omg I’m so ridiculously proud of you!!!!! But, I think you may be a bit wrong, for a first attempt, and also the first time you’ve recorded yourself in a long time this was awesome ! It makes you ridiculously nervous to hit that record button but you finally did it !!!!!
I actually just looked at the time stamp of when you posted that and yes that was extremely close lol! Like literally you posted that the same minute I was waking up lol!
I know it’s after submission time, but for the knowledge and to help others! For the majority of my video I’m using an E Minor position pretty much for the arpeggios and I used my thumb in the previous practice videos (watching Syn and other artists). And the C Major Scale and lesson with Bill really helped me once I got to picking between different strings and using different fingers for the “du dundunduna nana” part.
I wish I had a phaser lollll :’)
You, Alex and everyone behind the scene are doing a fantastic Job and the work you put in to make this school much more active is incredible and doesnt go unnoticed. You are very much appreciated and I cant wait to see the video!
. Anyways I told my friends I was learning Ain't Talkin Bout Love for a contest on here and they decided to learn it with me. We played it together for the first time today. We also decided it would be fun to put on a show so here's our weird alternate take of Ain't Talkin Bout Love. Hope you guys enjoy!
Great progress manAlright, so this is gonna be my final contribution. Still some major fuckups, but it's not gonna get better in two days, and at least I'm pretending to play to a metronome
I first started learning this song way back in May, when I was playing for just 2 months and could barely switch between open chords. I thought, "hey, he is just playing some single notes, that should be easy, right?"... Yeah, right... Back then, it kicked my ass at about 30% of the original bpm. It's 5 months later and the song still kicks my ass at 80% of the original speed, as you can see.
But I learned a lot from the song, about the natural minor scale, its diatonic chords, about arpeggios, alternate picking and string skipping (I think EVH actually uses economy picking for the riff, but I stuck with alternate), hammer-ons and pull-offs and most importantly, his palm muting game is ridiculous.
The solo in this take turned out much less clean as I hoped for, but I'm leaving it in anyway. Still need some work until I can get the fast lick at the end to sound as fluid as the original.
As a little bonus, to give a little feeling for my progress, here is me from 5 months ago, grinding the riff at literally 40 bpm:
