Share This Thread Can you show me how to... Cinda Private (4763) Instructional Forum 8/26/2009 4:13:24 PM · 64 Views [Respond to this Message] If you had 1 lesson with a great guitar player... and he could impart knowledge about 1 thing to you during that time... What 1 thing would you want him to show/explain to you?

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• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 8/26/2009 4:26:00 PM Randy Hano (5375) wrote: Ted Greene - His approach to music harmony.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 8/26/2009 11:56:56 PM Dan Klotz (180) wrote: I'm thinking Tommy Tedesco since his name was mentioned in another thread. I loved the way he has a no nonsense, simplified approach to getting it done. Of course, there are a ton of others I could think of too.... BTW- Have you heard Ted Greene's "Solo Guitar" album? I just pulled that one out the other day after not hearing it for along time. Great playing....

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 8/27/2009 1:16:32 AM Randy Hano (5375) wrote: No I haven't but that would be a real treat to hear Ted Greene himself. I just have some of his books. Tommy is great and really cool too! Yes he does have no nonsense approach to the guitar. I saw him back in the early 80's where he gave a guitar seminar for $10. Best $10 I ever spent. He was so relaxed, comical and just shareed a great perspective to the guitar - Tommy style!

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 8/26/2009 8:15:57 PM Chris Pinto (22045) wrote: I'd love to have a lesson with either one of these four guys: 1) Alexi Laiho 2) Roope Latvala 3) Chris Broderick, or, 4) Al DiMeola.... And ask them how in the HELL they alternate pick so darn well! JEEEESH! Chris

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 8/28/2009 8:32:10 AM Michael Laurance (1846) wrote: Steve Vai. I'd ask him to teach me more about scales, and variances feom those scales.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 8/28/2009 9:25:46 AM Cinda Private (4763) wrote: I would love to spend some time with Eric Johnson. He always seams to have the right technique, right tone, right position on the neck... and he seamlessly has them all intertwined in a single song. Would love to get into his mind to understand how he manages to think that way.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 8/28/2009 7:58:08 PM Chris Pinto (22045) wrote: LOL, I'm sure all those guys would tell us the very same thing, too... "Practice, practice, practice"... hehe Chris

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/1/2009 8:56:58 AM Michael Laurance (1846) wrote: I wish I had more practice time like they would tell me to have. Some of these guys played 8-10 hours a day as they were up and coming. Zakk Wylde used to play 12 hours a day! I would if I could! I have a hard time getting in an hour or two a day, and I have to take that in sections. Adulthood sucks. I don't wanna be responsible anymore!

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/1/2009 1:13:40 PM Randy Hano (5375) wrote: I am with you on that one bro - adulthood does suck - sometimes. When I was around 18-20, I too would practice 6-8 hours a day. It is amazing with your progress. What is even more amazing today is the available media to help you learn but like anything, it can be a saturated market. Back between 79-81, when I had that kind of time resources were limited and "Video" just began to "Kill(ed) the Radio Star" - The Buggles.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/1/2009 2:45:57 PM Michael Laurance (1846) wrote: Yeah, we put a needle on a record, and figured the song out! While we may not have always gotten it right, we developed an ear. I can still hear something, and play it back to you. (Most of the time) On the other hand, as a teacher, it's great. It's a shortcut to teaching a song I'm not familiar with. No matter what song, there's someone showing you how to play it on youtube.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/2/2009 12:02:40 AM Randy Hano (5375) wrote: You got it bro! I was kind of lucky with an adjustable speed turntable. I could tune the record rather than tune the guitar. It made jumping from one song to the other quicker. I still have my linear track turntable - shocking.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/2/2009 11:06:05 AM Ken Richardson (5630) wrote: I briefly took a few lessons when I was about 12, and mostly what we did was sit with a tape deck and transcribe tunes. Looking back, I think it was partly because the guy did not want to get lessons planned out! He was a big help in learning to transcribe, so he did give me some tools that I still use. CDs are nice in that you don't have the pitch issues that you got with some tapedecks and turntables. That fact and the remote control with the CD player where very helpful in transcribing tunes in the 80s and 90s.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/2/2009 10:11:14 PM Randy Hano (5375) wrote: I developed my ear first playing the stand up bass in orchestra in junior high. As a freshman borrowed a friends bass and EW&F and Kool and the Gang - well trying. Then I got introduced to Rock and Roll - Mr. Geezer Butler was my mentor and I learned alot of his playing style in '76. In '77 I switched to guitar. My early days at guitar started at 15. Took some Hawaiian Slack Key guitar lessons at the Bishop Museum. Then I studied four months of Classical Guitar all the while working on basics of rock guitar. My self and a few others were heavily into Kiss and our first band consisted of Honky Tonk Woman, All American Man - Kiss, Sweet Home Alabama and non-other Freebird. If people want to hear it I will play it - LOL. Irony has it my drummer from the first band is Frank Orrall who is the leader and front man for Poi Dog Pondering. How do you like that???? LOLOLOL

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/3/2009 7:39:45 AM Michael Laurance (1846) wrote: Turtables and cd players made for DJ's all have pitch control, which is what I use. Some of the players have the ability to slow down as much as 50%, letting you hear every note in that solo you're trying to learn. There are a couple of DJ turntables that have digital or USB outputs, too.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/3/2009 1:13:54 PM Randy Hano (5375) wrote: I am aware of the USB outlets as this a great way to convert old records to mp3's or whatever type files that you choose. I don't need the pitch adjustment anymore since I have a variety of guitars I can always retune a couple of them. Also I don't need the whammy/trem bar for practicing a tune with the record as a standard tailpiece will suffice for learning a song - unless the bar is absolutely crucial.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/4/2009 8:45:47 AM Michael Laurance (1846) wrote: Try this, then. Take a song in standard tuning, drop your guitar a whole step, and the bring the turntable's speed down to match it. It'll slow it down to learn that solo. Same applis for any other tuning. Bring everything down a whole step. It works.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/4/2009 9:10:08 AM Ken Richardson (5630) wrote: Cool tip!! I have slowed things down in Cakewalk to learn a solo

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/4/2009 10:51:39 AM Michael Laurance (1846) wrote: I didn't know cakewalk would do that. Will it keep it in the same key? That would be a huge advantage over slowing a record down. I know some really high-end DJ cd players will do that, but I have no idea how. They must all just insert blank information into the digital stream to space it out discreetly.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/4/2009 11:05:13 AM Ken Richardson (5630) wrote: Its pretty easy to drop notes an octave, to make your Strat sound like a string bass. Its been a while since I did it, but I think I altered the solo I wanted to learn to 1/2 speed, so was a LOT slower but also dropped 1 octave.

• Respond to this Re: Can you show me how to... 9/5/2009 5:53:33 AM Dan Klotz (180) wrote: Do you guys know about the software called "The Amazing Slow Downer"? You can slow the song down without changing the pitch.... and/or you can change the pitch if you want. It also has loop and EQ functions. It's a great tool for transcribing.

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