Guitar Scales The following post talks about scales. If you really want to learn every major, minor and pentatonic scale for guitar (along with the chord-tone arpeggios), you’ll want to get my new ebook ‘Advanced Guitar Basics: Scales and Arpeggios’ (click the link for more!). One of the very first … Continue reading
Guitar Scales The following post talks about scales. If you really want to learn every major, minor and pentatonic scale for guitar (along with the chord-tone arpeggios), you’ll want to get my new ebook ‘Advanced Guitar Basics: Scales and Arpeggios’ (click the link for more!). So, recently I’ve been very … Continue reading
This one is an exercise that can really help your sweep picking. All we’re really doing, is taking some of the most common sweep picking shapes, and breaking them down into three string ‘chunks’. The idea is that if you break down bigger shapes this way, you get to concentrate … Continue reading
Here’s the backing track to last week’s Lydian mode lesson. Again, this track has been extended from the ‘minus one’ track in the original post, with four repetitions of the clean riff, and then another four of the dirty riff. To solo over this, you’ll need the A lydian mode. … Continue reading
This week’s lick is an example of how you can use swept arpeggios- along with tapping- to outline the sound of a certain scale, or key. Essentially, we’re taking two chords that fit the A phrygian mode, and playing them over an A root note. If you do this, you’ll … Continue reading
I’ve always said that using a metronome is important if you want to develop your guitar playing speed. However, there is a huge counter-argument that claims that metronomes are unmusical at best. I think that what’s really happening, is that most people don’t understand metronomes. Yes, it is an unmusical, … Continue reading
This week’s lick is inspired by the solo on Metallica’s ‘Leper Messiah‘, from the ‘Master of Puppets’ Album. You can either play it with alternate picking, which is a challenge in itself, or you can sweep it, as we’re doing today. Played this way, this lick makes a great example … Continue reading
So, as a follow up to my ACDC lesson, here is the extended version of the backing track from that solo. I’ve kept the track fairly simple, with just one rhythm guitar, and it’s all in the key of E minor. The Track As I said, this is all safely … Continue reading
This week, we’re looking at the style of ACDC guitarist Angus Young. He’s really not one for effects pedals, or really anything more than the standard pentatonic scale. But don’t be fooled! As I’m about to show you, a lot can be done with this seemingly very basic setup! I … Continue reading
Here is the extended version of the backing track I used in the lesson on how to sound like David Gilmour. That Solo was only a minute or so long, whereas this track has been extended to over 5 minutes. The track mostly follows chords that would fit in D … Continue reading
