A Fun Way For Us To Learn From Eachother. Thoughts?

[Jak Angelescu]

Hello guys and dolls! As I was working on lesson 25 last night, I attempted to improv utilizing the scales and positions and little tricks I learned. But still, it seemed so flat and lifeless to me. And then an idea light went off. I…don’t…know…licks…for…crap!
I don’t!
So I thought maybe it would be fun for us to come together and start with perhaps lesson 24, and each student who’s willing to participate, uploads a LICK they either learned or created utilizing that lesson’s scales, and they teach it to us or simply demonstrate it up to speed and then slowly with the backing track (only because I know some people are camera talk shy )
The idea also spawned from me watching some of the players on the riff’s section, and DAMN. Even the beginners do things I never would have thought of! Then we can upload our own videos utilizing that riff we learned with the backing track from that lesson. Does that make sense? Sure we could all get on youtube and learn licks there, but there are some really creative things I’ve seen coming from people here that I would like to learn.

 

[idssdi]

Yes yes yes I would love to do this. I’m like 5 beers deep right now so I’ll do it tomorrow. I’m also willing to put my licks into sounds like if anyone wants me to!

 

[Jak Angelescu]

Sweet! I was hoping you would join, Ids!

 

[Noah Berends]

I know I have a bad track record of following through with cool things like this, but now that my internship is over I’d love to try this out.

 

[Sayonil Mitra]

aye, nice idea. definitely will do. I will say I will post something and then end up being lazy.

 

[Josh Wright]

I will do it.

 

[idssdi]

Well I’m stagnating again. I’ll try to come up with a lick tomorrow (I’m pretty tired right now and I’m going to go watch a movie tonight so I’m probably gonna Take a nap first)

 

[idssdi]

Here’s my lick. It’s not played as great as it should be but well
Lick lesson 24

 

[Matt Wildman]

I’m down

 

[Sayonil Mitra]

Here is mine. not necessarily related to the lesson. But you can use it anyways.
Jak’s idea on learning licks

 

[Jak Angelescu]

@Sayonil that’s a really awesome idea! It’s simple but it’s so powerful it understanding how you can write main hook riffs in songs or even awesome lead licks in a solo. My only concern, is that I do want it to pertain to the lessons because many students are having difficulties truly expanding on what they can do with what they have learned in these lessons. Do you think you could somehow wrap this idea around the notion of what we learn in lesson 24 and 25? Like maybe show what it would be like to perform that technique in an ascending D major scale?
PS: I tried doing this, and it’s a lot trickier than it seems to get it that fast!! It really helps with hand to hand picking coordination!!

 

[Sayonil Mitra]

Thanks @jak. I am trying to find a way to make this relevant to that lesson 24,25. On it.