Jamie Humphries
I had an online lesson with Jamie Humphries today and it was fucking great.
"Does water also remember the urine, effluent, frogs, fish, boats, bridges and ducks?" - Reverend, on homeopathy, June 2013
Jamie's a top bloke and a gorgeous player. He's massive too! I'm 6'4 and he towers over me.
how much was the lesson?
I charged him 35 quid because he's a beginner.
Only kidding. 35 quid. And yes he seems tall.
Lovely guy, great player too!
His 'Lick Library' DVDs are excellent too. Really lucid and articulate teacher.
I had this jam with him a couple of years ago:
Very nice!
Tell us what you talked about dude!
I have to admit I've been considering a Skype lesson with Phil X but would feel so inferior it would be embarrassing. $100US, so not that bad for a lesson with someone of that standard.
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Well I'd told him beforehand that I'm OK with generic noodling and am very comfortable running up and down the fretboard in whatever keys and respond to any twists and turns a song might make - that's basically my best strength as a guitarist - but that my soloing has become boring, generic, shapeless, doesn't tell a story. No light and shade. I was sort of expecting therefore to spend the time discussing solo construction from the artistic-perspective, but we quickly landed on the technical perspective, and focused mainly on modes, for which I have an intuitive feeling from my classical upbringing, but no vocabulary. So although it wasn't exactly what I was expecting, it was really really interesting and has given me a nice little avenue and some new exercises to explore, which I like. And he quickly got up to speed with where my knowledge is, so was able to move me on considerably. So money well spent. He's v personable too - we chatted about other interesting things while files were being downloaded etc. So it was fun too. I'll deff have another at some stage when I've got to grips with the exercises. And then maybe refocus on the solo writing. He's obviously busy and touring at the mo, but didn't seem to mind scheduling the odd lesson here and there, especially on Mondays.
"Does water also remember the urine, effluent, frogs, fish, boats, bridges and ducks?" - Reverend, on homeopathy, June 2013
Actually I'll just take the opportunity to post a link to the solo I'm most proud of, on Jonathan Stanford's "Mr Friday Night" to demonstrate what I mean by generic noodling. Apologies all!
http://www.reverbnation.com/jonathanstanford
The solo proper starts at 1:56 with a plectrum scrape that I was particularly pleased with :-)
"Does water also remember the urine, effluent, frogs, fish, boats, bridges and ducks?" - Reverend, on homeopathy, June 2013
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