Geoffrey198's Thread, for Gab's Army |
HEY MAN, I really need your help...
...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.
* Join My Army. Sounds aggressive? It is! We can study anything from the most fearsome picking techniques to bombastic songwriting. A medal of honor awaits the brave. Seriously, this is an opportunity for you to get a personalised learning experience...what are you waiting for?!
* Join my next video chat! GMC startpage holds a video chat schedule. We always cover a lot of ground and have fun. Remember that you don't need any previous knowledge, and you can be passive in the chat.
* Jam with me - you will find active collabs here.
* Post a topic on this board, guitar related or not - doesn't matter! You will find that chatting with instructors boosts your motivation to practice.
* You haven't missed my latest video lessons, have you?
* Finally I want to tell you a secret. Nah I changed my mind - pm me instead ;)
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Feb 9 2013, 10:24 PM
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Hi Geoffrey198!! 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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Feb 11 2013, 04:24 AM
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Hi mate! Thanks for your info! So we have a long list of things to do! We have to work on technique (your alternate picking is really good!), theory, composition and ear training. We have lots of lessons for technique here at the site so I will suggest you weekly some of them to work on technique, there is also a section about theory that will be our guide for studying the concepts behind triads, chords, scales and tonalities, but at the same time learn these things on your guitar. For composing we will start to analyzing your favourite songs to write down the most used structures, tonalities, progressions, and arranging ideas. This will also help you with your ear training since you will have to learn by ear the chords from the songs...
"but on the other hand I feel very frustrated when I try to turn these ideas into an actual piece of music. It always sounds different than the stuff I "hear" in my head. " Two things about this... the first one, the connection between mind/fingers/guitar gets better and more precise with ear training... there are many methods to develop your ear... but you must do any type of ear training every day... the second thing is how do you record your demos? Sometimes you imagine a full band songs sounding killer and then when you record the demo it doesn't sound like you imagined and you feel frustrated... what do you use for it? There is a lot of cool stuff coming! 
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Feb 12 2013, 11:09 AM
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Ok! Thanks again for the info. Let's start working. Please post here 5 of your favourite songs to start analyzing it. We will start with "structure" which means that you will write down the different sections of a song to understand how your favourite songs are built.
Regarding scales & theory, let me ask you to check if you know this: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=47641 and also if you know how to play Pentatonic minor scale in 5 positions, and also with the addition of the blue note. There is a nice spoken video in part 1 of this lesson about the connection between mind and fingers: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...from-the-heart/ And for technique let's start with this warming up & endurance exercises, and let me know what other lessons are you working. https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=42825 -------------------- My lessons
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Feb 12 2013, 08:17 PM
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Thank's for the exercices
 "Regarding scales & theory, let me ask you to check if you know this: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...pic=47641" I definitely don't know this ^^ And the only thing I Know about Pentatonic stuff is this : -----------------------------------------------5---8---------- --------------------------------------5---8------------------- ----------------------------5----7---------------------------- -------------------5---7-------------------------------------- ----------5---7----------------------------------------------- -5---8-------------------------------------------------------- (of course, we could have started from an other fret) Here are five songs I like : ps: i'm working on these two lessons: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/willpower-solo/ https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Extreme_Metal_Riffing_2/ This post has been edited by Geoffrey198: Feb 12 2013, 08:21 PM |
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Feb 13 2013, 03:47 PM
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Ok mate. To summarize the things for this week. Read the thread about Major scale, start working on the Warming up exercises and continue with the two lesson that you are already working. Ok?
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Feb 21 2013, 11:49 AM
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I totally forgot to tell you this program is absolutely ok (was, actually, since I worked hard during this week ^^).
I started working on this exercice: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guit...-legato-lesson/ and some drop C riffing stuff (including your lesson). What else ? Hum... major scales have no more secrets for me! And I now know where the notes from the C major scale are on the 3 first strings of the neck. |
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Feb 21 2013, 11:50 AM
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Great! Are able to post some videos of you playing the lessons in the next days?
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Feb 27 2013, 06:50 PM
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Sorry for the delay, i've been quite busy this week ^^
Here is a video of me playing the solo. I'll try to post more videos within the next days. |
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Feb 28 2013, 02:21 PM
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Excelent take mate! Your playing is really good on this one! How is the tapping lesson going?
Let's start analyzing one of those songs. Please start with the Avenged Sevenfold song, write down the structure here. And to continue with the major scale (ionian) please work on this thread's exercises: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...t=0#entry634876 -------------------- My lessons
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Mar 6 2013, 02:46 PM
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Good job man! Do you think that you are able to learnt the chord progressions of each section and write it down?
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Mar 6 2013, 10:54 PM
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I was meaning the chord progression of each section, or the scale in the case of guitar riffs.
What about working on this lesson to keep on topic? https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Avenged-Sevenfold/ -------------------- My lessons
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Mar 19 2013, 03:28 PM
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Some corrections:
Intro: Am - Em - Dm - Am Am - Em - Dm - F E Then when the strings enters: Am - G/B - C - D Am - G/B - D - C First solo: Am - C - F E There are some similar things to fix in the other sections. Play my corrections over the song and pay attention to the sound. Try to hear the difference between your version and my version and review the whole song. Do you have any video playing Sweep Picking? -------------------- My lessons
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Mar 21 2013, 03:19 PM
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Unfortunatelly I don't ...
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Mar 22 2013, 11:58 PM
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Ok mate, it would be great if you can record yourself playing some Sweeps to be able to give you some feedback. Is this possible?
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Mar 23 2013, 05:39 PM
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I tried to put together some sweeping patterns I feel "comfortable" with. I starts becoming less clean when I try to play faster...
Here is an audio track with the guitar only : https://soundcloud.com/geoffrey-copin/sweeping-guitar-solo |
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