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Originally Posted by losaltosjoe
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02-10-2020 03:03 AM
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Originally Posted by wiscart1900
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Originally Posted by wiscart1900
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is it too late for me to join!
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Originally Posted by jaguarguitar
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Originally Posted by jaguarguitar
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
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Originally Posted by jaguarguitar
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Having trouble getting Fewell's "How Saw" solo down pat. (16 bars, track 6 on the CD) Maybe by tomorrow...
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Hi Study Group. FYI. Work has me on the road and away from my recording setup. Luckily I do have access to a guitar. So I am continuing to work on Chapter 3 but won't be able to post videos for a couple of weeks. Keep up the good work! Cheers, Joe
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The 16-bar "Hot Saw" solo from chapter 3. (CD track #6.) Better than yesterday and the day before but still not where it needs to be.
I like the phrases Fewell has chosen here.
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Well done, Mark! I'm a bit behind proceedings re: posting clips, right now I feel like I have lost all my chops and can't even play the easiest ditty properly.... Some days are like that.
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Originally Posted by TOMMO
I know what you mean about "some days are like that." Troy Grady says in one of his videos that playing guitar is like going to the gym in that you just don't always have it. It's better to say "today is just not my day" than "I suck and should just quit." ;o) We all have bad days.
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
I've made a start on this, and unlike my effort on Hot Saw, I love the way these lines don't always start on the root, and they twist and turn and double back on themselves. Almost all of mine started on the root and went up or down (but, in my defence yer honour, I thought that's what the idea was!).
I see four stages to using these lines:
- Learn them
- Analyse them, for the triads, but also (as mentioned above) how they start and move and end.
- Internalise the learning from (2)
- Have another go at Hot Saw using (3)
That's February gone then...
Derek
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Originally Posted by digger
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You're not wrong, Tommo.
I find I have a really poor musical memory, too. In another world I'm working on a particular set of right hand exercises that have to repeated every day for 30 days. The text says (in regard to memorising the material):
After your first practice session, working for five to ten minutes at 60 bpm, you shouldn’t have to look at the paper again.
I'm on Day # 13 and I still need to look at the paper...
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Here's my attempt at the example lines that GF has provided for us. As Mark said above, they're really nice phrases. I can see clearly how he uses the shapes / triads he's taught us thus far, but also there's some really nice twists and turns and the way he moves from shape to shape is enlightening.
Regards
Derek
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Originally Posted by digger
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Spent an hour and a half before work this morning trying to come up with some lines of my own, inspired by GF's examples. I ended up with four two bar phrases. They're very basic, but it's a start, and the exercise certainly helps in connecting the four (six) triad shapes, rather than playing a whole phrase out of just one shape, which is what I did on my Hot Saw effort.
I'll try and post these lines up later, that is, if they don't sound too awful when left to stew for eight hours!
Cheers
Derek
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Okay, here they are. They seem a little simplistic and square when compared to GF's phrasing. But it's a start in trying to get a little of what he did into my own lines.
I focused on starting lines on notes other than the root and also on moving between shapes. I find that shifting between shapes adds a little of that twisting and turning, jumping up and down in both big and small steps, that good lines seem to possess, but without too much effort - the genius of the shapes is that they do some of this for us!
The first line can be played starting on the root, or the 5th if, as in this case, we're using the Dorian mode. I've played both. What I also tried to do here was to start on an off-beat, which I kind of liked in GF's examples.
My second line simply goes up the four triads, with absolutely nothing added - so simple, yet very nice.
The third one is again really about just going up the shapes, this time with the tiniest of extra notes. This one also uses the G triad so it will really only work where we're using the Dorian (I think...)
#4 was the same, but this time I ended with a few notes from the Dorian scale leading back into one of the triads.
Anyway, that's it for now. I will keep working on these and hopefully resubmit Hot Saw in a week or so.
Cheers
Derek
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Here are two contributions from me:
Playing along with the sample solo on "Hot Saw":
and an attempt to solo over the backing track - not my best but the red light fever got the best of me again and I'm not exactly relaxed:
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Sounds good to me, Tommo! Lovely laid back groove and tone.
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Originally Posted by digger
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Sounding great, everybody!
Originally Posted by TOMMO
I've been away travelling in Australia for the past week without a guitar, so could use a bit of extra time on this chapter myself.
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I think that's a good idea, Jay. Tonight I've been working on composing a solo for Hot Saw as per GF's instructions. But I've also been going back over all the shapes and triads and lines learned so far. Can't believe how far we've all come so far. Be a shame to start rushing things so soon.
Derek
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