Kristofer Dahl24th May 2008Awesome pentatonic stuff in here - I especially like the picking runs!
Thanks Muris (and leedbreak!)
Nighthawk124th May 2008It is absolutely INCREDIBLE what you can get out of a simple Am Pentatonic Scale !!!Sounds just amazing and stunning!!!Thank you both Muris and Leedbreak !
timono24th May 2008wow awesome, thanks guys
eddiecat24th May 2008Awesome!
Man... I've got SOOO much to practice!
It's almost depressing!
Anyway, great lesson
and congratulations to both!
Eddie
Juan M. Valero24th May 2008Cool pentatonics here
congrats mates !!
Marcus Siepen24th May 2008Awesome Muris, some great licks
rockztar24th May 2008sweet
Vinod Saranga24th May 2008Cool
great licks
Alex8724th May 2008Great job Leedbreak and Muris. Great solo
Sergio Dorado24th May 2008It´s really good. You have a incredible feeling!
kyldeee24th May 2008Awesome lesson yet again
Bali24th May 2008the never ending [Am] pentatonic (one of the best chinese inventions)
at lights end24th May 2008awesome solo
Joe Kataldo24th May 2008cool melodic pentatonic sequences
Danilo Capezzuto24th May 2008Nice lesson Muris, nice chops too!
Bogdan Radovic24th May 2008Awesome lesson Muris and Leedbreak!
Harris Sopovic24th May 2008Wow, very nice.
CycoKilla24th May 2008Just awesome!
Muris, are you using some sort of line6 pod or something, because I'd love to steal that tone from you! So sweeeeet!!!
TreyDeschamp24th May 2008Awsome lesson man!
Jenkinson24th May 2008Nice lesson Muris.
@CycoKilla: alot of his tone comes from his custom axe, I dont think its for sale.
Hisham Al-Sanea24th May 2008great one Muris .
- Jon Lambo24th May 2008
Absolutely awesome Muris I thought that lesson was stunning. There's loads of licks to learn in there. Thankyou.
Gabriel Leopardi24th May 2008Excelent solo Muris! I love how it sounds the last pentatonic patterns.
chmilew24th May 2008Very Nice solo !
The Am pentatonic is curiously the first scales that I've learnt and I keep using it all the time
Awesome solo again !
kaznie_NL24th May 2008It's amazing what you can do with a pentatonic scale..I have problems with that
Very very cool job Leedbreak and Muris.
Carlos Carrillo24th May 2008Hey Muris!!!
excellent lesson!!!
Lian Gerbino24th May 2008very cool lesson man!
Nick32524th May 2008nice muris and leedbreak
Muris Varajic24th May 2008We are damn glad you like it guys,
thanks for the inspiration Leedbreak!!!
Toni Suominen25th May 2008nice job guys!
- ch00ch00man25th May 2008
yet another terrific example of your playing, thanks muris. definitely a lot of inspiration there. a quick question. in video 2, the tab (both printed and guitar pro) show a pull off from 8 to 5 on the b string. but watching the video, i can swear that you are doing straight alt picking. i find playing this type of lick with alt picking a lot easier then doing the pull off. but if i was to do the pull off, do you recommend starting every beat on a down stroke, or alternating?
thanks,
boris - fatb0t25th May 2008
Love these licks man...thanks
Marcus Lavendell25th May 2008Great job!
Pablo Vazquez25th May 2008Amazing!!!
Trond Vold25th May 2008Brilliant
visi0n25th May 2008great
!!!- visi0n25th May 2008
Great !!
- Nighthawk125th May 2008
I could also swear that it isn't a pull-off being played in the second video
Jerry Arcidiacono25th May 2008Really cool Muris!
Siggum25th May 2008Be Carefull that you dont break the sound barrier Muris
Great job both of you 
Ivan Milenkovic25th May 2008Great licks Muris. good job !
- Muris Varajic25th May 2008
Nighthawk.you can play it with alternate or pull-off,
doesn't really matter,it wont ruin the lesson at all,
you'll still be playing good old minor penta. 
leedbreak26th May 2008Hope this comes out as a link, If it did not I am sorry. I just wanted to post my comments elsewhere.
https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...ndpost&p=200607- leedbreak26th May 2008
I just wanted to post my comments elsewhere.
Masterclass Guitar Forum - leedbreak26th May 2008
Sorry, but my first post did not show up, till after my second post
Thought it was rejected for having a link in it, so sorry, now there is three post. LOL Newbies, got to love em. 
audiopaal26th May 2008Awesome Muris and Leedbreak
Dejan Farkas26th May 2008Great job guys
Pi3827th May 2008Great lesson, and Congratulations Leedbreak!
Nick Kellie30th May 2008so cool!
- Muris Varajic30th May 2008
Thanks guys
There are really cool things you can do using only minor pentatonic
and Leedbreak has opened my eyes for sure!! 
Mats Hedberg21st June 2008great Muris ! great lesson and right hand picking!
Mats.- Muris Varajic21st June 2008
Thanks man!!
- thijsmans7th February 2009
hi muris,
i see that you are (hm how do i put this in words..)
like sweeping over all the strings to make one string sound.
i hope you know what i mean,
it's the first note your picking.
i think it gives a really strong effect, but, how do you do it?
great lesson, exactly what i needed
thijs, - Muris Varajic7th February 2009
That would be racking technique,
use a lot like players such is SRV etc.
Take a look at my In Style Of SRV lesson,
I did some explanations there. - thijsmans7th February 2009
ah
i'll check it our right away
thanks for your fast feedback
you rock (H) - Muris Varajic7th February 2009
Anytime
- thijsmans8th February 2009
about the racking techique,
is it true that the other string can't make a sound, so not like palm muting the other strings, but really muting?
and, should you make like a sweep right hand movement, or more a slam movement?
hm, i can 'rack' a note on the G string, but the other strings are still a struggle.
but, defenitly gonna practice this, it's really cool technique
thank you muris - Muris Varajic8th February 2009
It's pure left hand muting and with your right hand you should
do something between sweep and slam but more like a slam.
It's matter of time and practicing, you need to get a "feel"
for what and how to mute when playing on certain strings with raking,
you'll get there, no worries. - thijsmans8th February 2009
huh? is it left hand muting?
oef, almost started making a bad guitar 'habbit'
thank you for helping me - Muris Varajic8th February 2009
Yeah, 99% of muting is via left hand,
as you can see, right hand is pretty away from strings
doing all those heavy slams, there is actually no chance to mute with it. - thijsmans9th February 2009
that was why i couldn't do it
haha
thank, keep on racking - Muris Varajic9th February 2009
You're welcome, let me know if you need more help tho.
Pedja Simovic1st May 2009I just saw this one... Great solo Muris ! It has everything in there, well done
- Muris Varajic1st May 2009
Hey, cheers Pedja, this is pretty older one.
- Nighthawk15th July 2009
Those vertical runs at the very ending break my neck
I really have to practise those - Muris Varajic5th July 2009
Let me know if I can help!
- Nighthawk18th July 2009
Thanks for your attentiveness Muris...it just the speed of this run so I think there is not much left to say than practice until your fingers bleed
... - Muris Varajic8th July 2009
Bleeding fingers?? No way
thefireball11th July 2010That's cool that you did this! That would be cool to here your solo in a lesson!
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Hello GMCers! This lesson is a product of my 2nd lesson competition. We had minor pentatonic as our mainstream and GMCer Leedbreak posted a take which I found the most interesting, pentatonic wise of course.
So in here we have nothing but pure Am pentatonic scale. We'll use many boxes and try to connect them as well. You'll notice that sliding is easiest way to do that though. Techniques involved here are alternate picking, bends, legato, phrasing etc. It's in key of A minor, tempo is 110 bpm.
Congrats to Leedbreak and all other participants of course, well done! :)
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