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- Whammy LeadLEVEL 5Solo based around the whammy bar and artificial harmonics.
- Instrumental RockLEVEL 4Melody is what counts!
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- Take Control of Your WhammyLEVEL 6Floyd Rose equipped guitars are a wonderful thing if used properly. In this lesson we'll use the vibrato bar to create some smooth expressive licks in the key of G minor.
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- Ambient Melodic ArpeggiosLEVEL 5A sequence of arpeggios to be played with the whammy bar, with a super wet sound!
- Melodic Rock SoloingLEVEL 5Melodic rock soloing ideas in E minor.
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thefireball4th July 2011Awesome song! Bookmarking it in case i want to learn it when i get better at guitar.
Alexiaden9325th July 2009Awesome song !
Very beautiful.
Ivan Zecic3rd July 2009This song has one of the best intros and main themes I've ever heard!
Great job and great lesson!
Gilmore18th June 2009Beautiful song, I specially liked that mesmerizing delay riff.
Ivan Mihaljevic18th June 2009Thanks!!!
Jose Mena17th June 2009This is a great piece, you did the whole song as a lesson, awesome
Muris Varajic17th June 2009Great song and lesson Ivan!
Zsolt Galambos17th June 2009Pretty stunning stuff! Clean and nice sound!
Emir Hot17th June 2009Rock on man
this sounds awesome
Jose Lassaga16th June 2009Awesome!!!! Very good job Ivan!!! Congratulations
- Ivan Mihaljevic16th June 2009
Thanks!
Stunning! I love the B minor to C# minor change.
Actually, it's a chromatic modulation, there's a short C note that leads into the C#sus2 chord again! 
SonofDestiny16th June 2009Stunning! I love the B minor to C# minor change.
Ramiro Delforte15th June 2009Great song mate!
Very cool that you've posted all of it- Ivan Mihaljevic15th June 2009
Thank you all! I'm really glad you all like it!
it sounds great, but i wonder how come your chord progression is almost all suspended chords? there is almost no tension release and yet it sounds great. is it a trick or something or just happens to be that way?
I really love the tension suspended chords create! All those suspended chords are in those 2 scales that I'm using in that song and I didn't really feel there's a need for "tension release". Even the ending chord is the Bsus2
Really great composition man, so melodic!
I love your lead tone.. Is that Guitar rig?
Nope, it's a Laney Lionheart L5T-112 5W tube combo! 
David Wallimann15th June 2009Really great composition man, so melodic!
I love your lead tone.. Is that Guitar rig?
Vasilije Vukmirovic15th June 2009Great prog rock progression! You really love those suss
Falcao15th June 2009Epic lesson! Definitely gonna learn it!
Piotr Kaczor15th June 2009Cool playing and composition, Ivan!
Pedja Simovic15th June 2009Excellent lesson Ivan !
Young Guitarist15th June 2009OMG I LOVE THIS! Been waiting for a lesson on this! THANKS ALOT IVAN! I love this song!
Sinisa Cekic15th June 2009Killer song and playing ,well done !
AlexLion15th June 2009Awesome Ivan! Killer song, and immense amount of job you did! 6:31 minutes of recording
I bet this will be longest GMC main video for a looooong time!
skennington14th June 2009Awesome tune Ivan, thanks for putting this lesson together!
Ivan Milenkovic14th June 2009Wow!
Killer song and lesson man! Great job! 
Sergio Dorado14th June 2009Awesome work! Amazing theme, congrats
- alibro14th June 2009
thank you, it is a very nice song!!! Will learn it
kaznie_NL14th June 2009Wow.... Very very cool song Ivan!!
Bogdan Radovic14th June 2009Killer song and lesson Ivan!!
- vampire1814th June 2009
it sounds great, but i wonder how come your chord progression is almost all suspended chords? there is almost no tension release and yet it sounds great. is it a trick or something or just happens to be that way?
sigma714th June 2009Wow, wut a great lesson and song. Can i ask you how u got inspired to make this piece and how u got the title?
besip14th June 2009whooooaaaaaauuu
longest video leson here
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marek Rojewski14th June 2009Ivan this song is uber cool! Bit out of my ability range for now, but maybe in winter, or next year I shall try:)
Bondy14th June 2009Typo~~ now
Canis14th June 2009This is incredible!
Thanks a lot for taking the time and effort to do this- Bondy14th June 2009
learning it right not woo hoo been waiting for this
you rock Ivan \m/ - Ivan Mihaljevic14th June 2009Awesome song & lesson Ivan!
Thank you! 
Fran14th June 2009Awesome song & lesson Ivan!
- Ivan Mihaljevic14th June 2009
Thank you guys! I hope to hear some of you playing this one soon
SensE14th June 2009You Rock !!!
arctic123414th June 2009Wow! Great lesson! - Bookmarked:)
Sensible Jones14th June 2009Awesome lesson Ivan!!!
Red14th June 2009Your best song, thanks alot!
playaxeman14th June 2009Great. Love this lesson
Thx
Kristofer Dahl14th June 2009Absolutely stunning - you rock Ivan!
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- My notes
Cascading Mirrors is the second song on my first solo album Sandcastle!
This song is great for practicing your vibrato because there's a lot of long notes during the main theme and for legato and left hand strength and endurance. The opening riff is also played with an interesting technique (using delay which is in tempo and repeats everything you play a dotted eight note later).
SONG STRUCTURE and lesson parts:
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Rhythm guitars:Main riff (video #2) x 8
Riff A (video #3) x 2
Main riff x 2
Riff A x 4
Chorus transition riff (video #4)
Chorus riff (video #5)
Riff B1 (video #6)
Main riff x 4
Riff A x 6
Chorus transition riff
Chorus riff
Riff B2 (video #7)
Riff C (video #8) almost forever :)
Riff D (video #9) x 2
Chorus transition
Chorus riff
Riff B x 2---------------------------------------------------------------
Lead guitar:
Main riff x 8
Main theme (videos #11 & #12) x 2
Riff A x 2
Main theme
First solo (videos #13 & #14)
Chorus transition (video #15)
Chorus (videos #16 & #17) x 2
Riff B1
Main riff x 2
Main theme
Second solo (videos #18 - #21)
Chorus transition
Chorus x 2
Riff B2
Phrase 1 (video #22) x 7
Phrase 2 (video #23)
Phrase 3 (video #24) x 4
Last solo (videos #25 - #29)
Phrase 3 x 8
Chorus
Riff B x 2---------------------------------------------------------------
The main theme is in C# minor and the rest of the song is in B minor and its parallel modes.
Jump to start: Home or `s` , you can also click/tap the lesson part again (the numbers above player)
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