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Commenting On Riffs. You Can Still Do It + Student Project :)

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Jak Angelescu

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Hey guys and dolls! Aren’t we all excited for the new shirts?! Great job on that team!
Anyway, commenting on riffs is still disabled. But fear not, the admynysters are working diligently in their secret hideout at the deathbat cave working on it. BUUUT there IS a way where you can still comment! I’ve seen so many awesome things that at first I decided to write students messages to give them feedback, but there’s an easier way.
Since all videos are linked through YouTube, simply click the YouTube icon in the bottom right of the video. This will (duh) take you directly to the video on the YouTube page and you can thumbs-up it there and leave your comment. It takes an extra click and a little extra loading time. But I feel my fellow Synners are worth it.
So if you want to still share some love, just take the extra click to follow the link and make it happen.
And those stupid hackers and bugs thought they could outsmart us.
ONE MORE THING: I’ve only had ONE submission for the improvement project. I really would like to get more people in. Like I said, we can’t improve on our playing if we just “do our best once for the time being and move on”. I’m STILL practicing the HTTK sweeps because they aren’t good enough for me. And dammit I want a more aggressive vibrato on it so I’m STILL working on it. We all owe it to ourselves to gauge our improvements and show the world how far we’ve come, because I’ve seen A LOT of improvement here! So please, if you want to participate, please pick something you want to improve on (but you’re not good at yet) and it could be anything, I mean, ANYTHING. Even a simple chord progression or a scale. Send it to me at [email protected] and we’ll see how you improve on it in 30 days. It’s fun! Believe me, I’ve done it and it’s SOOOO rewarding! I want you all to feel the same way I did.
Have a great day everyone!
 

Gabriel Corso

Free Bird Player
Nov 11, 2019
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Hey Jak!
I am so down on doing that.
Let me see if i understand it properly:
I should send you a video of me playing something right now ( riff, scale, song). And after some time i send you a video of me playing it again, but with the improvement?
Thanks for doing these things! It is awesome
 
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Jak Angelescu

Guest
@gabriel YES!! I will be giving everyone until next Friday to submit something. And then they have 30 days to improve on it. You could even use your backing track and do your improv again. Your vibrato was really good. SUCH good touch and feel. I loved watching you play, I could watch you all day!!
 

Gabriel Corso

Free Bird Player
Nov 11, 2019
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THANK YOU Jak!!! That is really nice to hear!!
So i`ll make it this way. You can get my improvisation 1 video and I will train some new scales and techniques for a new one in about 15-20 days. That is ok?
Do i need to send you the video in some sort of dropbox ? Or you download it from vimeo direclty?
Just for curiosity. This project it is similar to that other one that you did some months ago?
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Jak Angelescu

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I think I can download it, so don’t worry my friend. And sure, I’ll use that one! It’s not entirely the same. The first one I did was just students speaking about why they loved the school and the community. Kind of like a ‘testimonial’ thing. Then I did the collaboration for Syn’s birthday. This is strictly an improvement video to try to encourage students to keep returning to something and focusing on it to improve. A lot of students struggle with the motivation to do that. So yes, you’ll have 30 days to work on it So glad you’re going to participate!!
 

Ed Seith

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    I’ve been working on the sweep etude #1 to build control and speed, so when I can, I’ll make a video for that so I can check progress in a month. With feedback and coaching from y’all and Syn, I feel like I might be moving away from my plateau (cautiously optimistic, but getting my head around the conscious logistics of chunking helps), and this will be a great gauge. Thanks!
     
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    Jak Angelescu

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    @andrew I would like for it to be something that you start with recently. Because obviously in six years you’ll have improved. But i’m trying to showcase how much this school has helped students improve and to gauge your improvement as of recently
    @Ed that is awesome!! I’m so glad to hear that and I can’t wait to see it!!
     

    Dominik Gräber

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    There is really much I have to work on over all, I also started taking on Buried Alive once again (we will get a sweet comparison from 2016 vs now hehe) but that’s all nothing I can really show..
    So should I simply give you my take on the Intro now and then see how far I come with the whole song in one month?
     
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    Jak Angelescu

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    Don’t overload yourself. If you want to have the entire song as a goal then that’s great. But what we are trying to focus on is not how much you can achieve but the quality of how you’ve grown. If you are struggling with the intro to buried alive, you could easily learn that and progress with that period you can submit your current video to me have you playing it today or sometime soon and then use that for your comparison in focus on that for the next 30 days. Or if you would rather do hail to the king, if you are fumbling with a certain spot on it, for example like me with the solo, you can just use that as your focus point. I am speaking into my phone so if this whole text got butchered I’m sorry lol
     
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    Jak Angelescu

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    @andrew I would still like it to be something More recent. The deadline is to have everyone submit their 1st rough take by next Friday and then they will have 30 days from there on out. How long are you going to be abroad?