Dear guys,

Today is my two year anniversary at GMC. It has been great interacting and helping you all through collaborations, lessons, mtp and video chats. If there is one thing that kept me to stay at GMC, it was YOU members who I have had very good relationship form start to the end.

I would like to wish you all best of luck in your future music studies and hope to stay in touch with you all!

Pedja

Nice entry Conrad, best of luck with it!

I had lots of chats and my experience varies. Doing it at same time everyday doesn't necessarily mean that members will show up Advertising it on forum couple of hours before also doesn't work well because thread gets lots with new responses in other threads. What I usually do is right before start of chat I make a post in this area about it. Then in next 10-15 minutes I enter it and then go back to thread type once again that chat has just started and provide a link to it. This has shown very effective as I had anywhere from 1 to 12-15 people in the chat.
It all depends on day and time as well as members. I usually see a lot of the same people (which I am very happy - they come and want to learn every time) but I am also thrilled when I see some new people in. Have to say this is rare case and would definitely like more people in chats.
Thats my opinion about it , hope it was helpful to you in some way.

Pedja

Hi Robert,

I would like to thank you for completing all your work for July. Mixolydian solo was much better now and I enjoyed Sweet child of mine backing, thank you for that.

I would like to wish you best of luck in the future with your guitar playing and studies.

Keep in touch,

Pedja

Guys I will be doing chat in 10 minutes, hope you can make it.

Pedja

Joe today is the deadline , see what you can do man

Grindguer,

Those were excellent takes considering it was your first time recording them I think you played all lessons very good, the only thing worth mentioning is your chords are short (staccato like) so you should work on that.
You only got one more thing to do, pick one of those 3 lessons and submit it for REC grading and you are all set!

Regarding your question, it is pretty much up to you if you want to bar with 1st finger using certain string set. Sometimes I do it , sometimes I don't, depends on what I played before and what I am about to do after

Thank you for taking time and studying with me for 3 months. I really hope your MTP experience was great and I want to wish you best of luck in future!

Pedja

Chandra my friend,

Thank you for completing all the work and for working hard for past 3 months. I really hope you improved a lot from chord lessons and that those improvising assignments came in handy for you.
Best of luck in future and keep in touch,

Pedja

Art,

Awesome REC choice It really suits your playing and attitude, enjoyed watching it.
Thank you for completing all the assignments 2 minutes before deadline I really hope you enjoyed working on your MTP assignments and hopefully you improved along the way.
Best of luck in everything you do and keep in touch,

Pedja

Hi Tom,

I am very happy with your progress in this MTP. You meet all the deadlines and material we covered I am sure you learned a lot from!
Regarding last assignment, don't worry, you got it down , just need to play it more thats all.
Thank you for your time and patience with me and keep in touch,

Pedja

Anders thank you, those were great 3 months! I hope that you learned a lot and improved man.
Best of luck in future my friend,

Pedja

Hi Chandra,

1st thing is this regular time not double time. Tempo is quarter notes and you are playing eight notes mostly some halfs quarters and in some parts 8th note triplets. If you did solo with 16th notes and/or 8th note triplets that would sound like double time.
I suggest slowing down backing and then try to do those rhythms, it will sound much better then it does now.
Yes I am aware, its not perfect melody choice and rhythm but its a start

Hey Chandra, post that double time recording would like to hear what you don't like so much about it. Thanks.

Cool, glad you noticed it as well! That lesson sounds more like a duo piece, I am very proud of it. It has great melody and harmony with it so in a way it is excellent real life example of chord melody approach. Glad you think its good exercise. Look forward to final version!

Yeah thanks Chandra, I feel very good today, back to working strong
Look forward to recordings tomorrow man.

Ok Grindguer, I will look forward to your work by 31st, submit all by then please

Tom this is passing material but I am not thrilled with it as you are not as well
I noticed some weird sound on 1st inversion E minor (G E on string set 4 2 1, it might be tuning problem (my 1st taught) or you are pressing strings too strings and they are light gauge ?
Overall timing was not perfect, like you said it looks like you are chasing some voicings.
I would pass you on this, give you 8 but since you got more time till the end of the month try to do another one - lets see how that one goes!

Thanks Tom!

Hey Chandra,

Thanks for this post. I have been busy and sick for last 4 days so I didn't check GMC much. I saw how they passed you on REC As I said, you played right things but intonation/tuning is big issue in my opinion. I would pass you as well but not with 9, 10 but rather with 8 because of tuning

How are you doing with other assignments? We got only couple days left, I hope that you can complete them!

Hi Grindguer,

I hope that you are finishing up with the assignments as we are very close to the deadline.
Regarding your questions, hybrid picking is technique great for string skipping and it has specific popping sound especially when you snap string with finger while pick plays normally. It basically gives you different ways how to play the same thing, work on the interval leaps and obtain different dynamic control!
Hope that makes sense man.

I look forward to the assignments,

Pedja

Nice take man, best of luck with it. Backing is very bluesy , might give it a go. When is the deadline?

Go for it man

Short answer: Awesome!

You just have to do REC and you are done for this month so I suggest finishing that one

Very cool Tom, thanks a lot man !

Cool Grindguer. Whatever you do finish it by 30th of August so speed up the whole thing as I have to close the thread after that time. Thanks a lot man