Matt23's Mtp Thread, All assignments and uploads here |
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Sep 5 2009, 11:01 AM |
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Sep 5 2009, 12:13 PM |
Lets get started Matt!
In your guitar CV you mentioned your main goal is for me to teach you how to play Jazz and Fusion music. With this main goal, there were numerous minor goals that will eventually lead to major one. I also like that you stated which technique area needs work (alternate picking). For your 1st assignment I have some alternate picking exercises (5 of them) as well as theory reading assignment. Here is your 1st assignment : - Record each lick in 3 different tempos! Make sure tempos are at least 15-20 bpm difference. - Try to show me your maximum tempo for these licks, I want you to push yourself here! - Feel free to ask for more exercises if these are too easy for you! - Upload your takes in this thread. Ideally I would like you to do videos, put them on Youtube and embed them here. Regarding practice schedule, I think you should do this an hour every day if you want to move tempos faster. Even better, do it 45-50 minutes with brake of 10 - 15 minutes. If you do it 50 minutes that gives you 10 minutes per exercise! Plenty of time to learn them all in slow, regular and fast tempo before recording it all. Time limit for 1st assignment would be a week from now. If you manage to do all the exercises before that, I will put more exercises here for you! Theory reading : - I would like you to read my posts from links provided below. - Once you read it all, memorize 3 and 4 part harmony in C major scale. - Learn to apply scale degrees rather then numbers ( I in C major is C, IV in C is F etc). - Write out in this thread all notes for 3 and 4 part harmony in C major scale. This is an extra assignment so I won't put any time limit on this one yet. I want you to first do your alternate picking assignment but you can in the meanwhile read these posts and learn a lot from them. Here are the links : Cadences Major scale harmony and chord functions Let me know if you have any question Matt. Don't hesitate to ask, I am here to help man!
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Exercise_1_Alternate.pdf ( 103.34K )
Number of downloads: 108
Exercise_2_Alternate.pdf ( 104.72K ) Number of downloads: 99 Exercise_3_Alternate.pdf ( 106.53K ) Number of downloads: 102 Exercise_4_Alternate.pdf ( 66.74K ) Number of downloads: 90 Exercise_5_Alternate.pdf ( 70.31K ) Number of downloads: 96 |
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Sep 5 2009, 03:40 PM |
Ok I've done 50 minutes of practice on the exercises, so I'm posting them here, with 3 speeds like you said.
Also if you don't mind reading it, I'm going to say how I did the practice, just to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong. First I found the maximum speeds I could play each exercises cleanly. I then went down 20bpm and 20bpm again to get the speeds I would practice each exercise at. For exercise's 1, 2 and 3, the speeds were 60, 80 and 100. For exercise four the speeds were 80, 100 and 120. For exercise 5 the speeds were, 50, 70 and 90. For each exercise, I played the first speed for 3 minutes, the second speed for the next three minutes, then the third speed for the remaining 4 minutes. After the third exercise I had a ten minute break were I read about cadences and wrote the 3 and 4 part harmonies of C major. I then went back and did the last two exercises. So if you could tell me if that's a good way to practice that'd be great. And thanks for all the time and effort you're putting in to mentor me. Just finished reading both the posts you assigned, and I've got a few questions. First could you give me a clear definition of what a Cadence is, because I always thought it was the last two chords of a phrase. I.e. Perfect cadence: V-I Plagal Cadence: IV-I Interrupted Cadence: V-VI etc. In your post though I got the impression that they were chord progressions. Second, I understood everything in the Chord Substitution post (I think), but I don't quite get why you would use it. I mean if you substitute the tonic I, for VI, then surely you've changed the tonic to the relative minor. So if you could give me an example of how to use chord substituion I think that would help me.
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Alternate_Exercise_1.mp3 ( 755.72K )
Number of downloads: 98
Alternate_Exercise_2.mp3 ( 757.68K ) Number of downloads: 87 Alternate_Exercise_3.mp3 ( 904.79K ) Number of downloads: 105 Alternate_Exercise_4.mp3 ( 369K ) Number of downloads: 83 Alternate_Exercise_5.mp3 ( 530.58K ) Number of downloads: 85 |
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Sep 5 2009, 04:19 PM |
Great stuff Matt!
Check your chord labeling for F Locryian in Gb Major |
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