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  • My picking handDateWed Feb 10, 2016 7:45 pm
    Forum post by birdsoffire. Topic: My picking hand

    There really is not much of a method behind my picking madness. It took me a long time to even build up the stamina for me to pick on each individual string; for what started at 10 minutes and gradually built up to about 45 minutes. I have begun to use a metronome now that I feel that I can now concentrate on timing, rhythm, and subdividing time. I am still working on very basic timing exercises; quarter notes and eighth notes.

    It is coming along slowly, because I am really trying to hone those almost to perfection. One of my frustrations was that I have always tried to do too much without getting very far in any of the techniques I was trying to master. The thing that really impresses me about Pebber is that he really stresses a disciplined laser like approach to practicing one or two things at a time. That is what gets results. It takes a long time, but it really does pay off.

    I have told and shared Pebber's YouTube videos with my guitar playing friends...At some point I should really start to subscribe to Pebber's online lessons...I wish I could get the money back from all of the resources that I have purchased and the lessons I have taken from those "professional" guitar teachers and give that money to Pebber...

    I really am enjoying this forum...it is nice to see a place that people can talk freely about guitar without the negativity...

  • My picking handDateSat Jan 23, 2016 9:51 pm
    Topic by birdsoffire. Forum: PB Guitarstudio FORUMS

    I have always been a fan of guys like McLaughlin, DiMeola, Morse, Malmsteen, etc...fast picking has always been a major challenge for me. I have purchased multiple videos, books, and have perused videos that promised to make me a "shredder" to no avail. I have watched and enjoyed many of the free videos that Pebber has posted on YouTube. As I watched the Module 1 video, one of the techniques that jumped out at me was to alternate pick on one string without fretting.

    Pebber what seemed to be a double dog dare to try the exercise for 15 to 30 minutes to an hour to half the day. I knew that all day would not work. So I have worked up to an hour a day per string, a different string everyday. I have to say; my picking speed and accuracy has increased exponentially. I have a long ways to go, but I am feeling much more confident in that ability.

    I kind of rambled a bit, but I felt it is necessary to give credit to where credit is due.

    Thanks Pebber you are the real deal...

  • Pebber and chromaticism!!!DateSun Feb 15, 2015 9:02 pm
    Topic by birdsoffire. Forum: PB Guitarstudio FORUMS

    When I got out of the military in in 1994 I had a chance to go to GIT/MI for a little while until the money ran out. I had a chance to study with some fantastic musicians (not just guitar players). I got a chance to take some lessons from some world class players. Two in particular were artists in residence for a while were Steve Lukather and Scott Henderson.

    Steve Lukather talked about the importance of using chromatic scales in playing and proper technique in playing the scales. From what I remember we started out at 50 bpms in playing those scales and would not up the bpms until your technique and the scales were played perfectly. Pebber's videos on chromatic scales reminds me of sitting in that lesson room with Lukather again! I believe I still have some of the materials from those lessons.

    Scott Henderson was also a beast. He wouldn't even let us pick up a guitar until we completed an ear training exercise. This was one of the most difficult classes I had to take. Scott did not just play guitar notes...he would play a Miles Davis horn solo or a Michael Brecker sax solo or a Vladimir Horowitz piano melody. We had to not only tell him the notes, but transpose those onto the guitar. Again watching some of Pebber's videos he talked about singing along with everything you play to really understand the notes you are playing.

    Pebber is definitely speaking the truth. Being away from guitar for a significant amount of time and coming back to it, I really have fun watching Pebber's videos because it is like being at MI again. However I remember Steve Lukather using much more "colorful" language if we screwed up. I think I might have to subscribe to Pebber's online lessons! Love playing those chromatic exercises...

    Thanks Pebber for bringing some of those great memories back!

  • Advice???DateMon Feb 09, 2015 12:50 pm
    Forum post by birdsoffire. Topic: Advice???

    Thanks for the response...I am very stingy with my time and money so whatever I "dive" into it is always 100%. I am so sick and tired of some of these online instructors that promise this and that, but they have no idea how to teach and waste my time and money. Pebber seems to really want his students to improve and holds them accountable to improve.

  • Advice???DateSun Feb 08, 2015 8:57 pm
    Topic by birdsoffire. Forum: PB Guitarstudio FORUMS

    I have just discovered Pebber Brown and his multitude of free videos. I have only watched a few of them, but am extremely intrigued by them. What is the difference between the free videos that Pebber posted and a real online lesson with him? I have been "taken" by some online guitar wizards before promising me that I could turn into the next McLaughlin...anyone out there that pays for online lessons maybe talk about their experience with them. Thanks so much in advance!

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