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- Beginner Soloing #1LEVEL 3Phrasing lesson dedicated to the beginners. Focused on articulation, tone colors and basic arpeggios, often used by many players. Tempo of 60 bpm will let You practice some useful phrasing tips, without being distracted by technical issues.
- Beginner Etude 2LEVEL 2Beginner etude focusing on double-stops, with a neoclassical vibe.
- Beginner Jam #2LEVEL 3Using simple tools such as sliding and bending, we will construct our lines.
- Total Beginner 2LEVEL 1What is picking, strumming & distortion? How to dial in your amp.
- Heavy Funkin' Soloing #2LEVEL 8Continuation of Heavy Funkin' soloing lesson. It's a second part of my original song "Heavy Funkin' Dragon medley". In this part we are going to combine some funky groove, fast picking with nostalgic, smooth playing on the neck pickup in the ending section.
- Dynamics & Phrasing #2LEVEL 5Learn how to build phrases over a chilling 6/8 track in E-major. Extend your dynamics range by executing all articulation details presented in this lesson.
- Beginner EtudeLEVEL 3Practice guitar techniques in baroque mood.
- Beginner JamLEVEL 2Start jamming from day #1
- Yngwie Style SweepingLEVEL 3Lesson inspired by Malmsteen's sweeped arpeggios. Perfect when you just began to work on sweep picking and you want to practise within reasonable tempo amount.
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marvit20th November 2021Thanks for taking time to explain!
Really helps to understand it better.
Darius Wave1st November 2021Exactly as Kris described - these are not considered to be part of the scale. These are notes used as ornaments to create tension. Marty Friedman uses a lot of this stuff. These note would sound false if you try to use them as a long, ringing notes.Maybe note as much the 5# (a#) becasue this note is highly realted to blues and rock playing, being called a "blue note" but sharp 7 (7#) would sound false on some chord including note "d".
Kristofer Dahl31st October 2021Hey Marvit!
The reason Darius bends up from these two notes, is to create tension. They don't really have a function in this key (and with this chord progression) - other than being a half step away from the two strongest sounding notes:
I - the root note ( E )
V - the fifth ( B )
When you bend up from a "bad" sounding note to a strong one - you get get a very cool effect!- marvit31st October 2021
Great lesson!
The first 2 notes (D# and A#) are not from E minor scale. Can you explain their relationsip to E minor an why are they used here from theory point of view?
Thanks a lot! 
George Hlio8th March 2018Great soloing lesson especially for us beginners who need a lot of work as far as bending is concerned! Nice Darius!
Manu RASSE12th December 2016Very nice tone and amazing playing,
wonderfull lesson
Thx Darius- Darius Wave8th December 2016
I hope I made a good balance between things still being musical, yet simple enough to be handled by beginners
Thanx for all your kind comments 
Monica Gheorghevici8th December 2016Beautiful lesson Darek!
krakou7th December 2016Vibrating a bending note with a unison is clearly not a very easy thing to do ;-) The tune is really great, I will enjoy a lot to learn and play this one. Drums are quite cool too. Nice job !
- Darius Wave7th December 2016
Thanx! I'm trying to be up to date on what's happening at the forum, and deliver some help for current requests
Stenchovdeth7th December 2016Bravo Darius! Just what I needed to get my unison bends into shape.
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Welcome to the Beginner Soloing 2 lesson !
Lesson dedicated for beginners. Great introduction to the world of solos. Simple melodies are colorized with articulation, common for pro playing as well. Reasonable speed will make You able to focus on details - especially bending and vibrato. Your task in this one is to achive clean execution with correct pitch of bends and vibrato. Timing should not be a problem, because the rhythm is quite simple.
Gear used (in order of connection chain placement):
1. SX SST57 guitar
2. Presonus Inspire 1394 firewire audio interface (input gain 40%)
3. Poulin LeXtac vst plug-in:
- Channel - blue
- Input 50%
- Gain 70%
- Pre EQ - brighter
- Bass 50%
- Middle 40%
- Treble 50%
- Contour 100%
4. Kefir impulse loader (mix 100%)
5. Impulse - Catharsis s-preshigh
Tuning - Standard E
Backing track progression:
4/4
Em | Em | Em | Em |
Em | C | Bm | D |
||: Em | G | Am | C | Em | G | Am | C :||
Am | Am | Em | Em | Am | Am | Em | D ||
Tempo: Main song tempo is 120 bpm. There are also backing tracks available at 60, 80, 100 and 120 bpm.
Time signature: 4/4
Scales used in this lesson:
E-minor
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