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Kristofer Dahl1st June 2010Wow Ivan your Eric Johnson inspiration has been paying of - I can sense a great improvement in your tone. Very cool (and inspiring!) Thanks for this lesson!
Piotr Kaczor1st June 2010Great tone, playing, rocking and beautiful strat! ![]()
Bogdan Radovic1st June 2010Cool lesson Ivan! I like the tone! ![]()
Ivan Milenkovic1st June 2010Thanks a lot! ![]()
Adrian Figallo1st June 2010is that your old strat man?
badfingers931st June 2010nice...
Gerardo Siere1st June 2010Grat solo Ivan!
Daniel Realpe1st June 2010sounds so cool Ivan!
Ivan Milenkovic1st June 2010Thanks a lot everybody.
@Adrian yeah man, just swapped bridge pickup and some plastics.
Adrian Figallo1st June 2010looks very very nice man!!
Lale Nikic2nd June 2010very well played ivan...i think i'll learn some licks from this lesson...m/
Sergio Dorado2nd June 2010Great lesson and tone!
Chowy Fernandez2nd June 2010great tone man!! cool lesson and great playing!!
Keep_Rocking2nd June 2010Cool technique. Very cool solo!
Txs for the lesson!
Vasilije Vukmirovic2nd June 2010Sounds great! ![]()
Jonathan Burgos2nd June 2010Great lesson Ivan!! this is so great!
Ivan Milenkovic3rd June 2010Thanks everyone, very nice of you, appreciate the comments.
kaznie_NL3rd June 2010really cool solo Ivan! I love it!
Marcus Siepen3rd June 2010Great Solo Ivan, with great melodies
Zsolt Galambos4th June 2010Exellent, Ivan! I love the way you approach melodies! ![]()
kaznie_NL6th June 2010Do you have the Jeff Beck pickup now? again awesome solo ![]()
Ivan Milenkovic6th June 2010
djohnneay6th June 2010awesome lesson Ivan ![]()
Ivan Milenkovic14th June 2010Thanks a lot Johneay ![]()


Hello everybody,
In this lesson we are going to focus on beginner string skipping and arpeggio concepts. An example of this lesson will be a classic rock solo, so I can demonstrate how and where we can use these concepts effectively, as opposed to solely practicing them.
String skipping and arpeggios both involve different approach to playing than note-by-note sequences. We as players have tendency sometimes to use note-by-note sequences, as a logical result of practicing this way. But if we focus on larger interval jumps, are playing will get a dose of freshness and with proper arpeggio usage - it will connect to the music better too.
As said, this lesson only scratches the surface. There are many ways to use string skipping, and arpeggios - both are very wide topics. In this lesson we are dealing with simplest of string skipping licks - based on minor pentatonic pattern, and simplest of arpeggios - based mostly on G and C major and A minor triad patterns.
Have fun! :)
A minor
A minor triad arpeggio