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February 19, 2019 at 5:49 pm #125782
I have been trying to learn this one for some time now revisiting it more times, Yesterday I tried recording myself because it pushes me to try and play the whole thing. It was not easy but I decided to post the one that got the closest to getting done, as a reference for future (hopefully improvements).
If you are playing this one I would love to hear how you are doing.Cheers,
Michal
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February 19, 2019 at 7:08 pm #125802
Michal you sound like you are doing well and certainly the slow play is the way to go. For some reason i found this much more tricky to master than I thought it would be and indeed I don’t play it perhaps as well as I should. I kept tripping my self up with it for quite a while before I got it nailed. So I don’t think its as easy as first blush would seem to indicate and you have played it pretty well. JohnStrat
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February 19, 2019 at 7:13 pm #125804
Sounds good. What guitar are you using on it?
The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete
It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete
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February 19, 2019 at 7:23 pm #125807
Very nice, you nailed this at slow tempo! very cool lesson!,, you asked so looked up back in august 2018 here was my humble take lol
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February 19, 2019 at 7:35 pm #125818
Oh yeah, very nice, i love that everybody bring a little of his own to the playing, fingerstyle makes also a lot of difference.
Thanks for that John!
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February 19, 2019 at 7:29 pm #125814
Sounds good. What guitar are you using on it?
I am using my Gibson Les Paul on the bridge pickup into Ampitube (Orange Rockeverb50 amp plugin) on the iPhone though iRig interface. Most of the time i can practice when the kids go to bed so this is a cool possibility to still get some tone.
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February 19, 2019 at 7:33 pm #125816
Sounds good. What guitar are you using on it?
I am using my Gibson Les Paul on the bridge pickup into Ampitube (Orange Rockeverb50 amp plugin) on the iPhone though iRig interface. Most of the time i can practice when the kids go to bed so this is a cool possibility to still get some tone.
The Gibson had that full bodied sound that’s for sure, but I felt some kind of plugin was being used so I didn’t know if it was a Gibson Les Paul.
The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete
It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete
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February 19, 2019 at 7:54 pm #125823
Oh yeah, very nice, i love that everybody bring a little of his own to the playing, fingerstyle makes also a lot of difference.
Thanks for that John!
haha, that was me reading and playing along with the tab..i know it wasn’t flowing here lol.. so much an example for lack of timing ! the feel only gets better with timing .. if i returned to this (too tired tonight to practice) I know I could be tighter.. just like you,, you’ll see,, the time it took you to do this lesson , and you did it great, but it will only get better because it all connects even months later
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February 19, 2019 at 8:04 pm #125824
Michal you sound like you are doing well and certainly the slow play is the way to go. For some reason i found this much more tricky to master than I thought it would be and indeed I don’t play it perhaps as well as I should. I kept tripping my self up with it for quite a while before I got it nailed. So I don’t think its as easy as first blush would seem to indicate and you have played it pretty well. JohnStrat
John, I know whenever I return to a lesson I put hours into, even months ago,, in this case I did it last August when about the time Brian released this?.. My point is, to you or anybody, it is less tricky after you tried ,especially if you go it slow tempo and get the timing and memorize the tab. naturally easier to play any lesson better even if months after first attempt.
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February 19, 2019 at 10:28 pm #125835
Michael, I think you sound very good. Your bend, slide, etc. — i.e., all the technical aspects sound excellent to me. At some point, you might want to try tapping your feel, then everything will come together (they are as of now, but little hard to figure out the groove you are in). I think it’s actually harder to play very slow, but definitely, I too, start slow and then bring it to up to speed.
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February 20, 2019 at 1:46 am #125846
fine playing, good Sound
Dieter
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February 20, 2019 at 4:41 am #125856
Well done, Michal!
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February 20, 2019 at 4:47 am #125858
Thanks everybody for the nice comments,
Yeah in this try I was playing without a click, I normally practice with a drummer but for thisone it didn’t sound good, and I couldn’t set the AmpliTube metronome slow enough for me 😜.
I was practicing and recording with a faster click but couldn’t do it whole without screwing up somewhere, but i will work on it and post again laterMichal
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February 20, 2019 at 7:27 am #125868
Hey Michal,
Sounding good, you’re well on your way with this. This, like so many of Brian’s lessons is trickier than expected.
I had done this as a challenge a few months ago.
Still trying to figure out my funky looking video. Hummm……..
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February 20, 2019 at 9:00 am #125878
Michal, you started a good topic.. lol.. Rob just answered well! I like the tremolo effect Kubrider used and again got to say this is a terrific lesson as so many here at Active Melody! The key issue I think most of is timing..I know I’m getting better at it.. it takes a good ear and patience.. we all want to finish through each lesson without polishing the details in each measure.. but t is part of the training ..and we can always return days weeks even months and likely finish off what we hear after more detail polishing?.. I know it is working for me! Just takes hours and it has to be fun otherwise polishing won’t surface as fast!..lol.. I like diving into theory while practicing,, especially when I have to ask “what is this I’m playing” no different than mimicking some different language from a foreigner,, and asking “what did I just say?..what’s it mean?..” same thing I try to do when practicing on the fret board! Okay, going to polish up on some jazz stuff I got into last couple days! (like learning basic comping and voicing 7th chords) it will help tremendously for blues or rockblues//just about everything!
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February 23, 2019 at 4:23 am #126056
Michal, I searched my archive but found nothing; yet this lesson seems very familiar to me. Playing slowly is not easy, you did it well; everything went well together.
Play guitar just like you live; don't get bogged down in theory, it's just a tool without feeling.
Wilfried
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February 24, 2019 at 9:20 pm #126202
Michal,
Nicely done.
Clarke
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