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- Bon Jovi Style 1: 2000 - RhythmLEVEL 3Get started with the complete style of Bon Jovi.
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- Bon Jovi Style 8: Country - SoloLEVEL 5Richie's country side to soloing
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Darius Wave31st August 2017I generally work over Marshall kind of crunch tones. Experimenting with lots of tones through time, I found it really gives the ability to match to almost everything
Just the tiny adjustments can make a huge difference
Monica Gheorghevici29th August 2017Awesome lesson and really great tone!! I'm always amazed by the fact that no matter how much amount of distortion you will put in tone, all the things will sounds very clear in your hands
- Darius Wave28th August 2017
Thx Coffee!
Richie did a great job on the earlier Bon Jovi recordings. He's a great player with a cool, classic rock taste 
coffeeman25th August 2017Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!!! Reminds me of my younger days. Richie Sambora is an amazing guitar player!
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Welcome to the Bon Jovi Style lesson !
Lesson inspired by John Bon Jovi band. Great example of how classic rock evolved. Good old rock basics but with more distortion. All enclosed in a pleasant, melodic form. Nice way to practice your rock rhythm playing. Focus on a tight timming and right hand tone control - don't hesitate to use really strong picking! To verify your skills and boost the performance you can record guitar track twice and pan one left, one right (double tracking)
Gear used (in order of connection chain placement):
1. SX SST57 guitar
2. Presonus Inspire 1394 firewire audio interface (input gain 40%)
3. Poulin LeXtac vst plug-in:
- Channel - blue
- Input 50%
- Gain 70%
- Pre EQ - brighter
- Bass 50%
- Middle 40%
- Treble 50%
- Contour 100%
4. Kefir impulse loader (mix 100%)
5. Impulse - Catharsis s-preshigh
Tuning - Standard E
Backing track progression:
4/4
Em | Em | Em | Em |
C/E | D/E | Em | Em |
Em | Em | Em | Em |
Am | G | Em | Em |
Em | Em | Em | Em |
c | Am G | Em | Em |
Csus9 D | G Am | Csus9 D | G Am |
Csus9 D | Am G D/F# | Csus9 | D ||
Tempo: Main song tempo is 110 bpm. There are backing tracks available at 50, 65, 80, 95 and 110 bpm.
Time signature: 4/4
Scales used in this lesson:
E-minor
Scrubbing / forward / rewind: arrow right, arrow left keys
Jump to start: Home or `s` , you can also click/tap the lesson part again (the numbers above player)
Go to next part: PageUP or End.
Volume: ArrowUp / ArrowDown keys
Go to any part: Number keys (combinations also possible)
Pause or play: `k` or space key
Fullscreen: `f`, esc to close
Increase / decrease speed : `+` or `-`
Jump to start: Home or `s` , you can also click/tap the lesson part again (the numbers above player)
Go to next part: PageUP or End.
Volume: ArrowUp / ArrowDown keys
Go to any part: Number keys (combinations also possible)
Pause or play: `k` or space key
Fullscreen: `f`, esc to close
Increase / decrease speed : `+` or `-`
