Adi_mrok's Learning Log

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Toby Jenner you crack me up :rofl: :upside_down_face: :cowboy_hat_face: :bat:

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Over 6 months since my last entry, so much happened since last post that I decided to update my Learning Log which used to be called a Roadcase back on the old forum.

Yes the mighty migration - we are on new Community now and I must say I love it. I am constantly positively surprised by Justinguitar overall, I was very keen to get an updated forum to upgrade mobile experience, bang less than 2 years since I joined and it’s done! I was hoping for migration with Discuss comments section? Done! Guys you truly do amazing job here so well done and personally I am really grateful for this amount of resources Justin and team makes to all of us available.

But let’s talk about me again since it’s my LL :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: so as things stand it’s been almost 19 months since I picked guitar again and found Justin, since then I published 17 covers and I performed on 4 virtual OMs which was an amazing experience. Really happy with the progress and hope to keep it up. I think my goals stand as they are since I am still fighting the challenge to get Snow all polished up to satisfactory levels and this was only my short term goal!

I moved as well so now I have a dedicated man cave where I can just sit and play :star_struck: it’s not a big room but plenty more space comparing to my old 1x0.5m area in my old bedroom :grinning: still few bits and pieces to do and add here and there, but pretty much happy with the current state.

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Practice routine:

  • Well this is going to be embarrassing but my practice routine lately is focused around Snow Hey Oh - believe me or not but I am still on it! Don’t want to spoil too much as I believe it will require more extensive post on it’s own, at the moment work in progress!
  • If I don’t practice above it’s mostly learning notes on the fretboard via Justin’s and other app and fiddling around in C major scale in order to learn notes on the fretboard.
  • Lately I have recorded all songs I had on my backlog for a while so soon it’s time for a new challenge! At the moment it’s TBC.

Songs I know and work on:

Open Mic performances:

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Enjoy your new space, Adrian.

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Nice “person” cave Adi, now you need to test it for acoustic qualities and of course share :wink:

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I really like the way you’ve documented your goals and progress @adi_mrok

I will have a think and put down some of mine too.

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Hello dear folks, quick update from me. As recently I have finally cleared some of the backlog of songs I was learning (not all of course, still some stuff cooking up!) I was reminded by dear @DarrellW about a song I always wanted to learn but I knew it’s gonna be a rabbit hole and here I am!

So without further ado may I present to you More than Words Work in Progress! At the moment it’s Day 5 for me today and it is fun to learn. I did a little video of how am I getting on, mostly for fun to see how am I doing over time (always wanted to do it and usually started too late thinking about it) but also perhaps for others to see how is my process of learning songs looking like - I doubt many will see it on my LL however once I finalize the song at some point in the future I will post it all together as a separate post so people can actually see the process.

I tend to learn in a very logarithmic way - starting quite dynamically but the more I am getting into polishing things up the slower it tends to get unfortunately. Well that’s the process and not much I can do about it except bracing myself with some extra patience.

Here is the link to the video, listed as private so only those with link will see it (which is basically everyone here). I think it’s not as complicated as I was expecting it to be, however it is still difficult and a lot of details to remember so will take some time!

Besides that I am enjoying new house and new studio, changed my laptop to one with more USB ports and also to allow my wife to grab my other one whenever she needs to. On top of that I have a docking station as well so I am finally able to leave an interface on a table - quite handy as I was able to quickly plug in my guitar and record above video in no time. Plan for near future is to buy some monitors to connect up permanently with my interface, still considering options. Now onto the usual stuff.

Practice routine:

  • Songs songs songs for now and everything has been put aside. I would love to incorporate some more theory and structured lessons but for the moment I believe songs I am learning are giving me far better technical skills than playing scales. However once in a while I love to improvise a bit to a backing track randomly found on youtube :slight_smile:

Songs I know and work on:

Open Mic performances:

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Cool video to take in Adrian, the first part is sounding pretty good and sure you’ll nail the rest soon enough.

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Wow Adrian. For a moment there I thought I’d clicked on @DavidP’s log it was so long. Quite a story and quite a journey. You’ve given us some terrific performances along the way.

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That’s a great video of you learning with Justin…that is so like I go about it. If it was me though you’d see me playing the video, trying to remember it, rewinding, trying again…then resorting to writing it down before having another go. The facial expressions say it all!

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@sairfingers

Is that a challenge, Gordon :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Thanks Gordon yes those post are getting longer and longer with each post, however the list of recordings grows as well so there’s that :smiley:

Jason glad to know someone is having similar approach to me :smiley: To be honest I write down stuff as well in my own twisted way - I just didn’t bother recording this moment :smiley: Speaking about my own twisted way here are my notes so far!

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I would say this is one challenge I probably will never get to achieve :smiley:

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Well at least I have one claim to fame :rofl:

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Oooo Adrian,
What an incredibly good and structured LL… :ok_hand:
I read it in one sitting and i believe i have listened to everything…i want to say a lot but then your LL is not readable anymore :see_no_evil:so i’ll keep it short…I’m very impressed by what you have already played and sang, really very very good…you have my hands together and i bow to you
:sunglasses: :sunglasses: :bouquet:

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Thanks Roger haha really appreciate it, nothing wrong with going too long, I don’t think many people visit my LL and I don’t personally mind longer comments as this is my safe space after all :smiley: all the best.

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Wow! You’ve recorded a lot of songs! I agree with Fast Car. Very hard to play and sing at the same time.

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Yes one of the first ones I have started to learn around 2 years ago when I got back to playing and still haven’t gotten back to it. Need to really revisit one day but time will come :slight_smile:

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Adi, you’re doing really well with it and honestly when you get there and can play it through it’s soooo satisfying. I’ve been trying to play it for years and always made flubs all over the place - I tend to do my own thing with it and try to capture the essence of it.
The main source of difficulty is the syncopated percussive slaps, it’s really hard to keep them correctly timed (well, for me :joy:).
Keep going, but you may get to the stage where you need a little rest from it!

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Thanks Darrell I am sure once I get to polishing up phase that’s when I will be sick of it as it usually happens :joy: I am keeping this as my end of the year goal and let’s see what happens!

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something goes wrong…i’m trying to remove the…blocknote…no idea what to do with that