Total Guitar

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Words and Music by M. Shawn Crahan, Paul Gray, Nathan Jordison, Corey Taylor, James Root and Sid Wilson Copyright © 2004 EMI APRIL MUSIC INC. and MUSIC THAT MUSIC All Rights Controlled and Administered by EMI APRIL MUSIC INC. All Rights Reserved. Int

Guitar Techniques

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ON VIDEO This month we have a superb masterclass with Italian virtuoso Daniele Gottardo. In the accompanying video Daniele provides a detailed explanation of his approach to playing on Jason’s orchestral rock track, The Parade. It features a medium

Guitarist

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John Sykes has worked with a number of different bands through the years – Streetfighter, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Badlands, Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott, Whitesnake and Blue Murder – and from 1994 to date he has worked under his own name as a solo artist. His

Guitar Techniques

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VIDEO VIDEO & AUDIO https://bit.ly/426nebY ON VIDEO This month’s star video features LA guitarist Allen Hinds who creates a solo over Jason Sidwell’s sophisticated slow groover, Glow To Grow. The first part of the process, as Allen explains, is to

Guitar Techniques

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To complete our feature Jon Bishop delves into the workings of the Shadows’ main man’s iconic style. So, prepare to enter a Wonderful Land of melodic joy that’s sure to get your Foot Tapping. ABILITY RATING Moderate Info https://bit.ly/3DEmTDq Will i

Australian Guitar

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Bass is more than just a guitar with two fewer strings. It has a different tone, scale length, feel and musical role, and in many cases it requires a different conceptual and technical approach. Guitarists who are new to playing bass will often doubl

Guitar Techniques

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Strumming, indeed rhythm guitar as a whole, is a vital discipline that every guitarist should master. As much fun as it is to play blazing solos, the guitar is also an integral component in the rhythm section, and the ability to play chords fluently

Guitar Techniques

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TRACK RECORD As well as the tracks covered in this month’s examples, check out what happened in the following year or so with these brilliant follow-ups: Close To The Edge by Yes, Quadrophenia from The Who, Black Sabbath Vol 4, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side

Pianist

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WATCH GRAHAM’S ONLINE LESSONS AT WWW.PIANISTMAGAZINE.COM/LESSONS When we open a score, we may encounter an array of different types of dynamic and articulation markings telling us how the notes are to be played – or none at all, depending on the styl

Beat English

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In a nutshell, Autotonic provides the notes of a selectable scale distributed on the white keys of the keyboard. The black keys are only used to switch scales. So you can happily hit the (white) keys and don‘t have to worry about any mistakes, but ca

Guitar Techniques

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Moderate ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ https://bit.ly/42nJxc1 Key Various Tempo Various ✔ Use of dynamics ✔ Different articulation techniques ✔ Constructing memorable phrases Paul Gilbert exploded onto the 1980s rock scene with his exciting brand of speedy and highly

Guitar Techniques

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Welcome to this exclusive lesson looking at the pop, funk, soul, and disco rhythm styles that have powered the charts for over half a century. The aim of this lesson is to provide you with some core techniques and concepts to help you build a good vo

Pianist

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Thanks to the tireless efforts of a number of exemplary performers in recent years – not least pianist Mark Viner – the not insubstantial output for piano of Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) is more widely available than ever before. Before I heard Viner

Guitar Techniques

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ON VIDEO This month’s star video features American guitarist Jeff Kollman, a musician known for his stunning chops as both a solo artist and as band member with Alan Parsons (The Alan Parsons Project, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Al Stewart), Chad Smith

Guitar World

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LINEUP CHANGES CAN signal life or death for a band, but over their long career, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have repeatedly and successfully bounced back from personnel shifts with a new dynamic and refreshingly accessible sounds. Numerous distinguishe

Guitar Techniques

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Brought to you by… This month I’ll be delving into the much maligned (and perhaps misunderstood) genre of disco funk and three of its most iconic players. The style developed during the thriving nightclub scene of the US in the late 70s, and is perh

Guitar Techniques

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VIDEO & AUDIO https://bit.ly/3BvSmVy Easy to Moderate Info https://bit.ly/3BvSmVy Key Various Tempo Various Will improve your… ✔ Stylistic awareness ✔ Timing and tone production ✔ Stylistic awareness Lead and rhythm techniques Welcome to our 1980s gu

Total Guitar

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Rumours of a big Oasis reunion have been on and off for years. And, though current world events have put a stop to any comeback in the near future, here at TG we remain optimistic that the Gallagher brothers will bury their respective hatchets and st

Guitar Techniques

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Brought to you by… Oscar was a classically trained pianist before he discovered jazz and one idea he held onto throughout his playing career was ostinato technique. Ostinato is a compositional device that originated in the Baroque period of classical

Guitar Techniques

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Moderate/Advanced ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ Info https://bit.ly/3Sm87X3 Key Open Tempo 100 bpm Will improve your… ✓ Knowledge of chord scales ✓ Jazz & blues phrasing ✓ General jazz style articulation Those who know their YouTube and Truefire online courses will no d

Total Guitar

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Ahoy there! In this feature, we’re exploring the centuries-old musical style that has enjoyed an unlikely resurgence in 2021: the sea shanty. Both Bristol folk group The Longest Johns and Scottish postie Nathan Evans recently experienced viral succes

Guitarist

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Tutor Richard Barrett | Gear used Knaggs Choptank & Vox AC15 C1 Difficulty | 10 mins per example OUR ABILITY TO SOLO over any chord progression is greatly enhanced by understanding the content of those chords, even if we choose to stay purely within

Australian Guitar

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Although funk can be traced back to the early days of James Brown, like all styles, it has evolved a lot over the last 60 years. With an increasing body of great rhythm guitar players on the live circuit as well as well as online, there’s never been

Guitar Techniques

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Born in 1955, the late Chalmers ‘Spanky’ Alford was an accomplished guitarist, playing on many records and working as a touring hired gun for a number of stars. Throughout the 1960s through to the end of the 80s, Spanky was an in-demand gospel guitar

Pianist

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Key: A major Tempo: Moderate speed in a singing style Style: Romantic Will improve your: ✔Voicing of chords ✔Silent finger changes ✔Pedalling Schumann had a skill of thinking himself into different roles. His educational music is perfectly judged for

Guitar Techniques

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Tis month we welcome back Nick Johnston to play over an emotive track with plenty of instrumental rock and fusion vocabulary. As Nick explains, performing over A Joy Fulfilled was a creative challenge and the video captures a spontaneous approach wit

Total Guitar

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Featuring on Steely Dan’s 1972 debut album Can’t Buy A Thrill, Reelin’ In The Years includes twin-lead duties from band members Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter and Denny Dias. The legendary solos, however, much lauded by the likes of Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, w

Total Guitar

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Penned by Brian himself, Hammer To Fall is heavily based around Dr May’s guitar riffs, with the intro/ verse riff being one of the most famous in rock guitar history. The bulk of the song is in A, and Brian brilliantly uses the open A (fifth) string

Total Guitar

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Basslines are a great way of adding movement to simple chord progressions. This movement can be heard on countless songs including Paul Weller’s Changing Man. See how the high notes can stay the same while the bass notes move. When 2nds, 3rds, 4ths

Guitar Techniques

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This month we welcome back Italian fusion wizard and guitarist for film composer supreme, Ennio Morricone, the fantastic Rocco Zifarelli. We invited Rocco to take on another Jason Sidwell penned track, this one entitled Harlem 72. As Rocco explains,