Jad Diab - Clean And Happy SI Lesson

Revision as of 11:41, 12 March 2010

Jad Diab

Under Construction -- soon to be finished -- Fran

Introduction

Hey GMCers,
My name is Jad,I'm Lebanese and I live in Paris, France. I'm 20 years old and I'm in the second year of geology in the university of Paris (Université Pierre et Marie Curie). I've been playing guitar for about 4 years (actually i'm going to be 20 this friday, on 25 April, so I wish myself a happy birthday and i think i'm going to have a POD X3 YEAH:P ). I don't think that the number of years is really important though, what counts, is the number of hours I've spent on my guitar, and I never force myself playing, I just love too.

You can skip this paragraph if you want
When I first start playing guitar, I was stuck in one kind of music (wich I like very much), i always listened to heavy metal and hard rock bands, but playing guitar introduced me to a lot of other styles like blues, jazz, funk, fusion,ect ....
I had 5 bands, but now i'm alone, I've tried to convince my twin brother to play bass, so we can form a band together, but it's quite difficult, and I don't want to force him. So I also learned how to play bass and drum, and now I am my own band (even if I prefer having one with cool people, cause I love contact with musicians).

The lesson

OK, enough talking about me, let's focus on our lesson. the main goal of my lesson is to show you how you can use the major scale. so you're going to find 2 modes in this lesson, the ionian mode (major scale) and the lydian mode (same as the major scale with a sharp forth instead of perfect forth). You might also find some out notes, even in major scales i like to use 3m and 6m from time to time, so remember that scales are just theory, but when you play music you can do whatever you want to do if it sounds cool

I would also like to add that this lesson contains some fast alternate picking, what i like about them is that they are in a clean sound, practice them slowly in order to play them wright. (playing fast alternate picking with clean sound is better than with distorsion because it lets you focus on the notes you hit in order to see if you're playing too fast for yourself. Practice slowly and then accelerate, it's essential if you want to progress

Chord Progression :

G-C-D
Em-C-Am-D-Em-C-Am-B7
G-C-D

This chord progression works perfectly with the G mixolydian mode because of the B7, notice that i didn't use too much notes when this chord is played, that's why using lydian and ionian sounds good, anyway that's not important, what's important is that it sounds good, at least for me . If you need more informations, check out Andrew's Lesson : Modal Chord Progressions.

Main Video

Main Video: main_video.wmv ( 20.99MB)

This solo is dedicated to Julie (my girlfriend), she's always encouraged me and she was my source of inspiration when writing it. Special thanks also to my brother, for helping me working on Vegas movie maker and I hope you'll start taking bass for serious.

Part 1

Part 1: 1_un.wmv ( 11.66MB )

e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
b|------------------------------------------------------------------------------3/15----------19-17-16---|
g|------------------------------------------------5---------------------------4------16-15-14----------19|
d|--------------------2-------5-4---------------4---3-2-------------------2-5----------------------------|
a|----2-----2-----2-5---5-2-5---------2-----5---------------2-----2-----3--------------------------------|
e|3-5---3-5---3-5-----------------3-5---3-5---3---------3-5---3-5---2-5----------------------------------|