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    • #19682
      superblonde
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      Doug, do you have plans to renumber the metal licks from their current numbers? If the numbers stay the same, then I can track them that way, if the course has some revisions. I am guessing in the tab, that the lick number in parenthesis is the number of the lick from the previous Classic Licks. i.e. “Lick 51 (2) Dorian”.

      I’ve played thru some of these licks before and gotten caught up in individual ones because some of them I find really fun, as I mentioned in the last week of Oct. https://guitarlessonforum.com/guitar-forums/topic/metal-licks-week-37-now-were-talking and previously playing around some of Classic Licks. I know one of my practice weaknesses is, I get on a couple exercises and I stay on them a really long time because they are fun (rather than moving on quick). And it is like inertia preventing moving onto something else, vs. keep playing the same thing. Compared to my bandmates who are much more “ADD style”, they seem to have a need to move onto different things all the time or they get ants in their pants. Based on discussions here before, for this type of learning, it is much better to spend small amounts of time on a large number of things and “shuffle the deck of things” periodically. So I am going to finally tackle this in dedicated practice and purposely use this strategy to get all these licks down ‘finally’ – not just one or two favorites, but all of them. Four minutes per lick, no more, then move onto the next one.

      The interesting thing is, some of the licks are harder than others, so if I just play thru the GP6 file with a fixed BPM, my practice tempo for individual licks might be different. Lick #1 I might want to practice at 80 BPM but Lick #2 I might need to slow down to 60 BPM (or something). After a month it should be cool to see how this turns out.

      I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
      And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

    • #19688
      Doug Marks
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      Doug, do you have plans to renumber the metal licks from their current numbers? If the numbers stay the same, then I can track them that way, if the course has some revisions. I am guessing in the tab, that the lick number in parenthesis is the number of the lick from the previous Classic Licks. i.e. “Lick 51 (2) Dorian”. …

      The interesting thing is, some of the licks are harder than others, so if I just play thru the GP6 file with a fixed BPM, my practice tempo for individual licks might be different. Lick #1 I might want to practice at 80 BPM but Lick #2 I might need to slow down to 60 BPM (or something). After a month it should be cool to see how this turns out.

      Yes, those are the numbers for the Classic Guitar Licks lesson.  Some of them have been modified a bit.  I don’t plan to reorder them because they are in a particular order based on the first note of the lick.  i.e. all licks that start on 1/5 are together.

      Part 2… Not only are some of the licks hard or easier, some don’t work fast.  For example, if it’s a slow tasty blues riff it might now sound that great without some modification played super fast. Then again it might.

       

      Metal Method Guitar Instructor

    • #19692
      superblonde
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      i.e. all licks that start on 1/5 are together.

      This is maybe an important consideration when tackling all these in practice. It might be better from a learning perspective to shuffle the deck (choose licks to play in arbitrary order) vs. play them in the lick-dictionary-order. I dont know but at least something to keep in mind when practicing them. I noticed this last nite in practice when going thru the first 8 (only got thru the first 8! 🙁 LOL). I like the ordering in terms of having them in a lick dictionary that can be referenced and added to, just that the practice order may be different.

      I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
      And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

    • #19785
      superblonde
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      Many of the licks have really interesting rhythm tho that makes them tricky to be strict when playing along in GP6. This is not the case if playing by ear where finger timing probably wont match the GP6 anyway. Some of the licks begin on the “4 ee and ah” beat etc and have various dotted notes too. The rhythm is definitely more of a workout than previous weeks.

      Like just this part Lick 3,

      lick3

      Sometimes the licks are hard to start on the right up-beat let alone play along in strict time in the middle. If started in bad timing, then it’s tougher to land the next notes correctly.. So here’s a couple things Ive been doing,

      1- When doing GP6 play along, modify the first note to be an easier note value (until the lick is memorized.. TBD). Like if the lick has a pickup 16th note, just change it to an 8th note, in order to be able to get playing on the lick.

      2- Paste in a drum track with more hits (ie 8th notes or 16th notes) or matching hits (like triplets), this makes it easier to copy the strict rhythm. The 16th note drum hits are a bit crazy tho, only for practicing really slow.

      I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
      And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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