Welcome to my first lesson here on GMC. Todays topic is warming up, I will show you what I usually do to warm myself up before a show or recording and give you some ideas about possible variations that might make things a bit more interesting to play. You will come across lots of chromatic runs, scale fragments and a lot of alternate picking.

...The main key is e-minor. Though at some places there's also the pentatonic blues and D-major scale involved. My ambition is to have a kinda' "floating feel" to it, so the notes should be played smooth and with legato.

Learn how to play all the essential slap bass techniques needed for performing in slap style. Example licks included!

Slap style is what everyone wants to do when they start playing bass. Nowadays these bass players are famous for using that technique: Les Claypool, Bootsy Collins, Louis Johnson, Mark King, Flea, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke etc.

An acoustic etude made to illustrate a chord melody within a progression.

Oh my god - is this the first collaboration lesson at gmc or what? We believe it is! Let's go through the clean and distorted rhythm guitars, covering verse and chorus. From there you will see how things develop into a "duel" kind of solo.

Mumford and sons is a folk rock band from England formed in 2007 that has become very popular recently thanks to their great songs and energetic live shows.

Modern fusion licks in E minor / Dorian

This is the Blind Guardian style lesson of this German Power Metal series.