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GMC Forum _ REC _ Zz Top Style Lesson - Kaz

Posted by: kaznie_NL Mar 20 2009, 05:14 PM

Hey guys, please rate. I'm not sure whether this will pas I hadn't played this in a while and then decided to record it

Original: http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/zz-top-style-lesson/
Gear: Ibanez SA 08 LTD2, Camera Mic and Pod Farm.

Posted by: Gerardo Siere Mar 20 2009, 09:38 PM

Rhythm placement - 2.5
Cleanness - 3.5
Feel - 3.5
Posture - 2
Sound - 3.5

Watch out the Rhytm, you star slighter ahead than the BT and you almost never make it back. For visuasizing the beat, you should feel the subdivision before playing, the start of songs are worth practice for both reasons, we may not get the ringht tempo and we tend to play the first notes too loud.
Cleannes (-1,5) the mix is very dirty, it may be just your hardware, in that case next time open the daw and send an mp3 in adittion to the vid so the instructors can give you a better opinion.
Feel, check out and sing the original in Beavis and Butt head Style, the lines should be sharper. Also you need to be aware of the exact duration of the dampings before your hand shift positions.
The posture is bad and unconfortable, the neck is too low and so is your arm what makes your wrist bend down and it is difficult to bend the strings as you can almost use just the bare strenght of youe fingers, in addition this kind of position doesn't allow you tostretch your fingers. The best way to check the position is to sit down in the same way without a guitar and you will notice that position is unnatural.
Sound, it is kinda messy..... ......
The most importan thing is the rythm placement.
Thanks for submiting Kaz, sorry for any inapropiate comment on your playing.

Posted by: Ramiro Delforte Mar 20 2009, 10:19 PM

Rhythm placement - 3
Cleanness - 2,5
Feel - 3
Posture - 4,5
Sound - 4

I think you might want to improve the rhythmic placing of some chopps and you have many mistakes about muted notes, or misplaced notes...
I know you could have been better

Posted by: Emir Hot Mar 21 2009, 08:10 PM

Rhythm placement - 3
Cleanness - 3
Feel - 4
Posture - 4
Sound - 3,8

Good attempt but very dirty at many places. Licks were not in time and some notes just didn't come out. You can do this much better.

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Mar 21 2009, 08:51 PM

Rhythm placement - 3
Cleanness - 3
Feel - 3,5
Posture - 4
Sound - 3,5

I agree with Emir - you can do a lot better Kaznie with this one. Try to fix your sound a bit and clean up phrases, it should be great.

Posted by: Trond Vold Mar 22 2009, 03:23 AM

Rhythm placement - 3
Cleanness - 2,5
Feel - 3,5
Posture - 4,5
Sound - 3,5

Good take, and it looks like your having a great time playing this!
But the timing is off in many places and comes off as sounding sloppy, like your in a hurry to finish.
Try to relax more and focus on getting all the notes in.

Posted by: skennington Mar 22 2009, 04:06 PM

Hi Kaz, your final average for this lesson is 67%