G'day Adam,

I bought Scott Grove's full collection of lessons for about $35 during a sale last month. I have more than I need with Pebber's lessons, but it's always interesting to learn something new wherever i can. It's a lot of country guitar which i love, plus lessons on mandolin, ukulele, keyboards, bass and mountains other stuff. About 200 hours of lessons. Zero theory...all playing haha.

As for Greg Howe, I haven't tried a Skype lesson with him yet but its on my to-do list. That money is currently being directed into savings for a 12 string Rickenbacker so I can embrace my inner Tom Petty.

Cheers for your reply mate,
ivan

have you ever checked out scott grove's groovy music lessons channel, Adam?
he sells lessons via USB device and as far as I can tell he's a legit country/classic rock player.

He seems like an interesting cat from the tone of his videos :D
Do you have any opinion on his playing? Is he legit?

I've also noticed that Greg Howe does private lessons via Skype which is something I'm curious about. His album "introspection" is on high rotation on my music player. I'd love to know how he does some of that shit!

Hey CrazyFuu,

We're neighbours! I'm just across the desert from you in WA. Always great to see another Aussie on here!
Dividing time up between the modules and specific exercises: if I've got 3 hours, I spend the longest on the things I'm worse at. Right now I'm learning the Harmonic/Melodic Minors in position 1 in the CAGED system using incrementalism, but I'm also trying to spend time doing finger permutations because I suck at that. I do an hour of 1234/1243/1324/1342 up and down the neck, across the strings, plus 1-7 notes per beat while on each scale as I run through them. There's so much to learn, you're right! If you're stuck for how to practice or what to work on, just return to the source and watch PB's videos.
You cant go wrong mate.

Hi Ivan :)

Very good reply from Ray so not much I can add.
Personally I find that my practice sessions are mostly technique and I run through a list of exercises I want to improve eg ladders with ring finger and pinky, spiders etc. When I get up to make coffee or whatever, I usually run through a couple of songs quickly just to play music then it's back to technique.

You'll notice over time that even playing old songs you know back to front will seem more fluid as the exercises take hold and your basic technique improves.

Make no mistake: PB is the real deal and you WILL see improvement if you follow his instructions :)
All the best with practice!

great name btw

Underoche,
I discovered today that the 4th position arpeggio in Gmaj (10th fret) if played around with is the intro to Ein Kleiner Nachtmusik by Mozart... now I cant stop playing it! Its things like this that keep me up way too late at night wondering what other snippets of songs will appear just from rote learning finger patterns while watching youtube documentaries.

nice work ray!

Farelli,

I find I can do them much easier if I don't skip a string first few times. You know how normally you go:

1234 E
1/3 B
2/4 G

I find for the first cycle it's much easier to go:

1234 E
1/3 B
2/4 B
1/3 G
2/4 G

Same as trills, I start on the 1st fret and go from Top E to Bottom E right up to at least 14 or 15th fret and back down a couple of times. I think trills and spider, along with the permutations and timing 1-9 drills will make us MUCH better guitarists. Its just a matter of being patient, because I want to go off and learn all these covers and write some music. For now its hour after hour of exercises and not much real music on the end of my bed watching documentaries on YouTube on my laptop haha. Anyone recommend anything interesting on Youtube to watch while I practice?

:)