I've Learned Some Stuff, Now What? Options

[waynedcoville]

To Whomever it May Concern,
I love your lessons and your teachers are great but I have a concern about what to do with everything I've learned. I've learned several lessons so far, but now what? I now have some awesome parts in my head and under my belt but how do I use what I've learned? What do I do with these pieces of music? I'm writing because I could not find anything on your site about what to do with the parts once they are learned and/or using the parts in a band setting. I hate to just lift the parts and call them mine. Obviously, the teachers wrote them but are they copyrighted? Is it okay to use the parts if I change them enough to make them my own? If so, how would I alter the pieces enough as to not infringe on copy-write laws? And if the pieces where to be altered, would they still retain what I learned in the original lesson? Otherwise, I'm not sure how to benefit from these awesome lessons. Please don't think I'm asking for permission to rip off these great teachers. I'm asking for a hint as what the next step may be. Thank you.

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[PosterBoy]

Don't worry they ripped off some other guitarist!

Seriously though.

You've probably got a lot more out of the lesson than just learning the piece of music.

Maybe analyse the pieces, look at each section and the chords being played and what chord tones are in the solo, how the notes are approached etc. See why the solo works. You can use this knowledge in your own compositions without ripping off the instructor

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[Ben Higgins]

Don't worry they ripped off some other guitarist!

Good point ! I probably owe Friedman and Schenker royalties !

A couple of the main advantages I see with learning the lessons are learning an actual technique like sweeping or something else..

If it's an 'In the Style of' lesson then the lesson should be showing you what typical elements that guitarist uses in their playing, like what groups of notes they typically put together so if you're a fan of a particular guitarist you can gain an understanding of what they do / how it works so you can apply the approach your own way.

For example, from a Schenker style lesson we can glean that he uses a lot pentatonics with an added major 3rd and chokes a lot of his notes with the pick to make them staccato. Marty Friedman likes to use the minor scale without the 4th & 6th interval to get his sound. If I wanted to use their approaches and take what I liked but play it my own way with my vibrato, tone and phrasing the notes in a different order then I can.

When it comes to playing phrases, that's something each guitarist hopefully crafts over time to become very personal and unique. The way they play an order of notes, typical licks that they use a lot. The idea is that your phrasing is like the result of the melting pot of other people's licks that you've studied over the years etc.

When it comes to scalar runs etc, I don't think it matters if you're pulling a lick from somebody else because most scale runs have been done before in some way and you can't copyright a scale

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This post has been edited by Ben Higgins: Apr 30 2012, 09:16 AM