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Improving Your Phrasing

Instructor: Al Joseph
Style: Rock
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    Improving Your Phrasing - Intro Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

    Excerpt: This tutorial is about improving your phrasing. This is a very difficult topic for the following reasons: 1. Everyone has their own tastes 2. Everyone hears thing differently 3. Laziness Let's focus on the third point on the list. I don't mean lazy in a sense that most of us don't want to work hard. But it is said that the older and more experience...

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    Improving Your Phrasing - Explanation Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

    Excerpt: Listening is extremely important. Every slur, hammer-on, slide, vibrato you hear when learning a solo, LEARN IT. Most aspiring artists I meet take all their time learning how to shred like crazy but never learn the sound that is needed to draw the listener in. Take a guy like Joe Satriani for example. He talks about the melody being the focal point of his m...

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    Improving Your Phrasing - Demo No.1 Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

    Excerpt: Solo #1. Note that I do not include any dynamic phrasing in the tab. If you download the Guitar Pro file, listen carefully to how plain the phrasing is in the tab compared to what I'm actually playing. If you are trying to improve your sound, write down the differences. I can promise you with some hard work and application, your sense of phrasing and even me...

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    Improving Your Phrasing - Demo No.2 Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

    Excerpt: Solo #2. Note that I do not include any dynamic phrasing in the tab. If you download the Guitar Pro file, listen carefully to how plain the phrasing is in the tab compared to what I'm actually playing. If you are trying to improve your sound, write down the differences. I can promise you with some hard work and application, your sense of phrasing and even me...

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    Improving Your Phrasing - Demo No.3 Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

    Excerpt: Solo #3. Note that I do not include any dynamic phrasing in the tab. If you download the Guitar Pro file, listen carefully to how plain the phrasing is in the tab compared to what I'm actually playing. If you are trying to improve your sound, write down the differences. I can promise you with some hard work and application, your sense of phrasing and even me...

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    Improving Your Phrasing - Backing Track Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

    Excerpt: Here we have the backing track where you can practice the 3 solos and variate your phrasing. Have fun and good luck!

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