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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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Jan 13 2015, 05:49 PM |
Hi Aris, thanks for your message and your words! I wish you a year full of happiness, great things and goals achieved for you and your family.
It's good to know that you are starting the year with new ideas to make your practice and your videos better. Improving the quality of your work is not only a better way to let us monitor your progress, it's also a great practice of things that are also important for a musician which are recording, mixing, mastering techniques, video production and more precisely for guitarist, working on improving your tone. If you use a video editor to sync audio mix with video there won't be notorious sync issues so go for it. I recommend Vegas or Premiere among the professional and paid video editor, but you can also check some free editors. About your question regarding singing and playing... yes, you're right, doing both things at the same time can be tricky when rhythm and vocal melody don't go with the same rhythm. As everything else, it requires practice. You have to isolate your right hand, and try to "automatize" it to be able to play it without thinking to much on it, while you sing. Work on small sections, as a loop, as we do with guitar exercises. You can definitely dedicate 20/30 minutes to it every day. I think that it must be so awesome to be encouraged to sing and play guitar by your own son. This post has been edited by Gabriel Leopardi: Jan 13 2015, 05:49 PM -------------------- My lessons
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