Making the Most of a Melody
Added 2018-07-14 17:35:46 +0000 UTCUsing the silliest riff as the base, can I create both beautiful and aggressive music with it as the main lead?
Let's see...
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Or even have your winner/ runners up write a riff and send it back to you. Can't wait to see what you do next! :)
Robin Kuehn
2018-09-17 22:31:34 +0000 UTCThat's a clever concept! Maybe just give people a backing track and have them sing over it...
Rob Scallon
2018-09-17 22:06:25 +0000 UTCI absolutely love this concept, I love the contest and the amazing submissions that came out of it, and hope you do more with this idea in the future! Have you considered having other folks make up a melody for you to turn into songs with different attitudes?
Robin Kuehn
2018-09-11 13:09:05 +0000 UTCSo awesome to hear Michael! Let me check my stock of RS-1000's... ok still only have one. and YouTube Premium for life! I'm so game for paying a small amount of $ to get rid of nonstop internet ads. Netflix, YouTube, take my ten dollars please and save me from constant advertising.
Rob Scallon
2018-07-29 18:56:26 +0000 UTCThank you for all the advice. Jared mentioned in one of his videos that you are incredibly nice and humble considering the amount of talent you have. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out. I have YouTube Premium, so I don't get all the music ads, like yousician, before videos anymore. Haha. You and Jared have also inspired me to pick up my guitar again, after 12 years. (Maybe I'll get my daughter an RS-1000 for Christmas.) XD
Michael Detraz
2018-07-23 23:40:49 +0000 UTChaha very glad to hear. If my videos are getting more kids/people in general to pick up an instrument then that's something I can be really proud of. And I've thought of this a lot. If I was to start from scratch now, how would I do so. I don't have an definitive answer. I'm very excited for what yousician is up to for new players. Hence me working with them. Particularly some of the new things they're working on that I'm not allowed to mention publicly yet. There's so much material online now I didn't quite have as a kid. Hard to know where to start. I learned a lot in the early days with Guitar Pro. Which is a wonderful program that lays out the sheet music/tab for you with a bunch of tools & it's maybe 60 bucks. You can search just about any popular song on ultimate guitar's site and it will have a fully tabbed out Guitar Pro file of it to learn. Other's might disagree but I think learning tab right off the bat is a really good place to start. Or at least that's what I did. Find some easy tunes that would be fun for her to play along to. When I taught young kids I would have them learn an open g chord xx000x Then have them fret the high e and learn what frets/notes work while strumming that chord. Was often very exciting for the kids to start writing in that way and it's very simple. Anyway, I'm beginning to ramble... Good luck you guys :) Have fun!
Rob Scallon
2018-07-23 03:22:31 +0000 UTCYesterday, my five year old daughter told me that she wants to "learn to shred like Rob Scallon". Definitely a proud parent moment. Buying her an inexpensive guitar for her birthday. Any advice on where to start teaching someone so young? Keep up the amazing work. We love your videos. Side note: she also likes Jared Dines, but felt inspiration to learn guitar from watching your videos. :D
Michael Detraz
2018-07-18 20:51:43 +0000 UTC
