myMOTIFS: My Musical Motifs

Summary of my musical projects:

I started practicing music when I was about 5 year old. The beginning was very difficult. Often, reading musical notation was quite challenging.

In June of 2016, I started recording my original musical scores for games and other projects:

Dream Theater
Dream Theater's music is one of major influences in my daily practice.

Jordan Rudess Online Conservatory

I created 3 separate pages in which I list all conservatory exercises. Each week, I practice 2 or 3 new exercises and record on YouTube.

Conservatory Part 3 (Advanced etudes and Riffs)
Conservatory Part 2 (Music Theory)
Conservatory Part 1 (Music Theory)

Jordan Rudess is a famous virtuoso of keyboard music. Most people know him from Dream Theater and his progressive rock style. He is also a great music teacher. Currently, I'm enrolled in his Online Conservatory. There are many very advanced keyboard exercises on that site that I practice for long hours.

On my YouTube channel there are other songs that I play on my bass and keyboard:

Ear Training with Steve Vai

Steve Vai (http://www.vai.com/) is one of the greatest guitar players. For Steve Vai song recordings I do not use any music notation. The list of songs is on my Bass Curriculum page
http://motifsbyliam.blogspot.com/p/bass-curriculum.html

Ear Training with X-Files by Mark Snow

This is my cover of the X - Files theme by Mark Snow.

I figured it out without using any music notation.

Comments from Jordan Rudess (August 2017)

Comments from Jordan Rudess (April 2016)

Last week Mr. Jordan Rudess sent me video feedback on the pieces I have been learning from Jordan Rudess Online Conservatory. I this it is amazing to be able to interact with Mr. Rudess.

Comments from Jordan Rudess (March 2016)

The curriculum developed by Jordan Rudess is a great resource. It is also very motivating to hear comments and suggestions from the Master himself and from other musicians.

I will be incorporating exercises presented in answers from Jordan into my daily practice routine.

Sometimes I like to play random songs without music notation. Five Nights at Freddy's

Bass Guitar Aerobics: selected exercises from the Job Liebman's book

Track 29: https://youtu.be/RLQ8Figt_3M
Track 32: https://youtu.be/bcaj1aLSOTc

I created a separate page on my blog in which I list all bass exercises.

Comping and ear training:
FNAF Theme: https://youtu.be/1tX-VdiT_4w

Jazz Voicings:
Ascending minor patterns in 3 positions: https://youtu.be/EW58-8BWA-0

I learn from these music books:

Total Keyboard Wizardry by Jordan Rudess