Hey, what’s up? I’m back. It’s Neal on the Guitar Tricks Channel, and we got some fresh info for you guitar players out there. We got the tip of the week. We got the lesson of the week and we got all kinds of good stuff in between, so check it out. You got the delay pedal. I’m going to show you how to make some cool spacey, yo-fo kind of sounds with your delay pedal. So what I’m going to do right now, I have the Boss DD-7 Digital Delay. You just turned feedback knob all the way up, strike a note [Demonstration], just keeps on going, I change the delay time knob [Demonstration]
Now onto our lesson, it’s right. It’s a request from the velvet guitar. He had a question about Soloing Technique and what I’m going to do is show you how to make a great riff using the notes that are in the chord. And back in lesson 17, I have this riff that went like this [Demonstration]. I didn’t have time to go into how I made that riff and I want to show you now how to make great riffs out of using notes, that chords have in common in your progression. For example, first chord I play is an A, right? As you may know basic theory, chord is made up of three notes, one, three and the five, so in the A, as the C as the 3rd, if you move down to the 5, it’s also got the C in the chord also. So what I did was I want to play with the A, just kind of bounce it up to that C note which is in the A chord. And then I went to the F, which also has the C, I kept that note in action to C. That way the chords are different but they’re tied together and then I want to go to the G [Demonstration], I hit the B which is the 3rd and it’s really close to the C so what I did is to throw in the C in also [Demonstration]. And now every chord has got that C note in it, but it’s just not just some random note. It’s like a thread that ties all three chords together and that’s what really makes something a hook, a memorable riff because even though the chords are changing, it’s got this thing in that ties them all together.
Hopefully this helps you out. This is a great tool that you use it all the time and I know a lot of them people do, too. Look at the notes that your chord progressions have in common and try to incorporate those when you’re making your own riffs. It’s a really great technique and I use it all the time.
I hope you enjoyed this lesson. I’ll be back here, same that time, same that channel and let me request on YouTube, Twitter, MySpace, guitartricks.com in our forum, and we’ll be back here real soon. You have a great week. Try something new, try it out man, and see what you come up with you.
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