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...the thing is, I need you to start progressing faster then ever, but to achieve that I need your help:
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Aris's Thread, for Gab's Army |
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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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Mar 12 2015, 02:18 PM |
Hi Aris, great decision to share that image here! The order of the plug ins is not correct so it won't sound good. The order should be:
Tube Screamer (pedal) - HyBrit (amp) - KeFlair (cabinet) It's exactly what we do with real gear. We first connect the guitar to the pedal, then to the amp and the amp is connected to the cabinet. Does it make sense? About the recording and time issue. You can continue with this way but you don't have to play the backing loud while you record videos. You can play it very low and the camera's mic will capture it. If then, the waveform is to small, you can use a process like maximizer to make it bigger and clearer. Unfortunately pod's patches cannot be opened with other amp emulators. However, that tone was a Marshall amp with a bit of drive, so you could create it with Hybrit without problems. Try one of these patches with Hybrit: Classic Hard Rock Classic Rock -------------------- My lessons
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Mar 14 2015, 07:40 PM
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Thanks a lot Gabriel, yes the setup order makes perfect sense. Somehow I mistook that the IR was some kind of effect pedal but as you said it's the cabinet. I can have different sounds now
Attached is how my sound setup looks now in cubase.Please let me know if this time the order is ok. Below are also my first recordings using the effects. It's not my best performance but I am not consistent anyway so this is the best I could play at that given time. Rise Against: I recorded this in slow tempo (60 BPM) using Hybrit modern Hard Rock sound patch. I had to use a standard size pick this time cause I couldn't find the smaller tear size picks I use and I felt some difficulties in hitting the correct strings. It felt like I had to change the amount of movement on my right hand. I believe it shows a bit in the recording. Again this was recorded without any physical gear connected between my guitar and my sound card http://youtu.be/CgjlUAN_4P0 Social distortion style Rhythm routine: I speed it up a notch from 145BPM to 150BPM. For sure not perfect but let me know if you think I should keep this tempo or go back to 145BPM. I used the Hybrit hard rock patch for the sound on this one. Again without any physical gear connected between my guitar and my sound card. Maybe I should also have used some pedal to light it up a bit in all the recordings http://youtu.be/7_5mK2Lu4fo Alternate picking 150BPM: This recording has some problems in various parts. http://youtu.be/vk7VJ41F0xk The below take is better during the first part before the big pause. After that I totally lost my nerve (I was too tight to keep it consistent overall and should have been loose to do better) so I kinda quit in the end. Here I also used hybrit hard rock sound patch with light tube screamer(again no pedal was connected). http://youtu.be/T8Mbki4vvi8 - with emphasis on music http://youtu.be/KmiJWHvsmDg - This is the same take as above with no emphasis to video or music. Let me know if you prefer one effect over the other for evaluating recordings.
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