Mac's learning log

Day 186 :

Trained on finger stretches and crawling as a warm up , did the pinky exercise and the hammers on exercice

Played on Yousician for 76 minutes
36 weeks streak

I play standing up with the backing track :

Played a simplified melody of Gymnopedie n°1 by Erik Satie ( level 3 )

Practiced the La bamba riff ( level 5 ) on Yousician
Finally got it without mistakes !!! :partying_face:
the same riff repeated 22 times in the song :sweat_smile:

Played Fields of gold by Sting level 4

Played Still got the blues for you by Gary Moore , simplified cow boy chords / Dm C G F E Am Em D

Practiced on a song for the lesson on Legato lead / legato coordination

I play standing up and each songs are played once with the metronome , once with the backing track :

none

grade 2 in JG :

Practiced the F barre chord on the chord trainer

Practiced the push rythm on the app

Songs

Musopia app : Practiced Have ever seen the rain by CCR module 10
Played also Jambala on the bayou module 10
Played Edge of seventeen by Steevie Nicks module 5

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Day 187 :

Trained on finger stretches and crawling as a warm up , did the pinky exercise and the hammers on exercice

Played on Yousician for 52 minutes
36 weeks streak

I play standing up with the backing track :

Played a simplified melody of Gymnopedie n°1 by Erik Satie ( level 3 )
Made no mistakes , I can remove that song :slight_smile:

Played Fields of gold by Sting level 4

Played Still got the blues for you by Gary Moore , simplified cow boy chords / Dm C G F E Am Em D / level 4

Trying to learn a riff on YS , so far not very good

Practiced on a song for the lesson on Legato lead / legato coordination

I play standing up and each songs are played once with the metronome , once with the backing track :

none

grade 2 in JG :

Practiced the push rythm on the app

Songs

Musopia app : Practiced Have you ever seen the rain by CCR module 10
Played also Jambala on the bayou module 10
Played Edge of seventeen by Steevie Nicks module 5

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Day 188 :

Trained on finger stretches and crawling as a warm up , did the pinky exercise and the hammers on exercice

Played on Yousician for 38 minutes
37 weeks streak

I play standing up with the backing track :

Played Everybody hurts as a warm up song

Played Still got the blues for you by Gary Moore , simplified cow boy chords / Dm C G F E Am Em D / level 4

Trying to learn a riff on YS

Practiced on a song for the lesson on Legato lead / legato coordination
Gold on the first part , now lets train on the second part

I play standing up and each songs are played once with the metronome , once with the backing track :

none

grade 2 in JG :

Practiced the push rythm on the app

Practiced the La Bamba riff part 2 , with harmony notes

Songs

Musopia app : Practiced Have you ever seen the rain by CCR module 10
Played also Jambala on the bayou module 10
Played Edge of seventeen by Steevie Nicks module 5
Played wish you were here module 6

I started module 10 in june and im still on it :sweat_smile:

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Guitar teacher is is sick in bed with Covid so … the lesson is cancelled :sweat_smile:

I knew it would happen at some point but not so soon :rofl:

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Day 189 :

Trained on finger stretches and crawling as a warm up , did the pinky exercise and the hammers on exercice

Played on Yousician for 50 minutes
37 weeks streak

I play standing up with the backing track :

Played Everybody hurts as a warm up song and Fields of gold

Played Still got the blues for you by Gary Moore , simplified cow boy chords / Dm C G F E Am Em D / level 4

Trying to learn a riff on YS
DId it , got gold !
Its the chorus riff for the man who sold the world by David Bowie

Practiced on a song for the lesson on Legato lead / legato coordination
doing a hammer on between 3th fret to 5th fret on the high E string with the pinky is hard
YS does not detect any sound from it

I play standing up and each songs are played once with the metronome , once with the backing track :

none

grade 2 in JG :

Practiced the push rythm on the app

Practiced the La Bamba riff part 2 , with harmony notes for 2 minutes

Songs

Musopia app : Practiced Have you ever seen the rain by CCR module 10
Played also Jambala on the bayou module 10
Played Edge of seventeen by Steevie Nicks module 5

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Man, what are the odds :smiling_face_with_tear:

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Luck is never on my side :rofl:

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I ve got all my new toys so now I can share pictures :smiley:

To celebrate my new disability life , I treated myself with some new gear

First, my new baby
a Brian May guitar ( BMG ) special LE natural gloss

coupled with a new wooden stand and a fender leather strap

This beauty will join my Streamliner

I also bought a Vox BC 108 cabinet

with a MV-50 Brian May Signature

and I can link all this to my Scarlett solo

I bought a mic recommended by Alexei
a Mackie EM Chromium
you can directly plug the guitar in the mic , use a headphone , blend the sound of the guitar with the computer as you like it , its awesome

I ve got new monitoring speakers
M audio BX4D3

and a new webcam :smiley:
a Swisssonic webcam 3full HD AF L
there’s a LED ring light in it , very useful !

About the BMG Guitar … theres a story
When I got the guitar , the pick ups didnt work
I had to make a video proving that there was no sound on one of the pick ups
Even worse , the broken pick up was disabling the other two pick ups … something was very wrong !
so I sent it back
Got another guitar a week after and … the tremolo bar didnt fit into the hole
it was the wrong model for the bridge …
So I bought a tremolo bar on Thomann and I m still waiting to hear from the guitar dealer about this issue
they dont have this tremolo bar in stock so they had to contact Brian may guitars and they are still waiting for an answer
The one I bought seems to fit :slight_smile:

Now Im all ready to go to school next week :smiley:

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Deborah

Impressive array of kit. The Brian May Guitar looks lovely: hope you get the tremolo. Enjoy playing, recording, listening, editing, listening again and maybe sharing some of your productions. Whatever you get up to, enjoy it.

Brian

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That’s looking like a really nice set-up, enjoy :blush:

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Where to start Deborah ! Christmas has really come early. Some great kit there and Mackie mic are really good for what you pay and that model should certainly suit your needs.

All I can say is Happy Gear Day. Enjoy !!

:sunglasses:

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Wow. Enjoy Happy NGAONGSD :grinning: :nerd_face: :grinning:

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you created a new word :rofl:

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Me? :open_mouth: Just a helpful acronym… :nerd_face:

Ok, ok. There you go: Happy New Guitar And Other New Guitar Stuff Day :gift:

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Day 190 :

Today I just played various songs to set up the webcam in OBS and practiced the la Bamba riff with harmony notes

So far I managed to record a video with the sound from the webcam or the sound from the scarlett ( or the mic )
If I use the sound from the webcam I have my guitar and the backing track , but the sound is … meh :confused:

If I use the sound from the scarlett the sound from my guitar is great but I have no backing track …

thats all I learned today :sweat_smile:

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So its a good day !

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Hi Deborah,

that’s a great set of new gear, congrats on these purchases! :smiley: I wish you loads of fun playing around and exploring. Sooooo much to learn. :smiley:

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Hi Deborah ,
Happy new life with disabilities :partying_face:
(I have found a lot of advantages, some from the very first moment :smiley: :sweat_smile:
note to myself…forgot to celebrate with a new guitar :roll_eyes: :grin:…)

Happy NGD :partying_face: :sunglasses: :sunglasses:
Very nice one and I wish you a lot of time together

And happy a lot of other stuff Day :partying_face: :sunglasses:

Plenty to discover in the near future…I wish you a lot of fun :smiley: :partying_face:

Greetings

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Thank you all for the nice replies :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

next goal is to learn how to make good use of it all :smiley:

@roger_holland

you still can celebrate the anniversary … my first year … my 10 th year etc :rofl:

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Day 191 :

Trained on finger stretches and crawling as a warm up , did the pinky exercise and the hammers on exercice

Played on Yousician for 49 minutes
37 weeks streak

I play standing up with the backing track :

Played Everybody hurts as a warm up song

New challenge of the week , its the Beatles week :
Let it be level 1 very very basic melody , got top score , level 1 is easy
Yesterday basic melody level 4 , got gold on the 2 parts played separatly

Played Still got the blues for you by Gary Moore , simplified cow boy chords / Dm C G F E Am Em D / level 4

Practiced on a song for the lesson on Legato lead / legato coordination

I play standing up and each songs are played once with the metronome , once with the backing track :

none

grade 2 in JG :

Practiced the push rythm on the app
Practiced the F barre chord on the chord trainer

Songs

Musopia app : Practiced Have you ever seen the rain by CCR module 10
Played also Jambala on the bayou module 10
Played Edge of seventeen by Steevie Nicks module 5
Played What s up by the four non blondes module 7

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