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Dec 3 2009, 03:25 PM
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Hi Tony,
Welcome to your Mtp program  After reading your Guitar CV I have decided to start strong with you from the very beginning. I have picked my Level 3 lesson that incorporates vibrato, bending, pentatonic scale as well as natural minor scale, all from G. Since you have worked mostly with A minor I think this would be nice change for you and not too drastic I hope! Here is your 1st assignment for December. Deadline for this assignment is one week from today (10th of December). Play Rest Collaboration Solo : - Learn my Play Rest Collaboration Solo lesson found Here - Feel free to use different fingerings in your fretting hand if that will make execution easier. - I am providing you the backing track for the lesson. Try to record Video with yourself playing over actual backing track. - If you can't do video right now, Audio recording is fine as well. Let me know if you have any extra questions, I am here to help! Pedja |
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Dec 3 2009, 05:13 PM
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QUOTE (Pedja Simovic @ Dec 3 2009, 03:25 PM)  Hi Tony, Welcome to your Mtp program After reading your Guitar CV I have decided to start strong with you from the very beginning. I have picked my Level 3 lesson that incorporates vibrato, bending, pentatonic scale as well as natural minor scale, all from G. Since you have worked mostly with A minor I think this would be nice change for you and not too drastic I hope! Here is your 1st assignment for December. Deadline for this assignment is one week from today (10th of December). Play Rest Collaboration Solo : - Learn my Play Rest Collaboration Solo lesson found Here - Feel free to use different fingerings in your fretting hand if that will make execution easier. - I am providing you the backing track for the lesson. Try to record Video with yourself playing over actual backing track. - If you can't do video right now, Audio recording is fine as well. Let me know if you have any extra questions, I am here to help! Pedja Thats cool Pedja thanks! I will get on to it later tonight when I get in from work. -------------------- "Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep"
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Dec 4 2009, 12:01 PM
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Very cool Tony. Let me know if you have any questions or need extra help with that one.
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Dec 4 2009, 08:21 PM
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Hi Tony,
I will upload your 2nd and 3rd theory assignment before you leave to USA. I hope you will manage to complete them both while you are away
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Dec 12 2009, 03:45 PM
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Hi Tony,
Glad to see you are checking your thread while on trip As we arranged, I am posting now 2 theory and harmony based assignments. 2nd assignment for December : Theory reading and analysis : - 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 as well as in F and G major scales. Here are the links: Major scale harmony and chord functions Cadences 3rd assignment for December: Chord progressions & harmony analysis - Analyze all chord progressions bellow - For each example write out the proper labeling of each chord - Write a description explaining why you think certain chord progression is in such key/mode. - For extra work, record those chord progressions and improvise over them - upload recording in this thread. Example 1 // C / B min / A min / B min / C / B min / A min / G // Example 2 // D min / G min / C / A min / D min / Bb / C / A min // Example 3 // F min7 / Eb / Bb7 / Bb7 / F min7 / C min Eb / Bb7 / Bb7 // Example 4 // Eb maj7 / D min7 / G min7 / F7 / Eb maj7 / C min7 / Bb maj7 / F7 // Example 5 // D maj7 / B min7 / E min7 / A7 / D maj7 / F# min7 / G maj7 / A7 // Deadline for both of them is 24th of December! If you have any questions about them please let me know and I will do my best to find a way to help. Pedja This post has been edited by Pedja Simovic: Dec 12 2009, 03:46 PM |
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Dec 20 2009, 06:28 PM
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Tony I will post your 4th assignment which is REC as well.
4th assignment and REC : Triads in C major scale part 1 - Record video of Triads in C major scale part 1 lesson found HERE - Use backing track provided in the thread when recording it. - Try to apply left hand fingerings I applied but stick to right hand fingerings all the way. - Upload video on Youtube and post it in this thread here. - Once you have the video, post it on REC board for grading! Deadline for this (and all the rest of assignments posted) is 31st of December! Let me know if I can help in any way Tony. Pedja |
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Dec 23 2009, 01:54 AM
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QUOTE (Boson @ Dec 21 2009, 06:48 PM) Hi Pedja Back from my trip and just about over the jet lag. Getting stuck into the tw theory lessons now. And enjoying learning this stuff but its a steep learning curve for me every phrase s new and one leads to more!!  Major scale was new to me but I understand the formula for it, ie T T S T T T S So in C it becomes C D E F G A B C ie no sharps or flats In F it becones F G A Bb C D E F And in G it ecomes G A B C D E F# G I am beginning to work out the triads ie C is made up of C E G, will complete this post wheh I work out the rest and also do the 4 part harmony. Looking ahead at the idea of cadences which I have found out is a sequence of chords or a progression this is where I am having trouble finding out which chords are minor/major.diminished and more importantly why?? Can you help with this section? Thanks Hi Tony! Welcome back from your trip I hope you had a good time and are ready to tackle workload here at GMC. Regarding construction of major scale(s) you got the right idea. Formula is correct and so are the notes for each of the 3 scales. Your question was directed towards modes and chords progressions. I will try to help you as much as I can, but I strongly advise you re-read the links again it might come to you after doing so. Here we go - what are modes? Modes are scales by themselves. They come or better yet occur within specific original scale. Right now we are working on Major scale. In Major scale we have 7 different letter names and 8th letter name is the same as first. That is a definition of a major scale (7 different notes and 8th that repeats the first one). What are modes? Well if we start a major scale on any of those 7 different notes and end the scale on that same note octave higher or lower, we now have a MODE! So in key of C major we got 7 different modes. C something, D something, E something etc you get the idea. Now if you read the links again, you will see that I listed chord progressions for each mode in C major scale! C IONIAN = C D E F G A B C This mode is also known as C major scale. We already learned the order of chords that appear in that mode and the type. The beauty of other modes is that we keep the same chords that are already in C major scale, but only difference is now they appear on different place in scale. Let me give you an example. In C major, C major chord is known as I but in D DORIAN mode, C major chord is bVII! In A AEOLIAN C major chord is bIII! You see how this works? Same chord, on different scale degree. Why? Because we treat each mode as a scale itself and our order of whole steps and half steps changes as well as the way we label scale degrees. Now to answer your questions about chords, we have 3 part chords, which you did, they are known as TRIADS and have some sort of 135. We built Triads by stacking diatonic 3rds one on top of another. So C major scale has C D E F G A B C notes. If we start on C note and want a chord, we would skip D note, get E, skip F and get G. So we now got CEG, which is also known as C major triad. If we stack another 3rd we would skip A and get B so we get C E G B which is C maj7! Why is this? Because each chord has its own formula. How do we know or figure out those formulas? By using intervals! Intervals are very important in music as they describe distance between any two notes in music. Here are the formulas for Major, Minor Augmented and Diminished triads! Major triad = Root , major 3rd and perfect 5th (this is all in relationship with Root of the chord) Minor triad, Root, minor 3rd and perfect 5th Augmented triad = Root, major 3rd and augmented 5th Diminished triad = Root, minor 3rd and diminished 5th Do you need the distances for intervals? If you do, check out my interval series where I covered all the intervals from unison up until octave!!! Here is a thread where you will find all those lessons. INTERVAL SERIES Let me know if you need any more help. |
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Dec 23 2009, 11:04 AM
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Hi Pedja
Thanks for the help above. I am working hard to catch up and attached is my version of assignment 2 the 3 and four part harmonies. I think it is beginning to make sense to me but I wasnt sure about naming of the four part harmony chords. 
Dec_09_Assignment_2.doc ( 84K )
Number of downloads: 153Onto assignment 3 now!! With regard to assignment 4, I will do my best to get this done by 31 Dec but it will be tough for me but I will give it my best shot! I can see the logic of why you have set this. Thanks again for all your help and support.
-------------------- "Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep"
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Dec 23 2009, 04:21 PM
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QUOTE (Boson @ Dec 23 2009, 11:04 AM) Hi Pedja Thanks for the help above. I am working hard to catch up and attached is my version of assignment 2 the 3 and four part harmonies. I think it is beginning to make sense to me but I wasnt sure about naming of the four part harmony chords.
Dec_09_Assignment_2.doc ( 84K )
Number of downloads: 153Onto assignment 3 now!! With regard to assignment 4, I will do my best to get this done by 31 Dec but it will be tough for me but I will give it my best shot! I can see the logic of why you have set this. Thanks again for all your help and support. Tony you did great on your 2nd assignment. I will just help you with one thing you had wrong in your notes. Dominant 7th chord is a major triad with minor 7th. Major 7th chord is major triad with major 7th. So lets say we got C E G B notes. C E G is major triad and C to B is major 7th! We label that chord like this C maj7. If we had C E G Bb, then that would be major triad with minor 7th and now we have dominant 7th chord. We label that one C7 or C dom7 (C7 is better as it is shorter and more common in lead sheets). Now you can get to your other assignments, see what you can do ! 
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Dec 24 2009, 04:15 PM
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Hi Pedja
Please find attached my attempt at assignment 3
Dec_09_Assignment_3.doc ( 29K )
Number of downloads: 184Am I correct in that you want me to do two rec takes? This post has been edited by Boson: Dec 24 2009, 04:17 PM -------------------- "Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep"
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Dec 25 2009, 04:24 PM
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QUOTE (Boson @ Dec 24 2009, 04:15 PM) Hi Pedja Please find attached my attempt at assignment 3
Dec_09_Assignment_3.doc ( 29K )
Number of downloads: 184Am I correct in that you want me to do two rec takes? Hi Tony, I am sending you your file with some corrections. Check them out and let me know if you got any questions. Regarding lesson for REC, I want you to do TRIADS LESSON, which is assignment 4. That way we will do 2 things at once! Make sure you do examples 4 and 5 with roman numerals as well. This post has been edited by Pedja Simovic: Dec 25 2009, 04:32 PM |
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