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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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Oct 2 2014, 09:46 PM |
Hi Aris! Welcome to your thread for Gab's Army as we agreed via PM!
Here I will copy all the info that you've gave me about you because it will help me as a reference to start working. "At first your style lessons came to my attention while I was looking to decode some of the techniques of my favorite bands so I can use it in my own compositions. At first I really liked the skate punk lesson although I don't listen to the style so often but it felt that the parts you composed are capturing the best of it. I was also very glad that you put up social distortion and the stooges (the latter was the least expected and I m glad you find it worthwhile even if it maybe too easy for your playing). Lately I have watched a couple of your video lessons on soloing techniques and improvisation and tried practicing some of the materials on scales and patterns. I would like you to be my mentor in my musical journey. My experience should be on a basic level. I am also familiar with minor/major scales but not fluent. I have also had four live performances with my band at small nights. Since I am already 33 years old + full time job + kids, my time to practice is limited. However, I have decided to make a consistent effort to pursue this dream of mine and spend about an hour every day practicing. Due to this goal I mostly play guitar while practicing instead of learning covers. I understand I have to improve my technique, speed and accuracy before I can play the songs I like with confidence and come up with fresh ideas. I believe you would make an ideal instructor for me since you definitely have the knowledge, technique and you are also very familiar with the styles that I am mostly interested in. I am only mentioning styles because I won't have enough time to start with classical music and end up where I would like to be smile.gif To give you an idea, some of my key goals are: - to be able to play guitar with confidence - to be able to improvise - to create tunes based on my personal ideas and musical styles of interest * BUT you know better what it takes to do all this and more." You goals are very clear and define our next steps. I would like to invite you to share here some audio and video of you playing to let me see your current level, your strong and weak points. -------------------- My lessons
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Oct 21 2014, 03:20 PM |
Hi Aris! Thanks for the new videos. Here are some comments:
- Rhythm lesson: You are following the groove right in the section from 00:00 to 00:34, however there is still room to go tighter with the backing track. Then, when the melody starts at 00:35, the timing issue becomes more important, the melody is not going with the groove of the track there. The problem is exactly what you said, the notes don't go exactly with the hits of the drum, you have to be able to singe the melody over the groove, to understand it and then transpose it to guitar. That's what I recommend you to do to master it. The palm muting section sounds better but you have to improve the connection with the previous part to make it sound smoother. It takes you a measure to find the new groove after the melodies. Finally, the last strumming, at 01:05 is not going with the drum loop, work on it. - Alternate Picking: I can notice that this lesson is improving compared with the previous takes. Try to make that your right hand moves more relaxed, let the wrist move a bit floppier. The part starting at 00:33 has some different notes, please re-check the original lesson. Another important thing is to economize movements when you practice. I notice that your left hand fingers get out of the fret board and separate too much and that's not necessary. It's good to get used to keep the fingers closer to the fret boar to economize movements. The smaller the moments are, the easier will be to play the things faster in the near future. - Picking arpeggios: Good job with this one! You are starting to feel more comfortable with the chords positions and your AP technique is being more precise for arpeggios. Your playing is tight now, and the next goal should be to make the overall thing sound smoother. The notes are cut too early, try to make them last a bit more. -------------------- My lessons
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