Hajduk17th October 2013Awesome Darius, love it
Monica Gheorghevici17th October 2013Great lesson, I like it!
Ben Higgins17th October 2013Great stuff D-Master !
Darius Wave17th October 2013Thanx guys and girls! Hope to see some beginners considering it usefull
Piotr Kaczor17th October 2013Beautiful concertino, Mr. Wave
- Darius Wave17th October 2013
Le Gracia Le Kaczorro
Javier Aviles17th October 2013great work friend Darius!
Rammikin17th October 2013Another great lesson! One request: I notice you have a lot of guitars, could you please use ones with fret markers to make it easier to follow what notes you're playing? Especially for the lessons that are not for advanced players. Thanks.
Nava17th October 2013Beautiful and very tasty Darius:)
- Darius Wave17th October 2013Another great lesson! One request: I notice you have a lot of guitars, could you please use ones with fret markers to make it easier to follow what notes you're playing? Especially for the lessons that are not for advanced players. Thanks.
Yes - all of those are for different tone situation but I get Your point and I'll try to use the ones with markers for beginner level lessons. "Markers" are in the TABs anyway ha ha)) Cheers!
Thank You Nava! 
sieg66618th October 2013This lesson sounds good and is really useful improving picking skills.
- Darius Wave19th October 2013This lesson sounds good and is really useful improving picking skills.
Can I count on Your take then ? 
Fayeed Tan23rd October 2013interesting scale patterns & beautiful chord progression Darius!
- Darius Wave23rd October 2013
Thanx Fayeed!
- LackingAN24th October 2013
Sounds great! I can't remember the last time that I was this excited about learning a picking exercise
- Darius Wave24th October 2013Sounds great! I can't remember the last time that I was this excited about learning a picking exercise Nothing more exiting for me than to see opinion like Yours Thank You. great to know this
- Kalidia27th October 2013
Great Lesson Darius! As a side note I would probably cut the Palm muting part out because it's hard to concentrate on two things that you have to learn at the time (palm muting and alternate picking)
- Darius Wave27th October 2013Great Lesson Darius! As a side note I would probably cut the Palm muting part out because it's hard to concentrate on two things that you have to learn at the time (palm muting and alternate picking)
Of course startting that way is also something that can give You benefits from this lesson but for my particular hand position adding palm muting doesn't make playing harder. It's just changing resting point of the hand from "behind the bridge to the right" to "behind the bridge" to the left. Maybe Your hand position doesn't allow You to add PM easily. If You need some help just message me - Javier Aviles6th February 2014
Very useful for cleaning phraseo! Saludos!
- Darius Wave6th February 2014
Thank You Javier!
- Zozef21st August 2016
Hello Darius from Athens, Greece!! Thanks for your excellent lesson, it is indeed usefull, even for more advanced guitar players. I 've a question for you, on bar 41, why are you playing c natural, instead of c sharp which is the correct note for the mixilydian mode? Isn't it e mixolydian scale?
- Darius Wave22nd August 2016
Hey Zoef! Thanx for your kind words. Answering your question it's actually not a messed up mixolydian but a "A melodic minor modus 5". In other words - A melodic minor being played startting from e note. It's quite popular treat in classical music. We do similar thing with A harmonic minor being played from e, creating a kind of "phrygian feel" with major 3rd instead of minor 3rd (when we compare with phrygian startting from e note). As for melodic minor modus 5, people do use to call it mixolydian flat 6th scale as well
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Hi there GMCers!
THE PROFESSOR As you can hear in this smokin’ lesson by Darius, having control of the Mixolydian and Ionian modes is an important aspect of any modern guitarist’s vocabulary. Though only one note different, these modes have a unique sound that can both raise the level of intensity and melodic contour in your rock soloing chops.
Learning the difference between the Mixolydian Mode and the Ionian Mode, only one note, will give you a second layer of melodic interest when soloing over major chords and major key based songs. Check both of these modes out and bring some Mixo licks into your playing today.
Welcome to the second part of alternate picking workout. This part is dedicated to Beginners. It contains midrange tempo picking and some good practice of switching between strings. There are all fingers involved and reverse picking in the final part. All of the composition is based on the "question-response" structure and influenced by some classical playing. It is also a good practice for basic major, minor, mixolydian shapes - which will help make Your guitar neck a bit more friendly with those shapes.
Gear used:
* Hufschmid H6E electric guitar
* Presonus Inspire 1394 audio interface
* Poulin HyBrit vst plug-in with "God's cab_1.4/NOTS/C414/_1_inch_edge_pres_1" cab impulse
* Ernie Ball 10-46 slinky strings with standard E tuning.
Guitar tone / signal chain:
Hufschmid guitar --> Behringer MIC100 tube preamp (gain 75% and output 50%, 20dB pad on) --> Presonus Inspire 1394 audio interface (gain 25%) --> LePou HyBrit vst amp (PLS mode, input 100%, Gain 100%, PLS/MCJ mix 50/50, Cont 0 %, Low 50%, Mid 70%, High 0%) --> Kefir impulse loader (mix 100%, gain -12dB, length 4%, god's cab nots c414 1 inch_edge_pres1 cab impulse ) --> Q-filter plug-in (low cut mode 182 Hz :: mid1 off : mid2 1566 Hz +3 dB Q 2,81 :: High Cut 3974 Hz)
Tuning: standard tuning E1-B2-G3-D4-A5-E6
Backing track chord progression:
4/4 | C | G7 | C | G7 | Am | E | Am | E | G | D7 | G | D7 | G | G | G | G |
| Em | B | D | A | C | G | B | B | Em | B | D | A | C | G | B | B | B | B |
| C | C | G | G | Am | Am | E | E | Dm | G7 | C | C | E | E | Am | Am | |
Tempo: Main song tempo is 160 bpm. There are backing tracks available in 80, 100, 130, and 160 bpm.
Time signature: 4/4
Scales used in this solo:
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