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- Percussive Guitar BasicsLEVEL 2Your first steps towards acoustic percussive guitar: learn the basics for an effective percussive groove.
- Percussive SongLEVEL 5Percussive techniques with jazzy elements.
- Percussive LeadLEVEL 5Get some percussion tricks under your belt
- Percussive MelodyLEVEL 3In our quest for percussive freedom, we will explore melody making: how to stack rhythm, bass & harmony with a melodic movement on top
- Percussive PhrasingLEVEL 5Percussion ads a whole new dimension to your phrasing. Let's break down how to produce sound and go through some killer licks to get you rolling!
- Percussive Rhythm PatternsLEVEL 6Covers rhythmic patterns w/ thumb & two fingers of your percussive hand.
- Percussive BalladLEVEL 5A cool melodic rhythm to play with groove and intensity on the acoustic guitar.
- Percussive BasicsLEVEL 3Our first stop is the land of Percussion: meet your friends Pulse, Rhythm and Tightness.
- Percussive Guitar: hammer-ons & pull-offsLEVEL 4Our goal is to independently perform parts of the arrangement with the left hand only.
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emirb13th September 2010this is so great I HAVE to learn this ASAP!! Thanks for the lesson!
Christophe29th October 2009Wow here's beautiful sounds Ramiro !
AlexLion1st June 2009Wow, just fantastic! This is what I really want to learn on acoustic!
Alexiaden9324th May 2009Awesome !
Carlos Carrillo23rd March 2009Erik Mongrain is great! But you are Great great! hahah! cool lesson Rami!
Ramiro Delforte29th December 2008Wow! I was just wondering if someone would do a lesson like this. This is awesome!
Could you do a Kaki King style lesson, pls? 
I could make a lesson in her style. Thanx for this new information, I didn't know her. I'm working on 8 acoustic lessons so I could add one more
Aleksander Sukovic14th December 2008Wow! I was just wondering if someone would do a lesson like this. This is awesome!
Could you do a Kaki King style lesson, pls? 
Ian Bushell18th October 2008That is killer!!!!
Very cool Ramiro, well done:)
blindwillie17th October 2008How cool!
Noangels14th October 2008very cool!Liked that a lot,you realy were spanking that plank!
Lian Gerbino13th October 2008seeeeeeee!!! posta este leccion es incrible!!!
*great!!! this lesson is just amanzing!
chmilew12th October 2008Yeah, finally somebody did it !
Thank you so much Ramiro,
Erik Montegrain is truly impressive by the way
Gerardo Siere12th October 2008Increible Ramiro, sos un capo. Lian me habia hablado de esta leccion cdo lo vi eb Bs. As. la verdad es que me volo la sesera. Saludos a todos los muchachos.
Marcus Siepen12th October 2008O_O AWESOME!!! I guess this is the most original lesson I have ever seen, I will bookmark this right now
- Ramiro Delforte12th October 2008
Thanx guys! This really mean something to me. I've enjoyed composing and recording this lesson.
I hope the next percussion lesson could satisfy the expectations. 
Alexander Avery11th October 2008dude this was great iv always wanted to learn this style and you showed it in a way it was easy to pick up thanks so much
Sergio Dorado11th October 2008Absolutely awesome!
mattacuk11th October 2008I really i think this lesson is alot better than good,or great - I think its Outstanding Ramiro
very well done indeed.- Ramiro Delforte11th October 2008
There will be more
There's a Justin King lesson comming out!
Sentenced11th October 2008Give us more!
Ivan Milenkovic11th October 2008Sounds great man, I'm glad we have this topic covered now! And you did a great lesson on this topic mate well done!
Toni Suominen11th October 2008Great lesson Ramiro, GMC really needed a lesson in this style!
Alex8711th October 2008Fantastic Ramiro. I love this style. Takes a bit of practice but it sounds sweet
wollace0311th October 2008wow!
great lesson!!
i think i will have to start playing accoustic guitar again. gonna have to blow the dust off but your lesson makes me wanna start right away!
Trond Vold11th October 2008Fantastic!
- Déjà vu11th October 2008
Forgot to mention that you've got some sweet camera angles in there
... - Déjà vu11th October 2008
WOW, Ramiro! I truly may buy an acoustic guitar, just for this lesson. If you ever decide to make another one of these lessons, I give you two thumbs upd
! - Ramiro Delforte10th October 2008
Thanx to all of you guys!
I'm glad you enjoy the lesson.
Giacinto: No, I've played in a normal acoustic guitar (Crafter). But Justin King and Erik Mongrain use a model of Yamaha I think, this kind of model have the strings very close to the neck and the body is smaller. 
Jerry Arcidiacono10th October 2008Great lesson and composition Ramiro
Hisham Al-Sanea10th October 2008very interesting lesson Ramiro.
Alejandro Pinero10th October 2008Just fantastic man!!
sigma710th October 2008awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Ramiro!
Jose Mena10th October 2008Awesome Ramiro, I've been looking into learning this style after I first saw it not long ago (where have I been), Now I will give this a try, thanks for the lesson
Pedja Simovic10th October 2008I love this , very cool lesson!
Gus10th October 2008Nice! One of the best lessons ever!
kaznie_NL10th October 2008Ultra cool!! Thnx Ramiro!
SensE10th October 2008Nice sounding.
Chokehold10th October 2008That was just..
- Mark.10th October 2008
Awsome! Totally awsome !
Canis10th October 2008This is amazing
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was Erik Mongrain that inspired Andy McKee to start play like this ^^
Emir Hot10th October 2008Awesome lesson. Reminds me of some early Led Zeppelin instrumental songs.
coffeeman10th October 2008Simply amazing Ramiro.
rokchik10th October 2008Ever since I saw the movie August Rush I've been wanting to learn this style of play. Thank you sooo much for this lesson. Amazing job
- Giacinto10th October 2008
hey the lesson is awesome. do you need a special guitar for it or does every acoustic fit to this style ?
edguy10th October 2008WOW what a good and nice sounding lesson. I think you get all girls with this kind of music:) Very stylish by the way.
Torben10th October 2008This lesson will drive my wife nuts, because I simply have to do it the whole weekend (and some weeks after) until I get it!
Simply fantastic - thank you so much!
Unleash-The-Shred10th October 2008Awesome, I've always wanted to learn his style ever since I first saw his videos on youtube.
- fatb0t10th October 2008
You always suprise me man, very impressive!
Kuba Szafran10th October 2008Hello Ramiro, this lesson is awesome!!
Capt.Z10th October 2008Holy freakin' crap!! Amazing!!
I've never thought we could have a lesson on this!!
Muris Varajic10th October 2008Great job Ramiro,cool lesson!
dango10th October 2008wow, amazing!!!!!
Dejan Farkas10th October 2008This is awesome
Nemanja Filipovic10th October 2008Wow,this is so amazing.Thanks mate.
Bogdan Radovic10th October 2008WOW Ramiro ! This technique is so impressive !!! Great job on explaining it to all of us !
Jad Diab10th October 2008wow excellent lesson Ramiro ! this is just great
berko10th October 2008If i had an acoustic, i could now do some Andy McKee stuff now too...
Thankx sooo much for this lesson, that's definitely a new genre here on GMC 
purple hayes10th October 2008That's very cool.
Joe Kataldo10th October 2008Impressed!
Nazgul10th October 2008Ok, this is weird.
But terrifingly cool, some sort of chill-out. 
DeepRoots10th October 2008Awesome! this is so cool, now i really need to buy an acoustic. Thanks!
Kristofer Dahl10th October 2008Just awesome Ramiro - I am very happy we finally have a lesson covering percussive guitar. Thanks!
It's also great to see you explain the technique in video part 1 - it adds lots of value to the lesson!
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- My notes
Hi GMC! I'm proud to bring you this time a lesson that has some unusual techniques that uses players like Erik Mongrain. This lesson is a song that I composed based on some typical elements that make percussive guitar a great way to play solo and create so many different sounds.
I explain in the video some of those unusual ways to play the guitar and why is easier in that way. I use some slap and tapping also in this lesson.
The tuning (from low to high) is: DADGAD
The alternative tunings are very important in this style because it allows to the interpreter to use the natural harmonics to make melodies and the open strings to create a different harmony. In order to do that is important to let ring all the notes.
There are some players that you can also listen: Justin King, Randy Collins, Andreas Kapsalis, Andy McKee, Kaki King, Bob Kilgore and Michael Garfield.
I hope you'll enjoy learning this lesson as much I've enjoyed making it.
From this course:
Jump to start: Home or `s` , you can also click/tap the lesson part again (the numbers above player)
Go to next part: PageUP or End.
Volume: ArrowUp / ArrowDown keys
Go to any part: Number keys (combinations also possible)
Pause or play: `k` or space key
Fullscreen: `f`, esc to close
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