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Posted by: leonard478 Feb 8 2012, 11:59 PM

My name is Leonard, 19 years old living in Canada

Ive been playing guitar for 5 - 6 years on and off, and i finally am contemplating going to post secondary school for guitar. Possibly a jazz or contemporary program next year.

I love most styles of music but blues, jazz, r&b is closer to home

hope to learn alot from all of you! cheers

Posted by: dark dude Feb 9 2012, 02:24 AM

Hey there, Leonard - welcome

You'll need to work hard to get into good guitar schools, I'm sure GMC will sort you out!

Posted by: leonard478 Feb 10 2012, 09:15 AM

Thanks!, any direct advice?

Posted by: Ben Higgins Feb 10 2012, 02:26 PM

Hi Leonard, welcome to GMC

If you're going to work to get into a school I imagine that they'll expect a certain level of music theory knowledge. I'm not that hot on theory but between us all here we can help you with that if it's something you need to improve.

Is there any areas of technique that you're interesting in working on ?

Posted by: dark dude Feb 10 2012, 05:03 PM

Unfortunately, I'm not into playing Jazz or contemporary music, so I can't comment on that.

A good place to start though, is telling us what you already know - we can work from there

Posted by: Gitarrero Feb 10 2012, 05:10 PM

Welcome to GMC!

Posted by: leonard478 Feb 10 2012, 08:51 PM

Fair enough, well lets see, i know a whole mess of different things, random aspects of each style.

I mostly play blues at this point but i know all my 7th, -7th, maj7th, and min7flat5 chords. a few different voicings, triads,

but i really want to get my technical skill up. Speed, technique in general. and i want to learn more full songs.

To give a clear picture of what my techincal skill is like, i just learned and performed Jeff Beck's : Cause we've ended as lovers.

Proud to say i learned that one entirely by ear:).

Thanks so much!
-Leonard



Definately speed, sweep picking, etc.

As interested as i am in jazz & whatnot, one of my current guitar hero's is Andy Timmons. and i dont really have the speed to play much from him. And ofcourse Satriani!.

Jack thammarat is one of my hero's as well at the moment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FTryYf5MpY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAnv66NDZ74
Also one of my fairly long term goals is to be able to play this with ease.
Its incredible. Captures the style i want to learn.

Posted by: Ben Higgins Feb 10 2012, 09:26 PM

Cool !

Wow, that Steffan guy is amazing.. what control !

I noticed he's got a great legato technique.. how's your legato ? I've got a legato series that may be of interest to you http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Bens-Land-Of-Legato/

There's also some great legato lessons by Juan Cortes that are more fusion based http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Legato-Workshop-1/

Legato's always a great place to get some sexy licks going !

Posted by: Alex Feather Feb 10 2012, 10:11 PM

Hey Leopard! What a cool name! Welcome to GMC!! Happy to meet you!

Posted by: leonard478 Feb 10 2012, 10:15 PM

very funny.. thanks

Posted by: Todd Simpson Feb 10 2012, 10:18 PM

Welcome to GMC! Jump right in and let the fun begin!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Feb 10 2012, 10:42 PM

Hi Leonard! Welcome to the site! I saw you at my video chat session! I hope that you enjoyed it!
Let us know how we can help you.

Posted by: Sinisa Cekic Feb 10 2012, 11:58 PM

Welcome to the site ,Leonard ! I hope that you will be active on forum ! See you around