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Jak Angelescu

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Hello my friends! I am just so excited. I have been combing through the school getting an idea for the time being of who is doing great to win the award. And then I realized that I have been so out of touch with everyone. You all have done so many amazing things. The times that I do spend on here I am trying to get into the lessons and then fix things on the school. I don't really have time these days to keep in touch with everyone like I used to. So just leave me an update down below! What are you working on? How are you doing? Love you all so much!
 

Dominik Gräber

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    Heya 🖐 wanna get some Metal Minutes done and I am working on scales / alternate / sweep Picking. Not a lot though. Also wanna record a solo to Go over a Clean Part I wrote.
    Still waiting on an answer for Thomann cause my Drop D guitar was damaged and I am trying to get a refund. As soon as I have a 2nd guitar back I'll start on working on more Covers With the Goal of doing a Mini Concert for y'all! :)

    But I've been really busy with leather work too so I was lacking practice a little lately.
     

    idssdi

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    Hey Jak, I'm doing fine. At the moment I'm working out exercise 1 of lesson 40 for some scales and Arpeggios using gypsy picking.

    Next week I'm gonna record the blues+rock solo for the collab, learn a Lynyrd Skynyrd song, learn Here comes The sun for the analysis video for this week, workout alternate picking and gypsy picking for some scales/Arpeggios for lesson 2 if exercise 40 and I'm generally doing a bunch of gypsy jazz stuff.


    Tying in with Dominiks idea of a mini concert I was thinking about recording a set of all the John Mayer songs I know and maybe some of my favourite Avenged songs to play too but not sure when I'll find the time to do that.

    I also wrote a little neo-classical esque etude which I want to record and transcribe for this school but I'm not sure when I'll get around to that either.


    That's the music stuff, I have to work on my master thesis too #workaholic😅
     

    Matt Wildcat

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    Hey! I'm doing doing a lot better at the moment. Now that my new guitar's been fixed, I'm working on a bit of Iron Maiden tonight and then maybe deciding to get on with the music coursework I really should be doing but 🤷‍♂️ 😂 Once I get some of this out of the way, I'm gonna be really going at some of the lessons again like I've been meaning to do for ages now! Really gotta start breaking some old habits and getting on track with making progress!
     

    Jesse Salmons

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    Whatup! Im still kickin over here, been hitting some metal gallop, and chugging riffs hard lately. Got some cool stuff in the works pertaining to that. I also Started practicing my sweep and economy picking again after a break, and gonna record a couple solos for the collab whenever i get the chance to. Other than that im also learning the ride the lightning solo and will have a cover of that up eventually! The whole song of course. Just trying to stay sane because work is getting busy 😂
     
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    Andrew Milner

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    Hey there Jak.

    I've had better days...this whole lockdown thing is really starting to annoy the sh*t out of me and the lack of any sort of competence by the people in charge is annoying me even more. I feel I have an unhealthy amount of rage building up in me and I have no clue what to do about it.

    On the plus side, my second covers EP is up so there is that. I also got a good offer on Hollywood Orchestra VST. And I also finished a Udemy course, which is now pending verification. There is only so much time I can spend inside my own head though...
     
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    Cedric L

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    Heyo Jak,
    I'm busy with the usual things. Getting a better guitar tone, learning how to mix better, learning new songs,...
    Oh, I released the cinematic versions of Hearts Burst Into Fire and Waking The Demon on my YouTube channel. Now I'm looking for the next song...
    So you see... Just the usual stuff :rolleyes:

    I am also considering buying new studio headphones. But I don't know if closed or open headphones are better... Does anyone have experience with this?
     

    carlosmqr

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    Hey Jak Im doing good! Had a bit of free time this week so Ive been playing a bit more than usual and watching some lessons and enjoying the quarantine xD Ive been working more on the rhythm part (I just wanted lead xD) that I left a bit behind including some chords (D and G I hate them xD), and been working on my alternate picking and trying to coordinate my hands as Im trying to go faster and its been a nightmare :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: Hope youre ok too :)
     

    Nocturne

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    Hey Jak, that's so nice of you to take some news from everyone. I finally put myself together and picked up the guitar again, because for the past few weeks I had a really hard time doing absolutely anything, including guitar. I feel much better with myself and more healthy, and I'm happy so see that taking some distance made me progress a little bit. I'm more comfortable with my sweep picking and my playing.
     

    Ben newton

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    Hi Jak! I have been adapting constantly. Fortunately, most of my students I teach are all online now, and so have been focusing on the online aspect of tuition. Very much reinventing myself! Bought myself a fancy custom built PC for it (But also for a bit of gaming too!), which will be arriving in a few weeks! Been looking at new guitars too, might go Sterling Music man. Been working on "blueprints" to make lessons for SGS. As personal practice, I've been focusing on bending, vibrato and slides - basically trying to establish my sound a bit more (And have been making a bit of progress too). I'm taking a bit of inspiration from Zakk Wylde and Dimebag. Also using this time to listen to all sorts of music.

    Hope you're all well.
     
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    Christian Schulze

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    Well. Im doing kinda fine....some days the cabin fever creeps in but it is what it is. Regarding practice, I have been working on the blues Masterclass and also on expanding my playlist, getting new songs in there (some slipknot...black sabbath, maybe even Iron maiden).

    Hope you are doing well too!
     
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    Chris Johnston

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    Hey Jak hope you're well!

    I've been in bed ill the past week so I've discovered 'Medititive Practice' 😂

    Basically visualising and studying the Guitar in your head when you're too weak to play it. And now that I've returned to my instrument it's like I never left it.

    Been working on some left hand excercises and continuing to improve my improvising 🤟

    I said ages ago I was going to do a Pentatonic tips video aswell so been trying to get a version of that that I'm happy with and then I'll stick it up 😊

    Hope you and everyone else are well just now too!
     
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    John Robinson

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    Hey Jak hope you're well!

    I've been in bed ill the past week so I've discovered 'Medititive Practice' 😂

    Basically visualising and studying the Guitar in your head when you're too weak to play it. And now that I've returned to my instrument it's like I never left it.

    Been working on some left hand excercises and continuing to improve my improvising 🤟

    I said ages ago I was going to do a Pentatonic tips video aswell so been trying to get a version of that that I'm happy with and then I'll stick it up 😊

    Hope you and everyone else are well just now too!
    I hope you get well soon
     
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    Rute Rodrigues

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    Ayyyeee so just hear this:
    Bc of COVID people in my country decided that we, 11th grade kids wouldn’t have to do exams. Pretty cool, right? RIGHT? Wrong! From a sudden, covid is no more in Portugal, so guess what? YES GOD DAMN IT, I WILL HAVE EXAMS!!! So I stopped studying because I thought I wouldn’t have to worry about that anymore, but now that they decided that we had to do them from literally day to night, I have tones of shit I forgot, and now I have way more work than before! Pretty cool, god damn it, I hate exams.

    Besides thaaaaaat im working on syn etude sweep picking III and tapping IV and working on some originals and what else hmmmmm yeah im just trying not to die
     
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