Fatb0t Mtp Thread - Sonofdestiny Mentoree, Lets get rollin' Options

[fatb0t]

Hello SonOfDestiny my friend! Is your name George?

My name is Jonathan first off, I sent you a PM of my MSN user name so we can chat too

I hope you're ready to begin your rigorous study of guitar. A few points before we begin...

Just like with anything in life, you get out what you put in. The pleasure you receive from playing the guitar is a direct function of how much time/energy is spent honing your skills, learning new techniques, and practicing composing.

I am here in hopes to show you some direction in your playing. You sent me a PM when I uploaded my MTP entry and you said you liked the way I played (I was very flattered by the way). Though Smells has given us a basic out line, one thing that I cannot possible stress enough to you is learning some theory. If you want to be able improvise coherently this is a must. This is where I go back to my point of you get out what you put in. Though reading theory might not be the most fun of things, guitar playing or music in general has an intellectual aspect of it that absolutely must be learned.

What experience with music theory do you have? Do you know your major scale? Do you know the relation of the major scale and the pentatonic scale? Do you know how to build chords from stacking thirds? Do you know how to fret a major, minor, and diminished chord? Do you know how to fret M/m/Dim-7th chords? Do you know the difference between a whole note, half note, quarter note, 8th note, 16th note?

If not, have no fear! I can help you, as well as the experienced theory fiends around here. Just let me know where you are at with that.

I watched your video and listened to your solos, over all you have pretty good technique! We just need to polish it up a bit and teach you how to make rocking solos just like Richie Sambora (or get close enough )

Do you know how to use a metronome?



So let me know where you are at with the theory side of things and I will come up with some lessons for you.

-Jonathan

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This post has been edited by fatb0t: Jan 8 2009, 06:51 PM