Staccato Power Chords

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Staccato Power Chords, Lesson By Ben Higgins

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Rammikin View Member Profile	Sep 13 2013, 08:59 PM
Sep 13 2013, 08:59 PM	Experienced Rock Star Posts: 1.127 Joined: 4-November 10	Original lesson: Staccato Power Chords by Ben Higgins You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Cyber-industrial music and video animations: https://vimeo.com/channels/thedignitymachine https://vimeo.com/channels/somewheretohide Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RodrigoSpacecraft

Darius Wave View Member Profile	Sep 14 2013, 08:16 AM
Sep 14 2013, 08:16 AM	Instructor Posts: 5.871 Joined: 29-November 12 From: Poland	He mate! Nice to see You working hard constantly Your hand positions look very well - also right hand movements but...There is still headroom to improve precission. Sometimes I can hear A note in the background, while You play E power chord (0:03 -0:04; 0:07 for example) - try to focus on it so the 3rd string would be muted instead of making a sus4 chor for a while. At 0:04 You had some problems to precisely grab that shape. When there are breaks between chords it should be perfect silence - it's to much noise from moving hands outthere 0:15 - 0:18 There are also little timming issues - I think this could be more a matter of focusing then practice Take a look at Bens original lesson - he does the second half (first pattern) with the upstrokes as an opposite to the first part (downstrokes) Ben uses pretty high gain at his lesson and You can hear some noises at breaks but those are only "slide noises". You use low amount of gain that is possible to get 100% clean breaks Try to think about it once You play the lesson again. Your mechnisms of both hands are very good - You are already used to make a "noise gate" of both hands - now it's only a matter to increase the treshold You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Check out my lessons and my instructor profile www.facebook.com/DariusWave www.youtube.pl/vavrzyn www.niebonie.pl www.jammingcherry.pl www.facebook.com/druzyna.wawrzyna

Ben Higgins View Member Profile	Sep 14 2013, 08:25 AM
Sep 14 2013, 08:25 AM	Instructor Posts: 13.792 Joined: 11-March 10 From: England	Darius has noticed everything I needed to say. The breaks between the chords are opportunities for you to practice total muting - complete silence. No rogue string noises. The last 3 chords at the end need to be a bit more tied together.. no pause between them. Other than that, very good You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- My Lessons My Youtube Channel My Band

Cosmin Lupu View Member Profile	Sep 14 2013, 05:32 PM
Sep 14 2013, 05:32 PM	Instructor Posts: 22.808 Joined: 14-June 10 From: Bucharest	Hey man - I think that Darius and Ben have pointed out the important spots. The thing that I want to highlight here, would be the unwanted string noise - it is something that is recurring in your playing and it would be great to focus on solving these in all the aspects of your playing. Keep rocking! Cosmin You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- My lessons We can work on YOUR GUITAR and MUSIC development TOGETHER. Write me a private message if you wish to! Please subscribe to my Youtube Channel Days Of Confusion Facebook Page Mozart Rocks My facebook page

Gabriel Leopardi View Member Profile	Sep 16 2013, 06:58 PM
Sep 16 2013, 06:58 PM	Instructor Posts: 36.043 Joined: 3-March 07 From: Argentina	Hi Rammikin! I think that you are on the right track with this lesson. You still have to practice this lesson, and also some other lessons that include power chords to feel more comfortable with the chord changes. There are some chord that sound muted, weird and some timing issues as the other instructors marked. Keep on the hard work. You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- My lessons Do you need a Guitar Plan? Join Gab's Army Check my band:Cirse Check my soundcloud:Soundcloud Please subscribe to my:Youtube Channel

Fran View Member Profile	Sep 18 2013, 03:27 PM
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