Dividing Rhythm - Major/Minor Soloing

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

Excerpt: Grettings Guitar Slingers!! In this tutorial we will use the final example, 7b, from my Muting Techniques tutorial. As you recall, this example alternated between major and minor in every bar. The first bar isn't really major or minor, since no third is included in the chord. However, when soloing over this riff, it is best to approach this first bar as mi...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

Excerpt: Alright then! Here we have the actual solo. If you feel like it, you could of course learn this right of, and then head on to the backing track to practice it. However, I highly recommend you go through the analysis part and the videos, since this will put everything into perspective, both theoretically and technically. An important note here, this solo wa...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

Excerpt: In this first part, we will look into just the first 3 bars. Here I use artificial harmonics to produce my chosen notes. If you look closer at the very first note of this part, you will see that even though I'm fretting a B at the 4th fret on the G-string, I'm producing a D# harmonic with my right hand. As I mention in the video, I will do a future tutorial...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

Excerpt: In the next couple of bars we start out pretty straight forward. I go down the Dorian in bar 9, and end up in Mixolydian pentatonic in bar 10. After that however, some technically interesting things comes into play. In bar 12, I using a legato run in the Mixolydian scale, but do not land on the major third, but rather the 2nd degree creating a 9-chord feel ...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

Excerpt: Alright then, 3rd part of the analysis! This part begins with the bend I held in the previous bar, I release this bend landing back on the D# on the first beat of the bar. This bar is over the major part of the riff, and what I’m doing here is I’m going down the Mixolydian scale using a legato run. I’m not using my right hand at all during...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

Excerpt: And finally, here is the backing track for you to sink your teeth into! Get to work, and see you in my next tutorial!

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