Hollow T through Suhr Badger 18w

[wondermoose]

I recently bought one of the new Macbooks to practice with and to improve some timing. I took a little video after church yesterday and thought I'd share it with you guys. If anyone knows any good Jazz or Country instructors around the Dallas area let me know. I'd love to put on a suit and play in some restaurants this summer :). Have a good week everyone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRIQfsVL0l4

[guitarzan]

I enjoyed watching the vid. Cool tones fer sure. I don't live in Dallas, so I can't comment on the teacher thing, but I gotta tell you, the idea of recording myself practicing is something I think I'll start doing. What a great way to get immediate and honest feedback about what you need to work on.

[mdrs]

WM................I really enjoyed your vid. GREAT TONE!! Well done!

So, you video'ed yourself with your MacBook? Hummmmmmmmmmm.........good idea!!

[dannopelli]

You did that with the camera and mic in a macbook? Very nice!

Good playing. Why don't you do some teaching?

[Rhys]

so what program do you use to record video on the mac? i've got macbook but didn't know you could record video.

[wondermoose]

I used iMovie to make the video. You just open it up and click on the camera button and off you go! It just takes a second to get the mic input volume tuned so that it doesn't peak. It's also really easy to throw in transitions and titles and to cut out and save the clips that turned out good. There were a lot of out takes for that little video :). There is an option to share the video on Youtube. You give iMovie your login info and it does all the work for you. The iLife '09 suite is awesome. The new Garageband has a feature called Garageband Magic that lets you pick a genre and tweak jam tracks to practice to.

As far as playing goes, I feel like I'm pretty good at seeing the fretboard like a blues player. My improv skills there are much stronger than any other genre except maybe praise and worship, which isn't too complicated. With Country and Jazz I can learn the licks relatively easily, but being creative with improv is a lot more of a struggle. I need to get better at seeing major scales and incidental notes and learn to change scales for each chord in the progression. I should start a blog called "A Blues Player's Road to Country and Jazz", and film myself along the way :).

[guitarzan]

I should start a blog called "A Blues Player's Road to Country and Jazz", and film myself along the way :).

yes. yes you do.