Steve Rieck: The next thing that the repeating is the type of pick that you use has a huge affect on the sound. Lot of times I have students come in playing a song that was played with the thin pick and applied with the heavy pick and vice versa. And those really change the sound of what you are doing automatically if you are playing the storming chords. That type of thing, you are doing a storming thing. Most times you are going to want a really thin pick with a lot of flex to give it a smooth kind of tone.
If I already use, let's say a really heavy pick that I might use for a Lead guitar, or a Lead electric guitar playing, this is a 2 mm pick. This is basically a going to sound like I come storming with a brick. It is much harsher, if you want that harsh sound for whatever reason, for this type of song that's, obviously that works too. But it's just important to deal where those tone differences and so.
The next part, I just want to give you an exercise that you can practice. And what I would say is any scales that you are playing which is the C major scale or anything you are doing, in your guitar lessons, any more exotic scales rather than just thinking of them in position like that where you are just playing in a normal position.
Well what you to do is practice the scale rather than in position vertically, try horizontally on every string. So let's say I was just playing a G major scale but that is a GABCDEF#G because it is second octet, ABCDEF#G. I am just using the G scale for purposes of example. Now what I would do is practice doing up and down each string with that so in this case it starts on E to F#GABCDEGCBAGF#E. So that was the notes of the G major scale up and down the first string you can look at the tab to look at a slowed down version of that if you are not familiar with that.
But what I really want to do is practice whatever scales that you are practicing, learn the notes of the scale and then try them up and down the strings this way so that you really see the whole steps and half steps involved. So again if I did the G scale on the second string, we go DCDEF#GABAGF#EDCB and so on. On the third string GABCDEF#GF#BGCDAG or you even do chord arpeggios, if you just did the G major chord which are the notes G, B, and D, here we go GBDBGBDGBGDBGBDGDBG and then down onto the lower string as well and so on. So that's the warm up for this week.
Erik Mongrain: Hi! I am Erik Mongrain and today I am going to try and show you how to play the Lead tapping. Point is that this technique is mostly improvisation for me, I would say 75% improvisation and 25% scratches.
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