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Table of Contents:01. Intro02. The Major & Minor Scales03. The 7 Major Scale Modes04. Hopscotch Modes05. Method Alternative06. Further Expansion07. ConclusionIntroNOTE: This article is based on t ...
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In this lesson I'm going to teach you the "B.B. King Box" technique, which is a very simple but effective technique for soloing. We're also going to write a song along the way so this l ...
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Table of Contents01. Intro02. Minor Pentatonic box shapes03. Method Alternative04. ConclusionIntroNOTE: This article is based on the video lesson created by Joe Cefalu, who gives a demonstration ...
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Fretboard tapping was a technique popularized in the eighties mainly by Van Halen. Basically what fret tapping is when you take your right hand, raise it to the fretboard, then choose a finger (I ...
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Here is a neat slide guitar rhythm part, played in dropped D. It incorporates a bunch of techniques I've been demonstrating in these lessons: slide, normal playing, muting. It's in the ...
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Here is another interesting look at how notes conveniently line themselves up in standard/dropped D for slide. I've played this in D, but these positions exist for any other chord. They may ...
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When I started to look into playing slide in standard tuning many years ago, like 30 or so, I began looking at the fretboard in a new way. What I started plotting out were all the places notes li ...
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In this lesson, I will be teaching you some basics on becoming a technically more proficient guitarist, with some techniques such as sweep arpeggios, string skipping, and picking technique. Mater ...
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Hello my shredders, and welcome to the second lesson in a series on shred. Now before I begin, let me presume, that you have read the previous lesson, and understand the techniques, and have a de ...
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1. Straight Timing.Before we get started I need to introduce you to 16th notes (just incase you are unfamiliar).Most music you listen to in your life will most probably in the time signature know ...
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This is a different way off tapping. Cross-Handed Tapping is very flashy and looks cool. This is really only for playing live, since it is such an impractical way of tapping.You start by hammerin ...
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In this lesson I am going to teach you guys how to really build your speed and technique, and end up playing like your heroes (Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai, whoever you are in to). This is the first i ...
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This is a lesson in picking for everyone. About picking and the various methods, and how to master yours. First about me. I have learned every method of picking and took a while on each. First al ...
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Hello everybody. As I know that many of you have had difficulties learning tapping through the other lessons, I am going to try to make a more in depth lesson, for those who struggle. Because it ...
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There are four types of contrapuntal motion: Parallel, Similar, Contrary, and Oblique.Parallel.Parallel motion is when 2 parts move the same interval in the same direction simultaneously. So when ...
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Alright. Before we start lets get one thing clear. Basic right hand tapping is not as difficult as you might think. I know it sounds intimidating but really there is nothin to it. However, some o ...
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I finally got around to writing a lesson, and I figured it make it on something a lot of people ask me about. If you listen carefully to some songs, you'll notice every now and then, a reall ...
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Harmony is often used in orchestra and classical music, but on guitar it can be used for two or three guitars to play on each other. Many bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax etc use it and so ...
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Vibratos are possibly the most used technique for stringed instruments all along the history of music. So, electric guitar couldn't be the exception. This technique consists of giving the st ...
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Here are some small exercises I found helped me to play some serious legato licks. Players like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Alan Holdsworth use these alot! These exercises are aimed at people wh ...
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Introduction:There are two ways of Harmonics, the Natural and the Artificial(Pings, Pinch, False etc.. whatever we call it) Harmonics, but this lesson only focus on the Artificial side. Artificia ...
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Increasing speed above 140 beats per min (4note pattern), was a great challenge for me. I just couldn't. My wrists just could take the pressure. I played wrong notes, and eventually lost con ...
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Well I got a song I transcribed from which I downloaded from the net, and he got the idea of the title of the song from yngwie malmsteens "Arpeggios from Hell". I think, thats why his title for t ...
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The Element Of Practice: What To Practice.Hi, how are you all doing? This mini "lesson" is for those of you wanting to start out in classical guitar. Before I begin, I just want to say that class ...
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The first thing you've got to do when you sit down with a record is finding out the key of the tune, because the other notes usually follow it. Harmonically speakin youŽll have this chart wi ...
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I seen this from Steve Vai's arpeggio duel in the movie "Crossroads," then I feel happy and transcribed it then share it to you all.
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Well, I know someone just covered this lesson so ill just send you exercises that will train you discipline in accomplishing arpeggios using sweep picking. I am just going to clear a few things u ...
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Hi it's James again. This lesson is on how to appear to be playing a lot faster than you really are. Of course, there's no substitute for true speed, and there are a lot of lessons here ...
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If you read my previous lesson on the blues scale, you will remember that the blues-tonality is unstable and unsettled, because you play a minor of scale over major chords. You should also rememb ...
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Being the lazy, spur of the moment kind of guy that I am, I waited until today to decide what today's the lesson would be about and type it up. Just like every week. Only this week I had a b ...
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These two things refer to techniques employed by the left hand to sound notes without the direct aid of the right hand. A 'hammer on' is when a note is sounded, and while it is still ri ...
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OK, a lot of cool lead players like Steve Vai and Marty Friedman use a really cool idea called rhythmic displacement. What this means is that they are playing phrases with a different number of n ...
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A slide refers to the action of 'sliding' your left hand finger across one or more frets to reach another note. In one respect, they can be looked at as similar to bends, because they c ...
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When I first started playing guitar I was ultimately frustrated that I couldn't play the songs that I heard on the radio unless someone showed me how. This was pretty tough, seeing as this w ...
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Get an acoustic, preferably a nylon, and with no other fingers touching the string, tap one of the high strings at a high fret, say 17 for example. You may notice that you hear two pitches. Why? ...
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This week we'll do a technique/style that's covered a lot on the Internet, but is always touched on very lightly. Full of musical terms and breif explanations with hardly any practical ...
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To start things off I'm going to do a lesson on a technique that's becomming very popular as of late and that people on UG seem to talk about frequently: sweep picking. The idea behind ...
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For our 3rd lesson, we're going to go into detail on another frequently visited and asked about technique, tapping. To understand and be good at tapping, you have to understand and be good a ...
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Here's a lesson on string skipping, the bane of many a guitarist's life. String skipping can be quite difficult to do, but if you master it you can create hi-tech sounding licks that ca ...
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This is part two in a series of how to develop good right and left hand technique for pick-style guitar. This series is the approach that I use to teach pick-style technique to all of my students ...
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This is part one in a series of how to develop good right and left hand technique for pick-style guitar. This series is the approach that I use to teach pick-style technique to all of my students ...
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Speed is something which comes to a guitarist with constant practice! Determination and consistency are two things that will get you to your goal. Vinnie Moore in his instructional CD said, he ha ...
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When I first heard of the metronome, I thought it was yet another one of those lousy drum machines which was too difficult to use. I was wrong. Nowadays thanks to the metronome, I get a little fa ...
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Although the word polyrhythm technically means "many rhythms", it's most commonly used to describe the layering of multiple time signatures. For example, Steve Vai's The Attitude Song, ...
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One thing that is important to technique is a good sense of rhythm. You must be able to play along with the beat, if you don't it will sound sloppy. Especially when you're playing very ...
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This is part three in a series of how to develop good right and left hand technique for pick-style guitar.PART III -- left hand position (cont.)This series is the approach that I use to teach pi ...
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This series is the approach that I use to teach pick-style technique to all of my students. For best results, take these articles to an educated and experienced teacher who is stylistically broad ...
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This series is the approach that I use to teach pick-style technique to all of my students. For best results, take these articles to an educated and experienced teacher who is stylistically broad ...
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This lesson is about triplets, use strict (down-up-down) picking. This lesson is influenced from Metallica and Megadeth. Start off slow then blast it to warp speed. Its kind of long but break it ...
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Now first and foremost ill admit most of the ideas ill tell you about here relate to articles I've read in the british magazine guiatrist, before I get accused of plagarism. The basic idea b ...
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Most of you are probably quite familiar with the cliched tapping licks like fast trills, three and four note patterns, etc. Here I will show you some unconventional but very cool uses for this gr ...
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Firstly, this lesson is not for beginners. If enough people request it, I'll post a lesson covering the basic aspects of what a time signature is. But for now, I'll be concentrating on ...
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How do players like Yngwie Malmsteen, Al Di Meola, Steve Morseand Paul Gilbert pick so quickly and cleanly? Hyper speed picking abilities are the product of a logical, pragmatic technical approac ...
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Well it's time to get back on track and start doing the lessons again. Many thanks to beat for doing the lesson last week on reharmonization wich, as always, can be found in the archive thre ...
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Bending strings refers to stretching them with the left hand to increase their pitch, gradually or instantly. When bending a string, the string is still contacting the fret, but the string is bei ...
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Hey all, this lesson is on some different sounding ways to bend notes. Some of these examples will require a whammy bar that can be pulled up; If you have one that normally only works one way, ...
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Modes? What are modes? With this lesson I will make them clear. The major scale can have 7 other scales derived from it - these are its modes. For example, this is the C major scale:
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