GEORGE MARIOS Video Masterclass
ABILITY RATING
Key C
Tempo 122bpm
Advanced
Will improve your…
✓ Hybrid picking technique
✓ Playing over chord changes
✓ Intervallic soloing
George Marios’s unique approach to modern soloing combines elements of rock, blues, jazz and country to create a style that’s jaw droppingly impressive, musical and inventive. He effortlessly uses highly developed techniques such as hybrid picking and legato to play complex lines that feature intervallic jumps, pleasing dissonance, and harmonic approaches, while his knowledge of music theory and its application combines to create amazing, inventive and imaginative guitar music.
For this issue, George solos over Jason Sidwell’s track, If You Will. It has an upbeat Major tonality in a pop-rock-fusion style at a tempo of 122bpm, and features some interesting rhythmic elements as well as complex chord changes.
The first thing to do when deciding what to play over a set of chord changes is to know what key it’s in, so the first tricky thing about the tune presents itself. Figuring out what key it’s in isn’t easy. That might sound a little strange, but each section has its own key centre or various key centres, making it difficult to pin a common tonality to the piece. Therefore, from a soloing perspective, each section can be viewed as being in a key of its
