Kristofer Dahl20th July 2016Crazy cool Darius - absolutely love it!!
Guido Bungenstock20th July 2016Beautiful note choice and awesome playing as usual, Darius! :-)
Darius Wave20th July 2016Thanx guys! That's a kind of playing I really like most and that's probably most true comming out of me
Monica Gheorghevici20th July 2016Wow...brilliant composition and insane playing!!! When I said in REC that my fingers are ready for Ballad Soloing #3...I lied
You are evil, this lesson it's a suicide mission My storm of tears will flood Poland 
MisterM24th July 2016Hi Darius
wahhh - Very Nice.
Amazing playing - I shall try to play this lesson in 2020
Hajduk26th July 2016Love it
Vaiman26th July 2016Hey Darius. That was absolutely fantastic. Beautiful feel and splendid riffs and technical expertise. I'm tackling this one next.
- Darius Wave2nd August 2016
Vaiman - would love to see a take over it
Thank you 
PosterBoy3rd August 2016You make that $100 guitar sound like $1,000,000. great lessons and playing
- Darius Wave3rd August 2016You make that $100 guitar sound like $1,000,000. great lessons and playing
Thank you! That's a really serious compliment. Very kind of yours
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Welcome to the Ballad Soloing lesson #3 !
This time we'll take a look at some classic rock inspired soloing. Classic rock is a genre that has a most visible influence, taken from blues. That's why you'll notice harmonic content to be simple and whole fun being hidden in a blues-rock dynamics and feel. Aside from final two licks that sound tircky because of the speed, we have something much more important in this lesson. It's the way of shaping the tone with our hands, while using low gain level. Tone is a plexi-based crunch. Bright and crystal, perfect for a strat neck pickup. It demands quite huge picking strength to get enough of sustain and that specific, blues-rock bite. While the notes are nothing fancy, the control of dynamics and articulation is the key to success.
Gear used (in order of connection chain placement):
1. SX SST57 guitar
2. Presonus Inspire 1394 firewire audio interface (input gain 40%)
3. Poulin LeXtac vst plug-in:
- Channel - blue
- Input 50%
- Gain 70%
- Pre EQ - brighter
- Bass 50%
- Middle 40%
- Treble 50%
- Contour 100%
4. Kefir impulse loader (mix 100%)
5. Impulse - Catharsis s-preshigh
Tuning - Standard E
Backing track progression:
4/4
||: A | F | G | D9/F#| A | E7#5/G# | G | D9/F#| :||
||: A | F | G | D9/F#| A | E7#5/G# | G | D9/F#| :||
Tempo: Main song tempo is 100 bpm. There are backing tracks available at 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100 bpm.
Time signature: 4/4
Scales used in this lesson:
A-mixolydian
A-dorian
A-minor
A-harmonic minor
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