I started a video lesson series on Youtube for anyone interested....

[r0g3r]

Lesson one is up now:

http://www.youtube.com/r0g3r

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[Mark Wein]

Killer!

I'll check it out after class is done... AOK

[Mark Wein]

Very cool! I would love it if you would continue posting your lessons here...you do some stuff that I wouldn't be very good at teaching but I think would be beneficial to the forum... smi

I just watched it all the way through and I dig it. I'll be driving my wife nuts running through it on the couch tonight when I get home :weebz:

My only suggestion is to possibly go through each of the scale patterns a note a time to let the less experienced players get them under their fingers. I'll usually go through a lick like that saying" 6th, 7th and 9th frets on the 4th string" and so on to make sure they know what they are looking at even if they don't go to my page with the tab (which I think most don't).

Are there any physical considerations that make playing quickly like that easier?

[r0g3r]

Thanks for the input Mark. I think if I'm feeling more patient maybe I'll include tabs in an overlay to help out. I tried to really position my fingers (like tucking my ring finger under the neck) to provide a good view when playing slow, for this first attempt.

Physical considerations for sure. When I was a teenager I was trying to learn perpetual motion for an exercise and my hands were really hurting me. So I was teaching at a music store at the time, and there was an older Berkley trained teacher there, and I asked him what was wrong. He helped correct my technique. I was reaching too far around the neck to position my fingers, and not paying attention to the severe angle of my wrist. I had to learn to curve my fingers more and my wrist less.

Other than that, if you use correct technique this is less stressful than playing barre chords all night for me. Because it's holding my hands in not so natural positions for long stretches that really has caused me the most actual problems.

[telecaster911]

Awesome Roger, I love that stuff and that's a great lesson. I'll definitely check them out. I would ditch the delay for lesson videos though. Dude00 Rock on AOK

[hobo]

good lesson: suggestion from a guitar player who's not very experienced
1. try to give the string and fret number
2. go over each string separately a few more times before moving on to the next string
3. sound effects, well I think your playing is great so I wondered why you used them smi
4. I think you needed more light on the vid

I hope to see more of your lessons on video, and a big thanks Totally_jammin_out chears Totally_jammin_out


hobo

[Phil513]

Great job dude. That looks like a good excersize for me to work on. AOK

[Mark Wein]

I've actually been working on it the last few days...I switched to heavy picks a couple of weeks ago and its taking some time to adjust my picking technique but its pretty fun to play...

[parrotheada1a]

Some good solid technique there Roger. It's fun to play even though my speed isn't up there yet. I think that would be a great lick for when you check out pedals in a music store. I do have one suggestion though. If you're speaking, roll down the volume on your guitar a bit. There's a part @ about 1:50 in where you're trying to play and explain what to do, and your voice got stomped on.

[r0g3r]

Thanks for all the feedback dudes.

For my latest lesson, number 3, I've turned the effects way down (I didn't realize how loud the delay was till I was editing the finished first video), and I'm hopefully explaining things a little clearer and giving more insight on the notes I'm playing.

Thanks for checking this out and helping me improve it. I started with technique, but I'm going to cover some theory stuff too and maybe reading chord charts and some other stuff like that.

[Mark Wein]

cool! Have you posted lesson 2 here yet?

[Denverdave]

Thanks Roger! I am working on my lead playing this year so this video is a nice place to start - at about 1/4 your speed though.

[White Gold]

Keep em coming! Totally_jammin_out

[White Gold]

How come in dorian, its seem as if it want to resolve a whole step down? Say in A, it sounds resolved on the G

[Mark Wein]

You have to

How come in dorian, its seem as if it want to resolve a whole step down? Say in A, it sounds resolved on the G


You have to treat the Dorian mode like a separate sound...right now you are still hearing it as a major scale because thats where you are used to hearing it resolve. I'll demonstrate in your lesson on Tuesday the difference....

[r0g3r]

You have to

How come in dorian, its seem as if it want to resolve a whole step down? Say in A, it sounds resolved on the G


You have to treat the Dorian mode like a separate sound...right now you are still hearing it as a major scale because thats where you are used to hearing it resolve. I'll demonstrate in your lesson on Tuesday the difference....


Yep. Your brain is wired for major scale resolutions and cadences because they are so common in western music. So you're wanting to hear the resolution to your relative major, instead of the root of your dorian mode. However, dorian also has a minor 7th, which is less powerful at pulling to the one than the real leading tone, the major 7th, and this is why the harmonic minor scale was invented.

[Mark Wein]

You have to

How come in dorian, its seem as if it want to resolve a whole step down? Say in A, it sounds resolved on the G


You have to treat the Dorian mode like a separate sound...right now you are still hearing it as a major scale because thats where you are used to hearing it resolve. I'll demonstrate in your lesson on Tuesday the difference....


Yep. Your brain is wired for major scale resolutions and cadences because they are so common in western music. So you're wanting to hear the resolution to your relative major, instead of the root of your dorian mode. However, dorian also has a minor 7th, which is less powerful at pulling to the one than the real leading tone, the major 7th, and this is why the harmonic minor scale was invented.


What he said biggrin

Thats actually a great explanation...I figured I would take the easy way out and just show him the differences in how modes sound in his lesson by getting one fingering to sound like 7 different scales since I'll see him in a few days...

[White Gold]

Mmnmmmh...thats awesome!

I'll need to see examples of that, so I'll just ask Mark to show me on Tuesday...Thanks!

[r0g3r]

When Mark plays you some examples it will all become clear, I'm sure of it.