@SILVIA@twistor59@Notter
Thank you Silvia, Phil and Mark for watching my progress. It means a lot to me to engage with people like you in the community
Your 3 messages were an highlight in my day
That’s a good point to think about Silvia.
In the last module of grade 3, Justin discuss about moving from beginner to intermediate pratice. He says : “We can’t pratice everything” and that we should focus on one genre at a time.
And it’s true that chord melodies and rock songs involve many different techniques. I may not be able to pursue both of those genres in the near future.
I started chord melodies because I wanted to be able to recognize the song without singing. But, I think that I was able to accomplish that goal in a different way with my rock songs and backing tracks.
Very cool Math07! It’s a nice challenge the rock songbook, and impressive how you managed the la grange riffs! The most difficult song out of the 5 you recorded, I imagine.
I have all of Justin’s songbooks (except the Aussie one), and your project inspires me to do the same
Thanks for stopping by @Inge_guitar29 and @CD02. Your comments were really nice and put a smile on my face
Craig, so true ! I had the same impression when I first watched Justin’s lesson. I feel relieved now that this song is finished
Inge, it would be awesome if you started your own project ! It’s hard to describe, but there is definitely something going on when doing all the songs of the book one after the other. Justin put the songs in a well-though order. Every song bring something new, a challenge for sure, but still manageable. For instance, I realize that the pinky stretch that I worked with La Grange is helping me while doing the next songs Rock and Roll All Nite and There She Goes.
Since you have all of the songbooks, the next question is which one to choose haha ! They must all be great.
I think this depends much on one’s expectations, but sure progress is slowier if you practice more things…which doesn’t mean it can’t be valuable in some ways.
Here’s an example, it’s very good if you were able to find and follow your own path…as we progress and grow as musicians some creativity will naturally pop out, whether in arranging things or in the way we learn new things.
Yeah ! My rock songbook project is progressing well. 7 out of 15 done !
The next 2 songs in the book were really fun to learn and play. I’d definitely recommend them to any grade 3 students.
Who would have thought that Rock And Roll All Nite involved many techniques from the 12 bar blues shuffle taught in grade 2 ? Such a cool song to apply those techniques in a new concept.
There She Goes is a really fun song to start learning lead guitar. And it also has an interesting rhythm guitar part.
I think that they were my best performances so far. So, I’m proud of my progress with the course.
I think you were excellent, especially impressive was that five fret section with 2-finger and 3-string power chord and pinkie stretch in RnR all nite. Your tone was good and overall very good rhythm. Well done Mathieu.
Thank you @Boris1565 for your supportive comment, I really appreciate it🙂 You are right about that pinky, it was a difficult stretch. But, it adds a cool sound to the song.
Superb playing. Particulalrly liked “There She Goes”, one of the best songs ever,really well covered with excellent strumming and picking. Very enjoyable.
Just been catching up on the latest uploads from the community after being behind with things and not checking in for a while. I enjoyed all your recent uploads and your playing is sounding really good, in particular I liked In Bloom and There She Goes (maybe because they are familiar songs to me and resonate). I thought the effects you have on In Bloom were really great, and your playing too. Glad I checked in, Susan
You rock Mathieu Sounding soo good, your playing seems to go along the backing tracks very accurately and…ohhhh…your acoustic strumming you change your chords along the strumming me I strum along with the chords not sure I’m expressing myself properly…anyway…you’re doing great! Thanks for the gift of some rock 'n roll to the end of my day
@SILVIA
I’d like to thank you for your warm message and also for a second reason. Since watching your classical guitar videos and the ones of @RadekSiechowicz , I started to enjoy that style of music more.
So, I tried something new and I went to see a classical guitar band live recently. It was a lot of fun and it’s definitely not something I would have done before because I did not know much about that style.
Also, sometimes, I find myself searching for classical guitar playlist on Youtube when I want to relax at my job. Thanks to you haha !
Wow ! Carlos, you have been following my rock songbook project since the beginning ! Thanks a lot!
To answer your question, it depends.
My initial goal was to work on this songbook project in parallel with the Grade 3 course. But, I got absorbed by the songs and did not have enough time to do both at the same time. So I ended up doing a separate schedule like 3 weeks with focus on the rock songbook and then 3 weeks with focus on one grade 3 module.
So, with this schedule, it took me about one year to finish grade 3 and its consolidation. And I started Grade 4 2 weeks ago. The rock songbook definitely prepared me well for Grade 4. All those power chords helps for barre chords practice. And the complexity of the rhythm of the songs help with the rhythm maestro course.
I’d recommend the songbook to anyone that is working through grade 2 and above.
Hey Mathieu! Glad to hear that my efforts made you look at classical music with more interest. There is a lot to learn and appreciate from the old masters. The benefits are obvious plus it is great fun, even the simple pieces.
This is great to read Mathieu! Listening to Classical Music is magical, it’s an experience that I found out only in the past few years…it makes me so good!
I think that when it’s about different Music genres it is all about how able we are to connect to the emotions they express…anger, melanchony, cheerfulness, lightness or heavy feelings… Music is such a special chance we have to connect with ourselves!
I nearly had an anxiety attack just thinking about trying that ZZ Top, man that is some great fingerwork 
