Angus Clark Guitar Challenge Part 3

Angus Clark Guitar Challenge Part 3 Hi, my name is Angus Clark. I play guitar for Daredevil Squad in the trend Siberian orchestra. And I bet you can't play this. [Demonstration] Now, I play that lick slow. [Demonstration] I call that lick, the Two Stringer or the Two Stringer Radar. Anyway, I'm playing it today here on my atomic guitar works custom guitar with the D'Addario Strings and Di Marcio pick-ups. And these are 11s and the guitar is tuned down a half step in case you’re playing along. This is a lick that I feature in a solo. I play it on the most recent metal church record in a song called “Monster”. I was a very happy and privileged to play on that record. And for the end of the solo, the song, the solo section of the song is essentially an F#m, tuned down a half step here but on the record it’s F#m. And at the end, there's a little chord progression, a descending chord progression that goes C#m, B, A, E#m, F#. And then to bring it back around to the main lick of the song, it does a quick deep tune F chord, a little F-G right at the end into the main lick of the song which is an E. So, what I wanted to do is outline those chords to something kind of flashy and then get it a nice tasty lick right at the end because remember you play some fast then play something tasty. So, I did a little two string pattern and its sextuplets because there sexy. Instead of actually playing the whole arpeggio of the C#m which I'm starting here on the C# and you could play down to the C# to the root of the chord. But instead of doing that, I took what for me is an easy way out which is I just go down to the 9th of the chord, so I get to that D#. And I do that on each chord going down. So for the C#, it’s to the 9th, on the B chord to the 9th, on the A chord. Now on the G#m chord, if I'm staying in the key, the 9th would be the flat 9 which is just a little too jazzy. And I didn’t like the way it sounded when I did that. It was annoying, so I did it like this which requires a little bit of stretch and shifting. Slide tastily into that C# and then you're in a good position because we’re on the F#m chord and a good position to play this Blues lick which again for some maybe the harder part because it has some pull off and stuff. And right here, we hit the F-G. And I hit them with a double stop, the F and the A and then G and the B. So, technical things to be concerned about when you're doing this are first of all, you got to know where to find these chords on the neck and not just involves note on the neck. So for the picking on this, it’s all alternate picking. And this last beat when I was writing and I find out that I didn’t like the way this sounded and I had to play this. I totally put a cape. But in order to figure out how to play it in any other contexts that made me create a little exercise for me to get that little shifting thing happening. And I found the best way to execute that was to stay focused on where my second finger needed to be, so I could just get over there and nail that note. So, thank you very much. I had a good time working on it. I'm Angus Clark. And this I bet you can't play this.