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Feedback
Ivan Milenkovic3rd March 2011Thank you!
Daniel Realpe3rd March 2011really nice sounding solo!
- Ivan Milenkovic2nd March 2011
Thanks mate!
Keep_Rocking23rd February 2011I never get enough of these pentatonic licks! Great lesson and amazing vibrato!
- Ivan Milenkovic21st February 2011
Thanks a lot guys!
Zsolt Galambos21st February 2011Great solo, man
thefireball20th February 2011Dang! You really rocked it!
HungryForHeaven20th February 2011Really cool stuff going on here!
Ben Higgins20th February 2011Great playing and lesson Ivan.. love that tone!
Mudbone20th February 2011Brilliant Ivan, love it
Kristofer Dahl20th February 2011Very cool solo Ivan - I see your picking hand doing new stuff as well?! =)
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Hi GMC'ers! In this lesson we will work on your hard rock soloing techniques.
In this lesson we are using some veru useful blues/rock licks that you can use in many situations. We also use some cool effect techniques: pinched harmonics, bends, vibratos, palm muting, and array of useful legato and AP picking licks.
For this particular lesson I used drop D tuning for rhythm guitars, and standard E tuning for solo guitar. Only solo guitar is being covered in the lesson, so standard E tuning is in focus. We will use D pentatonic and D blues scale, with touch of D dorian too.
Techniques:
* Hammer-ons
* Pull-offs
* Slides
* Bending
* Vibrato
* Legato
* Alternate picking
* Pinched Harmonics
* Palm mutingScales:
* D minor pentatonic
* D blues
* D dorianIf you have any questions:
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D minor pentatonics:
D minor blues:
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