This is where things get quite interesting. In this
video I will show you how to use material from other solos you might
already know, or you want to learn. All this will build your vocabulary
of musical ideas/ knowledge of styles if you do it the right way:
1. Learn a phrase (=musical idea from a solo, in the video I use
the very famous pickup from 'Another brick in the wall Pt2' by Pink
Floyd as played by David Gilmour on 'The Wall')
2. Analyze the phrase...how is it built? from what scale? What Key?
In the example the phrase is based around the D minor pentatonic.
3. Learn it in every key so that it becomes available to you in every
key.
4. Use it adapting it to the song you are playing on. In this case I
had to transpose it to G minor pentatonic, using it to give a 'bluesy'
sound to the track. I also used it in E minor pentatonic as E minor is
the relative minor of G major, which means that this phrase can also be
used as G major pentatonic. Furthermore I had to adapt its rhythm as the
original is in 4/4 and the track is in 3/4.
Hi, and welcome to my free video guitar lessons website. This is a collection of videos I will be
putting together over time. My goal is to humbly pick up from where a
lot of websites seem to stop. It is great to learn a lot of so called
'licks' or riffs, as these will be part of your
repertoire/vocabulary...instead of doing that, here I will try to give
you ideas on how to write your own material and improvise/build a solo
over it. A lot of this stuff might seem jazz/rock oriented but I will
assure you, it will give you a lot of freedom to play on contemporary
material, regardless of the style.
Just visit the
video page, where you'll find a program that I developed to go from
the very basic way of building a major scale and finding how to play it
on guitar, to more advanced concepts to develop your style and improve
your instrumental technique.
This might turn out to be a very long
project as I am doing everything myself, from designing and updating
this website to editing the videos and everything in between...so if you
enjoyed these lessons or you feel this was beneficial to you in any way
find out here how to support this website.
If you want to find out more about me just visit my
Myspace
page or my
Youtube Channel. If you have any request for topics, I
will try as far as my knowledge can stretch to make a lesson about it,
so get in touch!
