Plini Style Licks

Hi GMC!

Welcome to this lesson covering the style of Plini, a very creative and talented guitarist/songwriter born in Australia.

In this new lesson you'll find 5 licks that combine his most used techniques, elements and tricks over the same chord progression (F - Am - G) in order to recreate his approach to phrasing and melodies. The scales used here are A Pentatonic minor, A blues scale and A Aeolian.

Each lick introduces a new important aspect of his playing which combines a wide variety of other techniques:


Lick 1: Plini's Phrasing. Slides, articulation & dynamics.

Lick 2: Melodies using tremolo bar (Steve Vai influences)

Lick 3: Pentatonic hacks, harmonized guitars & fast Petrucci style AP.

Lick 4: Tapping phrases and more Petrucci's shred.

Lick 5: Two guitars work - Rhythm Tapping + Pentatonic Shred + Octave chords.


Plini's compositions are very impressive. He combines sounds from different styles like Djent, Prog Rock, Post Rock and even Jazz fusion. Steve Vai named him "the future of exceptional guitar playing", and the website MusicRadar named Plini the best prog guitarist of 2017. In this lesson, I focused on his more melodic site but also included some shredding using Alternate Picking and a bit of Tapping in the last two licks.

Sound:
I used Fractal Ax8's Suhr Badger 30, Cubase 9.5 to record audio and midi, Groove Agent for drums and Native Instruments Halion for synth. I've also used a Steinberg Bass guitar connected to AX8's Ampeg emulation.

These are my settings: