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Fayeed Tan23rd October 2013goodness!! so fast yet so clean and you can hear every note clearly!! great job Ben!!
Darius Wave16th October 2013Some really hot stuff here
Waiting Rusty himself to aprove 
Slavenko Erazer7th October 2013I'm not sure that speed picking is supposed to pick up girls , but it's cool lesson anyway
Gabriel Leopardi6th October 2013Faster than light! Awesome job Ben!!
Piotr Kaczor6th October 2013Impressive! Especially with your killer vibrato!
SteveGuitar6th October 2013This lesson will work on:
- Speed picking
- Speed picking
- Speed picking
- Speed picking
- Finger strength / reach
- Picking up girls
Bahaha Genius Ben
DeGroot6th October 2013Rusty Cooley has some really inventive shred licks.
Definetley need to check these licks out...
Ben Higgins6th October 2013Awesome Ben !!
I've noticed you have changed your picking technique a lot, little by little... For example, in your MAB solo, it's totally different ! It seems that you use more your arm now.. Am I wrong ?
Good question. I found that sometimes I've had to slightly modify the way I picked to play certain lessons. Also, I look at them as an opportunity to experiment with different hand positions to see which works best. This lesson was all about creating total speed, so my picking motions were different to what I normally do. I don't know why !
livoire136th October 2013Awesome Ben !!
I've noticed you have changed your picking technique a lot, little by little... For example, in your MAB solo, it's totally different ! It seems that you use more your arm now.. Am I wrong ?
GregH6th October 2013Great lesson. This will give me a lot to work on (for a few years).
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Welcome to my new lesson!
THE PROFESSOR Learning how to build, play and apply Diminished Arpeggios and the 5th Mode of Harmonic Minor (Phrygian Major Scale) can go a long way when you are working on Rusty Cooley’s sounds in your practice routine. As you can hear in this lesson, picking plays a big part of Rusty’s sound, but so does the melodic modes and arpeggios that he choses when blazing up and down the fretboard.
Bringing Diminished Arpeggio Shapes and the Fifth Mode of Harmonic Minor into your practice routine will ensure that you are ready to tackle the sounds coming out of Rusty Cooley’s shredtastic solos and licks, such as the ones Ben expertly demonstrates in this lesson.
I decided to go a bit crazy this time as I was inspired by the guitar playing of Rusty Cooley, who is a god of picking. I can't do what he can do but I took away the idea of playing with all 4 fingers of the fretting hand on one string. There are people like Allan Holdsworth who are known for using all fingers on the neck at once but in the world of heavy guitar / shred Rusty is the main man for this sort of thing!
So I decided to give it a go and see what I came up with. One thing that is apparent when using 4 fingers on one string is that you can play repeating triplet licks with more speed than using 2 strings. This makes sense because we don't have to cross strings so you can conserve more time.
It's not just Rusty's 4 finger approach that I shoehorned into this lesson though, I've also got some stretchy diminished triad shapes which will get your hand burning!
This lesson is not for the faint hearted so buckle up and enjoy the ride!
This lesson will work on:
- Speed picking
- Speed picking
- Speed picking
- Speed picking
- Finger strength / reach
- Picking up girls
Tuning:
E A D G B E Standard
Tempo:
140 bpm
Key:
G Minor
Gear:
Marshall JVM. OD1 Channel, Red setting. BASS 2 MID 3 TREB 8 GAIN 4
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