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Posted by: Siggum Jun 22 2008, 10:41 PM

Hello guys, here is my contribution to the SI boards






Short info on me :


My name is Sigge Bjerkhof, im 29 years old living in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ive been playing music since i was 16 years old, i lost interrest in music for 6-7 years, but joining GMC made me want to play music again:)
I primarily like funk, jazz and rock music but i can enjoy a good metal shred as well now and then

Now lets get started.

This is a somewhat slow funky track, and the solo should be pretty easy to approach, i focused mainly on creating small melodic phrases, that flows with the track.

Techniques used :
Vibrato
Slides
Hammer-on
Alternate Picking

Scales used: (plus some small chromatic runs)





Tempo : 90 BPM

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Main Video :  Mainvideo.mpg ( 6.36MB ) : 1320


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Part 1 :  Part1.mpg ( 2.71MB ) : 674


Progression :| Am7 |Am7|G|F|

E -8-8-7---------------10h8-8-7-5s7-----------
B -------8s-10--8h10-------------------------
G ------------------------------------------
D -----------------------------------------
A ----------------------------------------
E --------------------------------------

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Part 2 :  Part2.mpg ( 2.76MB ) : 478


Progression :| Am7 |Am7|G|F|

E -5-------------------------------------------
B ---5---------------------------------------
G -----7-5s-4-------------------5h7---------
D ------------5-----------7h5h7------------
A --------------7-----7h8----------------
E -------------------------------------

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Part 3 :  Part3.mpg ( 2.95MB ) : 435


Progression : |F7|F7|F7|F7|

E -10-11-8-10----8------------------------------
B ------------11---10-11-8-10----8-------------
G ----------------------------10---8-10-8-7-6-
D -------------------------------------------
A ------------------------------------------
E ----------------------------------------

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Part 4 :  Part4.mpg ( 3.48MB ) : 393


Progression : |F7|F7|F7|F7|

E ---------------------------10-8-11-10----------
B ----------------------10h8------------8-7-6---
G -------------8h7-10h8-----------------------
D --------8-10-------------------------------
A ---8-10-----------------------------------
E -11--------------------------------------

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Part 5 :  Part5.mpg ( 2.76MB ) : 411


Progression :| Am7 |Am7|G|F|

E --------8h10-8-7-5------------------8hb-----
B ---8s10------------5--10-8-10-10-10--------
G -7----------------------------------------
D -----------------------------------------
A ----------------------------------------
E --------------------------------------

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Part 6 :  Part6.mpg ( 2.6MB ) : 395


Progression : |Am7|Am7|Am7|C-Fmajor7|

E --------8g10-8-7-5---------------------------
B ---8s10------------------------------------
G -7-------------------5-5-----5-7s-9v------
D -------------------------7-7-------------
A ----------------------------------------
E --------------------------------------

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And finally we have the backing tracks in normal and slower tempo :


60 BPM :  Backing_60_bpm.mp3 ( 1.34MB ) : 464


70 BPM :  Backing_70_bpm.mp3 ( 1.17MB ) : 388


80 BPM :  Backing_80_bpm.mp3 ( 1.04MB ) : 371


90 BPM :  Backing_90_bpm.mp3 ( 952.14K ) : 430
(Original)

Thats it!

I hope you enjoyed the track, feel free to ask should you have any questions

Cheers

Siggum

Posted by: skennington Jun 22 2008, 11:32 PM

Very nice,cool,laid back lick man. I really liked that! I was wondering when you were going to post a lesson. Nothing short of what I would expect from you, great job bro!

By the way, your LP p/u bout blinded me in the vid.

Posted by: Siggum Jun 22 2008, 11:35 PM

LOL yeah i just noticed that

Thanks mate

Posted by: Nemanja Filipovic Jun 23 2008, 12:13 AM

Siggum you are real instructor material,great lesson man.

Posted by: jacmoe Jun 23 2008, 01:15 AM

I really like your lesson! Thanksalot!

Posted by: Tjchep Jun 23 2008, 01:26 AM

Good stuff bro.

I like this.

Posted by: Siggum Jun 23 2008, 10:45 AM

Thanks guys, Gonna work on improving video quality for next lesson

Posted by: Col Roberts Jun 23 2008, 10:57 AM

Very Nice. I like this style of music. Great lesson Siggum. Hope to see many more.

Cheers.

Posted by: Smells Jun 23 2008, 11:46 AM

yea its got a great feel to it and nicely played as well

Posted by: Iluha Jun 23 2008, 11:54 AM

Great solo Siggum... as for lesson.. I'm gonna be honest here.

This offers some nice licks to learn, but I wish you supplied some of the theory behind the playing so that I could actually learn something other than playing the licks..

Just my opinion, please don't kill me

Posted by: Siggum Jun 23 2008, 12:01 PM

Hi mate,

No problem, i understand what you mean. This was my very first time doing something like this, and there's loads of room for improvement, next time i will try to go more in depth, thanks Iluha

Posted by: Smells Jun 23 2008, 12:10 PM

Can you be more specific? when you say "theory behind the playing" what exactly do you mean? do you mean some explanation to the seperate video parts?
Individual note break downs in relation to the chord structures? how in depth does he need to go??

not "killing" you just trying to get a better idea of what you`d like more of

Posted by: superize Jun 23 2008, 12:16 PM

Great lesson and great playing

Posted by: Iluha Jun 23 2008, 12:18 PM

For example, why you choose certain notes, or why some patterns sound good, sorry it's a bit hard to explain

Posted by: coffeeman Jun 23 2008, 02:26 PM

Very nice lesson Siggum , thanks and keep posting mor lessons.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jun 23 2008, 02:29 PM

Great lesson man! Really helpful and some nice licks too

Posted by: chmilew Jun 23 2008, 02:30 PM

Nice solo and backing track
Thanks for posting the BT with different bpm, very useful

cheers !

Posted by: Zizi Top Jun 23 2008, 02:41 PM

Nice lesson man, I really enjoyed it

Keep rockin'

Posted by: Henry Dietzel Jun 23 2008, 11:43 PM

Top notch Sig, I really enjoyed your lesson-very well done. Great BT, great playing, great lesson!

Posted by: Siggum Jun 24 2008, 11:19 AM

Thanks everyone, glad you liked it

Posted by: kaznie_NL Jun 24 2008, 05:27 PM

Siggum... It's wonderful! Nice funky track mate!

If I may, ther is one tip for you to even make it better next time:
This lesson is about melodic phrasing, maybe try to tell us something about how to phrase in a melodic way. Now it's more like learning a song, and not learning to phrase, because you already did that part for us!

Thumbs up for you bro!!

Posted by: Siggum Jun 24 2008, 06:42 PM

Thanks for the feedback Kaznie

Posted by: Iluha Jun 24 2008, 06:56 PM

EXACTLY what I intended with my post.. but I didn't know how to put it =p

Posted by: Siggum Jun 24 2008, 07:02 PM

I followed the general guidelines when making this video, and it was a challenge for me as well to make it , in my next lesson i will try to include some more info on how i came up with the licks.

Posted by: jacmoe Jun 24 2008, 07:09 PM

I think your lesson rocks as is.

Posted by: Smells Jun 24 2008, 07:15 PM

and you did a great job mate, really good lesson, the extra feedback coming through is good for all of us wanting to make SI lessons and improve on them as much as possible, but remember guys that there is a lot of effort that goes into them and we are doing them to share with everyone, they can take up a lot of free/practice time to do




I agree

Posted by: Iluha Jun 24 2008, 07:25 PM

I'm aware of that avecourse.. Iv'e been wanting to do a lesson for ages now and didn't find the time for it, so avecourse I apreciate all the efforts, just trying to give some tips on how it can be even better lessons...

Posted by: kaznie_NL Jun 24 2008, 07:27 PM

Same for me!!

Posted by: Pablo Vazquez Jun 24 2008, 09:23 PM

Great!!!

Posted by: Siggum Jun 24 2008, 09:47 PM

Thanks Pablo

Posted by: Torben Jun 28 2008, 09:01 AM

So far only listening. But my vacation is coming up, so I'll definitely find some hours to try it out! As far as I can see (and hear) you are doing a great job! Waiting for the next one coming up!

Posted by: Siggum Jun 28 2008, 04:53 PM

Great, thanks Torben

Posted by: TreyDeschamp Jul 12 2008, 12:46 AM

Very well done Siggum

Posted by: Siggum Jul 12 2008, 08:02 PM

Thanks Trey

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Jul 14 2008, 10:22 AM

Very nice Siggum - I loved the the funky-fusion-jazzy feel!

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Aug 7 2008, 11:50 PM

Very good lesson , keep up the excellent work here in SI board

Posted by: Fran Apr 2 2010, 04:02 PM

This one is featured in our knowledge base now too
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/wiki/index.php/Siggum_-_Melodic_Phrasing_SI_Lesson

It would be great to add the vids to youtube, that way it would look much cooler with them embedded instead of linked