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Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 23 2012, 10:44 PM

Hey there Teo! Welcome to your personal, very own, mentoring thread. Let's start with you telling me about your goals and achievements so far, musically and guitaristically if we may say so

Cosmin

Posted by: TeoWulf Feb 23 2012, 11:35 PM

Well, I only started playing about a year ago, I think I progressed quite a lot from there. I know pentatonic and basic minor/major scales, and I know some other theory aswell. I don't really concentrate on advanced lead techniques as I'm mainly a rhythm guitarist.

My biggest fear is timing. I mean I mostly stay true to the rhythm, but I somehow always fear that I'm not doing so.

My favourite genre is speed-power metal (Blind Guardian) so I want to develop in that direction, and of course I want to write my own music, so I need to learn a lot more theory, and I have to greatly improve my muical ear so I can play what I hear in my head

I don't know if it's a problem but I'dont have any proper recording equipment, only a camera.

Teo

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 24 2012, 08:55 AM

Good morning Teo

the camera is very good for now I wanted to ask you, which is your favorite lesson at GMC so far? If it's rhythm based we can start from there. Let's make things fun and interesting to learn, so progress will creep up without you knowing it

Let me know so we can get to rock n roll right away

all the best

Cosmin

Posted by: TeoWulf Feb 24 2012, 03:24 PM

Maybe Marcus Siepen's Metal Rhythm: Right Hand Workut is my favourit lesson, but I think that may be a little to hard for me

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 25 2012, 01:32 PM

Well, is there nothing you like which you also feel you could tackle and master? If not, I will take the liberty of suggesting something

Posted by: TeoWulf Feb 25 2012, 08:49 PM

I'm awaiting your suggestion

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 26 2012, 10:33 AM

My friend, I would suggest on which I find pretty interesting and easy to tackle for starters I was thinking about this one:
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Power_Chords_Workout/ it focuses on power chord position shifting which is very important!

My suggestion would be to focus on this one and make it sound as tight as possible! What say you my friend?

Posted by: TeoWulf Feb 26 2012, 10:56 AM

That's a really cool lesson, I'll give it a try

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 26 2012, 11:02 AM

perfect! take a look over it and let me know if there are any questions

Posted by: TeoWulf Feb 28 2012, 03:46 PM

So, today my camera broke

Therfore I can't record the lesson you recommended.

Maybe I can send you some of my own stuff in guitarpro format, so you can give me a little feedback.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 28 2012, 03:51 PM

Hey mate, that would be very good, till you fix your cam, no problem, shoot'em this way

Posted by: TeoWulf Feb 29 2012, 12:54 AM

How do I upload .gpx/guitarpro/ files?

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 29 2012, 08:14 AM

Goodmorning there! When you push the reply button somewhere in the lower right part, under the text box where you usually write the message you want to post, there's this upload box if you're having problems, I'll provide a screenshot let me know, k?

Posted by: TeoWulf Feb 29 2012, 08:53 AM

If i try this, i get the message "Upload failed. You are not permitted to upload this type of file"

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 29 2012, 08:55 AM

Hmmm, I think you should send a PM to Bogdan - he is the man who can help out with the technical problems around the site please let me know when it's done.

Posted by: TeoWulf Feb 29 2012, 05:13 PM

I managed to convert the file to .gp5, so I can finally upload it

Here it is:

Posted by: TeoWulf Mar 1 2012, 12:06 AM

Improved version:

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 1 2012, 02:07 PM

Hey mate, having trouble opening it with GP 5 I thought it would be possible. Can you make a tab out of it? or transform it into a gp5 readable file please?

Posted by: TeoWulf Mar 1 2012, 02:41 PM

I converted it to gp5, however I can't change settings that way, so I recommend you turn the distortion down before listening to it, 'cause it's
way up in the preset.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 1 2012, 03:00 PM

I like what I'm hearing mate! What do you say, would you like to turn this into a real track?

Posted by: TeoWulf Mar 1 2012, 03:16 PM

You think it's good enough for that?

Of course, if you would help me.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 1 2012, 03:24 PM

Bring it on! Tell me what sort of xperience do you have with DAW - recording software?

Posted by: TeoWulf Mar 1 2012, 03:26 PM

Nothing

Is it a free software?

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 1 2012, 03:32 PM

Yep! Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Kh2LB7K_E&feature=player_embedded

this little vid helps out A LOT watch it and let me know what you think We can take it from there

Posted by: TeoWulf Mar 1 2012, 03:57 PM

Ok, but don't you think this "song" needs some editing, or organizing?
And also I guess it would need some decent bass lines and drums.

Anyway I'll download the softwares mentioned in Ivan's video and I'll mess around with them for while

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 1 2012, 11:03 PM

Of course it does but this is where I come in we'll talk about it tomorrow, right now, I want my bed

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 5 2012, 11:38 AM

How are you faring with the software exploration, Teo? I wanted to suggest a few ideas:

1) Try to figure out a song structure - do you already have this in mind?
2) We should create a drum and bass structure for every distinct part you have so far

After this we can move on to the next step

what do you think?

Cosmin

Posted by: TeoWulf Mar 5 2012, 04:15 PM

I couldn't get so far with the softwares, I downloaded them and I converted some guitarpro fiels to MIDI ones, and imported them to Reaper, but I can't get any sound out of it

I guess I need some help with the song structure. I know there should be intro,verse,bridge,chorus etc. but I don't really know how should they be formed.

I can perhaps try and make a little more complex bass lines, although I'm not sure if I know how bass lines are usually formed.
I'm a total dummy about drums. I can't read or write drum-sheet music, so I can't program drums at all

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 6 2012, 10:28 AM

Mornin' Teo I'll take care of the drums and bass for ya man that's what I was referring to when I said drum and bass structures

Are you comfortable with this? First time, I'll do it and tell you how it's done and then I'll help you out to get things going with your skills in that area

Posted by: TeoWulf Mar 6 2012, 04:00 PM

That would be great, Cosmin. Do you have any advice about the song structure?

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 8 2012, 11:42 AM

Hey Teo, let's go for the classic to begin with: Intro, Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus, Mid/ solo, Chorus and outro if needed. We should work this from ground up till you get comfy with writing now, I got to fix some stuff around the PC and tomorrow we can get to writing drums for each part - I'll try to keep it simple in order for you to understand easily, k?

all the best

Cosmin