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GMC Forum _ Competitions _ New Competition : Student Instructor Lessons
Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Apr 6 2008, 03:46 PM
It gives me great pleasure to announce this months competition - the Student Instructor Competition!
I hope some or all of you have noticed the great work that Smells has been doing managing the newly launched http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showforum=22, also check out our new http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/wiki/index.php/Portal:Student_Instructors in the Wiki!
We want to knock this into orbit with a massive influx of new lessons! Becoming a Student Instructor is easy - everyone has a lesson in them, something they can teach to someone else. Here is your opportunity to get some of your riffs out to GMC and help others! As we move forward, we want to feature these SI lessons on the GMC front page. so why not help GMC with this and win a prize at the same time!
If you have been thinking about making a lesson already, now is the perfect time to do it - after all, there are some fabulous prizes to be had, all with an emphasis on improving your recording!
An M-Audio Fasttrack USB Recording Interface
Start down the road of professional recordings! With this recording interface you can make high quality guitar and vocal recordings. You can use this with any recording program, and it is even compatible with the industry standard, Pro Tools!
2nd Prize
A Sure SM58 Microphone
A classic microphone for both live and recording work - extremely versatile, great quality!
3rd Prize
Senheiser eH150 Headphones
A high quality closed back design (very important for recording)
The competition will work as follows:
1. All new SI lessons posted within the qualifying period will be automatically entered into the competition.
2. We'll start a thread for people to announce their entries and for discussion
3. The standards for SI lessons wil remain as they have been, and we will treat all competition entries exactly the same as we have with lessons until now - we now approve lessons before they are launched to ensure some minimum quality standards, and this will not change, however, we never reject lessons outright and will always make suggestions for improvement. So if a lesson isn't accepted first time around, we will work with you to get it accepted. For guidelines and a sample leesson check the http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showforum=22.
4. Entries will be closed on Monday
5. Judging will be by a GMC vote - the members get to pick which lesson they liked the most
6. We will accept text, audio or video lessons, but they will not have separate categories
7. All prizes are final, no alternatives cash or otherwise will be offered.
Thats about it - let the lessons roll in!
Posted by: Iluha Apr 6 2008, 04:15 PM
That's a great competition.. I think I might participate, if I manage to make good quality videos 
.. will know for sure over the weekend. good luck all!
Posted by: superize Apr 6 2008, 10:30 PM
Cool.... i have been thinking about making a SI lesson so i will definently participate in this one
Posted by: audiopaal Apr 6 2008, 10:46 PM
Wow, nice competition
Great idea guys!
I'll try to make a lesson for this, never done it before but this is a great opportunity to try
Posted by: Trond Vold Apr 6 2008, 10:49 PM
What a great competition idea
Great idea guys!
I'll try to make a lesson for this, never done it before but this is a great opportunity to try
You should make a SI out of that little song you sent me the other day
That was just too cool.Posted by: audiopaal Apr 6 2008, 11:05 PM
You should make a SI out of that little song you sent me the other day
That was just too cool.haha, yeah that was pretty neat and in a style I don't think has been covered here
Would've been cool
Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Apr 7 2008, 12:01 AM
Wow great prizes! I'll be needing that SM58 or 57 real soon
Posted by: kivler Apr 7 2008, 12:14 AM
hey I`ve seen the lesson on instructors , I might participate if I can find a way to record video-- is there any suggestions 
Posted by: RIP Dime Apr 7 2008, 12:22 AM
Damn, I wish I had recording gear.
Posted by: Tjchep Apr 7 2008, 01:38 AM
Sweet stuff.
Posted by: Sam Hook Apr 7 2008, 09:27 AM
Here you go: http://www2.guitarmasterclass.net/misc-lessons/gmc-video-recording-tutorial/
Great competiton by the way.
Posted by: Vic_Black Apr 8 2008, 04:30 PM
Wow Gotta participate in it
Posted by: Gus Apr 8 2008, 04:53 PM
I was thinking of doing a lesson, but now I got the real motivation ! 
Posted by: Melodicintenions Apr 8 2008, 07:15 PM
YAY I was waiting for this opertunity for anyone needing inspiration to the GMC Comunnity please read my post on improvements during the week and hopefully it inspires you to write a lesson such as I am about to do now to Give back to all of you if I truely have accomplished what I mentioned earlier in my improvements since joining I will always support GMC because if I become Famous or write a beautiful song I have All of you to thank for the inspiration and the motivation Thanks Lots Everyone Sincerely yours Preston of Melodicintensions
Posted by: Sam Hook Apr 8 2008, 08:44 PM
Can we do audio entries aswell? Or is it just video?
Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Apr 8 2008, 08:53 PM
Audio, Video or Written - check out the rule #6 above
Posted by: Sam Hook Apr 8 2008, 09:42 PM
Oops, sorry, didn't see that one.
Also, will a video entry have more of a chance than winning than say just a written lesson?
Could a written lesson or audio lesson win?
Thanks Andrew!
Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Apr 8 2008, 11:02 PM
No problem - there are no separate categories, so written will be judged against audio will be judged against video. How they will stack up I don't know, since GMCers will be the judge
My guess would be that a brilliant written lesson would beat a mediocre video or audio lesson, but an awesome video lesson would beat all the others.
Posted by: kaznie_NL Apr 9 2008, 04:35 PM
My guess would be that a brilliant written lesson would beat a mediocre video or audio lesson, but an awesome video lesson would beat all the others.
I do think it'll be hard to win with a written lesson from a video lesson. Maybe, very maybe I'll do an ultimate beginner lesson, how's that? just pickholding and some easy chords.
Posted by: Muris Apr 9 2008, 04:37 PM
Great idea,good luck everyone!
Posted by: Smells Apr 18 2008, 11:57 AM
Just giving this a ***BUMP***
Dont forget we got a cool competition running here atm with some great prizes up for grabs!
Lets see those entries
Posted by: Mark. Apr 18 2008, 12:05 PM
I totally forgot this competition 
I"ll make a lesson this weekend, it will contain:
- alternate picking
- string skipping
- 3 note per string pentatonics
- and shred !
Probably not the best thing to win this competition,
but I just do what I like to do and that's to SHRED!! 
Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Apr 18 2008, 02:02 PM
Thanks Smells - and go for it Mark! And everyone else - great prizes to be one and not many entries yet so you stand a good chance!
Posted by: Iluha Apr 18 2008, 05:36 PM
Im working on one. Theme based soloing, should be done with it during the following week, hope you will find it usefull
Posted by: audiopaal Apr 19 2008, 11:00 AM
I'm also working on one
I created the backingtracks yesterday and started tabbing out the song/riffs I'll be doing in the videos
This is gonna be one rocking lesson
Posted by: Zizi Top Apr 20 2008, 12:20 AM
How do we upload our lesson ?
Posted by: Smells Apr 20 2008, 12:23 AM
Not sure what you mean??
You upload them on the Student Instructor board here http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showforum=22
look at some of the lessons on there to give you an idea of format
Posted by: Zizi Top Apr 20 2008, 10:27 AM
My main video is quite long (1'24"), it has ~300Mb 
Posted by: superize Apr 20 2008, 10:30 AM
What format is it?
You might have to convert to make it smaller
Posted by: Zizi Top Apr 20 2008, 10:35 AM
it's .avi
Posted by: Smells Apr 20 2008, 11:58 AM
300mbI think you need to convert it to a different format, remember people have to d/load your video off the forum, if its 300mb long then they possibly might not bother
Posted by: Zizi Top Apr 20 2008, 12:01 PM
do you have any format you recommand ?
I think the problem is that my video is too long :s
Posted by: Smells Apr 20 2008, 12:50 PM
no I dont think its too long, I tried .avi and had the same problem with 1 minute video, around 200-250mb
I export mine to mpeg at the moment, prob not the best format to export to but keeps the files much smaller, vids approx a minute long come out at around 12mb then
Posted by: Zizi Top Apr 20 2008, 02:50 PM
i think i resolved my problem, thanx anyway
i may upload my vid tonight ..
tchus
Posted by: Smells Apr 20 2008, 03:36 PM
i may upload my vid tonight ..
tchus
excellent, look forward to it
Posted by: Zizi Top Apr 21 2008, 02:47 PM
I've posted my lesson yesterday, but i can't see it... Is it the approoval time or did i posted wrong ?
Posted by: Smells Apr 21 2008, 02:52 PM
dont worry mate it is there, I cant listen to it just yet, very soon I hope then I`ll set it to visible 
Posted by: Zizi Top Apr 21 2008, 03:20 PM
thanks, i just wanted to be sure cause i was all stressed up when my internet connection had a bug while i was posting it, i was so scared, i didn't want to lose all my data lol
Posted by: Capt.Z May 4 2008, 09:44 PM
This is a good idea!! We'll probably get a whole lot more great student instructor
videos we didn't have before!
Posted by: audiopaal May 4 2008, 10:03 PM
Yey, my lesson for the competition is up and running
Posted by: Andrew Cockburn May 4 2008, 11:02 PM
Nicely recorded and mixed I thought
Posted by: audiopaal May 5 2008, 12:04 AM
Thank you Andrew, I appreciate it
Posted by: Vic_Black May 5 2008, 01:34 PM
Well...I've just got mine uploaded. Waiting for it to be approved
Posted by: Andrew Cockburn May 5 2008, 03:59 PM
Alright, you just squeaked in while I was waiting for smells to approve Gus' entry
Posted by: Smells May 5 2008, 06:44 PM
snuck in at the last second before the comp closed
Approved and now visible Vic_Blacks lesson can be checked out here http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=15006
just awaiting a PM from Gus
Posted by: Kristofer Dahl May 5 2008, 07:19 PM
Lots of great contributions - this is going to be exciting!
Posted by: Smells May 5 2008, 08:15 PM
Exciting indeed
And here we go people, in his brief absence tonight Andrew has already set up a voting thread and asked me to set it to visible once all the entries had been approved.
well, all entries now approved and all the lessons can be found via links from Andrews post
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=15005
So go check them all out and vote for your favourite!
Good luck everyone!!!
Posted by: Bogdan Radovic May 5 2008, 09:00 PM
Good luck everyone ! This is going to be fun
Posted by: Mackietao May 5 2008, 10:28 PM
bummer.. Blind as I am I just saw the whole competition thread just now.. Only an half an hour to make a lesson.. Have to pass until next one.. Good luck guys!
Posted by: Andrew Cockburn May 5 2008, 11:28 PM
LOL - half an hour just isn't rnough time - although feel free to make an SI lesson anyway
There will be a new competition launched very soon I promise ...
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