Building Melodic Themes from Arpeggios (Spectre of Orion Chorus) Description (by Kevin Estrella) We look at the chorus of ‘Spectre of Orion’ by Pyramids on Mars. I show how I take a very dissonant chord progression (tri-tones) and put together a melody using arpeggios. By finding common notes shared among the chords we can put together a…
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Description (by Kevin Estrella) A pedaltone melody inspired by J S Bach’s Lute Suite (BWV1006) Lesson here. Kevin is the guitarist and composer of instrumental rock band Pyramids on Mars™. His music is hard rock, industrial, and metal infused with lead guitar melodies inspired by violin melodies of Baroque classical composers Bach & Vivaldi. His…
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Description (by Kevin Estrella) A 3-String arpeggio sweep that incorporate the 7th degree of the scale. (1, 3, 5, 7 degrees of the scale). Most guitar players use primarily Major and Minor arpeggios that use only 3 degrees of the scale (1, 3, 5). By incorporating the 7th degree of the scale we are able to create…
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Description A 3-String arpeggio sweep that incorporates the 7th degree of the scale. (1, 3, 5, 7 degrees of the scale) and uses the ricochet effect. Most guitar players use primarily Major and Minor arpeggios that use only 3 degrees of the scale (1, 3, 5) By incorporating the 7th degree of the scale we are able…
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Description: We look at a diatonic extension melody using a two- string arpeggio. A diatonic extension is taking the chords in a key, and essentially skipping every second one. In a descending pattern would look like this: ie. Key of D: (D, Bm, G, Em, C, Am, F). We incorporate this into a descending sliding pattern similar to what…
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