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Gerardo Siere10th January 2009Love your lessons, late 80's are back.
Alejandro Pinero9th January 2009Very good lesson Dave!!
David Wallimann9th January 2009Thanks man, your comments make my day and inspire me to prepare something better each time. :-)
Jeff9th January 2009Awesome! David your lesson are so excellent, man. Your a big inspiration to me. And that tone is just killer. This lesson sounds just like Satriani to me. Great!
Bogdan Radovic7th January 2009Cool lesson Topic David!!
Pedja Simovic7th January 2009Cool lesson David !
Toni Suominen7th January 2009Helpful as always David!
Nighthawk17th January 2009Great idea, David
- David Wallimann7th January 2009
Thanks guys!
Glad they inspire you! 
Emir Hot7th January 2009This is very cool playing and nice melodic ideas David
Nazgul7th January 2009Your new lessons are really cool as they help being musical.
kaznie_NL7th January 2009Hey David, I really like your new lessons, all about phrasing tools!
Ivan Milenkovic7th January 2009Very nice concept for a lesson, breathing is very important, it makes playing more fluid. Great job David
Piotr Kaczor7th January 2009Great topic Dave and of course awesome playing!
Dejan Farkas7th January 2009Cool phrasing Dave
Marek Rojewski7th January 2009Ah, such a nice tone:) I also agree that breathing is very important, when You do it skillfully You will sound much better, while on the same level of technical skill.
not2secure4u7th January 2009Awesome man, very very cool topic ! Super lesson !
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Playing music without breathing is one of the most common mistakes when starting to improvise. Imagine someone speaking to you without any punctuation in his dialogue, it will be hard to follow what he is saying and you will quickly be bored of his speech. It's the same thing while improvising.
In todays lesson, we'll try to create some short lead ideas making sure to leave some key silences in the improvisation to give time to the listener to absorb what you are saying musically.
We'll work in two keys today, E minor pentatonic and F# minor pentatonic. Use your ears when following the chords, sometimes you can make some wrong notes work in there as the backing track is quite open.
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