The Angus Clark Guitar Challenge Part 1

The Angus Clark Guitar Challenge Part 1 Guitar World Hi my name is Angus Clark and I bet you can’t play this… [Demonstration] Today for bet you can’t play this we’ve got a lick that I called the dominizer because it’s on the dominant 7 chord in A. I’m tuned down the ½ step if you guys are playing along and what I’m doing essentially is I am just playing this little pattern that plays arpeggio of an A dominant 7 chord so it’s all the inversions of the top 3 strings so you would from starting on C sharp and then you move to the next inversion. [Demonstration] And then when you get to the top and now you’re back around to the first starting on the third and at the end of this which I’ve done a whole bunch of technical fast stuff then you play a blues wick so the people know you actually have a musical solo. So the blues licking question actually uses a lot of what are called approach notes which is a concept that I stole from a jazz wizup and this lick is… [Demonstration] And it makes use of instead of going straight into the arpeggio we approach the 3rd from a half step below… [Demonstration] Then you approach the 5th… [Demonstration] And play a little blues lick… [Demonstration] And you approach the 3rd again… [Demonstration] And that’s the lick so it’s all dominant 7 arpeggios… [Demonstration] Alright we’re going to talk just a little bit about the techniques amusing in this lick and just quickly this is an Atomic Guitar Works custom guitar they made for me to play with the trends of being orchestra and I’ve got 11 to 52 gauge with D’Addario strings on it so nice and heavy they tuned down a half step and we got DiMarzio pickups because they catch a lot of definition. So speaking of definition here’s how you use your pick when you’re playing this lick. It makes use of some sweeping but it’s so little it’s really economy picking I guess so it’s down the picking is and I’ll do this with a sound off. Down up, down, down, up, down, up, up and then you’re into the next inversion so… [Demonstration] And then when I get in to the blues lick I utilize some hammer-on pull offs so it give it more fluid feel. [Demonstration] With a little sliding so what you need to look at when you’re getting this lick together is you need to get both the combination of economy picking and often it picking together you need to get this position shifting happening because you’re switching. [Demonstration] And when you do that you have to really target to what fret you’re going to… [Demonstration] So targeting, economy picking, alternate, picking, and a little bit of hammers and slides, get your approach note thing happening and really it’s a great way to get some knowledge of the neck on where all these arpeggios are because you can use this dominant 7 arpeggio over a dominant 7 chord. [Demonstration] But6 if you’re really playing some rock you could just use it over a lick that kind of implies a dominant 7 tonality you know. [Demonstration] Anything like that you can just bam you’re off into 8 dominant 7 land so have fun with the dominizer and I bet you can play it actually you work on it.