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Welcome back, Frédérica! I look forward to listening to your performance in this month’s challenge 🙂
rickeymike – Here is my feedback for you 🙂
lisadmh – Here is my feedback for you 🙂
ripley – Beautiful playing! I think you’ve got it down really well 🙂
One thing I’d start thinking about, is adding a little bit of dynamics to your playing. For example, playing some parts softer and others louder. Check out Matt’s live lesson from a few months ago. It provides a really good introduction to this concept.
And I dig the shirt, but it has to be a costume 🙂
cyukug – Great playing! I think you have it down very well, but here is the one thing that I would be working on: Dynamics.
When I listen back, your playing stays even throughout. Try to experiment a little bit with playing softer and louder. Did you see this video feedback I left for Robin earlier this month in this post? It’ll give you a few ideas on how to work on this and structure it.
Last tip, keep finger pressure held down when doing the barre chord slide up to the 7th fret. Gives it a really cool sound!
@laurasil – Def, nice improvement! Very pretty tone overall. 🙂nerdjenni – Great job for only a few days! First time through sounds great. Keep working on the second time through. And as you continue to practice, work towards memorizing it, that way you can start thinking about the subtleties in your playing; which for those of you who are reading this feedback, is the big takeaway of this lesson.
Welcome, Snehit! Glad to have you on-board. I just answered your questions in the other post, which will give you a lot to work on 🙂
Hey Snehit, it sounds like you are interested in transcribing. Which means, figuring out music by ear and putting it on paper, i.e. notating it. To do this, there are few areas you will need to develop:
1) General understanding of harmony. Start with our music theory course, it will provide you with the fundamentals.
2) General understanding of rhythm. The best way to understand how rhythm and timing connect is to learn to read standard notation. Start with our course on reading, but after that you will need to begin to learn to notate. And for this, I’d suggest picking up a copy of this book.
3) Lastly, you’ll want to start developing your ear. The best ear training tools can be found here. Start with the interval ear trainer (bottom of page).
4) I’d also recommend picking up a slow-down program to aid in transcribing. This is the one I use:
Here’s the download link for Windows.
Here’s the download link for Mac.Pluck it, or you could form the full G chord shape there and strum it. Which would be 0775.
Glad you dig the lesson! 🙂
peiching – Great playing! You have a very nice tone to your playing 🙂
I have two suggestions for you. First, for the fingerpicking section, work on increasing the tempo. Start with 5 or 10 BPM faster than what you are currently at. Overall, you played this section very well, so the challenge for you will be to push yourself to play it just a little bit faster.
Second, in the strumming sections, you speed up. But you only speed up when strumming, fingerpicking remains at the previous tempo. So I would practice this section at your current tempo, but play along to a metronome. That will help keep you in time.
@ultramom – Great start! 🙂