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here's my first try at the extreme improv challenge...there are some notes that shouldn't be there, please don't be mean to me :)

Did like 5 or 6 improvisations and record the last 3. It kept getting worse so I thought to just move on. I chose this last recording cause I thought it was a bit more showing of me trying to apply what I just learned. Haven't heard it yet , but there were some out of key notes or misplaced. I tried to redo it during my playing, but was a bit slow. Had way cooler ideas before I spent like an hour or one and a half on the C major scale lesson plus some time on the lesson 22. It was good because I was able to use both scales/patterns on the jam track.

Analysis of the harmony in burn the witch by Radiohead

A little bit more shredding than usual. Also, I changed my strings yesterday and it kept going out of tune very badly for most of the takes so I kept redoing until it somewhat stayed in tune enough #cheatercompleter

sorry about the loud bass

Another day, another improv

Copying Django's recording of I'll See You In My Dreams.

Copying Django's recording of I'll See You In My Dreams.

First things first, I don't think my singing is very good here and I don't consider myself a lyrical genius at all but wanted to share this. Last year like April/may/June ish I wasn't doing very well. Right now I'm ok but have a slight case of the covid blues so I decided to put this out of the closet(never got comfortable enough with sharing this part of myself but it really existed for over a year). Hope you enjoy and as always feedback is appreciated!

Practice makes perfect and this is definitely not perfect, so practice it is :P Side note: year of the cat is one of my favorite songs of all time and if you haven’t heard it before, definitely check it out! :)

just did stamina and speed practice today and pre bends. did record much just this one. it's probably almost enough for a full song if I ordered it right. tomorrow again it's tuned dropped D mostly power chords except for 2 and i think it was the Dmajor and than another time i did the same D shape but on the lower strings so in reverse. almost all downstrokes with palm mutes in between

Chords move fast in these backingtrack so i did something I don't like to do usually and that's just mindlessly shred for a bit.

I learned the rest of the solo this past a Saturday. I have so much to work on but I am excited that I can practice it in its entirety now ! I have one more lesson with the all mighty @[77:@Hector Trejo] and then I’m going to practice, practice ,practice until I can get this as close to perfect as I possibly can for myself! Hopefully it won’t take too long and I can update you guys soon ! 😁

Didn't realize it ended so fast, pretty weak ending. I was gong to redo it, but it's cool, tomorrow is another day. Sure is fun having something to stick to. Had a lot of cool things while practicing/warming up before recording this. Didn't record it though :'( Oh ya, I tried to add some other techniques into the solo like palm mutes.

As is probably pretty clear I lost track of where the hell I was in the second half. Also, every chord lasts 1 bar longer than Instinctly expect it to be so it's a bit of a pain to improvise over but well that's what practice is for. Now it's off to the gym to throw some weights at people out of frustration 🤪

I wanted to share this with you because I‘ve incorporated a lot of Synyster-esque economy picking ideas into this! :)

A lot of furious economy picking in this one! :) The first pattern is a great pickslanting and string skipping exercise too.

New day and a bigger challenge - This was in no way a one take wonder! I just kept over judging what I was doing in previous takes and trying again. I tried to stop myself from mindless noodling in the later half by using a Bubble trem effect on my guitar, enjoy!

just turned my guitar on, some cool ideas, it's mostly hybrid picking, double stops and some hammer on pull offs to try and smooth it out and slides

A short clip of a longer (yet error filled video) of myself trying to learn one of my favorite songs of all time by ear. This is something I’m trying to get better at. It’s a tad messy but I’ll post a full video once I have it down. This is just a video of the learning process :) it’s exciting and I just wanted to share

Here ya go @[477:@Ids Schiere]

Did this right after I got home and may have had to eat first but ooh well...

This was supposed to be for the SGS Extreme Improv Challenge, but I got the backing track wrong. However I prefer this to the original improv I did, so here you go!

Since I was a week behind I figured I'd do two on one day. I'm not sure whether I'm making a tutorial for this one because all the chords you need are in this video already but if you would like me to make a separate tutorial just let me know.