Guitar Lessons

guitar lessons | Kevin Estrella, Pyramids on Mars™ | String Skipping Arpeggio Melody III

Description: A string skipping arpeggio melody that shows by alternating one extra note every second time around adds a nice sweetness to an arpeggio. The lesson can be viewed/purchased 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…

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guitar lessons | Kevin Estrella, Pyramids On Mars™ | String Skipping Arpeggio Melody III

Description A string skipping arpeggio melody that shows by alternating one extra note every second time around adds a nice sweetness to an arpeggio. The lesson can be previewed or purchased 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…

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guitar lessons | String Skipping Arpeggios using Dominant7th transitions | Kevin Estrella, Pyramids on Mars™

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. This is a string-skipping chord sequence in the style of Paul Gilbert. The focus of this exercise is to…

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guitar lessons | String Skipping Ricochet in all Diatonic Positions | Kevin Estrella, Pyramids on Mars™

A 2-String Skipping melody incorporating the ricochet effect. We will play this in all diatonic positions of the scale so you can transcribe it to any key. The neat thing about this melody is there are a lot of notes played with very little finger movement. Lessons can be viewed and purchased here. Kevin is the guitarist…

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guitar lessons | Kevin Estrella, Pyramids on Mars™ | Violin Inspired Melodies – 3-String Arpeggio Min – Dom7th – Maj – Maj7th

Description: We look at some violin inspired arpeggios using only the first 3 strings. We will be learning the voicings for the Minor, Dom7th, Major, and Major7th arpeggio voicings. When you learn these 4 voicing’s you can modulate quite freely to create your own chord sequences and arpeggio melodies to accompany in a solo or melodic phrase. Lessons…

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