There might be some good news for all you guys who are broke. The entire online video lesson structure is going to be modified this summer so that for $15 you can get ONE 15 min lesson. $25 for TWO 15 minute lessons, $40 for FOUR 15 minute lessons and $60 for SIX 15 minute lessons. The 30 minute lessons are all being revamped. So if you are low on funds you will be still able to subscribe at $15 per month for ONE 15 minute lesson. If you cant afford $15 a month for guitar lessons, then you may want to reconsider your whole method of earning money. You CAN get $15 from aluminum and glass recycling pretty easily though. Its all about motivation.

Dont you love 11 year olds who play WES MONTGOMERY!!! Great Job HEYMAN!

Personally I like to practice Sarod picking on one string for 2 hours a day straight through. Then I like to practice chromatic and symmetric scales for 1 hour while singing the notes, then I like to do all 14 position scale sequences for 1 hour while singing the notes. Then I do lots of arpeggios - the whole time training my ear by singing the notes. None of this is at all possible if your right hand picking technique is weak or it sucks. You have to spend the most amount of your efforts perfecting the picking technique first before moving on into other ideas. Too many people dont and they always have problems synchronizing their picking speed, tone and timbre an dynamics.

Yes - I dont claim that there is only ONE way to play and only ONE technique path to follow. So many amazing players have a their own unorthodox technique. Adam knows - I just teach CLASSICAL for the left hand and combined Alternate/Scalpel/Sarod for the right hand along with Hybrid picking. Anyone can do with it what they will - however - IT IS ALWAYS the cheap guys who abandon new ideas right away because its not comfortable. They are the ones who never progress no matter how many "years" they've been playing. Adult students who have been playing for 20 years are always the worst for bad habits and dont ever have the patience to fix anything the right way. They always quit and keep on sucking forever. Instant gratification does have major drawbacks!

Timing is drifting.
Tone is flimsy.
keep working!

USB webcams and a soundcard with a little mixer. For PCI slots the best card is the M-Audio Audiophile 2496.
If you have only PCI-e then an Asus XONAR sound card.

Sorry dont know much about Mac sound cards.

practice that Ami 3 octave scale to these backing tracks and then make a video:

http://www.pbguitarstudio.com/mp3_data/BakTrax_Ami7_Ambient3_120bpm.MP3

http://www.pbguitarstudio.com/mp3_data/BakTrax_A_mi_108bpm.MP3

Thanks for posting a video here!
Chords are mostly correct - the Dim 7 needs to be corrected with the proper fingering.

The point is that you take the techniques I show people in the lessons and ADD them to your "arsenal" of tehcniques that you already have. So so many people utterly miss that point and even try to argue about their picking style. Even after I explain it over and over again they think that I am some kind of Army drill sargent instructor them to altogether REPLACE their own picking style and go cold turkey. The scaplel picking was taught to me by two instructors I had back in the 70's - Joe Sandino and Howard Roberts. Roberts had a lot of fame as an LA Studio Musician and Guitar Clinician and he also was a founding member of G.I.T. Kenny Burrell uses scalpel picking as does Scofield, and many others. However, and I will say this for the 3,000th time now - The back angle style is used by George Benson, Carlos Santana, Pat Metheny and an odd version of it is practiced by Steve Morse. Now also - look at Buckethead - I repeatedly told him to not get locked down to any one technique or way of doing a technique - so you can see - some videos he shreds more scalpel style, some videos he shreds with the more back angle style - he was experimenting and trying shit out repeatedly to see what worked - he was not locked in to any style and could do all styles if he wanted to because he practiced all of them. That the point - if you use a back angle style, especially for 10 years, then scalpel is going to feel weird. But most people wont try something until they can make it work - instead they chicken out and go back to what is comfortable for them. Try it for a whole 6 months before you say it doesnt work. I wish more people practiced in the old school way.

It takes a lot of patience to do these exercises properly like this.
Congratulations on that. Form looks great. Timing is much better.
Try quarter notes at up to 500! Thats where the real guys who have good timing
really shine. Most people cant do it - but they are quarter notes so it should be easy right?
Keep up the good work!