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Congratulations, a great accomplishment.
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08-24-2012 10:06 AM
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Thanks, I can't quite believe it. It has been about a solid year, as I did start on the book around this time last year.
Time to put it aside I think and do some real music.
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Originally Posted by ten left thumbs
I find, even now, when I'm playing a scale, I'll notice a flicker of memory -- of that page with dots, and the dots on the grid -- flash by.
So maybe stare at the dots, Laura - as your fingers run through the pattern, follow the dots with your eyes. If it seems strange - following dots, keeping up with which string is which, etc. - just know that it won't take very long at all to know it like the back of your hand. There's much to be said for diagrams and tab, IMO. Ted Greene said that patterns are "the key to the instrument." He was right, unless you're Martin Taylor or Bob Conti.
So print off some scale diagrams and stare at them while you play them. Do this for weeks. Hehe.
kj
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Only the first exercise of p112 so far, but couldn't help already putting my mark on the thread of the Final Lesson
Super stoked to be making it to the finish....
p112 - B-flat Major - Fingering Type4
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Alright so here is the rest. Took a little more than a month. Pretty tough stuff...
p113 - Db Major - Fingering Type 1 - 70 Bpm
Looks like my SoundCloud account ran out of minutes...
p113 Ab Major
p114 - Third Position Review
p116 - Chord Forms
p117 - Major Scales in First Position
p118 - First Position Review
Last edited by Langs; 06-23-2015 at 03:28 PM.
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Continuing to publish my very last recordings for this Study Group. It's been truly amazing and really want to continue on this track. Hopefully I get to finish VolumeII quicker (as in quicker than 2yrs!!)
p119 - 120 Major Scales in Fourth Position
p121 - Chord Forms
p122-123 Fourth Position Review and Chord forms - Grand Finale
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Hi everyone. I just finished working with vol.1 and planning to continue to work on vol.2. Do I need to master the exercises in the first volume(esp. Chord etudes) before moving on to the next volume?
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I've been following these threads years after they happened, while I've worked through the book on my own, and they've been incredibly valuable and motivating. I just 'finished' the book, and will shortly move onto volume 2 (I'm going to miss having these threads and a video tutor!). I can't play everything in volume 1 flawlessly yet, but I can play it nonetheless. Experience tells me that by the time I'm halfway through volume 2, the trickier parts of volume 1 will seem a lot easier.
It feels so strange to finish the book when I can also still remember how daunting and awkward it felt playing that first exercise on page 4, not knowing how to read for guitar or what any of the notes on the neck were. Towards the end I was pleasantly surprised how quickly I adapted to third and fourth positions — and that it was a much quicker adaptation than learning second position. Also, introducing second position and then, two pages later, Chord Etude 1 (arguably the hardest piece in the book) was pretty rough. I felt like I was stuck on pages 60-62 for months. But I eventually got them under my fingers, and I learned a valuable lesson about persistence.
Anyway, I have one question that neither the book nor the DVD seem to explain: on page 108, what is the meaning of "G7(13)" on the first line? Should I play a G7 or a G13, or something else? Similarly, what does "D9(13)" on page 122 mean? I went back through the book and couldn't see that notation introduced anywhere. TIA.
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Nickr, you've done a amazing job and now is a good idea to move on to Book 2, but never forget what Leavitt kept repeating throughout book 1: Review, review, review. Flawless playing will naturally develop with constant review. I finished all 3 books and I still crack open book 1 for fun. I've worked through other method books, such as Melbay, but this one is my favorite.
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Originally Posted by nickr
And as for the D9(13), you can simply call that a D13 because a dominant 13 chord can have a 9th in it without the need to specify that it is there.Last edited by smokinguit; 10-07-2017 at 08:57 PM.
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Thanks smokinguit, for your helpful answers. The chord explanation makes sense.
I will be sure to review the book regularly. I learned the value of this after having terrible trouble with page 19. It was only once I'd progressed to somewhere in the second half of the book that I could go back to page 19 and play it flawlessly every time.
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Originally Posted by lickerz101
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As far as the mystery chords: G7(13), check to see if Leavitt wrote the 13th as a melody note, that was one of the ways of pointing out harmonic function and hearing it in context. extensions should be used melodically, so a 13th should perhaps become an augments and then just a 7th or perhaps a b5. That way you get a nice chromatic line, but it needs to be against a long note to be effective. Accompanying well is a big study, and I recommend the great arrangers like Nelson Riddle and Don Costa (who was a good guitarist, and you can hear that in his writing).
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Sure enough, the G7(13) plays at the same time as an E in the melody, and the D9(13) comes in at the same time as a B.
Thanks for pointing that out.
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I appreciate everyone's contributions to these threads. They made my experience of working through Book 1 feel much less solitary (despite the company of Larry Baione). Thrilled to have finally finished the book after owning it for several years and losing motivation a number.
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