Kristofer Dahl25th March 2009Very nice composition Piotr!
purple hayes25th March 2009Wow, really nice piece.
AlexLion25th March 2009Very smooth and relaxing, cool tune, Piotr!
Ajmurrell25th March 2009Love Knopfler, great to see a lesson with some influence from him. Really beautiful volume swells, very knopfler indeed!
Pedja Simovic25th March 2009This composition reminds me of Mike Stern's song "All heart" !
Wonderful tone and feeling Piotr !
David Wallimann25th March 2009Very nice lesson Piotr!
Great composition, very Eric Johnson like! :-)
Kuba Szafran25th March 2009Piekne brzmienie i swietna kompozycja
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Chokehold25th March 2009I love you
Marcus Siepen25th March 2009that song rules, great lesson
Zsolt Galambos25th March 2009I just love your style! It is always full of emotions! I really think that you have mastered your instrument the way it should be
EGMONT 196325th March 2009hi piotr
cool
très jolie musique
Sergio Dorado25th March 2009Super composition. Great feeling and awesome taste!
- Laidback25th March 2009
Just Wow !!!
berko25th March 2009I can't get enough of this...
Bondy25th March 2009Piotr was very nice loving your lessons atm this one is next on my list \m/
Piotr Kaczor25th March 2009Thank you very much, my friends!!! Really appreciate all your comments and I'm glad that you like it!
Bogdan Radovic25th March 2009Beautiful tune to accompany very useful lesson topic!
Sensible Jones25th March 2009Great Lesson Piotr!!! Great Tone and very Knopfler-esque too!!!!!
kaznie_NL25th March 2009Hey Piotr, so to bug you, but I do have som critis, hope you can use it. I'm not going to learn songwriting by you giving an example of your songs. I think it'd be better with these subjects to make it into a kindof 101 lesson, Like Ivan's Songwriting lesson, that one really says how to, your lesson only gives an example. I think your composition is great, but I don't see how I'm going to learn how to write a song with this. I hope you can do something with this!
Lian Gerbino25th March 2009very nice composition
- AlexLion25th March 2009
Kaznie, if Guitartube knows about your comment he may find you and strangle you!!
btw, Piotr you could add some your own tips how to create a song 
Joe Kataldo25th March 2009Nice song, really match the clouds background
- Piotr Kaczor25th March 2009
Thanks, mates!
Hey Piotr, so to bug you, but I do have som critis, hope you can use it. I'm not going to learn songwriting by you giving an example of your songs. I think it'd be better with these subjects to make it into a kindof 101 lesson, Like Ivan's Songwriting lesson, that one really says how to, your lesson only gives an example. I think your composition is great, but I don't see how I'm going to learn how to write a song with this. I hope you can do something with this!
Finally, critics!
Yes, Kaznie you're right! Maybe I should change a title on "Solo lesson", or I should copy Ivan's great lesson...? This is an another example of this awesome series. The most important words have been said. You have a simple riff, scale. Now, you can use your imagination to create your own ideas. That's all.
Many thanks for your straightforward comment, really appreciate it! 
Ivan Milenkovic25th March 2009Sounds great man, very cool lines!
Sentenced25th March 2009Wow thats one of the most atmospheric solos i heard. Sounds excellent and it makes me think of nature, sun, good things in the world. Great.
Starry Manhattan Rain25th March 2009Wow nice Piotr, some of those licks reminded me of Shawn Lane a bit, like some of the slow licks from "Gray Pianos Flying". Awesome lesson!
Carlos Carrillo26th March 2009A good composition! Very interesting at the moment of writing songs!
Stephane Lucarelli26th March 2009Very tasty composition Piotr !
- Piotr Kaczor26th March 2009
Thanks a lot, my friends!
Emir Hot27th March 2009Beautiful man
Pi3827th March 2009Quite beautiful, and very well played. It's great to see more lessons from you!
- Piotr Kaczor27th March 2009
Thank you Emir and Pi38
Aleksander Sukovic27th March 2009Beautiful composition, performed with such feeling. Great topic also.
Nice job, Piotr.- inertia29th March 2009
Piotr I love all of your lessons dude, I've gotten so much out of them, this one will be no exception
Cheers - Sinisa Cekic29th March 2009
Wonderful tune Piotr
- Piotr Kaczor29th March 2009
Thanks Aleksander, inertia and Sinisa!
Alexiaden935th June 2009Oh my God ! Your first vibrato especially sounded like Mark Knopfler's "What it is"... Amazing lesson ! I love your melodies, that always use very smooth effects like volume control and vibrato to make it very calming !
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Hello GMC!
Welcome to my new lesson! This time we will talk about writing a song! There are many awesome lessons about it on GMC, so too long lecture on this subject is unnecessary:)
The main riff is based on 4ds and 3rds intervals and simple chords with 3rd in bass. With a little swingy groove this combination makes pretty cool climate.
Solo part is built mainly on the major pentatonic scale.
Phrasing reminds me of Mark Knopfler style which I love.
We're going to use:
- vibrato,
- bending,
- hybrid picking,
- volume knob
This is the preset I used for the POD XT live for this lesson:
Amp: 1973 Hiway 100, Drive 9 - Bass 6 - Middle 6 - Treble 4 - Presence 7
Cab: 4x12 1967 Green 20s
Dly: Analog delay, Delay Time - 115 (quarter note) - Mix 26%
Rev: Medium Hall - Mix 50%
Stomp: Blue Comp (solo part)
The lesson is available in the guitar pro 5 file, mp3 backing tracks included.
Have fun!
Piotr