Joruus - Mentored By David (mtp) |
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Sep 4 2009, 04:58 PM |
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-------------------- www.youtube.com/Wallimann
www.davidwallimann.com |
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Sep 4 2009, 06:21 PM |
Hi David!
Im really excited to get mentored by you! Ill first fill in the questions you pm'ed and then maybe add some more info under it. Name: Benjamin Years playing: One year and 3 months How many minor pentatonic positions can you play? I can play the first 4 boxes, ive mostly practiced G-minor, but also tryed a bit in A minor Do you use a metronome? I don't, i know i probably should, especially since timing is often a problem for me Can you improvise? I sortof can, when i try this i use G-minor Pentatonic and try to just play and try getting something sounding nice I normally do that without backing track though, not sure if thats ok? Ill add a link of my slow blues improv over backingtrack wich i did for the MTP with Vaialation ( i guess i could do alot better now though cause thats 7 months old.. If you could improve one thing with this program, what would it be? Thats a very hard question.. There are alot of things i need to improve on, i'd love to be able to play a nice song (or lesson that sounds like a song) cause at the moment im like Keilnoth in this gmc funny A little more info about me and my playing: At the moment im practicing 'Hand on heart', ive practiced the first 1min20s of it now, i hope ill be able to play the first 3 minutes of that sometime soon.. (after that it gets way to fast for me) I will record a video of that later today so you can see how my skill is now, the vids i posted in the mtp thread are 6/7 months old (i didn't notice that before checking them today, time flyes.. ) I can also play 'sweet child o' mine' intro and first solo, but not to a backing yet. And i tryed to learn 'Always with you,always with me' but got stuck quickly after the main melody line with tab.. (i saw there is a gmc lesson for it now ) Other then those i can only play some bits and pieces of known songs and some gmc lessons. All videos i recorded for mtp with Vaialation are in my youtube channel My favorite things to play is like Steve Vai and Satch (instrumental metal?) but i'd also like to play rock and blues Things i can('t) do: Alternate picking ( i use this all the time, hopefully correct) Hammer-ons, pull-offs Bends, i think i get them in tune most of the time now Vibrato Tapping i tryed only a little so i cant really do that yet My timing is something that really needs to improve Thats all i can think of for now Ill add the improv video mentioned above, down here, and later add my playing hand on heart vid. Oh and here is a picture of me: Me on the left offcourse Old slow blues improv: -------------------- Gear:
Guitars: Ibanez Jem 7vwh, Ibanez RG 350 DX, Gibson Les Paul Studio Effects: Line 6 PODxt + FBV MKII Express pedal Amp: Line6 SpiderIII 15 |
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Sep 4 2009, 07:45 PM |
Great Benjamin!
Thanks for all this! First off, let me congratulate you, after seeing you video, especially considering that this was done a while back, you are doing quite well for having played less than two years... I think you are on the right track here. My thoughts for you wold be to work on rhythm, control and gradually building a nice collection of usable licks to improve your musical vocabulary... This will not only help your overall ability to play, but will also help you when memorizing a new song. Let's start with a rhythm placement exercise... 1st ASSIGNMENT - Rhythm Placement I'd like you to take a look at Joe's excellent funk lesson Study it well, the importance of this is the rhythm figure that he explains... We will be using these figures to develop your placement.. The E9 chord Joe is using can be played with the following fingering. Let me know if you have trouble with that one! Once you are comfortable with that exercise, record yourself playing that rhythm figure over the following backing track: Click_70.mp3 ( 1.69MB ) Number of downloads: 209 Post a video or recording of what you can do. Really concentrate on precise rhythm. I'd rather have a very tight rhythm than a pretty chord. You don't need to record over the whole backing track, just enough to show me if you can be tight on that. Don't hesitate to ask me if you have any trouble here! Try to get me something posted within the next week. :-) -------------------- www.youtube.com/Wallimann
www.davidwallimann.com |
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Sep 9 2009, 12:15 AM |
Well done!
Now that we worked on rhythm we'll work on a piece using some rhythm elements. The whole solo uses only the first two positions of an A minor pentatonic... Assignment 2 - Rhythm and melody We'll work on my Lick Construction class lesson. Before you start, make sure you are comfortable with the following positions: Focus on rhythm placement and on a clean technique. Let me know if you have any trouble! Once you are done, record yourself over the backing track... 80.mp3 ( 1.68MB ) Number of downloads: 173 Let me know how that goes! -------------------- www.youtube.com/Wallimann
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Sep 11 2009, 05:07 PM |
Hi David Im having alot of trouble getting that second part (video [3]) up to speed, i can play it decently at the same speed you play it after the first time in the video but when i try at full speed i can't keep up at all.. Yeah, it is a tricky part! Don't worry about getting the original speed. Here is a slower backing at 60bpm, just focus on rhythm placement... If that's still too fast, no problem. Just let me know and I'll get you a slower one. Thing is, when you play over a very slow backing track it's something harder to get things in place... 60.mp3 ( 2.24MB ) Number of downloads: 182 Let me know if that helps! -------------------- www.youtube.com/Wallimann
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