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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.
* 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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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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Nov 7 2014, 12:26 AM |
Hi Aris, thanks for this update.
I can feel that you have a very good attitude and energy regarding your practice and guitar playing. Your analysis is deep, and we have a very well organized plan here. Now it's just time to find the moment of your day when you can complete the diary tasks that are necessary to keep on improving and progressing. I know that life is full of obligations and work to do, it's also difficult for me to find time to just enjoy guitar, even being a full time musician! I dedicate my life to my band, giving music course (at GMC and at my studio) and producing music and bands. I'm all day with music but I even find tricky to just sit down and practice or play guitar. I have to organize myself really good to do all the things I want to do. You are very motivated and that's a very important thing. Try to find the way to organize your life to be able to play guitar at least 1 hour every day, and if a day it's so busy, play at least 20/30 minutes. We always can sleep 20 minutes less... But, even more important is to enjoy music and guitar. I must not be an obligation, something that you HAVE to do, it should be something that you want to do. If not, it doesn't make sense. About the quality of the phrases, don't worry about it, we are at learning and analyzing stage. -------------------- My lessons
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