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Mar 8 2009, 05:26 PM
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QUOTE (UncleSkillet @ Mar 8 2009, 05:21 PM)   I would like to see this! Maybe you could do the tapping part with your nose.   Another option
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Mar 9 2009, 12:02 AM
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QUOTE (lcsdds @ Mar 8 2009, 06:00 PM) Totally agree Muris!! I'm gpnna post another take on the lydian lesson minus the wiggle stick. Should have quite a few post for you next week. Hopefully I can get in my practice room long enough to get them done. Fingers crossed! 
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Mar 25 2009, 12:53 PM
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QUOTE (lcsdds @ Mar 19 2009, 05:44 AM) Hi Muris....Hope your stay in the states is going well.  I will upload the upstroke lesson on friday at whatever tempo I can get it clean at....I'm shooting for between 120 and 130...we'll see. I haven't had a chance to work on the Phrygian solo but I have next week off so I am gonna work on it then and I'll upload what I have so far next week. I'm working on your Lydian and Phrygian intermediate lessons and I can play pretty well....but not up to tempo with the AP licks yet . I've added some "inside" and "outside" picking excercises to my routine as well. Over all I am happy with how my AP is progressing....just not a fast as I would like but I am not gonna give up until I get to my goal. I will say that I am getting EXTREMELY comfortable with curling my right hand fingers and it has made a HUGE difference in my playing......not only my AP but my sweeping as well. I am very surprised by this. This MTP experience has been worth it just for that one piece of advice from you. I was having problems with my sweep/taps with regards to muting. I wrote a sweeps/arpeggios etude and put a few sweep/tap licks in there and the curling my fingers cleaned up my muting when doing the ascending sweeps. Thanks for the advice Muris!! I know I told you about the etudes I have been working on over your upstroke track as well. I have finished the tapping etude and I have written an arpeggio etude and a legato one as well. Here is the tapping etude and I'll upload the upstroke lesson on Friday. Hope you are having a good time in the States....wish I was closer so I could meet you and see you play. EDIT: I just realized you won't even be back into town until next week. I'll wait to post anything until you get back into town. Thanks Muris!! That was great tapping etude Monte, well done!! There is only one chord arpeggio that was a bit out of key, at 0:19 you played Major7 arpeggio over 5th degree chord so it should be 7 chord, not Major7. This is just tiny theoretical digression, technique was great nonetheless! QUOTE (lcsdds @ Mar 25 2009, 12:50 AM) Hi Muris, Hope you made it home safely. I am gonna work on the Phrygian composition this week and will post when I have something worth looking at. I have two videos to show you. I have the upstroke lesson and I played it twice....once at about 125 bpm and once at full tempo. You can see that my biggest problem is the thirds lick. I just gotta keep working on this. I think I have my right hand posture down now and I find that I am more comfortable now with curled fingers than with fanned fingers and I don't anchor my right hand at all now. I think I have progressed nicely with my AP and I am hoping to be able to start using it in my playing soon...still not quite there yet, at least as far as shred licks go. I have completely sworn off economy picking until I get my AP where it needs to be....don't want to relapse. I also have a video of my take on your lydian intermediate lesson as well. I can actually ALMOST play this using AP.....not quite tho, so I had to rely on my legato and tapping to be able to play it. I am gonna learn your Phrygian intermediate next and then your Mixolydian. I would say I spend about half of my practice time working on my AP right now and I think it is paying off. Thanks for your help with this and I will get you a take on the Phrygian backing by this weekend. Thanks. Your picking looks and sounds better each day Monte, way to go!! However, in Lydian lesson you still had kind a fanned out hand, probably cause you didn't think about AP only, no worries tho, it'll become fully natural after a while. While we wait for Phrygian composition what do you say about starting with Alternate Picking Etude? If you you're up for it just let me know which backing you would like. -------------------- Youtube
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Mar 25 2009, 01:39 PM
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QUOTE (Muris Varajic @ Mar 25 2009, 12:53 PM) That was great tapping etude Monte, well done!! There is only one chord arpeggio that was a bit out of key, at 0:19 you played Major7 arpeggio over 5th degree chord so it should be 7 chord, not Major7. This is just tiny theoretical digression, technique was great nonetheless! Your picking looks and sounds better each day Monte, way to go!! However, in Lydian lesson you still had kind a fanned out hand, probably cause you didn't think about AP only, no worries tho, it'll become fully natural after a while. While we wait for Phrygian composition what do you say about starting with Alternate Picking Etude? If you you're up for it just let me know which backing you would like. Great you are back Muris!! Alternate Picking etude sounds great. I actually started this one before I started the MTP and got kind of frustrated with it.  I think with the technique change in my picking hand that I can do better with it this time....I am ready for a new AP lesson as well. I noticed that I fanned my fingers in the Lydian lesson as well.....I notice I still tend to do it when I do any kind of sweeping and I really have to think about not doing it. I am working on a sweeping etude right now and really trying to focus on not fanning. I will start the AP lesson and give you a post of that and the Phrygian track by next saturday. I need to work on Emir's collab the next couple of days but after that I will have some time to dedicate to composing the Phrygian solo.....should be a lot of fun. Thanks for pointing out the 7th chord flub in the tapping etude....I am still getting used to composing and I have done this a couple of times now and I will remember this from now on. I'll post in a week with the Phrygian solo and the AP etude. I'll take the full speed BT for the picking etude...I slow it down using "Transcribe". Thanks.
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Mar 27 2009, 09:17 AM
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Here's the backing for you Monte,
looking forward to it and all other takes! 
Alternate_Picking___BT_150_bpm.mp3 ( 818.57K )
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Mar 27 2009, 06:35 PM
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QUOTE (Muris Varajic @ Mar 27 2009, 09:17 AM) Here's the backing for you Monte, looking forward to it and all other takes!
Alternate_Picking___BT_150_bpm.mp3 ( 818.57K )
Number of downloads: 6Thanks Muris....I'm 2/3 of the way through this one. This is a tough one!! Never tried to AP arpeggios before. I am hoping to post a take of the whole lesson next weekend along with the my take on your Phrygian backing.
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Mar 28 2009, 02:06 PM
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QUOTE (lcsdds @ Mar 27 2009, 06:35 PM) Thanks Muris....I'm 2/3 of the way through this one. This is a tough one!! Never tried to AP arpeggios before. I am hoping to post a take of the whole lesson next weekend along with the my take on your Phrygian backing. You got it! Tho I have to agree with you that it IS a tough one but after you nail it your AP will improve a lot, just focus on your picking hand, keep fingers out of your way and feel every note that you pick, you should be fine.
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Apr 5 2009, 08:31 PM
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Sorry for delay Monte, just got home from Frankfurt!!
Sorry to hear about kids tho, are they better now??? As for instrumental, you've got some fine melodies in there, there is just one thing I would like to point at right now and those are strong notes in this very instrumental you've recorded. Thing is, you've been following progression nicely but you played B note few times over D chord and that sounded pretty away and not so powerful. You did play note E as a strong note over the same D chord few times but as you can notice, 2th or 9th works very nice for this kind of pop=rock music in general. But 6th isn't the same, you should be careful with those cause 6th is used as strong note indeed only for a reason, when you want to point at 6th chord or som. Now, there is some room for improvement regarding construction of whole tune, you were kind of limited by the backing too, you have 2 lines of chords, with D in first variation and then with Bm in second, correct me if I'm wrong. Now, how about you give this BT and I record a take for you? Then we'll analyze both takes, your and mine and get some conclusions
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Apr 5 2009, 09:23 PM
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QUOTE (lcsdds @ Apr 5 2009, 09:48 PM) Intro-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-verse-chorus-outro....How do you see it? Yeah, that would be most common type of construction but those sections have to be kind a different one from another but well connected at the same time, hard to explain tho, easier to realize after you hear it! I'll try to record something asap.
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Apr 6 2009, 07:57 AM
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QUOTE (lcsdds @ Apr 6 2009, 02:07 AM) Muris are you referring to the chord progression here or what I played.....or both. I know the chord progression is very similar and even the different chord between the two progressions is VERY similar. What I actually played sounds different to me though. Just curious to what you mean. Well since progression is pretty much the same I was referring to what you played, there are many ways to split parts and connect them at the same time. Sometimes lead line doesn't do much but the rest of the bend does, there are many examples of that. But it this case I was thinking of guitar part, yeah, I'll try to split them when I record and we'll talk about it. Btw, Midi file doesn't work easy for me since maps aren't the same, can you give me simple BT as a MP3 maybe?
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Apr 6 2009, 06:23 PM
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Hi Muris.
Here is a better backing....Jer made if for me..should sound A LOT better than the midi file. |
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