Lesson: String descending legato phrase in the style of Joe Satriani that uses the ricochet effect. Lesson can be viewed 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…
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Description: Learning the Lydian mode but using a symmetrical scale fingering.Two different ways will be shown. This is the mode favored by guitarists like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Nuno Bettencourt. The video can be viewed here. Kevin is the guitarist and composer of instrumental rock band Pyramids on Mars™. His music is hard rock, industrial, and…
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Description: Back to Basics Boot Camp!!! We will be covering the most important scale of them all. The minor scale using three-note-per-string fingerings. We will be reviewing the A Minor scale covering all positions of the neck. Once you learn these fingerings, this is all you need to know when it comes to understanding modes later down the…
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Description: In this lesson, we will be learning a Two-Octave Sweep Picking Arpeggio in the style of Paul Gilbert.This voicing is more in harmony with what violinist Paganini would play. It is very important to learn this as Kevin will be teaching more inversions of this arpeggio in later lessons. The video can be viewed here….
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Description: We look at a melody from one of J S Bach’s Goldberg Variations. This is the melody of what the right hand is playing on a harpsichord. The melody on its own sounds very melodic, with a sound of organized structure. We will break it down and find out what is really going on. What we discover…
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