Petrucci Melody Build Up

HI GMC!

Here we are again, playing the guitar as usual! I expect you also play every day, because magic is 70% practice and you never
stop learning! That's what makes guitar playing more and more interesting as time goes by!!

In this lesson we'll see how to develop a melody gradually. It's a fragment of a song called "Espejismo Interior" ("Inner Mirage"),
included in my first solo album which I'm recording at present. I wanted to make it a lesson 'cause I feel it's very
helpful to show you how to compose a melody and recreate a little of John Petrucci's (DREAM THEATER) style, especially the
stuff in his spectacular, state-of-the-art solo albums.

We start with an intro, then comes the A riff that keeps on when the main melody begins and then is followed by the
B riff, which is the chorus of he song.

The tone is F sharp major, but the diminished scale is also used to give the song a darker feel. The main melody is in the
F sharp major scale. I also use the Debussy scale (Debussy was a fantastic pianist and composer who invented this scale), which
consists of either going up tone by tone or in this way: semitone, tone, semitone, tone, etc. This scale is also known as
hexatonic. Famous examples of the hexatonic scale include the whole tone scale, C D E F# G# A# C; the augmented scale, C D# E G Ab B C;
the Prometheus scale, C D E F# A Bb C; and what some theorists call the "blues scale", C Eb F F# G Bb C.

I hope you enjoy the lesson. Practise a lot and see you next time!!


Tuning :

guitar tuned one step down

from 6th string to 1st these are the notes:

D G C F A D

It´s a lower tuning, for heavier sounds, special for this kind of music with heavy riffs!!


Chords:

F# - B minor - G - E minor


Techniques:

riffing
twin guitars
licks
picking
legato
slide


Scales:

F# major arpegio

B pentatonic minor scale

F# harmonic minor

G lydian scale

E pentatonic minor scale

Debussy scale