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You can learn to play a song without being emotionally invested in it. You can learn all of the cool licks in FTLOG without trying to recreate Vai's personal emotional intensity for a number of reasons: 1. Great way to build your technique without resorting to mind-numbingly useless quasi-chromatic ...

Perfect pitch as encountered in people that were born with it, is still different than the approach that is taught. They don't need to think of colors, or intellectualize it in any way. It's a common misconception that Burge's method requires color association. It's just an analogy that he uses to ...

I bet you guys with perfect pitch can not tell 5 cents off 440 Hz. Right you are. That's not really what perfect pitch is about. It is a very organic natural ability. It's not like becoming a human strobe tuner where you know how many cents a tone is off from A440 or whatever standard. It's not tha...

Ok ok i did make a post about the expensive shred course scam but i am interested in the pitch perfect 8 cd series http://www.perfectpitch.com/ theres the link. I was wondering if this is a big scam and has anyone else purchased this? The course is not a scam. I bought it almost 15 years ago when i...

So what's your approach then for learning (and remembering) the notes on the fretboard then. When you say, convert these notes to flat etc...it takes me a bit to figure out where those notes lie. I'm a feel player, but I'd be interested to hear what your stance is on this. Thanks for the exercises!...

I like to think of the circle picking motion as stirring a tiny cup of coffee - a combination of wrist, thumb and index finger movement. You can integrate circle picking into economy picking technique for a very fluid sound. Peace

Wouldn't this approach teach your students to play within box shapes, rather than teaching them to play in a linear style also? I suppose it could depending on how you look at it. But I don't see any disadvantage to consistantly playing within set logical fingerings. The disadvantages are seeing th...

Do both. For more in-depth answers don't hesitate to ask! :wink: Absolutely! They sound different and it's really cool to be able to do both. Also, it's a common misconception that to use economy picking one must always use three-note-per-string patterns and have the picking scheme worked out. This...

This is what I teach... Start on the first fret F on the 6th string. Play C Major: -----------------------------------3-5-7 ----------------------------3-5-6------- ---------------------2-4-5-------------- --------------2-3-5--------------------- -------2-3-5---------------------------- 1-3-5-------...

"Exactly, have fun. But keep in mind, the modal patterns are really just one huge major scale. " AHHHH! NOOOO! *slaps forehead* Modes are their owns scales, forget about the major scale it relates to. If you are hearing B lydian in the first place, that is what you want. You dont want to be hearing...

A lot of seven string jazzers tune (low to high) A E A D G B E. This puts a fifth on the seventh string right next to a sixth string root. This is cool for playing chords with walking bass. If you're more into the rock thing, tune the seventh string to B. If you like newer - de-tuned radio pop metal...

Chooch, First, it seems like you're doing pretty good in the chops department for only having played a year or so. I agree with Gustav about the bends and vibrato. The first thing I would address though is time. Turn the metronome on and get solid. Having great time is the difference between knowing...

It really depends... One has to keep in mind that the music came first and someone derived the theory from the music to categorize and study it. I, for example, really needed the theory to learn the sounds of jazz and bop. Really gifted cats just hear and play. I don't think Wes knew what to call mo...

Burnt, You're right, the piece itself is in C major. But the notes of the melody create intervals with the chords they are played over. These intervallic templates are modes. The key is C major which includes C Ionian, D Dorian, E Phrygian etc. Play a melodic phrase of your liking and play it agains...

All one has to do is hear the mode in the first place! And voila! You're in the mode! This is exactly why they are modes in tonal music too. If you hear strictly horizontally without regard to the harmony, it can be heard as just the major scale of the key. But if you listen vertically and hear the...