This is a very cool technique and will serve two big purposes: Give you a new songwriting tool Help fix up what is (probably) a weak area of your playing. What we are looking at with this lesson is creating riffs using arpeggios based on two strings. Let’s quickly recap the intervals in the arpeggios …
In this lesson we are going to look at how to build up a scale run on guitar. A lot of intermediate level guitar players want to be able to play awesome scale runs down the length of their neck, and it can be quite hard to know how to get started with them. So …
This is a neoclassical tool we can use in lead composition. We are going to look at extracts from Bach’s 1st Cello Suite, Prelude and Courante, see how Bach uses pedal points, then look at how we can apply this in our own playing. This extract is from Bach’s Prelude in his first Cello Suite. …
Today we are going to look at some ideas we can use within the harmonized major scale to help us compose tapping ideas. We’ll be looking at the e and B strings. If you are new to tapping, I wrote an Introduction to Tapping. We are going to be basing these ideas around three shapes: …
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This is an article I wrote for Heavy Metal’s “Guitarget Practice” column in January 2015. Great for: Steve Vai fanboys, creating a more vocal sound from your guitar, ear training, creativity. Introduction In this article we’ll cover some quick definitions, limitations of frets and some ways we can train our brain, ears and hands to …
