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...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.
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Dec 28 2012, 07:43 AM |
Hi ElHombre!! Welcome to your Gab's Army thread!!
Could you please tell me a bit about you, your musical tastes, influences, strengths and weaknesses? I would need some videos of you playing rhythm and solo guitar, so please post your best material here. If you have some music or ideas of your own, also post them here. Also let me know how you think that I can help you and what are your expectations for our job. You can check the other Army's thread to discover the different modalities of this project. The principles of our Army are: + Improve your technique + Make music and solos + Have fun + Destroy the enemy (hahaha not really just kidding... ) -------------------- My lessons
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Dec 29 2012, 06:06 AM |
Yes I will post some material First I wonder if its possible for you to help me where I left off with Alex, fusion practice I know you are more of a rocker but maybe you know a lot about fusion Hi mate! I'm not very into Fusion but maybe I can help you with that too... what things have you learnt with Alex? -------------------- My lessons
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Dec 31 2012, 08:27 PM |
we were working on playing in changes, I trained on the backingtrack, sunny, very cool track. Well playing chord tones over certain chords and/or pentatonics. Well that I think you might help me with, knowing what pentatonic you can play over certain progressions. Cheers & happy new year yes, knowing the pentatonic scales and also the arpeggios can really work. Pentatonic scales are the first step, then arpeggios. Two things... please tell me which are your favourite bands/musicians, and secondly, do you have some backing tracks in mind for start working on improvisation? Some other questions... what scales do you know? do you know triads and arpeggios? what about the CAGED system? -------------------- My lessons
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Jan 3 2013, 10:41 PM |
Hi Gab yes I am familiar with all those things except the CAGED system. Well when playing in changes, for example rock shuffle I think its easy to switch pentatonic scales while improvising. But when we come to more diffuclt tracks and u need to play certain chord tones over chord changes I think its hard to do while improvising. We could keep working on the sunny track, Alex analyzed it for me I will post it here some guitar players i like: greg howe, tom quayle, damjan, marco sfogli andy timmons, steve lutakher. Ok! Please let me know if you know the things that you will find in the following rar file in major and minor modes.. Improvisation_Course.zip ( 2.61K ) Number of downloads: 175 -------------------- My lessons
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Jan 13 2013, 09:36 PM |
yes i know these things Gab. Also im back now and have lots of time to play Well just one question, in the "a minor chords" file, u had 5 different A minor shapes. Is that all the CAGED shapes in there Exactly! You have 5 different shapes, the C shape, A shape, G shape, E shape and D shape. The original shapes are major but you can get minor and dominant chords just chabging one or two notes. These shapes are very usefull to understand the whole fretboard, and to be able to find chords, triads, arpeggios and even scales everywhere and in every key. -------------------- My lessons
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Jan 19 2013, 03:02 AM |
Hi mate, this is very interesting. The easier way would be to follow the chord playing the arpeggios of each one, this would mean that you play the chord tones of each chord at the moment that it sounds in the progression. And you can connect them using notes from the pentatonic scale of Am, Gm or F.
Ami7 - Gmi7 - C7 - Fmaj7 This section is in F major key, so you can jam using F major over the whole backing but staying on the chord notes of each chord. At the same time, you could visualize a mode over each chord, but this would be more difficult. So, this was your question: What pentatonic work over which chords and progressions? What chord tones do we play over certain progressions. The first thing that you must do to know which scales can be used is to know which is the key of the backing. Could you please post here some chord progressions that you would like to analyse? -------------------- My lessons
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Jan 25 2013, 10:58 PM |
Hey Gab, the key is in A minor I attatched the track in the post. I dont have any tracks with progressions I can think of analyzing? Do you mean for practice? Well we can start with this one, then you can give me a few tracks to analyze after we worked on this Great backing! Do you have the chord progression written? -------------------- My lessons
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Jan 26 2013, 04:45 PM |
Ok, let's start with the first progression. At first choose one position, and try to follow each chord with its arpeggio. This will help you to be able to use different pentatonic scales, modes or even only one scale but always sound good over each chord. This scales/modes will be used only to connect the different chord notes.
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Jan 31 2013, 02:36 PM
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" At first choose one position, and try to follow each chord with its arpeggio."
So shall I do this and show you as the first task? |
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Jan 31 2013, 03:11 PM |
" At first choose one position, and try to follow each chord with its arpeggio." So shall I do this and show you as the first task? Well, this is not an easy track to follow, since the best is to start just with pentatonic scales and less chord changes. I don't really know your current improvising level so if you can entry a take of you jamming over this one or any other simpler backing would be good! Is it possible? -------------------- My lessons
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Feb 2 2013, 03:54 PM
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yes coming up. I have been dealing with my guitar the last days and now I managed to set it up good on my own finally..
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Feb 2 2013, 06:29 PM |
yes coming up. I have been dealing with my guitar the last days and now I managed to set it up good on my own finally.. Great! -------------------- My lessons
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Feb 18 2013, 07:05 PM
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Hey Gab, Im back now and ready to get to pratice, im going to send you these videos soon.
here is my new song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughKLJk1h2c...eature=youtu.be |
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