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Aleksander Sukovic4th March 2009Great performance! This is top class. Great one, David!
Fretburns3rd March 2009Wow cool lesson....thats tricky stuff alt picking at tha speed...i need more practise! especially with those scale patterns..thanks
taojones24th December 2008excellent David I love this type of music...tj
Dejan Farkas17th December 2008Cool, Al Di Meola is great indeed, and this really sounds like him, well done Dave
Jose Mena14th December 2008Loved it man, sounds like an acoustic, love the feel of the track and your lead work
David Wallimann14th December 2008Thanks you everyone!
I really like how the tone of my Parker worked out on this one too, those piezzos are so cool!
kaznie_NL14th December 2008Super David! You really caught the style! I love your tone
Marcus Siepen14th December 2008awesome David
Gerardo Siere14th December 2008Very nice playing.
Hisham Al-Sanea13th December 2008great style David.
Guitarist1613th December 2008Great lesson, you covered Di Meola perfectly.
Emir Hot13th December 2008very nice David
Pedja Simovic13th December 2008Nice one David !
Ognjen Protic13th December 2008Nice.
Nemanja Filipovic13th December 2008Wow,beautiful lessson David,and top notch playing as well.
Nazgul13th December 2008Sounds really spanish! I like the backing.
Sinisa Cekic13th December 2008I like this
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Bogdan Radovic13th December 2008Wow you nailed the style perfectly ! Top notch stuff David!
Déjà vu13th December 2008(Long Story)... But, man! I wish this lesson came out a week ago
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berko13th December 2008One of your best in style of lessos IMO. Awesome stuff, cool bt!
Kuba Szafran13th December 2008Awesome stuff and great backing track David!!
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In this lesson we'll explore the wonderful world of Spanish style music with this piece composed in the style of Al Di Meola. This lesson will help you develop a strong alternate picking technique. One of he most important aspect here to get the feel of this track is to play as precisely and as clean as possible.
Both of your hands need to be extremely synchronized.
As far as the backing track goes, we'll go through the following chord progression:
Am7
Gm7
Am7
Dm7
C
Gm7
Am7
We'll use an A Phrygian scale throughout the track mixing it with the Phrygian dominant scale which is basically a Phrygian mode with a Major 3rd.
Make sure to have the scale patterns memorized, and work through the licks with precision.
Practice well!
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