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November 8, 2018 at 7:20 pm #115904
Hello Guys,
The site looks amazing, the instructor is great playing the guitar, but i want to learn, and im not sure how much i can learn playing or trying to learn from memory a lick or a melody the instructor shows in the videos, i have seen like a beginner course and a blues course, does this course actually shows about the pentatonics positions? some theory? That are just my toughs and i actually member of another lesson site jampl….com so you can have an idea why im comparing, and other importante thing, this site offers me a better cost, so i can save some money and learn in the same time.Can you help me some advises in how can i do to learn from this site? it is possible?
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November 8, 2018 at 8:04 pm #115905
Depends on your ability on how this site will help or not. I used to be premium here, but, I had just started playing again after about a 10 year hiatus. I had played for about 25 years before I quit. I got the bug to play again and I had come to realize I lacked in a LOT of areas that I shouldn’t. My fingers had the speed and dexterity, just I didn’t have any place to go with it. Which is when I joined here (roughly 3 years ago as premium). Brian’s stuff brought me up and beyond anything I ever imagined.
I am not a premium member now only because I no longer feel challenged, so, I found something that suits my abilities. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think I am that great at playing guitar, I just felt I needed more of an advanced degree of tutoring. I needed the challenge..
You should keep your options open too. Out of respect to Brian, I won’t divulge my other “go to” sites, but, if you look, you will find them.
One of the cool things about Brian’s stuff, is, every lesson will have a piece of the puzzle and if you start looking, light bulbs will go off. Been there.
Don't practice till you get it right, practice till you can't get it wrong.
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November 8, 2018 at 8:12 pm #115906
Thanks for your advise BlueGenes, im not that good, im kind of the guitar players who knows how to play open chords, some triads, bar chords, but i can’t play leads, riffs or solos, thats my limitation, and i have seen that Brian teach soloing almost in every video, but i just dont want just to learn to “clone” a solo, i want to learn i dont know, scale positions, how to apply them, maybe major scale forms, and that im confused if this site would work for me, thanks really your opinion is very valuable for me. For sure you are a much better guitar player than me.. I like to learn blues, so i can use blues to improvise over my band’s latin songs.
Thanks!
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November 8, 2018 at 9:35 pm #115908
Hi David. I think I was about at your level when I first joined ActiveMelody 3 years ago. By now I have lots of licks in my brain, and I can sit down and easily improv with anyone, or any jam track. You say you don’t want to just clone a solo, but that’s how you learn the licks. If you go with one of those “32 Essential Blues Licks” videos you see on Youtube, you won’t really learn to do any decent improv. Pretty much all blues improv is just someone regurgitating the licks and tricks they know and pasting them together in the right order. If you don’t already know this, you need to be able to sit down and play all the pentatonic scale positions in order, forwards and backwards, with no hesitation. Then you need to be able to play them out of order, like do a lick in 1st position, and jump straight to a lick in 4th position. Brian’s lessons are perfectly designed to teach you exactly this. Don’t be lazy. Pick a lesson – Brian’s or anyone’s – and learn it perfectly. The licks within it will be burned into your brain and available for instant recall. Otherwise you will always be the rhythm guitarist, and that’s OK too.
Sunjamr Steve
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November 8, 2018 at 10:31 pm #115912
I’ve been here for a couple of years now, and I can say that I have seen many people who started about where you are, and they have improved tremendously. What Brian is doing works, especially with beginners and advancing guitarists who do not know much yet.
The blues course will teach you the pentatonic, and how to use them. The lessons will reinforce that, and show you how rich your playing can be with a fairly simple toolbox. That’s a good thing. You can always supplement what you get here, either by asking questions, or by looking at other resources.
Oh, and this place has the nicest, and most supportive forums of any guitar site on the internet. People here will help you with anything you ask.
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November 9, 2018 at 3:54 am #115918
At the end of the day, You will only get back out what you are putting in. When I joined AM a couple of years back I knew about 4 open chords and for the first year here struggled to understand the whole concept of how all of this went together.
Even though I was progressing I still didn’t understand just what it was that I was doing.
Measuring myself against other members progress got me mega frustrated until I realised that their or my progress was nothing to do with one or the other.
All the tools are here, Brian provides them in abundance just for us. We have to put in the hard work doing the practise.
Comparing one tuition site to another doesn’t quite work imho, though in saying that I too use one other online course but that is only because I can download a full course to my tablet and take part lessons when out at work.
In saying all of that, you have to be a Premium member of Active Melody to reap full access benefits.
Good luck on your guitaring journey...Billy..
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November 9, 2018 at 7:49 am #115939
Thanks guys for all the advises here. I think i get how the site works, i’m looking to learn first the blues course, so i can learn all the positions required to do the videos and then study the brian videos each and i will be learning how to use those learned positions on the blues course by playing and applying them in a musical context. thats sounds like a good approach, i have seen some videos refering to major scale, he actually teach the major scale somewhere? or i have to learn it first from another source?
Thanks guys, really appreciate your comments.
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November 9, 2018 at 8:18 am #115941
David,
With Brian, everything grows out of the Minor Pentantonic scale, which you will be introduced to in the Blues course. There is also a major pentatonic scale. It is three frets behind the minor. He has several lessons where he will show major and minor pentatonics and how to combine them.
As for the major scale, Brian has some lessons showing how it is the major pentatonic scale with two extra notes. If you run across a lesson where there is something you want to know more about, simply ask.
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November 9, 2018 at 9:33 am #115953
David,
With Brian, everything grows out of the Minor Pentantonic scale, which you will be introduced to in the Blues course. There is also a major pentatonic scale. It is three frets behind the minor. He has several lessons where he will show major and minor pentatonics and how to combine them.
As for the major scale, Brian has some lessons showing how it is the major pentatonic scale with two extra notes. If you run across a lesson where there is something you want to know more about, simply ask.
Thanks Duffy for your explanation, i can clearly see that the forum here is very very very active… Amazing added value for the site.
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November 12, 2018 at 8:19 am #116497
Spend some time learning what Brian talks a lot about. That is recognizing and learning the notes that form their own little pattern under the chord that is being played at the time. Using this method will help your solos begin to sound more melodic. That along with the major and minor pentatonic scales will take you a long ways.
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