Help!I'maRock!'s winter offseason woodshedding diary - mach II

Help!I'maRock!

Help!I'maRock!

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last year, i worked through the first half of the Mel Bay book 1 for both bass and guitar, while working on Fretboard Logic. my intention this year is to finish what i started and stop coasting. i also started on piano again last night and hope to make some headway with that.

updates and diatribes as they come.

:thu:
 
this evening i jammed on bass. considering i've been gassing for a fretless 5 string all day, i figured it would be a good thing. it wasn't. now i just want the damn thing even more. :mad: (but it was a good jam.)

i started on exercise 2 today in the Czerny book. this one is much harder. what screws me up is that like in ex 1, both the left and right hands are in treble clef. back when i was 6 years old, i already knew how to read bass clef, so its messing me up. but i'll deal. the hard part is the way the exercise is constructed. it wants to you to use multiple fingers on the same key so that you can get used to moving between positions. a very advanced concept compared to Schaum. but i think with a little dedication i can get it.

i only played piano for about 15 minutes. then i got frustrated. but just like i tell my students, 15 minutes three or four times a week will get you there.

now, back to the bass.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
this evening i jammed on bass. considering i've been gassing for a fretless 5 string all day, i figured it would be a good thing. it wasn't. now i just want the damn thing even more. :mad: (but it was a good jam.)

i started on exercise 2 today in the Czerny book. this one is much harder. what screws me up is that like in ex 1, both the left and right hands are in treble clef. back when i was 6 years old, i already knew how to read bass clef, so its messing me up. but i'll deal. the hard part is the way the exercise is constructed. it wants to you to use multiple fingers on the same key so that you can get used to moving between positions. a very advanced concept compared to Schaum. but i think with a little dedication i can get it.

i only played piano for about 15 minutes. then i got frustrated. but just like i tell my students, 15 minutes three or four times a week will get you there.

now, back to the bass.
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I think that the piano skills you are working on are going to make some "connections" mentally for you as a guitarist. Good stuff....
 
I started on piano when I was 4 years old. I got into the Schaum B book. I've always wanted to get back to it. And now having advancing guitar and bass students, I feel the need to learn something for myself, not just them. (Which isn't entirely true either. Of course I'm doing it for me too.)

As I was doing this piano exercise I lamented the fact that it would make my right hand, and not my left hand faster. But then I realized it'll help my fingerpicking too. :thu:
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
I started on piano when I was 4 years old. I got into the Schaum B book. I've always wanted to get back to it. And now having advancing guitar and bass students, I feel the need to learn something for myself, not just them. (Which isn't entirely true either. Of course I'm doing it for me too.)

As I was doing this piano exercise I lamented the fact that it would make my right hand, and not my left hand faster. But then I realized it'll help my fingerpicking too. :thu:
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I think its also about the "synchonicity" between your hands while you are playing.

I didn't start playing Piano for real until I was forced to in college and had to pass a Piano proficiency test. It's a PITA but all of my composition homework had to be played on the Piano so it was necessary and ultimately a good thing for me as a musician.
 
crap.

i told my bass student to play root, first inversion, and second inversion arpeggios of the entire C major scale. now i have to do it to.

what the HELL have i gotten myself into? :facepalm:
 
:grin:

Ain't teaching fun?

It's actually like surfing sometimes, getting pushed along by the wave and trying not to wipe out.
 
STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!

i played "Sea to Sea".

6 years ago, i had a guitar teacher who wanted me to learn to read music. we got to page 18 of the Mel Bay book before i quit. but before that, he told me to get the Berklee Method. we got to page 6 and then he decided that because i couldn't read chords, that we should go to Mel Bay. the piece that did me in was "Sea to Sea". i just played it.

i might go back to the Mel Bay book for extra exercises, but i'm gonna see how far i can get in the first Berklee book before i have to.

woo-fucking-hoo motherfuckers!!!!!!

chewie0Totally_jammin_outparty0009DANCING-banana:houra::rawk:
 
the best part is that i hybrid picked it on my classical. i still don't have the PIMA thing down, but my hybrid picking came a long way because of the Mel Bay book.

ok, now i have to do it again. so that tomorrow i can move on.

:rawk:
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
the best part is that i hybrid picked it on my classical. i still don't have the PIMA thing down, but my hybrid picking came a long way because of the Mel Bay book.

ok, now i have to do it again. so that tomorrow i can move on.

:rawk:
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Cool!

I usually use the rule that if I can execute something 3 times in a row without screwing it up then I know it.
 
markwein said:
Cool!

I usually use the rule that if I can execute something 3 times in a row without screwing it up then I know it.
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me too. but then i put down the guitar and do something else for 5 minutes. if i can do it again, then i know i can move on.
 
page 9.

had a little trouble with the chord changes, especially the G7 (a different form that they also do in the Mel Bay book). but i got the hang of it.

i have to say, although Larry Baione (the instructor on the DVD) is boring as all shit, its a good DVD. i mean, he's not putting together a DVD to be a personality. he's doing it so you understand the material. and to that end, it's very good.
 
markwein said:
Thanks pretty much all he needs to do :)
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exactly.

i have to say that i'm very proud of my progress. last year when i tried to do this, it felt impossible. but i worked at the Mel Bay book and though i didn't complete it, i got over the hump. i'm sure that it will be incredibly valuable in the first half of this one in providing me with additional exercises once i start banging my head against the wall.

146 pages until Soloway.
 
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