Nuno Bettencourt Style Lesson

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- Kristofer Dahl6th July 2008
  This is so cool David - Nuno is one of my all time favorite rhythm guitarists, you nailed this one for sure!
  
  PS Be sure to check out Jerry's Nuno lesson as well!
- Martin la guitarra6th July 2008
  haha, awesome technique there walli Sweet lesson aswell, thanks
- Nighthawk16th July 2008
  Sounds extreme Extreme
- Nighthawk16th July 2008
  Van Halen's tapping can pack in compared to Nuno's tapping in He-Man Woman Hater
- Joe Kataldo6th July 2008
  Great Man
- axelsson6th July 2008
  Your best in style lesson so far!!
- jacmoe6th July 2008
  Awesome lesson, David!
  Will be a challenge for me to play it, but I'll dig every second of it! Thanks!
- Danilo Capezzuto6th July 2008
  Nice lesson David!
- MikeBH6th July 2008
  Awesome lesson!
  
  And on an important side note: Yes, Extreme ARE coming back - in fact with a new album due in august!
  
  You can listen to one of the new songs, "Star", on their myspace page
  http://www.myspace.com/extreme
- Bogdan Radovic6th July 2008
  Wow awesome lesson David !!
- Gerardo Siere6th July 2008
  Awesome lesson.
- Capt.Z6th July 2008
  Sweet Lesson!!
- Jerry Arcidiacono6th July 2008
  Nice lesson David
  MikeBH is right: can't wait to listen and see Extreme live this summer!
- Muris Varajic6th July 2008
  Great!!
- Jeff6th July 2008
  Awesome!
- Ivan Milenkovic6th July 2008
  Great lesson David
- Carlos Carrillo6th July 2008
  Great lesson David!!!
  
  very nice job!!!
- Juan M. Valero6th July 2008
  cool lesson and nice tricks
- Gabriel Leopardi6th July 2008
  Excelent! Great licks and rhythms!
- Pablo Vazquez6th July 2008
  Wow! Cool lesson!!
- Dejan Farkas6th July 2008
  Cool
- David Wallimann6th July 2008
  Thanks my friends! :-)
- Hisham Al-Sanea6th July 2008
  good job David.
- chmilew6th July 2008
  Perfect !
- Fran7th July 2008
  Awesome as usual david! Great lesson
- Alejandro Pinero7th July 2008
  great lesson David
  Thank !!
  
  Your tchnique is awesome and the song is fantastic!!
- Chris-triff7th July 2008
  hey
  i just watched a guitar wars live at hard rock cafe tokio dvd and got impressed about nuno's playing, this lesson came just at time
  thanks man
- TreyDeschamp7th July 2008
  beautiful lesson
- Alex877th July 2008
  Wow David, that was fantastic! Bookmarked, will definitly practice this one very well done!
- Jad Diab7th July 2008
  Great lesson david, you nailed it :=)
- Maximus7th July 2008
  Great one. Love Nuno!
- Lian Gerbino8th July 2008
  so cool man!!!
- Marcus Lavendell8th July 2008
  Dave, this is really really awesome! Fantasic job!
- Procyon8th July 2008
  Wow, absolutely great!
- Nemanja Filipovic8th July 2008
  Awesome lesson David.
- MikeBH8th July 2008
  Hmm, what's that backing track at 50 bpm?
- Henry Dietzel8th July 2008
  Nicely done Walliman:D
  
  I think the wrong BT got loaded up for the 50 bpm
- Marcus Siepen9th July 2008
  great David, as always
- blindwillie11th July 2008
  It's great to see how you evolve over time David.
- Pi3812th July 2008
  You really get the Extreme feel with this one. Great one, David!
- Nick32513th July 2008
  awesome
- kaznie_NL15th July 2008
  Cool trick you do around the middle, with the hand over the neck!
- misha22nd July 2008
  whats up with the third video the tabs are wrong!!!! confusing??????ß

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- Tags: Nuno Bettencourt, Rhythm, Lead, One guitar
Nuno Bettencourt has influenced thousands of players. His sense of rhythm placement combined with impressive technical skills make him one of the top players in modern music.

Today we will study a piece written in his style. One of the aspects we'll talk about is how he combines rhythm elements with lead. The ideas exposed here should be helpful especially if you are writing something for only one guitar.

As always, work on the following licks slowly and work your way up. Don't rush as your goal is to play these licks in rhythm. I added quite a few backing tracks and a looped backing for your convenience.

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