Working on a vid to hopefully share for a special day next week, should everything go to plan 
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Learning the Fretboard - 1st Position!
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Matt Wildcat
- Jan 10, 2021
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Didn't originally plan on uploading this as I started recording stuff this morning just to document my own progress. However, I figured it'd probably help my motivation to put it out there and want to improve on it later! Apologies in advance for my background, rambling, etc. So here we go, me learning the absolute basics, which @[5:@Jak Angelescu] encouraged me to do after one of my vids on Instagram!
My next goal is to revisit my Kakariko Village cover thing on my Instagram and learn all of the notes the chords use, so I can gain a better understanding of what I'm doing! I'll also most likely be going back to the CAGED system stuff with this as well! Hopefully this will give me enough to do when I take small breaks from trying to sweep!
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Checking in on all our Synners and Systers today - How we all doin?! Hope you're all having a great day!
New Iron Maiden is absolutely incredible! Hype for the new album is unreal right now!
That is all
Alrighty folks... Tell me, what video game do you think has the best soundtrack? Looking for some new stuff to dig!
Doing some major scale work today! Figured it's about time I learn something other than the 1-3-5 one I already know, so I'm doing some other positions as well and reviewing the lessons. Figured out what song I'll learn alongside that too, a track called "Graze the Roof"... from the Plants Vs Zombies soundtrack.
Welp, it's official - I'm freeeeee! Now I've got a stupid amount of time to delve back into the lessons from the start (For the millionth time, LOL) and finally make some real progress! Hope ya weren't getting sick of me beforehand
Officially finished up one half of my college courses today, and things are looking seriously good at that!! Can't wait to have more time to dedicate to guitar! JMIUUULLLIIIEEE!!!
How do I upload a riff?
What's a C Major scale?
@Dominik Gräber is being mean to me.
I don't feel like I fit in here
How come Papa doesn't write me back?
Why isn't Syn more active here?
I want your attention
FEED ME!
Can you practice the guitar for me?
How do I post a forum?
How do I play guitar?
Can you hook me up with a free lesson from Bill?
Thank you so much to the kickass SGS team and all the students for the amazing stream! It was awesome to see everyone, there were some seriously great questions and answers, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks for answering my question, @Syn Gates + @Brian Haner Sr. ! Can't wait for next time!
Spent the last few days working on releasing my new EP with a good friend (Now available, by the way!), and now I can go back to working on my technique again! Working on learning a few new scales too to keep things a bit more interesting!
Been working on a lot of things recently, from working on my left-hand technique (pinky finger in particular), learning some scales with a metronome and also using triplets, and then preparing for an EP release! Really excited to show some progress very soon!
So I found a lot of my old guitar videos recently, and figured that while I haven't gone crazy in learning new things (I'm planning to go ham on it once I'm out of my last month of college!
) I know for sure that I've certainly improved on a lot of the songs I do know, since I use a lot of them as just general guitar practice and warmups. So I think I'll do a little improvement/before-and-after video, if anything just to show myself how far I've come when I first thought those songs were hard!
Got my contest entry solo down!! I'm SO excited to finally share with you the full thing I've been working on! Unfortunately the full video is a bit long with me talking at the end, but the solo itself is within the first five minutes! I'm just so proud of myself for writing something that I'm really happy with and being able to pull it off!!
Super proud of myself today because I think I've finally figured out all of the parts for my contest solo! Now it's just a case of being able to play it on video! I'm really pleased with how it's sounding and I can't wait to finally show everyone
So progress on my contest entry is somewhat happening! I made a backing track and sorted both the intro and outro (ish), but I have no idea how to get everything else to work! I have a slight idea where I've broken down the piece into around 5 parts (Including intro+outro), and I want the middle piece of it all to be a chilled out part, which I have rough ideas for, but the other two? Yeah, they just don't wanna work. Gonna have to try figure those out over the next few days
So part of me is still unsure of trying to some sweeping for the contest, fearing that I won't make enough progress to showcase. I'll keep trying regardless, but that being said though, I have no idea what other technique I could pick up if it just doesn't work out. I still really struggle with improv and can't quite figure out how to make one sound good, and I struggle to write my own material otherwise that I could demonstrate anything in. I just don't know where to start and feel like I keep getting stuck in the same place. Any ideas? I apologise for this sort of thing being a reoccurring theme with me right around now.
Once again, I'm seriously struggling with sweeping, specifically Not Ready to Die. I feel like I've tried everything - Changing pick, changing picking angle, pulling off on the first note, trying to make it one fluid motion, everything. But no matter what I do, it just doesn't seem to work. I'm seriously failing at muting strings as well, which really doesn't help. It's driving me crazy, I wanted to do some sweeps for the contest but I'm doubting I'll be able to. I'm just not sure what to do. Any ideas? Or should I just move onto something else? Have I bitten off more than I can deal with?
So sorry for you loss Millie
Sending all my love to you during this sad time.
Recorded another set of attempts for Heretic after spending a bit of time on it today, only to realise you can't see my fretting hand for like, the most important part and the audio track is louder than my guitar at the end. Oh well, still shows progress I guess? Vid up shortly! XD
So there's the slightest chance I may have just figured out my sweep picking for Not Ready To Die. Had a quick mess around while setting some stuff up, and I thought I'd give it a quick go with a smaller pick and a much looser grip. It felt much better, not perfect still but better. Sad thing is it's too late at night to record or try it properly with the amp, so that's a thing on this list for tomorrow along with Heretic! -
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