All 3 etudes in 1 take. Happy New Year 2025! https://youtu.be/zR_3iDKL4SI

Jam on ALL of MEhttps://youtu.be/PG9MAYp3Ujk

Its been a busy time, but it is clear to me that it will take many many more reps to get smoothed out. Hopefully its at 80% with some timing issues and sloppy transitions. https://youtu.be/iFLyvDUKpYw ============================= 4CE: Autumn Leaves, Stella, Nearness of You, Someone To Watch Over me Working on 5 steps for: Blue Bossa (step 4) Next: InASentimentalMood CM

This almost ends my Stella project. A jam is still to come, although I have already published the two comping etudes. In this video: Head in, etude 10.4, improv, head out. A few comments about my Stella time and video: - I feel I improved technically due to the CM, which is less hard than the Blue Bossa one, but varied and still pretty tough (at least to me), especially the arpeggiated part. - The Shell comping study had also a positive impact on my playing. - Etude 10.4 at jam speed is pretty tough in comparison to the original tempo of the etude. I felt stretched to play the fast lines in time. - This tempo is too fast for what I want to play = I ruined the fast line in my chorus due to lack of skills. - I tried to introduce ghost-notes, slurs, pull-offs, hammer-ons... fun! - Now, rhythmically speaking, as I said, this tempo is too fast and on fast lines, I feel shaky, but I see that at slower tempo, I am more solid than I used to be. - Jazz phrasing? hmm... 🤔 - I did not study much the improv workout. Too long (32 bars...) and I already spent a ridiculous time on this Stella pack of etudes. This means I still don't know what I am doing during the chorus, but now I am noodling around the melody (at least I am hearing its pulse at all times - because of iReal, in a real jam this would probably be very different). - This is annoying to be still so nervous when I press "record", but it is getting better. - Now, I would like to thank @Coach Marc-Andre Seguin for putting together this course. I cannot believe how he transformed my playing in about 10 months. I feel I improved more and faster during this almost year than during any stages of my long (and bad) guitar learning process. Clear goals. I know exactly what I have to work on. Progresses are great to see. Motivation is even higher than when I started the JGA. Thank you, Marc! https://youtu.be/ylT-8UsZ4_w?si=2fRLNzUQ8OKEigYE

This is a response to a question I received recently about my new setup. I apologise in advance if I have overdone it by providing too much information. Hopefully though, someone may find something useful here. Usually, sound engineers prefer to record tracks separately because bleed from other voices or instruments makes the mixing process much harder, and frequency interference (combing) between mics distorts the sound (particularly in mono). To minimise bleed while singing and accompanying myself, I used two live vocal mics: a Sennheiser e845 dynamic mic for voice and a Rode M2 condenser mic for the guitar. Both of these mics have super-cardioid polar patterns with nulls at 120 degrees from the mic axis, so the mics were positioned so the guitar and my voice were in the nulls. Although not perfect, this approach works pretty well. The angle of the Rode M2 appears strange; however, this mic appears to have excellent off-axis frequency response, and there seems to be little adverse impact on the quality of sound. I also recorded the guitar pickup through a Fishman Aura Spectrum DI impulse response pedal. After I expanded the waveform in my digital audio workstation (I use Cakewalk by Bandlab) and made sure that it was in sync with that of the M2, I balanced the two guitar channels and panned them 40 degrees left and right respectively to produce a stereo effect. Because I don't trust my ears, I usually avoid playing around with Eq, and the final step was just to add some reverb. The rest of my setup: an old Windows 10 ultra slim desktop computer and monitor, a Steinberg UR242 audio interface, a pair of IK Multimedia iLoud Micro Monitors and a Yamaha MG-06 mixer all fit on a small trolley that I can move around. It is possible to get a stereo effect from a single mono input, such as a mic or amplifier line out. If anyone is interested, I'll save that for a separate post. BTW, the video is for illustrative purposes only. Feel free to comment if you like, but I am not expecting any feedback on the performance.