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GMC Forum _ PRACTICE ROOM _ What Are Your Current Goals
Posted by: PosterBoy Oct 5 2012, 10:09 AM
Mine
Technique and fretboard knowledge
Get my legato and alt picking up to a decent and useful speed
Have major scale patterns and pentatonic patterns firmly drilled into my fingers (muscle memory) and brain.
These two will work together, using the trusty http://bouncemetronome.com/ as my ever faithful side kick.
I'll be working on my scale positions using 16th note and triplets and with intervallic patterns, string groupings (eg. one string, two string, 3 string patterns), and runs.
and just so I'm not relying on pattern shapes, learn and identify my note and interval names for each.
I'll also be playing and learning music, riffs and licks so I can use this stuff in musical ways.
Posted by: Ben Higgins Oct 5 2012, 11:12 AM
My goals are to get better at programming drums/arranging and get better at mixing. 
Posted by: Nether Oct 5 2012, 11:12 AM
Technique and fretboard knowledge
Get my legato and alt picking up to a decent and useful speed
Have major scale patterns and pentatonic patterns firmly drilled into my fingers (muscle memory) and brain.
These two will work together, using the trusty http://bouncemetronome.com/ as my ever faithful side kick.
I'll be working on my scale positions using 16th note and triplets and with intervallic patterns, string groupings (eg. one string, two string, 3 string patterns), and runs.
and just so I'm not relying on pattern shapes, learn and identify my note and interval names for each.
I'll also be playing and learning music, riffs and licks so I can use this stuff in musical ways.
Looks like you have a solid plan. I think i'm gonna copy it
Posted by: Max Sokolov Oct 5 2012, 11:34 AM
My main goal for a long time is to make my time feel as strong as it even can be!
Posted by: TreyDeschamp Oct 5 2012, 12:26 PM
Build up legato and alternate picking speed, get a cleaner sound with the two of these, learn different sweep patterns and get faster with them and ultimately learn how to utilize things that I learn from the lessons here at GMC.
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Oct 5 2012, 03:59 PM
One of my current goals is to incorporate new sounds and styles to my compositions.
Posted by: Bossie Oct 5 2012, 07:13 PM
Hotel california solo...
Posted by: Andre Nieri Oct 5 2012, 08:24 PM
Improve my improvisation skills, better recording and mixing, better composition skills!
Posted by: SpaseMoonkey Oct 5 2012, 08:29 PM
Goal for the day is finishing moving my room around to put in surround speakers.. I started this.. 5 hours ago, in the middle came food and Borderlands 2. Now GMC, maybe after that I will finish sometime today.
Guitar wise, I've been working my picking. Alternate picking, single strings, few notes per strings, and string skipping. It's rather hard doing all of this slow, but it feels its paying off overall!
Posted by: Ben Higgins Oct 6 2012, 08:59 AM
Love it !! Games and fodder have to be squeezed in somewhere !
Posted by: wollace03 Oct 6 2012, 11:12 AM
my goal is to brign my musical ideas into my playing....especially when it comes to playing solos..
so learning different things and trying to implement them so that I can play what I really want to play...
gmc lessons I am working on:
legato metal riffs
tasty etude
running around
bminor ballad soloing
5 styles solo (different parts)
hammer on pull off etude
Posted by: Opetholic Oct 10 2012, 06:26 PM
Goals:
- Add more expression in my playing : vibrato and bends
- Be comfortable with sweep picking
- Get faster with AP
Posted by: eMGie Oct 10 2012, 06:32 PM
My goals:
- Record more classical music metal arrangements
- Compose new song
- Start creating some orchestral tracks
- Continue practicing my favourite techniques
Posted by: superize Oct 10 2012, 07:39 PM
For me its nailing my bands song and write more songs.
Posted by: Todd Simpson Oct 11 2012, 05:52 PM
I hear that! Drum programming is a bit of a HUGE pain for me. I enjoy playing drums, I just hate programming them. Making a nice triplet based djenty polyrythm seems far more complex than it should be. To whit, I broke down and just bought some spiff midi from Ola Englund (comes on his special edition disc) and I must say he has a gift for it. Just looking at his midi tracks has been insightful.
Posted by: Socky42 Oct 11 2012, 06:49 PM
Do you know if he actually gets someone (himself?) to play the midi in, or does he genuinely just do it note for note? Cause his drum parts are phenomenal.
Posted by: gregc1 Oct 11 2012, 06:52 PM
- Add more expression in my playing : vibrato and bends
- Be comfortable with sweep picking
- Get faster with AP
Haha really? Your going to pop a tendon if you go too much faster.
My goal is to get half of Opeth's AP speed.
And @#$%ing legato.
Posted by: korblitz Oct 11 2012, 07:24 PM
Learn the order of sharps.
Posted by: PosterBoy Oct 11 2012, 09:40 PM
That should take you an evening of concentration Korblitz
Posted by: Ben Higgins Oct 12 2012, 09:34 AM
Cool !!
Yeah, recently I realised there were some things that I hadn't really been doing like altering hi-hat velocity so that the hits that coincide with the snare are hardest (or stay the same as their default setting) and I lower the ones in between.
I also remembered that drummers use crash cymbals more often for beats, not just crash hits. That also sometimes takes a bit of playing with the velocity to get it so it doesn't just sound like a big noise.
The other thing I realised/remembered was that drummers don't just play one crash cymbal during big moments, you can have kick & 2 crashes simultaneously in places where the drummer would have time to physically do so
Posted by: PosterBoy Oct 12 2012, 10:32 AM
Ben
Groove 3 have a drumming tutorial for programming drums . I mention this as it's 50% off at the moment
http://www.groove3.com/str/drumming-explained.html
For the price of a few beers, it's got to be worth it!
I think velocity is something that really makes programmed drums sound more human when done right.
Also check out http://groovemonkee.com/blog/
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