Traditional Folk style.

We look at the traditional piece 'Oh When the Saints' building a better relationship between fingers 1 and 3 on the fretting hand.

Learn the notes of the musical alphabet and how to play them on bass and apply the knowledge while learning your first song on bass - Oh! Susanna traditional song.

Arrangement of Adeste Fideles (Oh come all ye faithful), hymn tune written by John Francis Wade.

The groove we are going to learn is very typical for golden rock era - 50s and 60s. Songs from bands like Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Beatles made this bass line famous.

Oh my god - is this the first collaboration lesson at gmc or what? We believe it is! Let's go through the clean and distorted rhythm guitars, covering verse and chorus. From there you will see how things develop into a "duel" kind of solo.

In this lesson we'll continue working on rhythm guitar. Similar to my previous riffing lessons, we'll use Phrygian Major scale for this one. Oh yes - this scale sounds wild in riffing stuff! Also you'll meet trills and learn how to use them in small inserts between the rythm parts of riffs. Wanna riff?? Get in here!

This wah-wah solo can be found on my band Artifex's latest demo - a song called Alley Cats. It's cool because it revolves around a single riff in E. Because there aren't any chord changes to rely on - the solo needs other qualities than the harmonic ones. Therefore, I focused on crazy sounding wah-wah licks, rhythmic ideas and MIGHTY SLIPPERS . Once again, this is a way to make a cool solo without relying on strong chord notes. The solo reaches it's peak with an exotic/progressive sounding phrase which I play in unison with my drummer and bass player. In this lesson you will learn essential wah-wah tricks and licks.