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Mar 12 2008, 01:14 PM
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Well, sorry its taken a bit longer than expected, mainly due to time constraints and camera troubles, I ended up having to go back with a webcam, something I`m going to sort out very soon with some new equipment I think
 Anyways, heres the brief ... Leading on from your improvisations you need to add some colour and other elements to make your solo`s sound cool, you can do this to begin with by using some simple techniques. All these techniques (and as you grow as a guitarist you will add more) will give your solo`s some nice "phrasing" and thats what I`m hoping to intoduce you to with this small lesson. So whats "phrasing", think of phrasing as in the way we speak, when we talk our voice`s vary in pitch and we emphasis words in different ways using our voice, we can say one word or a sentence in different way depending on what type of emotion or message we are trying to get accross to somebody else, you can do this with the guitar also, by attacking a note, giving notes a different rhythm etc we can make them sound very different. Heres the main spoken video, hopefully explaining this to you a little better. 
Phrasing_Introduction_Vid.wmv ( 8.99MB )
Number of downloads: 1019On top of this I thought about things that I missed when I was first starting out and learning some of these things, the almighty GMC (nor the internet for that matter  ) was not around back then so I learned a lot of these things from listening and learning solos and songs of my favourite groups at that time.one thing I would have liked was some simple solo`s to play and mess around with, so I decided to make a little exercise lesson, hopefully fairly simple, but there is a degree of difficulty in it, I believe that everything needs an element of difficulty to make it interesting. As described in the main vid theres three main techniques for you to pick up on in this, Alternate Picking, Vibrato & Bending. I hope this has been of some help to you, your welcome to ask me anything if you wish, and again, if you like this video approach then let me know and I`ll do some more, maybe one giving you some "licks" to practice would be good? All the best Chris Heres the video with the full solo, if you keep the vid window smaller then actually the quality isnt too bad 
MainVidPhrase.wmv ( 2.21MB )
Number of downloads: 489Key is in D changing to E half way through and then switching back to D, to keep things simple I`m only using eight notes from each major scale, I added in a key change to get you used to switching to different keys in songs. Ths is part of the D major scale I`m using  and part of the E major scale  and now the breakdown of the video with tabs. Part 1
Phrase_Part_1.wmv ( 760.15K )
Number of downloads: 432E|------------------------------------------------- B|--7--8--10--10b12--10--8--7--8--10----7-8 G|-----------------------------------------7------ D|------------------------------------------------ A|------------------------------------------------ E|------------------------------------------------ Part 2
Phrase_Part2.wmv ( 839.08K )
Number of downloads: 295E|------------------------------------ B|--7--8--10--10b12--10--8--7--8--10---7--7b8- G|------------------------------------------7------- D|-------------------------------------------------- A|-------------------------------------------------- E|-------------------------------------------------- Part 3
Phrase_Part_3.wmv ( 821.52K )
Number of downloads: 322E|---------------11b12--11--9--------------------- B|--9--10--12-------------------11--9--10--9b10- G|--------------------------------------------------- D|--------------------------------------------------- A|--------------------------------------------------- E|--------------------------------------------------- Part 4
Phrase_Part_4.wmv ( 966.3K )
Number of downloads: 316E|--12--11--9----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B|--------------12--10--9--10--12--10--9--------------9--10--12----9--10--9--------------- G|--------------------------------------------11--9--11--------------9------------9-11-11b13- D|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Part 5
Phrase_Part_5.wmv ( 1.18MB )
Number of downloads: 609E|-------------10--9--7-------------------------------------------------------- B|--7--8--10-----------10--8--7--8--10--8--7------------7--8--10----7--8- G|-------------------------------------------------9--7--9-------------7------- D|------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A|------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E|-------------------------------- B|--10--8--7-----------7--8---- G|-------------9--7--9-------7- D|------------------------------- A|------------------------------- E|------------------------------- Backing tracks 120BPM 
Beginners_phrasing_backing.mp3 ( 757.96K )
Number of downloads: 370100BPM
Phrasing_slower_backing_100_BPM.mp3 ( 1.03MB )
Number of downloads: 33280BPM
Phrasing_slower_backing_80_BPM.mp3 ( 1.06MB )
Number of downloads: 317This post has been edited by Smells: Mar 13 2008, 09:12 PM -------------------- |
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Mar 12 2008, 01:18 PM
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just what the doctor ordered!
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Mar 12 2008, 03:02 PM
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QUOTE (muntahunta @ Mar 12 2008, 12:18 PM)  just what the doctor ordered! Hopefully 
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Mar 12 2008, 05:05 PM
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Thnx mate, I'm definatly gonna look the vid! thnx Chris!
btw, you're not even on top of my PM list anymore....what's goin on 
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Mar 12 2008, 05:09 PM
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QUOTE (kaznie_NL @ Mar 12 2008, 04:05 PM) btw, you're not even on top of my PM list anymore....what's goin on  what!! -------------------- |
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Mar 14 2008, 03:14 PM
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Nice job bro, well explained. I'll upload an attempt soon!
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Mar 15 2008, 02:18 AM
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Smells this is beautiful job.....
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Mar 16 2008, 10:30 PM
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sorry I missed this one mate, thanks for the prompt
If I can disect this a bit, I think in the whole piece you have several good ideas in there but they dont necessarily all go together, I like some of the backing guitar ideas you have but I think you just need to look at the "whole" structure a little bit. listening through theres probably 2 if not 3 seperate songs you could make there with some tweaking here n there, I`ll listen some more over the next few days and try and break it down for you if you like, and discuss via email like before? I admire what your doing you cant beat recording yourself and trying to write your own stuff to progress  To give you an idea (and a sneak preview ) of what I`m trying to say, heres a song I`m working on atm, I possibly need to add a small bridge piece in it somewhere but other than that its there really, I`ve named it "possfuturelesson" coz its a 2 birds with one stone job, a new song I`m working on and bits that I might use to help you
POSS_FUTURE_LESSON.mp3 ( 721.63K )
Number of downloads: 254Its a really simple backing to play, some picking may be tricky (ish) but nothing you couldnt get with a bit of practice. -------------------- |
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Mar 27 2008, 01:28 PM
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I've been missing this board for too long,great job Chris!!
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