Guitar lesson on dynamics, motifs and subtlety using Andy Timmon's TrueFire Jam Track

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Sign up as an All Access student to TrueFire here: https://prf.hn/l/3Y32QvV Sign up to TrueFire today: https://prf.hn/l/MDmJ5bB Save 30% on anything at TrueFire with promo code "TONEUP30" Timings for the SoundCloud audio version 00:00:34 TrueFire - offers and advert 00:02:17 Jam over Andy Timmons TrueFire track 00:05:36 Talking about Andy Timmons 00:06:56 Introduction to TrueFire's 'In the Jam' controls 00:08:46 Let's listen to Andy Timmons playing over the same track 00:09:56 Moved along towards the end of Andy Timmon's solo 00:10:41 Again with the lead analysis on and changing track volumes 00:11:45 Learning point: it's okay to make mistakes 00:12:02 Playing at home or in rehearsal is the time for mistakes 00:12:43 Know exactly what you are doing for performances 00:13:36 Targets should be challenging 00:14:00 Discussion around dynamics and having a motif 00:16:23 Try having a repeated motif for cohesion 00:17:13 Guthrie Govan: each note has a special quality 00:18:16 Listen to how the track builds up 00:18:35 2nd set of improvisations over the track This is our follow up episode on playing using dynamics, subtlety and motifs to build interest into your improvisations and melodies. It follows on from our earlier lessons on how to use sequences to open the fretboard and also the previous episode on TrueFire courses and their jam tracks. Last lesson we looked at building pace and speed and this time we look more at the finer points of improvising. During this lesson Dan and I start and end this episode with a jam over one of Andy Timmon’s jam tracks produced for TrueFire. This track forms part of their series called ‘In the Jam’ and as the title implies, these are multi-track top quality produced tracks where you have the control over the different tracks. It is possible to easily mute the lead guitar and use it as a backing track. Another great feature is the function to play a lead guitar commentary video and audio. For the track we are looking at, Andy Timmons talks over his solo and improvisation choices to explain what he did and why he did it, along with sharing his wisdom. It is a fantastic feature, which is not shared by all the series of ‘In the Jams’ but something which we loved about the Andy Timmons series.