Meet The Ornaments

Welcome to the Meet The Ornaments lesson !

This is an introduction to most common ornaments in guitar playing. Some of those ornaments are general for other instruments as well - for example trill, mordent and turn. Other ornaments are based on the specific of guitar and it's articulation range - bends and prebends, specific vibrato execution. Get a taste of them all before adding each to your own playing.


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 ||: C | C | Am | Am | F | F | Dm | Dm G :||
||: F | F | C | C | Dm | Dm | G | G :||
C ||


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:

C-major