Al Di Meola Style Lesson

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- Kuba Szafran13th December 2008
  Awesome stuff and great backing track David!!
- berko13th December 2008
  One of your best in style of lessos IMO. Awesome stuff, cool bt!
- D�j� vu13th December 2008
  (Long Story)... But, man! I wish this lesson came out a week ago ...
- Bogdan Radovic13th December 2008
  Wow you nailed the style perfectly ! Top notch stuff David!
- Sinisa Cekic13th December 2008
  I like this !
- Nazgul13th December 2008
  Sounds really spanish! I like the backing.
- Nemanja Filipovic13th December 2008
  Wow,beautiful lessson David,and top notch playing as well.
- Ognjen Protic13th December 2008
  Nice.
- Pedja Simovic13th December 2008
  Nice one David !
- Emir Hot13th December 2008
  very nice David
- Guitarist1613th December 2008
  Great lesson, you covered Di Meola perfectly.
- Hisham Al-Sanea13th December 2008
  great style David.
- Gerardo Siere14th December 2008
  Very nice playing.
- Marcus Siepen14th December 2008
  awesome David
- kaznie_NL14th December 2008
  Super David! You really caught the style! I love your tone
- David Wallimann14th December 2008
  Thanks you everyone!
  I really like how the tone of my Parker worked out on this one too, those piezzos are so cool!
- Jose Mena14th December 2008
  Loved it man, sounds like an acoustic, love the feel of the track and your lead work
- Dejan Farkas17th December 2008
  Cool, Al Di Meola is great indeed, and this really sounds like him, well done Dave
- taojones24th December 2008
  excellent David I love this type of music...tj
- Fretburns3rd March 2009
  Wow cool lesson....thats tricky stuff alt picking at tha speed...i need more practise! especially with those scale patterns..thanks
- Aleksander Sukovic4th March 2009
  Great performance! This is top class. Great one, David!

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- Tags: Flamenco, Al di meola, Alternate picking
In this lesson we'll explore the wonderful world of Spanish style music with this piece composed in the style of Al Di Meola. This lesson will help you develop a strong alternate picking technique. One of he most important aspect here to get the feel of this track is to play as precisely and as clean as possible.
Both of your hands need to be extremely synchronized.

As far as the backing track goes, we'll go through the following chord progression:

Am7
Gm7
Am7
Dm7
C
Gm7
Am7

We'll use an A Phrygian scale throughout the track mixing it with the Phrygian dominant scale which is basically a Phrygian mode with a Major 3rd.

Make sure to have the scale patterns memorized, and work through the licks with precision.

Practice well!

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