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Some cool "heavy" funk riffs & solo with Drop D tuning.
Dropped D, fusion, riffsIn this lesson I will show you some hybrid picking exercises over a country example in the key of E.
Country Guitar, Hybrid PickingThis is a song inspired by American folk rock bands.
folk rock, american, phrasing, melodic,This is a style that can be found in artists of Jazz and Blues. For example: BB King & Diana Krall.
Jazz, Blues, Melodix, BB King, Diana...We will study a guitar solo inspired in Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai, Van Halen and others. It contains a lot of legatos, tapping and pitch harmonics.
Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai, Van Halen, Major...This time around we will use the same shapes as in my previous lesson but with the trademark Paul Gilbert lick.
Paul Gilbert, Sting Skipping, Arpeggios,...This is an instrumental song by Dream Theater that features the excellent guitar composition of John Petrucci in an intermediate level, perfect to make that leap to the next step in your playing.
dream theater, overture 1928, john petrucci
Technique exercise. Will allow you to emphasize the thumb melody, whereas the index creates rythmic and harmonic support.
thumb, study
Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian... Modes can be very confusing! Wallimann created this lesson to help you memorize the 7 modes taken out of a Major scale. This lesson should definitally boost your mode knowledge!
Modes, Locrain, Mixolydian, Phrygian
Time to help with your alternate picking chops and review the 7 church modes with 3 notes per string patterns.The track will go from one mode to the other without stoping, so make sure to be familiar with the following position.
alternate picking chops, Ionian, Dorian,...
Steve uses "non guitaristic" ways of avoiding common passages in his lines and that makes him sound original. I tried to play this melody in a way that was not natural for me. I paid attention in how I played every note (which finger, the amount, vibrato, etc.).
Steve Vai, single string melodies, melodies
I composed this solo for GMC students in order to incorporate the Steve Ray Vaughan style in your playing and his most important influences (Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix. etc). We are going to focus on his rhythm guitar work and his chord melody style.
chord melody, Steve Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy,...
In this lesson we will continue studying the most used Scales and Arpeggios for Blues Improvisation. This is also a good exercise for practicing bendings, vibrato and legatos. The chord progression is the same as blues licks lesson 1.
Blues Improvisation, bendings, vibrato, legato
Based on the riffs and melodies from a song called "A Simple Rhyme".
riff, melody, song