry Jan 23 2009, 10:07 AM

Hey Andres

Thx again for the nice talking yesterday.
Just to keep you in mind, from the 31st of january till the 4th of february i will out for skiing.
i will be back on the 5th of february to move on working.

i did an improvisation over Pedja´s Fusion collab but i used the wrong backing, the Funk collab backing (shame on me)
SORRY AGAIN PEDJA

but i wanted to post it though because i really like it and i think i did a good job

whats your thinking man ?
Still awaiting your comments on the Alternate picking thirds and the beginner solo

HEY MAN TELL ME THAT I AM THE BEST

cya
Harry

 Big_Harry_Pedja_collab_wbt___take_1.mp3 ( 592.92K ) : 166

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 23 2009, 03:51 PM

Hi Harry,

Let's take a look at the alternate picking thirds lesson:

The lesson

You learned half the lesson, we have still the thirds picking pattern to learn

Your playing

You started with a nice and consitent alternate picking, and then when you're going up you changed to a nice and consitenf economy picking, and you did that on the 4 patterns. Going down you can mantain the alternate picking but when your going up you changed to economy.

This is very strange , I find it harder the way you're doing it , and the economy picking sounds very good , but remember that the goal here is to play the whole lesson in alternate picking.

Something I miss in this lesson is a little more right hand muting , try to keep your right hand close to the strings muting the strings your not playing.

As always your timing is very nice.

Tone

Your working on your tone and thats very nice. I woulf only suggest for this one to use less distortion , thats all

Conclusion

I want you to play the lesson in the 60 bpm backing track , first the 4 basic patterns, but all of them with alternate picking. And then I want you to play the whole lesson at 60 bpm with alternate picking. At this moment speed is not important , what is really important is to concentrate on your alternate picking , so when you are going up concetrate on not repeating the up stroke.

You have a nice economy picking technique and sounds very smooth. Thats cool , because when you master both techinques you will be able to choose between a stacatto sound (more attack) wich is the alternate picking or a legatto(smoother sound) sound wich is the economy picking.

Nice job , no problems with timing but I really want you to concentrate on the alternate picking. If you want a slower backing please let me know.
-------------------------------------------------

I'll comment on your improvisation and on the Muris lesson later.

Your playing very good , keep on rocking!

Posted by: big harry Jan 23 2009, 11:04 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 23 2009, 03:51 PM)

 MTP___AP_thirds_1_60bpm.wmv ( 1.99MB ) : 137
 MTP___AP_thirds_2_50bpm.wmv ( 1.9MB ) : 124

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 23 2009, 11:48 PM

Very nive work Harry, congratulations.

Now I want you to play both patterns together like in the lesson, Im uploading 3 bakings at 50,60 an70 bpm for zou to work on. Another recommendation watch your previous video , the one you made with economy picking, do you see that you have a very short movement when doing economy picking, I want you to try and do a shorter move with alternate picking too. That would give you a little bit more speed when needed.

So here you have the backings:


 alternateBT50.mp3 ( 1.85MB ) : 215

 alternateBT60.mp3 ( 1.54MB ) : 199

 alternateBT70.mp3 ( 1.32MB ) : 199


Awesome work my friend.

Posted by: big harry Jan 26 2009, 01:00 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 23 2009, 11:48 PM)

Very nive work Harry, congratulations.

Now I want you to play both patterns together like in the lesson, Im uploading 3 bakings at 50,60 an70 bpm for zou to work on. Another recommendation watch your previous video , the one you made with economy picking, do you see that you have a very short movement when doing economy picking, I want you to try and do a shorter move with alternate picking too. That would give you a little bit more speed when needed.

So here you have the backings:


 alternateBT50.mp3 ( 1.85MB ) : 215

 alternateBT60.mp3 ( 1.54MB ) : 199

 alternateBT70.mp3 ( 1.32MB ) : 199


Awesome work my friend.

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 27 2009, 05:50 PM

Hi Harry ,

whats up my friend?

How's practicing going ?

what time schedule do we have ?
We are on week 4 , so we are on schedule.

how long is the mtp running ?

One more week if Im not wrong


i guess we still need to make a practice routine right ?

Of course we have to , but I really want to finish with our MTP assigments


how are you by the way ?

Im ok , missining my girlfriend , but with a lot of time to play guitar so thats great.

So Harry how is that thirds alternate picking excercise going? I really want you to nail that lesson , and after that I want you to record week 3 assigments using alternate picking strictly.

I listened to your take on Pedjas collab , and I would like to comment about, although Pedja will give us of course a better understanding of it.

Really nice tone I liked it a lot. You used some interesting ideas in the first 4 bars , and when you switch to Cm I guess you got a little confused and didn't know where to go, it sounded like a couplem of notes on the scale , you chould have stayed on the same rytmic mood as the first 4 bars or you should give some space to the melody. You have a great vibrato I really liked that about your playing , use it more. I liked very much how you resolved the solo , on the G chord and then to the A minor again, it would be great if you used the G#dim7 arpeggio , but as I said you did an awesome work resolving the solo.

Harry you can play very well , you have very nice rythmic ideas, I guess you just have to improve your techinque a little more and you'll be flying like the pros.

Thats it for now, looking forward to watch that alternate picking video.

Have a nice day my friend.

Posted by: big harry Jan 27 2009, 10:01 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 27 2009, 05:50 PM)

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 27 2009, 10:57 PM

You made laugh Harry , I love that you take your practicng with good attitude and good humour.

You're still struggling with the alternate picking and I want that strugle to stop, I want you and the alternate picking to be best friends. So I want you to practice the following excercises every day as a warm up, before anything.

So here they go , play them slowly we're not looking to get speed we're looking fo syncronization.

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/hands-synchronisation1/
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/hands-synchronisation2/

Relax your picking arm , you're fighting with your arm and your hand, you have a good posture , but the right hand it's to tight.

Before playing make relax movements with your right hand , like it is loose.

Ok , try those excercises and tell me what you think.

I'm looking forward to pedjas comments too, let's see what happends and please don't fly down the stairs.

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 29 2009, 06:09 PM

Hey Harry,

Whats up? How is practice going?

Did you learnt hands sync excercises?

How is the alternate picking thirds lesson going?

Cheers.

Posted by: big harry Jan 29 2009, 07:18 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 29 2009, 06:09 PM)

Posted by: big harry Jan 29 2009, 09:45 PM

hey my friend

here is some hands synchronisation for you

what do you think about it ?

and some alternate thirds, scale 1

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 29 2009, 10:04 PM

QUOTE (big harry @ Jan 29 2009, 03:45 PM)

Posted by: big harry Jan 29 2009, 10:21 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 29 2009, 10:04 PM)

 Video_100.wmv ( 1.97MB ) : 96
 Video_102.wmv ( 1.9MB ) : 87

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 29 2009, 10:44 PM

QUOTE (big harry @ Jan 29 2009, 04:21 PM)

Posted by: big harry Jan 30 2009, 10:26 AM

Hey Andru

thx for your comments, they keep on pushing me forward

i will try to set a session today in the evening, but i am nor sure at the moment if i get the time.
as you know i will be out for skiing from tomorrow morning until wednesday next week (4th feb.)

i will try to get on later on and maybe post a new video for you

i will make it at slower tempo, maybe with 50 or sthg like that, lets have a look
i will make it with the clean sound so we can hear where the problems are *hehehe*
i still need to fix scale 4 but i will try to make a complete vid if i can handle it *hehehe*

cya then
Harry

Posted by: big harry Jan 30 2009, 08:47 PM

Hey Andru

I am sorry but i couldnt do a vid today because i just had some minutes for practice
had to much to prepare for my holiday (only had 30 mins for practice today)

so i will do the vid on thursday next week when i will be back from holiday
i wish you a nice time so far and hope you enjoy the time without me

i am not sure when exactly this MTP ends (still hoping that we can go on )but in any way i will do the video for you, even if i need to send it via mail to you

i will for sure continue my routine with

- chords
- hands sync
- scales
- ALTERNATE PICKING

this i will do for some while

if there are any other suggestions from you, PLEASE let me know or feel free to tell me what you think

i will be back on thursday the 5th feb (maybe on 4th evening)
so have a nice time and hope to see you again

cya
Harry

Posted by: coffeeman Jan 31 2009, 06:07 AM

Hi Harry,

So it's been very interesting weeks , I've had a lot of fun , and I must say I have learnt a lot and I hope you did too. 4 weeks is a very short time to become a master , but I'm sure that during these 4 weeks we have discover new things that will lead you in a new direction from now on on your practice routine.

Let's sum up:

Assigment # 1

Rhythm & Timing

Very good sense for rhythm, you have no troubles at all with timing. The isue here was that you strugle changing from one chord position to another. You said you liked a lot bands like Ac/DC , well they use a lot of open string chords, you can learn a couple of songs from then that could be a fun practice. Although you have a very nice hand position sometimes you get confused with your thumb, but in the last week you were doing a great job with it.

Assigment #2

Rhythm & Timing

You learnt theses lessons very well , and as I said timing is not an isue for you, so you have to really take this as an advantage, always start practicing the lessons at a very slow tempo , a tempo were you can play effortellsly , and the move up to higher speeds. I don't know how much are you into rhythm guitar , but if you just correct a few things about changing chords you'll be a master in no time. Remember to keep these kind of lessons in your practice routine, rhythm helps a lot when it comes to soloing.

Assigment #3

Soloing


You learnt the solos very well. But here is when our alternate picking problems come. I really want you to practice with the tone you want to achive in your playing , when practicing soloing lessons. Is like you are in a concert you don't play with a raw tone, you play with YOUR tone. You learned the lessons very , well , go for other solos , but remember to keep a very strong alternate picking tecnique, unless it's a legatto or sweeping lesson.

Assigment # 4

Alternate picking



This was our hardest assigment, and I'm glad it happend that way. Sometimes other people has to show us what we are doing right or wrong. I repeat again , timing isn't an issue for you , so speed will come easly , the thing is to have a propper technique. Keep working on those excerices very slowly until you nail them , then increase the speed a little more.


It's been a really pleasure working with you Harry I hope we can keep working , I have to say that I have learned a lot in theses four weeks.

So have a nice trip and see you in one week.

Cheers.

Posted by: big harry Feb 4 2009, 09:01 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Jan 31 2009, 06:07 AM)

Posted by: big harry Feb 5 2009, 03:35 PM

Hey Andru

I will leave you a vid of alternate picking tonight

i would be glad if we could move this thing on, i like beeing mentored by you *hehehe*

maybe you too ?

cya
Harry

Posted by: coffeeman Feb 5 2009, 04:01 PM

QUOTE (big harry @ Feb 5 2009, 09:35 AM)

Hey Andru

I will leave you a vid of alternate picking tonight

i would be glad if we could move this thing on, i like beeing mentored by you *hehehe*

maybe you too ?

cya
Harry

Posted by: big harry Feb 6 2009, 09:58 AM

Hey Andru

sorry that i didnt post a vid yesterday but i had problems with the net
pictures from me skiing ? will be tough cause i was the only one who took pix *hehehe*
i will have a look if i find some, i guess my wife took 2 or 3 of me

but more important here is the first "alternate picking thirds" as a full version at the speed of 50 bpm
i was really tough to get this done after 4 days without practice *hehehe*
took me 2 hours to get it
but i got it
lets have a look

btw sorry for you that you didnt get the Muris competition

waiting for your comments
cya
Harry

 Alternate_picking_50bpm.wmv ( 7.12MB ) : 118

Posted by: big harry Feb 6 2009, 12:59 PM

hey my friend

here is a take from today with distortion at 50 bpm
wanted to take it with backing but i need to synchronisize it first
will take some time

hope you like it

cya
Harry

 alternate_pivking.MP3 ( 1.88MB ) : 177

Posted by: big harry Feb 6 2009, 02:46 PM

and now with backing at 50
1 little mistake inthere but sounds quite good to my ears

just a sound, will try to do it video also

cya
Harry

 alternate_picking_take_2_wbt.MP3 ( 1.87MB ) : 152

Posted by: big harry Feb 6 2009, 06:39 PM

and here is the pic of me on ski´s *hehehe*

Posted by: big harry Feb 6 2009, 08:57 PM

CALL ME MASTER MY FRIEND

here we go at 60 bpm
give me 2 more days and i will at 160

What do you think ?

 Alternate_picking_60bpm.wmv ( 6.6MB ) : 111

Posted by: big harry Feb 6 2009, 10:01 PM

Hey Andru

here is the agenda which we talked about

any comments on that ?

Practice agenda

Warm up - Hand snyc and Carlos chords in different positions for different chords - 15 mins
Chords, timing and rhythm - 2 exercises, each 10 mins - 20 mins
Alternate picking - 3 exercises, each 10 mins - 30 mins
Soloing - 1 Solo from different styles every week - 20 mins
Jamming over backing - up to 20 mins

Summary 105 mins a day

cheers
Harry

Posted by: big harry Feb 8 2009, 07:59 PM

Hey Andru

here is an UPDATE from the agenda which we talked about

any comments on that ?

Practice agenda

Warm up - Hand snyc and Carlos chords in different positions for different chords - 15 mins
Exercise 1 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/hands-synchronisation1/
Exercise 2 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/hands-synchronisation2/
Exercise 1 and 2 moves on to Hands synch series

Exercise 3 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/c-major-and-g-major-chords/
Exercise 3 moves on to different chords every week

Chords, timing and rhythm - 2 exercises, each 10 mins - 20 mins
Exercise 1 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/acdc-style-in-e-minor/
Exercise 2 - to be defined

Alternate picking - 3 exercises, each 10 mins - 30 mins
Exercise 1 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/alternate-picking-thirds/
Exercise 2 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/alternate-picking-16th-note-exercises/
Exercise 3 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/alternate-picking1/

Soloing - 1 Solo from different styles every week - 20 mins
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/blues-soloing-beginner/

Jamming over backing - up to 20 mins
to be defined

Summary 105 mins a day

Did you have time to check out the alternate takes ?

cheers
Harry

Posted by: coffeeman Feb 9 2009, 09:19 PM

QUOTE (big harry @ Feb 6 2009, 02:57 PM)

CALL ME MASTER MY FRIEND

here we go at 60 bpm
give me 2 more days and i will at 160

What do you think ?

Posted by: big harry Feb 10 2009, 07:31 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Feb 9 2009, 09:19 PM)

Posted by: big harry Feb 10 2009, 09:42 PM

in fact that i decided to start today with Jose´s 16th alternate here are some test vids from the first 3 exercises
this exercises are getting more fluently from the fingers than Muris´s thirds so i could do it at 80 bpm, starting from 60

its still hard to keep on track with the alternate, still need to really focus on that but i think i am getting warmer with it

if alternate and me can get "friends" will show the future but its getting a bit warmer indeed
thats just my oppinion, lets see what you say

cya
Harry

 16th_alternate_ex1__80bpm.wmv ( 1.27MB ) : 90
 16th_alternate_ex2__80bpm.wmv ( 974.07K ) : 116
 16th_alternate_ex3__80bpm.wmv ( 880.32K ) : 107

Posted by: coffeeman Feb 10 2009, 10:33 PM

QUOTE (big harry @ Feb 10 2009, 03:42 PM)

Posted by: big harry Feb 11 2009, 05:33 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Feb 10 2009, 10:33 PM)

Posted by: coffeeman Feb 11 2009, 05:57 PM

QUOTE (big harry @ Feb 11 2009, 11:33 AM)

Guitar speed trainer says that you should start at a speed where you can play it, then go faster and faster until you are not able to play it and then go back to a slower speed where you nearly are able to play it for 1 or 2 times
do you mean something like that ?

i found some tabs on Ultimate guitar just for the intro and i started to try it yesterday but..........no chance *hehehe*

what do you mean with participate on this month challange ?
what kind of challange are you talking about ?

yeah for sure i will have a look on that solo and see what i can do

hmmm ACDC songs for open chords training ??? sounds quite good to me
i will take a short look, which song i will choose .....

and what about the jam session you mentioned ?the thing with the lead guitar
what can i do in that part ? i am not really sure how to start this thing off.

cya later
Harry

Posted by: big harry Feb 12 2009, 03:28 PM

Hey Andru

Whats up ?

Take a look at my updated agenda
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=159&showentry=636

now its complete, what do you think about it ?

started with the Blues solo yesterday, the beginning is quite easy but then at around 16 seconds there is a part which is written some kind of weird in the GP file (wrote this already to Ivan) and this causes me some probs
will have a look at it again today and see what i can check out

i picked "Shoot to thrill" from AC/DC for the timing part, lets see what i can get out of it

just wanted to update you my friend

cya later
Harry

Posted by: big harry Feb 13 2009, 09:36 AM

hey my friend

just wanted to inform you that i took a day off yesterday and didnt do anything from my agenda

i just sat down and worked on Pedjas new collab

i wasnt in the mood for hard practice routine so i decided just to jam around on that
put a test-take on my agenda if you want to hear

but i gues today i will continue with hard work

just to keep you at the latest news

when is your gig this weekend ?
did you get the "doctor" ready for jam ? sure you did

cya
Harry

Posted by: coffeeman Feb 13 2009, 02:34 PM

QUOTE (big harry @ Feb 12 2009, 09:28 AM)

Posted by: big harry Feb 14 2009, 09:56 PM

Hey Andru back again

i had some troubles with the pc so i needed to reinstall windows and all the other stuff once more but i now i think i am back on top *hehehe*

here is the first try of the blues solo till 26 seconds (of the original)
the last part i didnt do till now, as you know i had to fight with the part at 16 sec
think i got the fingerings now from this part, but still need some work on it

its at 70bpm because i want to play it really clean (didnt work *hehehe*) but i also tried it at original of 90
still some mistakes in there but i guess i can do it (maybe in 2012 or sthg like that ) now just kidding
i wil get this thing
how was your gig with the "doctor" ?
hope everything was good..........

lets see what you think of this take (just audio)

cya
Harry

 Blues_soloing___70bpm_26sec.mp3 ( 594.82K ) : 146

Posted by: big harry Feb 14 2009, 10:31 PM

hi again

i did some work today

here at my agenda i put the first try on "shoot to thrill" for lead guitar
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=159&showentry=663
just have a look and tell me what you think

i KNOW its not perfect and PLEASE dont think tooooooooooooooo much of the solo at the end *hehehe*

hope to hear from you soon again

cheers
Harry

Posted by: big harry Feb 17 2009, 09:47 PM

Hey Andru

here i am again before this thread is going to freeze *hehehe*

here is my first video take of the blues solo at full speed

still some mistakes in it but its going the right direction i guess
what do you think ?

how was your gig Andru ?
did the doctor sound good to the crowd ?
i am sure they have been stagediving and all that stuff while you were playing *hehehe*

btw my sound and computer is back on, was a tough job *ufffff*

cya
Harry

 Blues_solo___beginner_take_1.wmv ( 2.27MB ) : 97

Posted by: coffeeman Feb 17 2009, 10:53 PM

QUOTE (big harry @ Feb 17 2009, 03:47 PM)

Posted by: big harry Feb 18 2009, 12:41 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Feb 17 2009, 10:53 PM)

Posted by: big harry Feb 19 2009, 09:05 PM

Hey Andru

here is my next take on the blues solo
back at 70 bpm but i need to fix the last section which i did pretty good i guess

now i just need to speed it up to 90
by the way i want to make a backing at 80, how did you do that with the alternate thirds backing ?
sent you a PM about that, maybe you can help me out ?

THX
Harry

 Blues_solo___70bpm.wmv ( 7.48MB ) : 108

Posted by: big harry Feb 25 2009, 09:25 PM

Hey Andru
Do you remember me ? its Harry here your mentoree

i just wanted to tell you that i have done my homework for this month competition
here it is

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=24246&view=findpost&p=344907

hope you like it, and its sure NOT ap all the time *shame on me*

what do you think for march ?

looking forward to your comments

cya
Harry

Posted by: coffeeman Mar 9 2009, 08:47 PM

Hello my friend,

As I told you by pm , this was a very difficult month for me, but now Im back.

First of all congratulations on your winning I think you did an awesome work with the solo , and I am verz proud.

Before we move on I would like to know how practicing is going.

See you later with a couple of assigments.

Posted by: big harry Mar 9 2009, 08:59 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Mar 9 2009, 08:47 PM)

Posted by: big harry Mar 10 2009, 09:30 PM

Hey Andru

so you wanted to have a quick review of where i stand at the moment.

ok here we go according my agenda

PART 1 - DAILY ROUTINE
Warm up - Hand snyc and Carlos chords in different positions for different chords - 15 mins
Exercise 1 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...nchronisation1/
Exercise 2 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...nchronisation2/
Exercise 1 and 2 moves on to Hands synch series

this series i am coming further, the first 3 exercises with fingers 123, 124 and 134 i can do up to a speed of 130
but i want to keep it still in my routine to get it really done and FIX it in my head

Exercise 3 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-gu...g-major-chords/
Exercise 3 moves on to different chords every week

still working on that one, but to be honest, didnt push it in the last days, always did some points here and there
but i guess i can play them pretty fluently at a gentle speed

PART 2 - MONTHLY ROUTINE
Chords, timing and rhythm - this month will be some Joe Kataldo stuff
Exercise 1 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-gu...hm-with-triads/
Exercise 2 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/pumping-rock/
Exercise 3 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/beginner-rock-rhythm/

this part i didnt even start till today, just picked them out for this month, still waiting on the backings from Joe, hope i can get them soon otherwise i will start without

Alternate picking - 3 exercises
Exercise 1 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...picking-thirds/
Exercise 2 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...note-exercises/
Exercise 3 - http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...rnate-picking1/

this is the weakest part of the last 2 weeks, didnt really practice that as hard as i wanted to, but i will start this part over for this month and try to reach my goal which i set for february, but the standard scale runs i can do at 90 now which is a small step forward, just need to fix the different fingerings up to speed

Soloing - Solos from different styles
Here i want to leave some space maybe for collabs or the competition
for this month i have chosen 2 extra solos
1 - Pedjas Collab http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...st&p=351481
2 - Competition http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...lo-in-bb-major/

these 2 parts i already chose to be part of it for this month, lets see what i can do and if there is some space for another lesson, the main problem with Pedjas collab is, that i never really done arpeggios and it will be a tough one to get into it, but when should i start with it if no now ? *hehehe*
maybe you can guide me a bit into that sphere ......

so my friend what do you think of this months plan ?

i will provide you some vids within the next days, so that you can have a closer look, is that ok for you ?

i am happy that we can move on, and i promise to get back to really hard working in here which i didnt do the last time

so lets move on
Harry

Posted by: coffeeman Mar 13 2009, 03:18 PM

Hi there my friend,

Very nice routine , I really like it.

I would really like to see some videos , so we can work on the lessons.

Working on this month competition is a really great idea , and if you noticed it has a very nice alternate picking part. I will give this one a try too , so it will be interersting that we both work on it.

So let me know when you have any videos , and if you have any questions on carlos lesson.

cheers.

Posted by: big harry Mar 14 2009, 10:00 PM

Hey Andru

here are some progress vids to watch for you

i took the
- chords lesson
- Jose Menas beginning of the lesson at 90 bpm
- the competition for march

looking for your comments my friend
hope everything is quite well with you

cya
Harry

 Jose_Mena_90bpm.wmv ( 1.78MB ) : 137
 March_competition_not_full.wmv ( 2.64MB ) : 137
 Chords.wmv ( 1.33MB ) : 143

Posted by: big harry Mar 17 2009, 09:22 PM

Hi Andru

heres the first full take of the march competition

the last part causes me some problems, this is kind of bit too fast for me at the moment, but i am sure i will get it till dead line *hehe*

cya
Harry

 March_competition_full_Take_1.wmv ( 2.55MB ) : 149

Posted by: coffeeman Mar 17 2009, 10:43 PM

Hi there Harry,

How are you my friend?

Very nice work.

Jose lesson:

Very nice, a couple of mistakes here and there, but I really like that you are mastering the ap. I would like to hear all the excercises , there are a couple that are a little bit trickier and those will really help you with the technique. I would also like to here it with less gain. Nice work on this one.

Chords:

Getting better too, I see that you are now familiar with the shapes , and thats awesome , it really shows that you've been practicing. Be careful with the struming , try to make ring all the strings that are being used. There are a couple of mistakes, but it will come with more practice cause as I said before you know the shapes.

March lesson:

Use less gain here too. Try to give it a warmer sound. Be careful with the vibrato , in the first long note it sounds out of tune, and in other notes you are not using it, try to use the vibrato consitently. Practice the final section with the lower backings, you know the runs, and of course practice it with alternate picking. Practice these things and let me know how it goes.

Good work my friend, I'll upload my take on the march competition a.s.a.p.

Cheers.

a.

Posted by: big harry Mar 18 2009, 11:10 AM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Mar 17 2009, 10:43 PM)

Posted by: coffeeman Mar 24 2009, 05:35 PM

How is practice going my friend?

Posted by: big harry Mar 24 2009, 08:42 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Mar 24 2009, 05:35 PM)

Posted by: big harry Mar 27 2009, 08:55 PM

Hey Andru

As promised here are 4 exercises of Jose mena´s alternate picking lesson
the last one is missing cause i didnt get it fully to record till now but it wil follow soon - PROMISE

i took the speed of 80 cause thats the one i can do it pretty comfortable and without too much mistakes, 90 is sometimes possible but still having troubles with it

hope you dont find any mistakes on the AP *hehehe*

cya
Harry

and here is another exercise for finger switching which you gave me long time ago

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 Jose_Mena_Lesson___ex_3.wmv ( 896K ) : 134
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Posted by: coffeeman Apr 2 2009, 03:06 AM

Hi there,

Whats up my friend?

So you are doing terrible , this isn't working.

No seriously. You are doing an awesome job. Do you remember a couple of weeks ago when , you couldn't change strings and keep the alternate picking?

Im really proud of you , and I see that you are putting a lot of effort into it. I would like to see the jose mena excercises in just one take, that would be cool.

The last excercise is a nice one for warming up , and I see that you can do it very easy.

So now that you and the AP are best friends I want to give you a (song)lesson that uses ap. Do you like neoclasical stuff?

Another thing I would like to add , is that you did an awesome job in pedja's collab , that was a very melodic and nice take , congratulations my friend.

So , I'll search for a nice lesson to work on this month.

Im very proud of you!

Posted by: big harry Apr 3 2009, 10:04 AM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Apr 2 2009, 04:06 AM)

Hi there,

Whats up my friend?

So you are doing terrible , this isn't working.

No seriously. You are doing an awesome job. Do you remember a couple of weeks ago when , you couldn't change strings and keep the alternate picking?

Im really proud of you , and I see that you are putting a lot of effort into it. I would like to see the jose mena excercises in just one take, that would be cool.

The last excercise is a nice one for warming up , and I see that you can do it very easy.

So now that you and the AP are best friends I want to give you a (song)lesson that uses ap. Do you like neoclasical stuff?

Another thing I would like to add , is that you did an awesome job in pedja's collab , that was a very melodic and nice take , congratulations my friend.

So , I'll search for a nice lesson to work on this month.

Im very proud of you!

Posted by: coffeeman Apr 3 2009, 02:50 PM

Great!

Don't get scared by this lesson , I don't want you to play it at full speed, I want you to learn it and play it a your more comfortable speed , this is a very cool neoclassical song and of course it is played only with AP. It has a lot of BT so start slow.

Here it is. I can play this one at 110 bpm ate the moment so I guess you will make a great job.

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/neoclassical-etude-2/

Don't play this if you haven't warmed up, it has some stretcthes , so make sure to warm up before.

As always if you need any help let me know.

Posted by: big harry Apr 7 2009, 07:55 PM

QUOTE (coffeeman @ Apr 3 2009, 03:50 PM)

Posted by: big harry Apr 15 2009, 07:35 AM

Hey Andru

i am sorry to tell you that i need to quit practicing for about 2 weeks because i will go for a business trip today afternoon
as soon as i will be back i will continue
dont forget about me meanwhile *hehehe*

cya then
Harry

Posted by: coffeeman Apr 15 2009, 03:30 PM

Hi there,

No problem my friend, have a nice trip. Take some cds or your ipod with you. Remember to do some mental excercises while you are on the trip , imagine yourself playing and practicing without mistakes.

Ill be here my friend.

Cheers.