Super Continental

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Crazy! Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: Greetings Guitar Slingers! In this lesson, we will take a close look a song I call Super Continental. Not only will this serve as a good insight into my playing style, but will also be a good challenge for you both technically, rhythmically and theoretically. The real challenge in this tutorial is not primarily technical, but lies in the advanced rhythmical...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: Ok guitar slingers! Let’s start by looking closer at bar…1! (Well, actually the entire first page, containing the main theme of the song). The first thing to keep in mind throughout this song, is to keep your shuffle groove intact. All straight 16-notes are played with a swing feel (If you are not familiar with this, backtrack for a moment and...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: In bar 11, you see some ghost notes, and semi-articulated notes. This is also a good weapon to have in your arsenal, and this type of dynamic development can spice up a lick or line and make it groovy. What you have to keep in mind here is that the muting should be done by your right hand only, which entails you playing the line as though the ghost notes (i...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: Same thing as in bar 11 occurs in bar 13 (with ghost notes), but I'm also using the hybrid picking technique (playing with pick and fingers simultaneously). You will see the palm muted notes marked with "P.M", and the notes to be played with your right hand middle finger marked with "M".

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: In bar 22, we encounter some precise bending. Bending (vibrato) is one of the most over-looked techniques among younger players. But to have precise control over bending really makes the difference between a seasoned, all-round player and an amateur. For more on bending and vibrato check out my other lessons, as well as those of the other IG-instructors.

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Crazy! Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: In bar 23, you will come across one of the “hurdles” in this song. You might ask yourself “hey, I know tapping. Why should this be a problem?” Well, dear Sir or Madam, let me tell you... When looking closer at the tapping run in bar 23, we see that the general idea and concept is derived from a triplet pattern in the F# minor pentat...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Crazy! Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: The same problems with note value alteration as in the 5th analysis, can be found in bar 35-36. Here I’m playing a long legato/tapping run, pretty much floating all over the place, but still keeping that 9-tuplet note value flowing. In this line though, that convenient right hand triplet trick won’t be of any help to you. To master this run, yo...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Crazy! Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: Here's the backing track, with some added harmony and main motif guitars to help you along.

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