Piotr Kaczor8th November 2008Beautiful melody Muris! Great lesson!
kaznie_NL8th November 2008Thanks Muris! Nice new lesson, it's good to see you still being active as a teacher here!
Kuba Szafran8th November 2008Sounds great Muris
!
Dejan Farkas8th November 2008Nice example how a simple melody can sound great. Well done
berko8th November 2008Wow, great melodies there! I can feel a little melodic Petrucci in it...
SO, does this mean that I can eagerly wait for intermed and advanced levels too? woohoo
Sinisa Cekic8th November 2008Very melodic melody !!!!
(pleonasm for sure
)
Gerardo Siere8th November 2008Beautiful melody!
Muris Varajic8th November 2008Thanks guys!!
Yes Berko,intermed and advanced coming right away.
Emir Hot8th November 2008great lesson bro
- Muris Varajic8th November 2008
Thanks bro!
Pedja Simovic8th November 2008Very melodic Muris , great job!
Pedro8th November 2008This is beautiful Muris
You realy touch someones heart with your expression.
thanks
- Muris Varajic8th November 2008
Appreciate that a lot!!
Nazgul8th November 2008This is great. And your vibrato is really beyond awesome. Thanks Muris!
- Muris Varajic8th November 2008
Thanks Nazgul.
Good thing about easier(slower) lessons
is that we can focus more on tone and vibrato
which is almost like 70% of our playing. 
Ivan Milenkovic8th November 2008good picking control and vibrato Muris, great playing and lesson
chmilew8th November 2008Nicely done Muris, sounds very cool
Bravo !
Bogdan Radovic8th November 2008Very well done lesson Muris!
Nick3258th November 2008cool muris
Praetorian8th November 2008Thanks once again Muris for giving us beginners something that we can actually play...and still sounds amazing! You have the best beginner lessons on the site my friend!
Hisham Al-Sanea8th November 2008sounds great Muris.
- Muris Varajic8th November 2008
Thanks everybody!
Ian Bushell9th November 2008Very cool Muris:)
Nemanja Filipovic9th November 2008Great lesson Muris.
Jose Mena9th November 2008Sounds great Muris
skennington9th November 2008Great lesson Muris! You make these easier lessons of yours look effortless! Thanks again!
- Muris Varajic10th November 2008
Cheers guys!
Zsolt Galambos10th November 2008Nice to hear a lesson for beginners, Muris! I also like the melodies in this one.
Marcus Siepen10th November 2008Awesome lesson Muris, great melodies
- Muris Varajic10th November 2008
Thanks Zsolt and Marcus!
- fatb0t10th November 2008
Muris that bend to the b2 is sooo awesome. You reallllllllly get the phrygian sound that way. I need to keep this idea in mind... sometimes it's the most simple things I over look but this is a great way to bust into the next chord, but bend into it.
Thanks for another awesome lesson 
Crazyfret10th November 2008I just love how you create such a 'simple' solo for us beginners! If I can take something away from this I've made some progress.
Great phrasing and tone as always Muris- Muris Varajic10th November 2008
Glad you've found it useful guys,cheers.
- Crazyfret10th November 2008
I love the way you create a 'simple' solo for us beginners. I hope I can take some of your ideas form this and apply them to my playing.
Great tone and phrasing as always Muris
Alejandro Pinero13th November 2008Great Muris like always!!!
- Alex8714th November 2008
Good lesson Muris. Beautiful AND easy
- Muris Varajic14th November 2008
Thank you!
- kevvyg21st November 2008
Hi, great lesson!
I'm still confused by this modal stuff!
This piece is in C Phrygian, which has the same notes as Ab Major, Bb Dorian, etc. I thought that we get the different modal 'feel' from the accompanying harmony, but if there are no chords playing, how does this piece sound C-Phrygain-ish, rather than Ab Major-ish, etc? Are you paying special emphasis to the C note to make that the home note, or what?! I'll get the hang of this eventially, I'm sure! Sorry to be a pain, I bet you get this all the time...!!
Thanks.
KG - kevvyg21st November 2008
Hi Muris, apologies if this comment appears twice - I did it once but it doesn't seem to have worked!
Great lesson!
I'm still confused by this modal stuff - This piece is in C Phrygian which contains the same notes as Ab Major, Bb Dorian etc, so what makes this sound phrygian-ish, rather than Dorian-ish, or Major-ish? I thought the different modes became apparent when the appropriate harmony was present, but what makes a mode sound like that mode when there is no harmony?! Are you paying special emphasis to the 'C' note to make it obvious that that is the 'home' or what?!
I'll get this eventually! Sorry to be a pain, I bet you get this all the time...!
Thanks
KG - Muris Varajic21st November 2008
Hi KG.
Yes,mainly difference between certain modes/scales
is root note and root chord as well.
Having Cm chord here pretty often it's obvious
that it's C Phrygian.
But without chords you would need to give more
importance to note C cause if you lay on Ab note too much
you'll lose feel of C Phrygian.
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Hello GMC and welcome to another serial, it is about Phrygian Mode and in this lesson we'll work in C Phrygian at beginner level, most simple stuff in use.
Phrygian Mode is pretty similar to natural minor scale, there is only one note difference, Phrygian has flat 2nd interval at the beginning of the scale. So our C Phrygian is just like C minor scale with note Db instead of note D, everything else is just the same. But this one note difference gives us other chords in progression comparing to minor scale, here we have Db and Bb chords, those are flavors of our C Phrygian and we're gonna use them here along with root chord, Cm chord.
Technique wise, here we have some picking, bending, sliding, even 3 string sweeping, still very simple licks to play.
Tempo is 80bpm, key of Cm, C Phrygian in use only.
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US HI-G Gain 6.3 Bass 2.0 Middle 0.7 Treble 5.0
JAZ 1x15 8.0
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PPDLy3 5.3
PLATE 1 1.7
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