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Kristofer Dahl19th February 2010Absolutely awesome first lesson Chowy - I could definitely sense Greg's magic in your playing. Welcome to GMC again!
Chowy's intro thread can be found here.
playaxeman19th February 2010Very impressive first lesson.
zen19th February 2010Started with a BANG !!! great first lesson man 
Zsolt Galambos19th February 2010Awesome playing!
Bogdan Radovic19th February 2010Impressive first lesson Chowy! Welcome to GMC!
Emir Hot19th February 2010Great lesson Chowy.
Laszlo Boross19th February 2010Awesome first lesson! Great playing! 
Adrian Figallo19th February 2010welcome chowy! amazing first lesson!
Jonathan Burgos19th February 2010That super lesson, fellow! It reminds me a Pity Alvarez, another great Argentine guitarist! 
Amazing ... awesome, Chowy! 
Stephane Lucarelli19th February 2010Wow... awesome & challenging lesson man! Welcome once aguain!
Crazy_Diamond19th February 2010Welcome Chowy .... Nice lesson but waaaayyyyy beyond my skills
Daniel Realpe19th February 2010great lesson! Greg Howe is so technically difficult, so this is going to be very helpful
Bondy19th February 2010jaw to the floor superb playing 
JuanMV20th February 2010This is insane, but I will try this lesson in like 10 years, and even so I am not sure I will be able to nail it 
Congratulations Chowy! BTW Jonathan, Pity Alvarez may not be the most gifted guitar player ever, but at least everybody knows him here and he sold out numerous shows in the past. I hate Intoxicados, Viejas Locas and all that sh**, but I do think the guy deserves some respect. Sometimes you don't need to shred like crazy to create good music or succeed in this business, right?
Piotr Kaczor20th February 2010Wow, what a great technique! Welcome to GMC, Chowy!
Sensible Jones20th February 2010WOW!!! Awesome first lesson Chowy!!!
Chowy Fernandez20th February 2010sorry i didnt answer before, i´m begining to understand thee site, o man!! thanks to all of you for your feedback and energi i can feel them!! in the future i´ll be teaching from level 4 up!! for my first 3 lessons i wanted to do something challenging!! i dont like pity alvarez, he is not a musician, and i don´t respect his work!!! hahah jona knows what i´m talking about!! i promise the next few lessons will be a little easier, see ya nmext time!!
Santiago Diaz Garces20th February 2010Great lesson Chowy and excellent technique. Welcome to GMC
guitar5720th February 2010Fantastic!
kaznie_NL21st February 2010prety sick very cool lesson!
newguyatgmc21st February 2010is that a ibanez s5470
NoSkill21st February 2010Chowy comes out swingin! This is an awesome first lesson man. There's enough elements in that to keep me busy for a year! Great stuff man!
Lian Gerbino22nd February 2010awesomeeeeee!!!
Chowy Fernandez22nd February 2010
very cool lesson!
Maestro Mistheria23rd February 2010Great combination of both hands playing... looks like a keyboard.. I like it! ;-)
Ivan Milenkovic24th February 2010Pretty advanced stuff, and sounds cool in the same time, great job man
Krisztian Lovrek26th February 2010Sounds good! Welcome at GMC
Marcus Siepen28th February 2010cool lesson, welcome to GMC man
thefireball18th March 2010amazing skill! I'm glad to see that you will make some easier lessons soon. I'm such a beginner.
Good morning fellas! This time I'm trying to recreate (not copy, because he is uncopiable) the whole Greg Howe style, which includes lots of runs with tappings, arpeggios, legatos, scales and licks all over the axe--a little punishment and entertainment for those who speculate about Mr. Howes's skills. Get ready to rumble!
Pay special attention to string skipping with legatos and tapping without losing the edge of the whole groove. Remember you always have to feel the music! In this exercise there are no chordal sections.
It's a walking bass that changes notes very often. You must keep focused. The main lick is an A minor7 arpeggio with tapping followed by an F# minor7 (minor 6 of A) arpeggio run with some chromatics. After this, you have muted hammer-ons from nowhere (it's a very percussive way to play--check out Nuno Bettencourt's signature licks by the way) and then right to the A major scale to finish with an E minor arpeggio, G major arpeggio, A major arpeggio and B Flat major arpeggio.
I'll upload more stuff related to Greg Howe in the future, I guess. Don't panic and do this exercise at a very slow tempo at first; then when you feel more comfortable and get into it you may increase the speed gradually. This will help you visualize a whole bunch of things.
C-ya!
Distortion:
some reverb - delay and a lot of POD distortion
Tuning:
one whole step down
Chords: A minor7 - F# minor7 - A major - E minor - G major - B major Flat
Techniques:
string skipping
legato
tapping
muted hammer ons from nowhere
sweep picking
Bends
Phrasing
Scales:
Minor scale
Pentatonic minor scale
Major scale
Dominant major
A Minor:
