Chrisshred7th September 2008Very good sound, Nice technique!!! I love it!
Muris Varajic7th September 2008Tons of Gambalish licks Nick,just great!
Emir Hot7th September 2008great playing
Nick Kellie7th September 2008thanks guys
MickeM7th September 2008Great playing, will dive into this soon, love how the family got they saying too
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Ian Bushell7th September 2008Great playing Nic:D
The economy/sweep gambale stuff was crazy!
What was that at the end? haha
Pablo Vazquez7th September 2008Cool lesson Nick!! Great one!!
Toni Suominen7th September 2008Very nice Nick!
Chokehold7th September 2008"5 Days Later"
Juan M. Valero7th September 2008useful lesson !! and great playing
Ivan Milenkovic7th September 2008Great stuff man, lots of interesting stuff here! And great "5 days later" part as well
kaznie_NL7th September 2008Thnx Nick! I think a lot of people can realy use your lessons!Haha, cool end
Bogdan Radovic7th September 2008Great Dorian workout Nick !
Harris Sopovic7th September 2008Wow, killer licks. Need to learn some of these. Great lesson Nick !
Kuba Szafran7th September 2008Awesome improvisations!
Nazgul7th September 2008Lol, 5 days later.
Great lesson!
Eat-Sleep-andJam7th September 2008Loved it.
Danilo Capezzuto7th September 2008Great lesson Nick! It's raining notes!
sigma77th September 2008i like ur guitar...did u put the frets so each note is exact? because i see they are not an exact line
Marcus Lavendell7th September 2008Nick, you make it look so easy!!
Great lesson as always!
David Wallimann7th September 2008Nick, you are hilarious! That first vid was so funny! :-)
This lesson is brilliant man, I love your phrasing! :-)
Gerardo Siere7th September 2008Great series, keep them comming.
Siggum7th September 2008Awsome Nick, and i dig your humor, spot on
Hisham Al-Sanea8th September 2008great one Nick.
Jerry Arcidiacono8th September 2008Great lesson and great playing Nick!
Jose Mena8th September 2008I really like your phrasing, Is Frank Gambale one of your guitar heroes?. You use economy picking the same way he does,great stuff
Bedlam8th September 2008Great series, can't wait for more. You're lessons are so useful!
Alejandro Pinero8th September 2008great lesson !!
very good improvisation!
Marcus Siepen8th September 2008Awesome Nick, I love the ending
OrganisedConfusion8th September 2008This is insanity. I don't know how you play like that. The sweeping later on is godlike lol.
And a great sense of humour. I love the outro and the 5 days later - Nick Kellie8th September 2008
thanks everyone - Jose - yeap thats right, I am a fan.
Sigma 7 - well yes, only 2 frets are corrected and they are the 2 worst offenders on the guitar in general.... 
Alex879th September 2008Very nice lesson Nick
ItsMe10th September 2008That was super great. I'm still working on your older stuff. More work now !!
- ItsMe10th September 2008
BTW do you economy pick in video 2 (something like d u u d u u d) or is this alternate picking ?
- Jose Mena10th September 2008
Oh Man I hadn't noticed, you even Have Frank Gambale's Signature model, I wouldn't have noticed if it wasn't because you responded to sigma 7 about the frets.
- Nick Kellie11th September 2008
ItsMe - yeap thats the exact picking pattern.
Jose - yeah thats right, its an AES-FG with "Fret Wave"
Nick
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Dorian Phrases
Dorian Phrases For Beginners, Dorian Mode, Funky, Bluesy, Licks, Vaughan, SRV, Santana, Eric Johnson, by Jose Lassaga - Difficulty4
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Welcome to a series designed to outline the usage of each mode in a given context. Learning theory can, to say the least, be a little boring - but it is essential if you want to deepen your knowledge and connection with music and improvisation.
Granted, there are great players who claimed not to know any theory, but they had their own unique methods of figuring things out so they used their own kind of intuitive theory system if you will. Regardless of this, it's far easier to communicate with other musicians using common terminology - you wouldn't learn Lithuanian in order to move to China for example.
Anyway - I have supplied 5 shapes for the dorian mode - these are not in a key, and rely upon you placing their root notes on the correct fret in order to make them in the right key. For example, shape one or E shape has its root on the 6th string and its the 1st note. So for this shape to be C dorian, that root note must be a C, therefore starting on fret 8 on the 6th string.
The D shape (shape 2) has its root as the lowest note on the 4th string. Therefore, in order for that root note to be a C, we must start that shape on the 10th fret!
Good luck and I hope some of these licks act as a catalyst for creativity and inspiration in the realm of modes!
Nick