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Feedback
JamesT27th July 2008Nice lesson. This is harder than it sounds. Melodic. Musical. Excellent.
Sami23rd February 2008This has a nice paul gilbert feel to it:D
Carlos Carrillo21st February 2008Hey Pavel!!!
Great lesson...Very creative...
Thanks
whammysam28th January 2008Yes, a nice melody. I've learned nearly a few by now. whilst I thought this at first to be one of the easiest.. It is actually proving one of the trickiest for me so far! It's a great lesson and incentive to play.. Thank you.
Tiltil28th December 2007Can't wait to get this down... one of the best melodies I've ever heard, really!
Your lessons are awesome Pavel, keep it up!- Jorbazz22nd December 2007
Hurray! The perfect lesson for me
Pavel15th December 2007Good job m8! That lesson is tricky so if you got it all clean you sure gained a lot
Jenkinson15th December 2007Just finished this learning and practicing this lesson. I feel much more in control now. Thanks Pavel!
Basic Assumption7th November 2007@jammer91 that's right! 've been thinking of that song, trying t olearn the lesson: thanks, Pavel. Now I play Sweet Child MUCH cleaner. and my pinky is much closer to the right posture now!
- Victafor3rd November 2007
wow this is awesome! ive got it at 130 bpm i need 10 more grrr
Farbror Kudde29th October 2007this sounds so cool!!
- Suii22nd August 2007
awesome sound!!
Thanks - metalforce66630th July 2007
I love practicing this! What a sweet lesson... I LOVE GMC!
ibanezkiller7th July 2007NICE SOUNd
jammer917th July 2007Sounds like GNR's sweet child o'mine
- Wyvernx3rd July 2007
After I'm through with this one, I'm pretty sure my fingers are going to much longer! Nice lesson though sounds really good.
fkalich20th June 2007Great job. Just about right, not too hard, not too easy, really nice sounding. Reminds me of the G&R tune.
- Pavel18th June 2007
Well - one "s" doesn't change a lot, right? It's a bout the lesson quality - not the name
Ibanex18th June 2007You should have called it "hands control lesson", this exercice is hard for both hands (string-skipping).
- misterj15th June 2007
your killing me, dude. this is so hard.
mattacuk12th June 2007Pavel,
i thought i had this lesson till i got to the 12-19 fret stretch - its killing me! ive been trying all day but i just cant seem to stretch that last fret without my finger comeing off the 12 fret!- Pavel8th June 2007
Play excercises that involve pinky!
signularis8th June 2007what is the best way to prawctise your pink
The Spartan8th June 2007Great lesson Pavel...this will definitely make me better at string skipping although I'm good at it but why not make it even better
SLASH917th June 2007I know it looks easy but gets hard later on
- signularis6th June 2007
darn i suck lol
- lliber3rd June 2007
as always pavel great lesson and a goal to aim for
- Pavel30th May 2007
If you started to play legato recently than you have nothing to worry about. You have to develop strenght and controlled hit on strings! Just make legato your regular practice technique and you'll get it soon!
- mmihaa30th May 2007
hi Pavel...grr...i love this lesson...but i don't get it...when i play hammer on i can't hear a sound..i just don't hear it...what is wrong?do i tap it to "lazy" or what?i just don't get it...
and pull offs...:S:S i suck:( but anyway...great lesson Pavel..i hope i'll learn it as soon as possible:D and then we rock! great work Pavel, as always;) - Pavel30th May 2007
No - i play it 100% alternate picking!
- JOhn30th May 2007
just a quick question when your playing the fast descending part each time you move down to the next three notes the you play it with a down pick so its like economic picking?
- JOhn30th May 2007
just a quick question when your playing the fast descending part each time you move down to the next three notes the you play it with a down pick so its like economic picking?
- Kevin9849726th May 2007
sounds very similar to that jerry c string skipping song
kahall26th May 2007You know I was setting here taking a break letting my hand spaz out.... and I was reading Pavels intro at the top of the lesson, kind of in a daze but still reading it and started laughing at the line that goes.
"When you master this lesson you'll feel huge advance in your control of string switching but most important thing is to play it CLEAN. Ready? GO!!
Ready? GO!!! cracks me up everytime. If you have seen the movie Team America - World Police you will know what I mean. If you have not seen it, it is good for a chuckle or 50...Ready? GO!!!- Pavel25th May 2007
Linear runs are runs following the scale note by note.
- Leviathan25th May 2007
ok i barely know what linear runs are but i'm gonna do this lesson solely for the hand control
- Leviathan24th May 2007
holy, way harder than first glance...
Edited for language by rokchik 
Aaron23rd May 2007thanx for the help pavel i kinda got it rite now
- stratman3321st May 2007
frikken sweet lesson.when i get my ibanez, this will sound great.
- Pavel21st May 2007
The tab is 100% correct! It means you play something wrong!
The hammer-on/pull-off section has different note lenghts so watch out for that! 
Asphyxia Feeling21st May 2007I'm having the same problem Aaron is having.. when i do the hammer on pull off section according to the tab it sounds like i'm a note short of how it should sound... is there an extra pull off in there somewhere?
- Pavel17th May 2007
Thanks - you're welcome guys!
I'll try to make more of this kind of lessons! - lliber15th May 2007
fantastic pavel yet another great lesson keep em coming
DeepRoots13th May 2007definatley being incorparated into my warm-up.
Thanks Pavel!- Aaron12th May 2007
i cant get the hammer-on pull-off section to sound jut right.
- Aaron12th May 2007
thnx!!!!!!!!!
- Pavel11th May 2007
Thanks guys!!
It's Ibanez JEM7WH - Aaron11th May 2007
pavel!!! i love the way you play that guitar!!! by the way: What model is your guitar?
shredmandan9th May 2007Pavel your a very talented dude.Trying to string skip like that and keep it sounding clean and smooth takes alot of work.Thanks for another awesome lesson and i hope you put out another one real soon.
- Anirudh9th May 2007
Wow, cool lesson and definately ill learn it, its awesome!
Andrew Cockburn9th May 2007The thing I like best about this lesson is its impossible to play unless your posture and left hand positioning is spot on
erik8th May 2007Great stuff, Pavel!
andrei.sz8th May 2007great lesson, and what's better is that this pice is real music.
cheers Pavel.
Engellos8th May 2007Awesome!
FaithfullyForgotten8th May 2007The name's Pavel,....Mr. Pavel......dude im really liking the sound here man.oh and by the way yes i can live with having a 19 yr old dad who plays guitar all day and lives with his parents,it might be a little wierd because im 21 but well get past that!!!!!!!ha ha ha ha ha
Smikey20068th May 2007haha yay i love these lessions there helpin my playen a bundle keep er comin master pavel
- pasiu8th May 2007
Dude keep the lessons coming. You've taught me in weeks what it would have taken me years to learn on my own.
- Pavel7th May 2007
Thanks all! I am really glad you liked it!
@me213: This lesson is a result of NOT THINKING IN SCALES - i came up with this simply playing string skips to make a nice melody out of it! It starts in B-Major! 
me2137th May 2007hi pavel great lesson!
erm these may be a stupid questions but here we go,
What scale is this in?, and
How did you make it up?
THANKS
GuitarDude7th May 2007just wow!
Rvddps7th May 2007
This reminds me a bit of the John Petrucci Rock Discipline DVD's first exercises with the hand stretches, well, great lesson as usual, keep it up!
- Boris7th May 2007
Great lesson, i'm gunna start on this one right after i come back from college.
thanks Pavel. 
The Uncreator7th May 2007Great Lesson as always, i havent practiced String Skipping since youre last lesson it, so this a good refresher course!
- Gustavo7th May 2007
awsome
i think its very difficult - Pavel7th May 2007
This lesson may sound simple but when you try to speed it up than you'll realize the problem of it!! Got some nasty string skipping stuff going on!
Thanks for comments! 
Scott Gentzen7th May 2007Exactly the kind of things I've been working on. Fantastic. Thanks
I love that sound!
- 7th May 2007
Again a fine addition to GMC
- Andrew Cockburn7th May 2007
Wow, a lesson that teaches you lots and sounds unbearably cool - thanks Pavel, adding this to my practice list right away!
- spdalton7th May 2007
Woot! A lesson that is definatly in my skill range. Can't wait to start learning it.
Sounds great too
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Playing linear runs using scales may become borring so let's change the atmoshpere and move onto a bigger challenge! I named this lesson "Hands Control" as inside you'll be challenged by string skipping over 1, 2 and 3 strings, stretching and linear runs at the same time! When you master this lesson you'll feel huge advance in your control of string switching but most important thing is to play it CLEAN. Ready? GO!!
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