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  • pickergpickerg Frets: 30
    I didn't manage to get started so have switched to the 11 Jan start instead.
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  • vizviz Frets: 10747
    edited January 2016

    Probably a good decision, it's been quite tricky getting this done over the new year period. Here's my attempt at 500 miles high.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEdezn12btk

    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • gingerbbmgingerbbm Frets: 33
    Nice work! BTW if you Google "flv to MP3" you can extract the audio from your clip easily... Although I don't see why SoundCloud is so important...
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  • vizviz Frets: 10747
    edited January 2016
    Ah thank you! You didn't think it was too inappropriate in the middle? :) Maybe I will do the mp3 thing for my next one, cheers for the heads up, though there's loads of restrictions on my laptop. Anyhoo, it hasn't mattered so far.
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • BarneyBarney Frets: 616
    sounds great Viz...nice playing
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  • vizviz Frets: 10747
    Ah cheers old bean :)
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • gingerbbmgingerbbm Frets: 33
    Here's my effort for 500 Miles High. Attempted to play the melody first but my sightreading isn't up to much! Also slowed the thing to 80%... hopefully don't get marked down for that but my brain just doesn't work fast enough :)


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  • vizviz Frets: 10747
    It's gorgeous! Why don't you speed it up again by 20% now you've recorded it?
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • BarneyBarney Frets: 616
    @gingerbbm some lovely stuff in there. .sounds great
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  • gingerbbmgingerbbm Frets: 33
    Thanks guys!
    Here's my trading feedback thread: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61795/
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  • GuyBodenGuyBoden Frets: 752
    Well done, good stuff, it's a good course. 500 Miles High is a superb tune, it must have been very modern harmony in 1973.


    "Music makes the rules, music is not made from the rules."
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  • vizviz Frets: 10747
    Yes!
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • gingerbbmgingerbbm Frets: 33
    This week's effort. Again had to slow it down. Not really had time to get under the skin of this one.
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  • vizviz Frets: 10747
    Agh i need to get going with this one. Will do mine this morning.
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • vizviz Frets: 10747
    edited January 2016
    @Gingerbbm yours is great, you were using all those chromatics and guidelines like he said. Well done! I didn't have time to think about applying the lesson to the exercise so just knocked out a quick noodle this morning - here:

    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • gingerbbmgingerbbm Frets: 33
    edited January 2016
    Good stuff @viz. Love those couple of sweeps (around 0:53)!
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  • vizviz Frets: 10747
    Thanks old bean - I did the first one and then suddenly remembered that the same shape works on the 4 middle strings further up for melodic minor and just managed to get up there in time, and to the right fret 'n all!
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • vizviz Frets: 10747
    Anyone done this week's homework yet?
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • vizviz Frets: 10747
    edited January 2016
    Is anyone still with me? Lol. Well I found this week's homework to be the most difficult. Learned once and for all that I can't play the blues so I just ended up descending into a fast noodle-fest, which the jazzers won't appreciate one jot haha.



    And Olhos de Gato was really really hard to play anything over so I had to move really slowly and tentatively so as not to land on some right corker jazz notes. Not happy with either. Oh well, all done now, it's in the lap of the markers.

    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • gingerbbmgingerbbm Frets: 33
    Well done Viz. I'm out of time this week. But it's been a good intro and I'm glad I did it.
    Here's my trading feedback thread: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61795/
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