Are there any lesson plans or backing tracks?
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Basically all of Masters in Mechanics is a lesson plan…?
Hey @ChrisX if you’re looking for where to start, we suggest the Intro to Picking Motion video, and then going through the Pickslanting Primer. After that you can check out the seminars and interviews, really in any order depending on your interests.
You can browse from the troygrady.com homepage and should be able to get to everything within a couple clicks. Let us know if you’re having trouble finding anything!
So, @ChrisX can correct me if I’m wrong, but I think what he’s saying is that there’s tons and tons of examples, exercises, and just general information about how other people play but not as much guidance as to how to take a particular interview or seminar and approach all that information efficiently to actually apply it to our own playing.
I’ve had trouble working with the interviews and seminars because it’s not always clear to me what to practice and it what order for a given interview or seminar and also how measure results to judge when it’s time to progress to the next topic. I know that to some extent there’s a certain level of responsibility that we need to accept as the student and figure this stuff out ourselves and then also this is the role that a traditional one-on-one teacher would fill but I know that I would definitely benefit from and appreciate a little information on how to use the information in the interviews. I love the material but there’s so much that it can be a little overwhelming figuring out where to go once you’ve got the basics of the primer figured out.
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I tend to think of this website as the source material of picking technique rather than the lesson.
What I would do is check out the pickslanting primer or the motion mechanic video or another “entry-level” video to suss out exactly what it is I’m doing, or, what it is I’m wanting to develop. Then I’ll look for interviews or seminars that have applicable content and poke through those, including the clips and lick packages and find stuff that I like the sound of.
There’s a lot of content on this site so it can be pretty easy to narrow things down so I find the YouTube channel really helpful here. The YouTube videos tend to highlight certain aspects of each interviewee in a more condensed fashion. So figure out exactly what it is you want to do, use the shorter-form videos on YouTube to figure out where to look, then dig deeper into the appropriate content on the full site.
Worst-case scenario, call up Code-savvy instructors like Teemu or Ben Eller or John Taylor to help you out in more structured fashion.
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@mh0520 Well said!
I think if there were a few backing tracks for each seminar, and maybe several example solos of increasing difficulty, there would be a way to practice and work out every technique in the seminar.
Oth, im watching volcano now and there are enough yngwie recordings and bt online, that its just a matter of learning his songs as a starting point.
Antigravity probably suffers more from lack of guidance because it is a survey of licks from many players. I have MABs Speed Lives solo to practice, but that piece is really daunting, and many of the ap runs in it are sixes and dont exercise 2wps technique.