Beginner Volume Swells & Slides

Welcome to the Beginner Volume Sweels & Slides lesson

This particular lesson will teach you how to use volume sweels, combined with slides. Combo of these two techniques can make guitar sound almost like a violin or cello. It has been used by many players but the most famous is the icon of neoclassical rock - Yngiwie Malmsteen. Make sure to watch the spoken video (part 1) and read comments under each part, because that;s where You'll find some tips.

Gear used (in order of signal chain placement):

1. SX SST57 electric guitar
2. Behringer MIC100 tube preamp (-20db switch on, gain and out knobs about 50%)
3. Presonus Inspire 1394 firewire audio interface (input gain 25%)
4. Poulin LeXtac vst plug-in:
- Channel - blue
- Input 50%
- Gain 70%
- Pre EQ - brighter
- Bass 50%
- Middle 40%
- Treble 50%
- Contour 100%
5. Kefir impulse loader (mix 100%)
6. Impulse - Catharsis s-preshigh

Tuning - Standard E

Backing track chord progression:

4/4 Em | Em | Em | Em | D | D | D | D |
C | C | C | C | B | B | B | B |


4/4 D | D | Am | Am | B | B | D | D |
Am | Am | F#m7b5 | F#m7b5 | B | B | B | B | Em ||


Tempo: Main song tempo is 120 bpm. There are also backing tracks available at 60, 75, 90, 105 and 120 bpm.

Time signature: 4/4

Scales used in this lesson:

E harmonic minor



E aeolian minor