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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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Jun 14 2019, 03:52 PM |
Hi Madfish! Welcome to your thread for Gab's Army, my mentoring program. Here I will guide you with your guitar practice, creating routines, practice plans, giving feedback of your playing always based on your guitar goals and musical tastes.
Before we start I would like to know a bit more about you. - How many time have you been playing guitar? - Favorite guitarists, bands and musicians. - What are your guitar goals? - How would you like to you see yourself in 5 years (related to music and guitar)? - How many time can you play guitar each day? - Do you have playing live experience? - Which are your strong and weak points with guitar? - What do you know about music theory? - Can you record videos of you playing? - Share here audios and videos that reflect your current playing. -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 14 2019, 06:47 PM |
Hi Gabe!
- I've been playing guitar for about 7 years. However it's just last two years when I started practicing more seriously. Before it wasn't very regular. - I don't think I have a favorite. It's lots of different stuff. To name the few: Slash, Petrucci, Andy Timmons, Ten Years After, Deep Purple, Animals As Leaders, Testament, Black Stone Cherry, Al Di Meola, RATM ... - My general goal is just to have fun playing guitar. I have no ambition to become a professional musician at any point (I'm too old for that already ). I want to be comfortable with improvisation to join jam sessions. I'd also like to grow my composition skills. - I can devote about an hour a day for practice - Live experience? Only once. I played November Rain outro at my own wedding - Strong areas - I think my alternate picking is quite OK. Legato and music theory as well. Weak areas - vibrato. Whenever I play over a backing track I mostly go by the ear. Even though I understand the theory behind it, I lack when it comes to live application. - All the theory basics. Scales, modes, chord construction, basic progressions. I also started digging into jazz a bit lately - concepts like secondary dominant, altered scales, triton substitution. - Sure, I can record myself. - Some videos: A composition of my own: https://soundcloud.com/adampolomski/margaerita This post has been edited by Madfish: Jun 14 2019, 07:03 PM |
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Jun 14 2019, 11:22 PM |
Great stuff Madfish!!
Everything sounds good here. I like your composition and your take for the collab is very cool. My question is what are you expecting from the mentoring program. Do you need any guitar routines, lesson suggestions? Some structure? Would you like to share your improvisations here so I can give you some feedback? -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 16 2019, 09:31 PM |
Ok! That sounds good. Let me start with some first thoughts that come to me based on the videos that you've shared:
- You have a very good base, sense of melody, rhythm, and you are able so play some nice fast licks that combine picking with legato. - I feel that your overall playing could move to a new level if you put your focus on improving dynamics, vibrato and bending. There is more room to make these elements sound more convincing. - I think that your tone needs work and that improving it, will help improving the previous elements listed. I think that your style of phrasing deserves a more convincing tone, warmer, fatter, closer to the type of sound that guitarists like Andy Timmons, John Petrucci, Slash, and others have. It doesn't mean that you need to copy them, but it would be good to try to emulate some of these tones at first. Using some reverb or delay would be also a second step, before improving your tone. Let's work on it! - Blues Improvisation: Your blues phrasing is not bad, but you can continue working on this by adding more concepts to your playing to follow the chords, and get more "colours". Adding Major Pentatonics, Dominant Arpeggios and triads, Dorian and Mixolydian modes can help. - More rhythm experimentation in your phrasing is a good idea. Let me know what you think! -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 18 2019, 04:22 PM |
Good! I think that going for a simpler set up is the way to go. I would start by lowering drive on this tone to see if you can get a cleaner tone that provides more dynamics potential. This will also make you put more effort in your vibrato to get the right sustain.
I recommend you to work on one or both of these lessons: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/The_tasty_etude/ https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Kenny-...pherd-Phrasing/ - Learn the licks. - Work on trying to get a closer tone. - Practice and record your own improvisations over these backings. -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 19 2019, 10:59 AM |
Good! I think that going for a simpler set up is the way to go. I would start by lowering drive on this tone to see if you can get a cleaner tone that provides more dynamics potential. This will also make you put more effort in your vibrato to get the right sustain. I recommend you to work on one or both of these lessons: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/The_tasty_etude/ https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Kenny-...pherd-Phrasing/ - Learn the licks. - Work on trying to get a closer tone. - Practice and record your own improvisations over these backings. I really enjoy the Kenny Wayne Shepherd style lesson. I'll spend some time on this one first. Regarding the tone - I can't really get close to SRV without the single coil. The best I could do is using the split coil on my neck pickup and a Fender Champ emulation. Is that any good? This post has been edited by Madfish: Jun 19 2019, 01:21 PM |
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Jun 20 2019, 09:51 PM |
Hi mate! That tone is a lot better!! Well done. It still can be improved but it's awesome to see how much enjoyable is your playing with this type of sound.
Keep on the good job!! -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 25 2019, 06:32 PM |
Another take with a different tone (a tad brighter):
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Jun 26 2019, 11:55 AM |
I think I'm getting much better results with a treble booster in front of my amp:
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Jun 26 2019, 04:26 PM |
Hi Madfish!
Your playing is better from take to take. You can play all the licks at tempo with the right timing. I only think that there is room to work on expression elements like dynamics and vibrato, but this also depends on your guitar tone. I still think that you can continue improving it. I think that the third take has the best sound. As your guitar is a bit loud, I think that it doesn't connect well with the backing track. I would try putting it a bit quieter and with a bit less treble or presence. Do you have your guitar and backing in a DAW? -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 26 2019, 05:23 PM |
Hi Madfish! Your playing is better from take to take. You can play all the licks at tempo with the right timing. I only think that there is room to work on expression elements like dynamics and vibrato, but this also depends on your guitar tone. I still think that you can continue improving it. I think that the third take has the best sound. As your guitar is a bit loud, I think that it doesn't connect well with the backing track. I would try putting it a bit quieter and with a bit less treble or presence. Do you have your guitar and backing in a DAW? Yeah, I made a DAW project out of it. I can tweak it easily. I reduced the guitar track volume a bit, cut some treble and presence. Is it any better like this? https://soundcloud.com/adampolomski/kenny-wayne-shepherd-phrasing |
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Jun 27 2019, 02:18 PM |
I still think that your tone is not tasty here. There is something in high frequencies that makes me think that this is a direct line take, not in a good sense. Have you tried with another amp emulation? What are you exactly using?
Compare your take with the original A/B and you'll hear what I mean. -------------------- My lessons
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Jun 28 2019, 02:16 PM |
That video is impressive! The comparison is killer.
The new tone sounds a lot better! Work on your ambiece effects (reverb and delay) to make it sound more connected with the backing track. Adjust it over the backing. -------------------- My lessons
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Jul 4 2019, 07:52 PM |
hahaha If we compare this new take with this one: https://soundcloud.com/adampolomski/kenny-w...epherd-phrasing
the improvement is AWESOME! I just think that you need to adjust a bit EQ and Effects quantity to get a very good tone for this lesson and style. For now I would try adding a bit more presence and lowering the quantity of Reverb/delay. That could be the next step, what do you think? -------------------- My lessons
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Jul 5 2019, 11:32 AM |
hahaha If we compare this new take with this one: https://soundcloud.com/adampolomski/kenny-w...epherd-phrasing the improvement is AWESOME! I just think that you need to adjust a bit EQ and Effects quantity to get a very good tone for this lesson and style. For now I would try adding a bit more presence and lowering the quantity of Reverb/delay. That could be the next step, what do you think? Yeah, that one sounds horrible indeed . I think I approached rig profiles with some wrong presumptions. I played around with EQ and gain knobs as it was real amp. I guess you're not supposed to stray such drastically from what the profile gives you "out of the box". Sure, let me try that to tweak it a bit. What do you think?: https://soundcloud.com/adampolomski/kenny-wayne-shepherd-phrasing-take-2/s-uBSjV This post has been edited by Madfish: Jul 5 2019, 11:33 AM |
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