About a week ago Justin sent out a Guitar Challenge via instagram and Facebook for submissions of a recording of recent lesson. I decided to take up the challenge and am happy to post the result here after what seems like a very long day. . .between work and family and trying to learn how to use audio/video editing software to make the production value of minimal quality to be posted on social media. . .quite a steep learning curve for me as I am NOT a social media guy nor very technology saavy. Anyway, I am LEARNING A LOAD about this stuff which is great. . .just a bit tired now. . .
The recording shows just how much I need to work on my āsoloā skills. I am happy to say that this was the first solo Iāve transcribed by ear (other than Justin exercises) and I think that I came pretty close (if not in the execution, at least on the page) to getting it.
Anyway, hope you all have a great evening/day wherever you may be!!!
@jgottwals Jeremy, I really enjoyed your production. The guitar rhythm was well played, good chord work, and it all sounded good. Well done on the over-dubbing of the solo and adding the video picture-in-picture. Look forward to your OM debut.
Can you share a little more of what the āchallengeā was and any lesson(s) it relates to?
I donāt do Justinās socials (not my thing) and its not one thatās been put to the Community.
And if you are up for Challenges, you may find this section interesting.
The challenge was to practise a recent lesson of Justinās and present a recording of it on Social Media.
We had seven days to learn the song and post the recording.
I took that to mean a video. . .now that the deadline has passed I am not so sure why I thought video because the challenge wasnāt explicit on that point. I am sure there were probably lots of audio recordings as well. . .though I donāt know.
Anyway, it WAS a challenge to learn both the music AND the video editing thing in that short period and it ended up being a long day yesterday as I alluded to in my OP.
The great thing is I LEARNED a whole bunch that I didnāt know before and my confidence got a shot in the arm because I was able to transcribe the solo from ear and get it onto the fretboard.
Granted, Justin gives a big hint where to start in the lesson, but hey, Iāll take any progress I can get. . .Iām not fussy. . .
Oh! Yeah, I was looking through some of those after I posted last night. . .ther are definitely some I will be taking up . . . as soon as time allows. . .looking forward to them!!
Thanks for that Jeremy and yes the audio editing, mixing and mastering is a whole different skill set but great fun once you get the basics down. Let along the added complications of video ! Enjoy
If you click on the JustinGuitarchallenge hashtag listed in number 4 in the post, it will show you the entires. There are only a handful that I can see at the moment.
As @Jenndye429 mentions below there are only a few entries for this. I was quite surprised that there werenāt more. Not sure why that was. EIther way, itās all done and dusted now.
I had a good time in the process and learned a whole lot about what works and doesnāt work for video recordings at a VERY BASIC level. If the goal of the challenge was to provide an opportunity to learn new things then it succeeded in my case!!
I saw the challenge on FB, but tbh, for me itās the wrong time of the year. Iām focusing on Xmas songs at the moment. Thatās challenging enough for me .
No worries about your soloāing skills, you have a working song going on and the general flow of chord strumming and singing is going quite well aready.
Thanks Lieven. Itās much appreciated. I feel I DO need to start working more on my single note playing and progressing on that side of things; but I am happy with the result, for the limited time I was able to dedicate to it. . .thanks again for taking the time to comment.
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