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Wonderful and out of ordinary log, please keep it alive :clap:.

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Thanks Radek. I’ve sort of regressed to just learning/playing songs that I like and want to try, rather than learning theory or improving specific techniques :frowning: Hopefully I’ll get back into theory and proper learning someday down the track haha.
But I’ll try to keep this log alive if I have anything worth posting on here. cheers

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I really enjoyed your Super Mario 64 songs. Playing video game soundtrack covers always resonates in me as I attempt to play some from time to time.

The is proper time to do certain things, I usually look for a technical advice if I attempt a song that requires it, not something spontaneously initiated on a whim :sweat_smile:.

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Updated my main playlist post with links for the last couple of songs that I posted on avoyp… and also for another video game tune that I recently tried, which I’ll just keep here for my learning log.

Trying to play random tunes or themes like that at least keeps me picking up the guitar, so I guess it still counts if I’m learning from it :slight_smile:
I also usually play some other songs from my playlist during those sessions to improve where I can… every little bit of practice helps out.

Not much else to report for now. But I’ll probably choose a regular song for the next video to share in the avoyp section next time.

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Hi Sandro. As I say, whatever makes you pluck the strings is good. As you said just revisiting a known tune can be a learning opportunity. I also know all the effort that goes into learning how to play a new tune, even a short one.

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Very joyful tune and the piece looks difficult, most Mario fingerstyle arrangements is difficult. Nice thumb slap accuracy!

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Just popping by to update my Learning Log’s OP playlist since it hasn’t been touched in about half a year :roll_eyes:

I have been M.I.A. and haven’t really done anything constructive with the guitar for last couple of months.
This past week I felt like doing a short video of No Doubt’s ‘Don’t Speak’ solo, which I will link below.
I’ll also link some stuff that I had done a few months ago, which I did not previously post because I was too lazy haha.

Yesterday - Beatles. I had a crack at this one after I saw JK’s avoyp and the link he provided to Justin’s lesson…

It’s You - Henry Lau. Thank you to Radek for mentioning this one which caught my curiosity…

Kiss From a Rose - Seal. Great song from a movie I loved as a kid. Just ignore the corny little montage that I put in for the old school Batman fans :rofl:

Don’t Speak (solo) - No Doubt. I think the band actually does play the solo part on an actual classical guitar, which is why I tried learning this song ages ago. I have an old phone audio recording of me playing this song, which is on my soundcloud playlist. But I felt like dusting off the cobwebs on this one and try to relearn the solo for a video.

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You can blame Rogier for me posting another comment here on my Learning Log so quickly after I posted my previous one just a couple of hours ago :slight_smile:

Go check out his thread and see if you’d like to put up your favourite lick or riff or whatever.

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Sounding great Sandro. Chord melody is really your thing!

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Second melody melted me away. What’s the name of it? I couldn’t catch it from the video.

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Glad you took interest in it, I really like your interpretation, it helps me to slow down in my practice.

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Thanks @RadekSiechowicz That 2nd melody is a little passage from Classical Gas. I actually also really like playing the very next section that comes in after I stopped on the C… but I thought the video would get too long just for the “lick/riff/solo/xyz” challenge.

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Pretending like my classical guitar is an electric so that I can try out some riffs from Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas :guitar:

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Making good progress on that one Sandro, look forward to hearing the completed project. :sunglasses:

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Thanks Toby. Maybe I’ll get around to it one day :slight_smile:

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This was really enjoyable, technical parts were great!

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Thanks Radek

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I’m stepping away from soloing for a little bit :rofl: and coming back to some fingerstylin’.
One of the latest arrangements I wanted to learn was Can You Feel The Love Tonight from the original The Lion King, which was one of my favourite movies when I was a kid.
I still need to round it off with the intro and outro parts, but here’s a little snippet of me trying out a bit of the verse and chorus…

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Beautiful Sandro. I love how you always look so relaxed when you play and more importantly you always look like you are really enjoying what you do.

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Thanks heaps Eddie.

At one point after the first couple of years of guitar I remember it actually started to feel less fun and more like a chore, because I think I was getting bogged down on music theory and some other parts of the learning process. So these days I do mainly just look for stuff to play for enjoyment and hope that is enough to prevent me from getting fretboard amnesia :slight_smile:

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