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Originally Posted by ES137
Some class notes from a group of us a while ago, if you're curious
David
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06-30-2019 08:39 AM
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What followed based on this template was a yearlong journey based on the HR formula
Commit to a song a week. What could a serious student hope to learn?
If you're curious
David
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Originally Posted by TruthHertz
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I went through this book many years ago, mid ‘80s I think. I still have the book. It was very useful for building technique, speed and mastering my arpeggio shapes.
Nowadays when I want to work on similar exercises I use the iReal app as backing and set it to increase in tempo every chorus and also move around the cycle of fifths. It makes a great warm-up routine.
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I went through the program start to finish a couple summers ago. One thing that's especially nice about the program is that it gets you actually improvising for lots and lots of time. Many other systems or programs or what have you tend to give you a ton of material but don't build-in time to actually put it to use. I suppose they figure that's up to the student, and that's somewhat fair, but I think many of us struggle with taking ideas and putting them into practice. That Howard's program puts that front and center is a boon in my opinion. On the flipside, he doesn't give you very much material! I could see running Superchops in parallel with something like Randy Vincent's Cellular Approach. The latter provides an abundance of stuff to shed, the former provides a framework for actually doing the shedding.
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Finished Week VII (review) and as I said at the outset that as an older adult, it is nearly impossible to do it every day as Roberts insists, life has once again gotten in the way, my father is in hospice and not long for this earth, I will probably have to take a break, see this out and pick up with Week VIII when I can. I did get seven uninterrupted weeks in however.
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Originally Posted by huntermacd
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I finally finished the 20 week course, as I said earlier life got in the way as my father passed away and spending time with him in his final hours took precedence over being a genius improv guy so practice was spotty over a month and a half to two month period, I did however get back on board when things settled down and saw it through to the end very consistently. I had some really frustrating days where I got angry and just felt like I was mindlessly running scales and couldn't hit anything and good, satisfying days where I was able to get the progression and key changes "off the paper and into my head" it was there that I noticed progress being made. I am going to take a breather for a few days, I look forward to getting out the Trio Pedal and the Real Book and testing and continuing my progress.
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Hi guys!
I just found out about this book and have been reading through this group. You guys work hard!! Well done.
I want to start with the program as well but I'm not quite sure about the bpm thing. How do I find my tempo? I noticed some of you where playing very slow for a long time, like 48 bpm. But the idea of the book is to gradually aim for higher tempos right?
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