Thread: TTP music lessons with Flea-beta(interested?)

I like your 'learn a song' drills, are you gonna have the student learn a 'song' or an etude that will better them as a musician more than stairway to heaven? I'm throwing this out there because most etudes will challenge a musician to learn them and then become more flexible on their instrument. Whats also great about a good etude is they get a newer student more able to understand how a scale builds a musical piece.

Originally Posted by MotoZ

Sounds good to me.

One thing that I'd be interested in learning is the basics of electric guitar/amp adjustments. I learned on an acoustic and know just enough to make noise with that. A few years ago I bought a hollow-body electric and not matter what I do it sounds like shit to me. I just set all the knobs to 5 and play it like an acoustic, but there is certainly more to it than that.

If you can tell me what make/model the guitar and amp are, and roughly what you want it to sound like (some recorded example), I can help ya out.

Just drop a PM my way.

Thanks for the comments guys!

Anyone who has something to contribute to music discussion is free to usurp my "authority" and post lessons or anything else they think is credible and useful to the TTP music community.

etudes vs. songs - I like the idea of using etudes instead of songs, but not for the competition pieces. For those unfamiliar with etudes, think yankee doodle went to town, applied to a major scale.

I'm hoping to do these lessons once a week time and school permitting. I'm thinking we may need a music subforum to keep all the discussion and activity somewhat organized? We'll need to discuss everything from amp settings, to live performance, recording studio, guitar maintenance etc...

Anyway, here's some rocking tunes to keep you busy till I can get the lessons up. Jason, these are for you bro

25 essential metal licks

they're in gp5 format and I still haven't reinstalled it , I'll get things rolling as soon as I can guys.

LOL, yankee doodle + scales... That made me laugh really hard.

Here's a guitar etude example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCbhQQoMJ8w

Flea, I have Guitar Pro but hate writing into it, my band usually writes onto paper, lol.

However I would be happy to record videos with lessons to help you out. :9