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I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
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I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
I got them because I’d been listening to the podcast for a while and I’d learned so much from it I figured I could learn more from the courses.
The Fast Track courses are very clear and well organised. Worth it to me. Learned stuff even on concepts I thought I had a decent grasp of.
Its a monthly fee so buying individually doesn’t really count for the core content in general, though you can buy past content (which I have done).
I also have bought some courses from Creative Live but haven’t had time to dig in to those properly yet.
They were expected as you knew you paid what you were getting.
Yes, I bought two books worth of lessons based on the free video content.
From beginner to grade 3.
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Funnily the one that was just a person talking to camera with a little editing was better than the one that had more production and transcriptions. Both were value for money.
I ended up buying all 3 Monder lessons from MyMusicMasterclass. If he did 10, I'd buy 10.
More advanced. The basic stuff is well covered on the freebie market.
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I have bought multiple from the same source, yes. I tend to get intermediate stuff rather than beginner or advanced. That shows my level I guess. But it is definitely material to push me a little.
One benefit of the courses I have bought over what I've found free, is that you get videos, MP3, and PDF covering the same material. For free tutorials I find myself making tab myself from what they are describing or playing (perhaps that's not such a bad thing!) also I feel I can trust paid for material more (depends who it's from I guess).
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
For recording techniques I've purchased quite a lot from Groove 3
For guitar I've purchased tutorials from Lick Library, Jamtracks and Troy Grady.
I purchased tutorials that target specific areas of interest. Plus sometimes I feel that I need to support some providers that provide good free stuff.
Initial thoughts are are that my idea of a somewhat unconventional series of lessons might not be the way to go but still useful. I guess I’ll test the water when I pull my finger out and get the YouTube thing back up and running.
I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
But for song learning I tend to find Youtube (perhaps a couple from different channels) works very well. That, and the record, and a bit of tab maybe. I learnt You Shook Me All Night Long this way, including Erich Andreas' play along (no tab) video for the solo, which stretched me and improved my ear I think.
I did a year of personal lessons, good teacher and vital to keeping me on track for the difficult first year when it can all be a bit overwhelming, but that's currently on pause due to a) time pressures b) an awareness I need more practice not more knowledge.
I wouldn't hesitate to buy an online lesson if it was appropriate to what I needed. I guess that would be more specialist knowledge - but I am probably years away from needing that.
This is the Shook Me solo video - his approach is "watch, listen and copy" rather than "put x finger on y fret of z string then h finger on i fret of j string" - my life those ones are boring!
Also I hoard useful YouTube free lessons (links or downloaded)
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I use Truefire (Year subscription) and some individual lessons from youtube people whos videos I've enjoyed and match my musical style (Papastache, Stitch method).
Of the Papastache ones ive purchased (which are video with pdf of tab and a backing track) I like the fact I can watch bits over again, get the tab (which I annotate with Chord notes) and a track to apply the licks over. But he also talks around other ways to get a similar lick sound (varying strings/fret position), or variations on a theme (adding passing notes, dynamics, using RH fingers, tempo)- that you don't get from a book.
Have had 1:1 tuition, but felt that 30 mins for £17 wasn't good value for money - I don't want to pay someone to write out the tab while I sat there, or try to answer my "how do I play Rolling stones style rhythm techniques" when they don't seem to recall any of their songs.
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Yeah and wish I’d done it sooner.
I thought I’d need long stretches of time to benefit from it. The fast track courses (for enhanced members) are sectioned off in to small chunks, very easy to watch a few when it suits, even though many of the courses end up being a couple of hours long.
The live mix videos are several hours long, still haven’t managed to watch a full one, but they provide time codes for each interesting section so I have sometimes gone and watched how guy X solved problem Y if it’s a specific issue I have been having.
Definitely recommend trying a month or so of enhanced if you’re interested. I’ve felt like it’s clearer tuition than I’ve seen elsewhere on YouTube/forums etc
@guitarfishbay I don't even have a recording set-up anymore. Need an interface. I had bought a UR22 as a cheap starter, but returned it because I couldn't stop it clipping and never got around to replacing it. Anyway, I remember how long it took me to get going (just getting the audio in) in Cubase with my first set up years ago, it's not as if I was even up to learning anything about mixing. I was listening to the URM podcast for the artist interviews, essentially, and then found I was having more fun with I'd Hit That, Tone Talk, etc...
On topic: I've never bought an online course. Given it some serious consideration with the Troy Grady stuff, yes, but what essentially amounts to a band breakup means I'm having to re-evaluate what I wanna do with music and I've not come to any sort of conclusion on what that might be.