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The Hardest Part in Learning a Tough Song Note for Note. The Hardest Part in Learning a Tough Song Note-for-Note is: Patience and Self-discipline. Let’s say that you want to learn this Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, or Greg Howe song you’re totally crazy about. Unless you’ve been playing forever and you have great chops and … The Hardest Part in Learning a Tough Song Note for Note.
The Important Goals: Living Out of Your Comfort Zone. How do you know what your most important goals are? Well first off: what does that even mean, “most important goals”? Usually: the most important goals are the ones that will bring you much closer to achieving the life of your dreams or a significant rise … The Important Goals: Living Out of Your Comfort Zone.
Latin-American Rhythm Guitar Styles It’s always fun to learn the guitar styles of other cultures. Let’s have some fun, exploring some of the Latin rhythm guitar styles. Bossa Nova Montuno Cuban Mexican/Spanish ChaChaCha ChaChaCha (Extended Version) Jamaican Cuban Mambo Conclusion The above examples are super much fun to play. There’s lots of really amazing rhythm … Latin American Guitar Styles
Creating Melodic Sequences Using Pedal Points You know what melodic sequences are now, from last week’s blog, which you can check here: Melodic Sequences Pedal point was discussed in the past, in this blog: Rock Guitar Soloing Episode 5 You can come up with very structured melody lines when you combine both. How Do You … Creating Melodic Sequences Using Pedal Points
Using Melodic Sequences in Soloing A sequence is a melodic motif (phrase) that repeats starting on different starting notes. They are great picking exercises and are valuable as melodic building blocks in improvisation. Yngwie Malmsteen loves them (at 1:27, at 1:49, at 1:59, at 3:24, at 4:20, at 5:48) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02RRM-4A1m4 And tons of them here … Using Melodic Sequences in Soloing
