In this tasty lesson Pavel shows us how to combine chords/double-stops with licks - to create some powerful rhythm guitar.
"...also this lesson will show you how to sound "big" with only one guitar in the band. Often, when the lead guitarist plays a solo it sounds empty because there is not enough backings. Well - it can be improved! How?? Check this lesson out!"
Imagine you are the only guitarist in the band and your drummer comes up with a cool rythm. You know the chords, and you know 3 scales: minor, major and phrygian. You have 5 minutes straight to create a guitar part and to make it interesting.
In this lesson we will use speedpicking licks to create a speed riff.
If you ever listened to any power-metal bands you probably wondered how do they come up with their riffs and speedriffing is a good example of that.
When you finish playing this riff you'll notice that all we did was combining simple powerchords with scales. Sounds interesting? Get on it!
Time to get into a little more advanced tapping licks. By adding new notes here and there to our first pattern (tapping lesson 1) - it is possible to slide into advanced stuff pretty quickly.
Make sure to study this serie of tapping lessons in the right order - if you do so + practice seriously, you should hopefully get this technique down pretty quickly.
This solo is an example of how to combine different techniques into one cool sounding solo. Bending, tapping, legato, slow sweeping and using two fingers of your right hand to tap.
Looks wild, but don't worry - you can do it - jump on it!
This time we will look at tapping à la Eddie Van Halen/Randy Rhoads/Kirk Hammett.
Tapping has to be one of the most popular techniques on the electric guitar - and why wouldn't it be? It's easy to play fast, easy to improvise with, looks very difficult - not to mention it sounds terrifyingly cool!
Neoclassical guitar is often associated with lightning fast shred runs. Even though this undoubtly is a part of the genre - this lesson aims at showing you some neoclassical solo basics, such as pedal note licks and the harmonic minor scale.
Time for some slower/bending/feel-oriented licks! These phrases should be great for the beginner/intermediate guitarist, as well as for the more advanced guitarist - who needs some bending ideas in between the shred runs!
In this lesson lesson we will approach Steve's pattented tones and techniques by analysing "Vai slides", whammy-bar tricks, lydian mode and plain shred!
The backing tracks should allow you to start practicing these techniques slowly - and gradually work your way to the top!
An unaccompanied solo with two-handed tapping, speedpicking and legato - combined with artificial screams and bending...does it get any cooler...?
This solo utilises many of the techniques discussed in gmc 101 lessons, as well as stringskipping - as a bonus.