On The Beat - Episode 413 - Weekly Guitar Video News Wrap Up April 6th, 2018

tgjameela
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Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:29 pm

Hi Everyone,

This week's wrap up has just been released!

Enjoy!

http://www.totallyguitars.com/blog/guit ... -6th-2018/



This week took a completely unexpected turn when I was prompted to do a lesson on Pipeline. My first thought was,
“you’ve got to be kidding me”, then I thought again and figured it might be time to revisit it in spite of the fact that I didn’t really
have an arrangement I was happy with. I also was not looking forward to the amount of time it would probably take to play it at a
reasonable level. Today’s update started with a run through of some of the parts, which turned out better that I had anticipated,
and I talked about some of the challenges in the song, along with a few practice technique thoughts.

The result of this was getting completely obsessed with mastering the arrangement, at the expense of getting much else done.
I also crossed a bit of a bridge deciding that I could start the lesson even if I couldn’t play it yet. I figured we all could be working
on it simultaneously. At least it has been fun, productive, and a bit exhausting. The rest of the lesson should be up next week
sometime.

The other new additions to the Target Program this week were a Fly On The Wall video with Sandy working on Landslide, which we
transposed to a key to better suit her voice, and a lesson from Max on Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana.

Aside from playing through some of Pipeline, there was a bit of Sylvia by Focus, and a little improv on Landslide in the
key of G. There were also some closing thoughts on unorthodox fingering techniques, particularly switching fingers holding a
note after playing it. This is something that is not necessary often but can be really useful on rare occasions.


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Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:32 pm

Great job on a very difficult song Neil. I think that this song will just have to wait until I someday retire and can practice all day for a week. Maybe then????

See you soon!
Bart


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Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:48 am

Watching Neil make up the Landslide solo on the fly makes you realise how amateurish one's own abilities are; it would take me months to work out what he can do automatically... astonishing and sobering.


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Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:40 am

Hi Neil

Great Weekly News.
Thanks for the additional Pipeline segments throughout, great additions for the lesson.
The back roll is a tricky technique for sure, although you say it's not necessary, it's nice.
I'll keep at it.

Great Pipeline Acoustic Snapshot too.

Sandy's Landslide FOTW was interesting too.

Dermot


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