Dark Rose

Hi Folks!

Here I am with my first lesson for GMC and I am very happy to present you an original piece called Dark Rose! It is a kind of Hard Rock Style with some nice tapping technique exploring the 4ths and 5ths in a C#m7 pentatonic way, I did add the 9th interval into it so keep it in mind!

The song starts with riffs in C#m/ B/ C#m...E /B...C#m/ B/ C#m..F#m/ A/ E/ B/D#...
I also use C#m7 Aeolian mode and there is a part in the song that goes to "C" and "D" where I play over C Lydian and D Mixolydian modes! That´s because I play a 4 and 5 fingers style of tapping which pretty much starts from C Lydian reaching the D Mixolydian mode.

In the Bluesy part it is just pentatonics, I use mostly Em7 combined with Em6, E dominant Pentatonic and blue-note.
As I am playing over E7 Chord I used E7 MiXolydian scale to finish that part.

Here you have the main video with full performance of the song in 140 bpm and I also have a sequence of 10 videos where I break down every lick showing you them in the slow mode. I recommend you to go step by step with this lesson to get a better result.

I hope you have a great time with this lesson! I see you next time!

Gear:

Guitar used:
Fender USA Highway 1
Strings: Dean Markley Blue Steel 0.10
Effect: I used Guitar Rig 4 the chain was guitar + Focusrite 24 pro + iMac in to my Cubase 5, and to get this sound I used a combination of Gratifier on the Vintage mode + 4X12 Vintage cabinet V1 with the green distortion pedal on the top of everything called "Screamer" with the Delay from Cubase plugins called "MonoDelay" and here is what I´ve changed there to get this sound on the solo guitar: Delay/1/4, Feedback/10.5, Mix/10.0 then you are ready to go!

Tempo: 140 bpm

Key: E

Recording Gear:

Cubase 5
Guitar Rig 4
iMac 27