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Marc Lus to Carey Idle, Niwel Tsumbu and Edd Bateman
4 weeks ago (edited)
Hello everyone, Hope you’re having a great time! My name is Marcel and I became a member 2 months ago to get some insights from a particular course. Along with the Theory by Ear and Guitar Technique Library courses, It has been a fantastic experience.
Now, inspired by @carey.idle‘s End of module assignment post last month end, I decided to also try the Tribal fingerstyle guitar course by Niwel Tsumbu. Been practising the first two modules (quite inconsistently, I must admit) and decided to make some home videos today of my progress, as my own End of Module Assignments; since I never made any before and this is the end of my membership.
Because I don’t do this often, I have some Red Light Fever and the metronome was not helping it lol. But turning off the metronome and trying on a mask too helped.
Shout out to @carey.idle , @niwel-tsumbu and of course, Sir @edd .
Like I mentioned above, this is my last membership month. But I’ve learnt and written down things from here that I’ve added for my practice and will definitely subscribe again in the future. I’m just taking a break from more online courses and videos for now. I’m a guitar player who has only learnt from the internet ever since I started, and too much gathered information from multiple sources (with insufficient practice of them) has gotten a bit overwhelming to me and has caused me what I’ve come to learn is called Option Paralysis for a long time. I feel I should concentrate and perfect all what I have in front of me for the time being.
Happy practice to all members!
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Nice one Marcel, beautiful playing! Much appreciate the shout out. Glad you found way to the Niwel course, really enjoying. Also found it a strange challenge to self video but believe a worthwhile one! All the best in future ventures and hopefully cross paths on these guitar trails in future. 🙏
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@carey.idle Thanks for your reply and compliment man. You got it!
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Hey @marclus Excellent work. When you’re practicing at that slower metronome speed whilst not recording how do you find it? Because I noticed you seemed much more comfortable at faster tempos rather than slow. Can I set yourself the task to record yourself playing on guitar with the metronome every day for 1 week to get over the red light fever?
Probably what happens is that it’s to do with the way you are sitting. You are sitting nice and comfortably and then as soon as you press record you contract muscles and tense your face, neck, shoulders, back, arms and hands and that’s why it’s not as smooth. Probably you breathe differently too.
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@edd Hey sir, thank you! Even whilst not recording, I do have a bad habit of getting quickly bored of following a metronome’s sound during practice, not necessarily because I can play faster than it. That tempo I started with is the tempo I can play the entire piece with in sync… cause if you realized, without the metronome, I had to slow down a bit to be able to comfortably play the “B part” (as Niwel calls it) of Yamba Ma Pasa. I’m still getting up to speed on that part, but because of my aforementioned feeling of the metronome, I usually practice more without it until I can eventually play faster; then I confirm my speed with it.
Thanks for your advice. I’ll take on the challenge to try recording myself everyday, watching out for the things you mentioned like sitting position, tension of muscles and breathing.
Thank you once again! I appreciate. You have a great site.-
@marclus when I was 21 I was able to practice quite a lot each day and I start with about 1 hour of putting the metronome at 40bpm and just playing crotchets on the beat. It’s the best way to locate and eliminate any weakpoints in timing. Everyone should do that. Then I play quavers, semi quavers, triplets, five notes, six notes, seven and keep dividing the beat into more notes but always aiming to land cleanly on the beat. This exercise is Module 6 in the Bass Technique Library course
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Very well played, clean and groovy!
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