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- Vai-olationLEVEL 6A look at the style of the brilliant Steve Vai, full of sliding phrases and Lydian tonalities.
- Vai Made EasyLEVEL 2A beginner solo in the style of guitar legend Steve Vai.
- Hangin with Vai & SatchLEVEL 6Explore the sounds of Vai and Satriani on the same track.
- Eddie Van VaiLEVEL 6In this lesson I´ll show you one of my first songs. I wrote it when I was 15 years old.
- Vai-able Hammer-onsLEVEL 2A beginner lesson focusing on using hammer-ons in the style of Steve Vai
- Steve Vai Style LydianLEVEL 6Lesson inspired in Steve Vai and Metalcore bands.
- Death Metal Satch & VaiLEVEL 6An imaginary scenario where we use licks in the style of Joe Satriani and Steve Vai over some traditional death metal
- Nuno Meets Vai & GilbertLEVEL 8Today I will show you a piece of one of the songs I wrote when I used to listen Extreme a lot and Nuno Bettencourt was my favorite guitar player, this lesson may not be a mirror of Nuno but it sure has a lot of his style.
- Blues Meets MetalLEVEL 6Solos: minor & major arpeggios and minor Pentatonics combined.
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Guido Bungenstock3rd November 2014Ben, omg finally!! :-D
Ben Higgins2nd November 2014Ben, I really hate you! You're responsible that I throw my guitar to the fireplace!!! :-((
But Guido.. there's TABS !!
- Guido Bungenstock2nd November 2014
Ben, I really hate you! You're responsible that I throw my guitar to the fireplace!!! :-((
pikman2nd November 2014Absolutely captured the spirit of Vai.smooth legato and brilliant playing! Clever title too!
Hajduk2nd November 2014Awesome Ben
Loved the first Vai-olation. This one is so good, thank you
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Hi guys, it's time to look at some more Vai inspired licks. If you remember my other Vai lesson, then you'll notice that things are a bit harder this time.
I wanted to demonstrate the possibilities of creating interesting runs by mixing up alternate picking and occasional hammer-ons and pull-offs. Steve is always mixing legato and picking in this way and it sounds really good, especially in the Lydian mode as it creates this dreamy, cascading effect.
If you take one thing from this lesson, you don't have to pick every note to get some exciting sounding fast runs. Take these ideas and apply them to your own licks and see how much further you can stretch your abilities by combining picking and legato in this way.
Are you ready to be Vai-olated?
Tuning: E A D G B E - Standard Tuning
Tempo: 95bpm
Gear:
Ibanez RG7421, Nick Crow 8505 Amp Plugin, Guitar Suite Tube Screamer, Poulin LeCab 2.
Key: E
Scales:
From this course:
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Jump to start: Home or `s` , you can also click/tap the lesson part again (the numbers above player)
Go to next part: PageUP or End.
Volume: ArrowUp / ArrowDown keys
Go to any part: Number keys (combinations also possible)
Pause or play: `k` or space key
Fullscreen: `f`, esc to close
Increase / decrease speed : `+` or `-`
