Kristofer Dahl21st March 2008I love the synthetic feel in this one - thanks Juan!
Muris Varajic21st March 2008Good lesson Juan,love odd beats!
Lester21st March 2008dounds good
Nice concept this 5/4 thing, it's pretty new to me...- Lester21st March 2008
sounds, i'm sorry
Tuubsu21st March 2008Great! love the melodic part in the end!
Jerry Arcidiacono21st March 2008Great Juan!
When I read 5/4 my mind goes always to Erotomania and Innuendo... Don't know why...
RIP Dime21st March 2008Cool man, this will help alot!
zoom21st March 2008great juan! love the way you've set up the chord progression on video
Danilo Capezzuto21st March 2008Odd odd!
Bogdan Radovic21st March 2008Very good idea Juan ! Really interesting!
Joe Kataldo21st March 2008I'm A dream theater fun I love odd meter cool Lesson
Pitch_Black21st March 2008Different, but very cool! Thanks Juan!
mattacuk21st March 2008Fantastic, Juan is my hero !!
Nick Kellie21st March 2008Nice
Jenkinson21st March 2008I need practice with odd timings, thanks for this.
SLASH9121st March 2008Really cool, man!
Trond Vold21st March 2008Very nice
Dejan Farkas21st March 2008Since I love odd stuff, this is great
and doable for beginners 
The Uncreator21st March 2008Awesome lesson, The riffs are also extremely cool!
Pablo Vazquez21st March 2008Nice lessons, friend!! Sounds incredible!
Carlos Carrillo21st March 2008excellent lesson and nice sounds!!!!!!!!
thanks Juan!!!
Gabriel Leopardi21st March 2008Great lesson Juan! It sounds so good! Have you used another gear for recording this lesson?
JukeboxHero21st March 2008Very cool Juan. This is the next thing I'm learning.
SensE22nd March 2008How can you improve the backing track so well? What kind of recording gear and technique you are using? Mind to tell ? Thanks , good job
UMPHREAK22nd March 2008Sick guitar is that Vai Signature with Pre-Red Frankenstien EVH Paintjob?
Juan M. Valero22nd March 2008thanks guys !! I'm so happy you enjoy this lesson because I love this odd compass
Gabe, I'm using the same gear, my triaxis clone is still in the laboratory
Ivan Milenkovic22nd March 2008Nice lesson Juan, very doable for beginners and interesting 5/4 timing arrangement. Keep rockin' man!
Nemanja Filipovic22nd March 2008wow Juan BT is great....love it
- Juan M. Valero22nd March 2008
thanks mates !! BT is a simple pattern but with the 5/4 feel sounds new and absolutely different
Gerardo Siere22nd March 2008Congrats, sounds very good and is very doable for beginners, also the BT sounds so good
David Wallimann22nd March 2008Great lesson Juan, I love odd measures!
- Juan M. Valero22nd March 2008
I know, David
hehe, I love too !!! 
D-loader23rd March 2008Great! I find this very suitable for my level, and it contains quite a few good techniques. Thanks!
- Juan M. Valero23rd March 2008
Don't mention my friend, I'm here teach all that I know
Remember, if you have any question I'm here !! 
Toni Suominen24th March 2008Very useful lesson Juan!
- Juan M. Valero25th March 2008
Thanks Toni
steve2527th March 2008Very good i started practicing this one tonight. Should have it uploaded in the forums over the weekend hopefully
. Lick 2 gave me a few problems but all good so far good lesson Juan - Juan M. Valero26th March 2008
yeah, that's a great new !!! then I will record the next chapter of this serie
TreyDeschamp27th May 2008ROCK ON DUDE THATS CRAZY!
- Scorpiotic23rd June 2008
Cool
- Juan M. Valero23rd June 2008
thanks mates !! I should work on the intermediate and advanced part
Daniel Realpe5th May 2010odd beats are excellent! thanks
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Hi GuitarMasterFriends! Welcome to the 5/4 solo lesson, as you can see this a serie that starts with the beginner lesson.
With this lesson I want to introduce you to the fantastic world of the unregular time signatures :D It's amazing how interesting compositions you can do using this compass! So when you take a look at the lesson you can try to improvise something over this Backing Tracks ;)
Techniques:
Bending, pentatonic licks, sweep, arpegios, obstinato (pedal notes) etc.
How to count:
You can start counting 1,2,3,4,5 but in fact this compass is lick a 1,2,3,1,2 so if you have problem with the chord changes you can start just counting over the lesson or backing tracks.
The scale
Well, I think all of you know this scale, it's a E minor. I only added a chromatic note in the triples part (last compass).
Who uses this compass??
A lot of progresive bands. For instance Dream Theater, Symphony X, Spastik Inc, Circus Maximum, Overlife, Pain of Salvation, Freak Kitchen etc.
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