Glad you like. I was fortunate enough to get to study for two years (15-17) with a guy named Chuck Biel, one of the best teachers in my home state...he's actually Dean of Guitar Studies at the State University now. Monster player, you couldn't help but learn when around the guy. Great on guitar, but truly frightening on bass.
And he was pals with some heavy-duty jazz players, even managed to bring Frank Gambale of Chick Corea's band in our po-dunk town for a clinic and private lesson deal a few years after and invited me and some of his other cool former students to, in '89 I think. That was pretty intense, as that dude is like the Yngwie of Jazz as far as sweep-picking goes.
Anyway, his (Chuck's) method was you showed up with one of those Ernie Ball neck chart books (think they're still only like $2.99 today) with the blank 1-octave fretboards, and your own copy of Ted Greene's Chord Chemistry. he taught you chords and scales concurrently (had it figured out how many pages to skip to start each chapter in the blank books - WAY impressive to a pre-internet 14 yr old...lol), and if you did your homework, he'd teach you "Eruption" or "Battleaxe" or "The End of the World"...stuff like that. So you basically filled up a couple of those neck chart books if you stayed with it for a year or two. Took theory courses with him on top of that, cool shit.
We've kept in touch over the years, great guy... and I credit him for my total dedication level to the instrument and music in general as much as I credit EVH with my insane dedication to tinkering with them...
He hugely pushes ear training, and I completely agree. When I was a kid taking lessons from him, I didn't learn a song...I learned the entire album (or tried to) if I liked it!!
Fortunately, I've always been an information packrat, and I held on to my materials...had to re-copy them by hand once (aforementioned dead-sea scroll action) and that sucked. But now that it's digitized, and I can break it down into 3-scale jpgs even Ace can read why not share with the group?
MusEdit makes it easy to check for mistakes too, will play the scale you've entered back to you as a MIDI-file (stock piano tone, but still)...pretty sure you can import completed compositions into sequencers too, but never tried it...
And he was pals with some heavy-duty jazz players, even managed to bring Frank Gambale of Chick Corea's band in our po-dunk town for a clinic and private lesson deal a few years after and invited me and some of his other cool former students to, in '89 I think. That was pretty intense, as that dude is like the Yngwie of Jazz as far as sweep-picking goes.
Anyway, his (Chuck's) method was you showed up with one of those Ernie Ball neck chart books (think they're still only like $2.99 today) with the blank 1-octave fretboards, and your own copy of Ted Greene's Chord Chemistry. he taught you chords and scales concurrently (had it figured out how many pages to skip to start each chapter in the blank books - WAY impressive to a pre-internet 14 yr old...lol), and if you did your homework, he'd teach you "Eruption" or "Battleaxe" or "The End of the World"...stuff like that. So you basically filled up a couple of those neck chart books if you stayed with it for a year or two. Took theory courses with him on top of that, cool shit.
We've kept in touch over the years, great guy... and I credit him for my total dedication level to the instrument and music in general as much as I credit EVH with my insane dedication to tinkering with them...
He hugely pushes ear training, and I completely agree. When I was a kid taking lessons from him, I didn't learn a song...I learned the entire album (or tried to) if I liked it!!
Fortunately, I've always been an information packrat, and I held on to my materials...had to re-copy them by hand once (aforementioned dead-sea scroll action) and that sucked. But now that it's digitized, and I can break it down into 3-scale jpgs even Ace can read why not share with the group?
MusEdit makes it easy to check for mistakes too, will play the scale you've entered back to you as a MIDI-file (stock piano tone, but still)...pretty sure you can import completed compositions into sequencers too, but never tried it...
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