Anyone want to join/start a Leavitt Study group?

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Jean-Michel Moreau

over 3 years ago

Hey everyone,

I have an idea about using Discord. How about meeting live for a half hour or so every two weeks? That way we could chat about whatever seems interesting that's related to practice and give some encouragement. Also it's not recorded so there is no need to figure out instagram etc and no need to worry about haters.

Would anyone be down for that?

brad ekr

over 3 years ago

That sounds like a good idea.

I was thinking something like a weekly Thursday or Friday night hang, maybe chat about the videos Tomo has put out for the previous week and check in with progress through the Leavitt book or other GW video lessons.

But I'm good with a two-week cycle if weekly seems too much. It's just that lately Tomo has been putting out a lot of content, so there's potentially a lot to talk about.

Jean-Michel Moreau

about 3 years ago

How is it going everyone? I'm on page 33. Life has been busier lately, so when I don't have a lot of time I do 5mins on the hardest section of whatever page and the chromatic ex. Just recently, I feel like my fingers got upgraded, they seem a little smarter and I can think about angles and muting more precisely than before. It's a happy surprise. :)

Has anyone read Peak by Anders Ericsson? This book seems so ideal for deliberate practice because of the way new skills are woven in.

brad ekr

about 3 years ago

Looks like an interesting book. Any specific tips or ideas you learned from it that helped you?

Jean-Michel Moreau

about 3 years ago

It's a great book, that researcher spent his life studying what makes top performers in sports and other endeavours. He is work was what what Malcom Gladwell used when he writing about the "10000 hour rule" -- I should note that Ericsson did not agree with Gladwells interpretation of his own work nor the 10k hour rule.

Anyways my favorite ideas where:

1. Almost anything that looks like skill and talent was in fact practice and effort--which means you could improve anything. It's a very hopeful and helpful idea.
2. Deliberate practice requires: focusing in on the difficult part, feedback, and ideally it is guided by an expert who aims your efforts in a way that improves your mental model of the task

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Daniel J Wrona

about 3 years ago

Hi,
I just signed up last week, I started working Sea to Sea duet pages 6 & 7. I feel pretty good about the basics of this lesson. I need to spend some quality time with the metronome and looper.

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Alan B

about 3 years ago

Hi Daniel. I find it so difficult to get one part onto the looper accurately so that I can play the other part that I lose motivation, so I just play through one part and then the other. I'm afraid that as I get older I get less tolerent of high-tech ! There's no substitute for a real living guitar buddy I suppose. Still I'll persever with the leavitt book as it is a real challenge.

Jean-Michel Moreau

about 3 years ago

Hi Daniel. Great! Welcome to the party!

Daniel J Wrona

about 3 years ago

Hi Jean-Michel

Thanks, it’s good to be at the party.

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brad ekr

about 3 years ago

I was just going through All of Me in the Real book and came upon quarter-note triplets . Does the Leavitt Volume 1 book covered them somewhere?

I know it's a 3 notes in the space of 2 beats, but I just don't know how to feel it. It usually comes out as some variation of 2 eighths and a quarter when I wing it. Is there a way to say it or count it or phrase it so it comes out more consistently? Some kind of exercise? or metronome settings?

Alan B

about 3 years ago

I was taught to say "ev-en-ly, ev-en-ly" across a count of 4. (which is 3 against 2 repeated twice) Something like this :-

ev en ly ev en ly
* * * * * *
1 2 3 4

Hope this makes some sense !

p.s. The diagram won't show on screen as I entered it in the comments so it looks confusing.

brad ekr

about 3 years ago

Some how I overlooked it "Quarter Note Triplets" right in the Table of Contents, doh! Quarter note triplets are introduced on page 111. The reading studies around it are too advanced for me, but the basic introduction is very accessible and easy to practice. I can't quite feel them automatically yet, but I understand how to approach them now at least! After I can feel them consistently, hopefully I can incorporate the "ev-en-ly" mnemonic suggested above.

The Leavitt book IS an excellent resource! Even for very basic readers like me.