Progressive guitar players like John Petrucci and Steve Morse have influenced this solo by Gabriel Leopardi. The solo is in F#m and you will find some interesting slow licks and also speed alternate picking parts. There is a loop of the backing track recorded for you to keep on practicing a long time.

A beautiful Petrucci solo.

A ballad approach to MCR.

We will practice rhythmic singing, and cover the topic of pronouncing the words fast and clear.

Let's appreciate the importance of melody, always remember: "The guitar is an instrument by which we communicate", therefore, bear in mind that the melody is the voice with the words that you want to express.

The song is easy, and the melody is very straightforward. In this lesson we will focus mostly on our vibrato and pitch modulation on certain words in the song while singing. You will notice how I execute the vibrato on certain notes, and try to do the same.

We are going to walk a "2 feel" bass line to a simple jazzy backing using roots, thirds, and 5ths - in other words triads! You will learn how to combine the knowledge gained so far to improvise an interesting walking bass line.

Economy picking is a very effective way to play fast without overdoing it. Every movement in economy picking is calculated so that all the superfluous is eliminated. The rule is to play alternate picking always except when playing two notes on adjacent strings. Whenever this happens, we will use sweeping to continue the movement started. In other words, if you are playing a note down and need to play the next string, you will continue to play down...