Here's a serious brooding moment, in what I believe to be one the darkest TWRP songs!
There's a menancing, long winded chord progression that the synths play. The guitar plays the root notes of these chords. These root notes keep moving down chromatically, all the way through 9 chords in to...
2023-03-03 15:10:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Thought I'd post this one today - it's a fun and quick moment that only happens once in a super goofy song.
This is a great one to work on some rhythmic soloing ideas, as well as picking. Strict alternate picking is key, down up down up down up all the way through! Every phras...
2023-02-17 16:52:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey funk freaks... today we're getting really lively with a triplety doodle. Read on if you'd like learn, nerds!
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This part is all triads on the top 3 strings. If you know these you know these, and if you don't, well you probably should. Basically for major chords you have 3 main...
2023-02-10 18:01:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Who would have thought - planet BASS being discussed on the GUITAR page!
It was very fun to relearn this solo and make the video lesson for you all. The explanations are all in the vid courtesy of my highly intelligible robot voice.
TAB is attached, enjoy!
Remember this fun cover we dropped a few months ago?
Some of the guitar parts in this one are unique to our version, and others are taken straight from the original. Other ones are slightly rearranged - for example there's a few synth leads we moved to the guitar.
This particular lead...
2023-02-03 15:56:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's an easy and fun one to give you a lil' weekend boost!
This rockin' power chord progression provides a solid foundation for some seriously beautiful vocal harmonies via Dan Avidan.
There's a few teachable moments in here:
- ATTN BEGINNERS: I'm using 3 note power chor...
2023-01-28 15:35:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to let it rip! Here's a 2 part harmony (aka guitarmony). This moment happens at 1:47 in the song. Like I mentioned before, it's hard to label this part as a verse or post chorus or whatever, since it's really just a part of a long musical journey through space and time.
In this vid I p...
2023-01-20 21:48:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a personal favourite! A chonky riff with some cool rhythmic ideas happening.
It happens around 1:38 in the song - I'm not sure if it has a proper function as far as verses and choruses etc are concerned. It's just another of many many sections in this long tune!
The riff happen...
2023-01-13 22:35:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday time.
Here's potentially one of smoothest parts we've got. It's kind of like 2 in one. The first part being the low palm muted single notes, the second being the jazzy chords on top. In the studio I tracked either part on different take...
2023-01-06 17:16:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my lil' champions. This is a hot and heavy metal riff. I'm pretty sure if you play this correctly and with the right tuffness, a gold trophy might just show up at your door!
How do you make this sound tuff? Start by using downstrokes for every note. That's the Metallica approach. (A f...
2022-12-22 16:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay let's go! If you're feeling good with the first half (posted last week), it's time to take this one for a whirl.
I think this part is fairly intermediate in difficulty. On the one hand it is high on the neck at points, and moves around positions a fair bit. But also it's not super fast...
2022-12-14 16:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing through Phobos IV in chronological order - here's the first melody from this banger smash hit. Amazing that it was #1 on all the world charts for so many years!
This one is a long melody that evolves over many chords. I'll put them down below for you. I always think of chords as ...
2022-12-05 17:08:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing this discussion of the track, of which the first half was covered last week. These two lessons are peas in a pod. So go check that one out first if you haven't already. Otherwise, open the attached TAB and read on!
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One of the fun parts here is the picking. You're con...
This is probably one of the weirder parts I've ever written. It's a total vibe! It doesn't follow conventional ideas or chord shapes super well, and it utilizes a lot of open strings. This makes it quite difficult to conceptualize things and fit it into a familiar pattern. I was purposely trying ...
2022-11-17 14:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the second section of this fun tune!
This section started off with the synth trumpets up high. I wanted to put a low guitar riff beneath this to compliment the synths, and came up with this. It can be a great riff for working on hammer ons as well as palm muting.
The fir...
2022-11-02 10:11:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing onwards with Phobos I! Here's another one of my fav riffs from Galactic Chase - the outro section.
My intention here was to make a real cool tuff guy riff. The kind of riff that makes you rip your sleeves off and immediately tattoo a big skull and crossbones onto your shoulder. 2022-10-24 15:53:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! Going to focus on some Phobos solo material over the next little while. This is the intro for one of my fav Phobos songs. I also just posted a lesson for the solo in this one for the SHRED LORD tier, go check that out!
This is a part that I actually wrote probably around 18 years a...
2022-10-14 15:29:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! Here's the B Section to Feels Pretty Good. The A Section was posted way back when, so it feels like this one is long overdue!
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This one actually starts with a cool transition during measures 1 & 2 (m1-2). The picking during this transition gives the chords a tex...
Alrighty folks, it's time to mix things up. Typically most of these guitar parts are in either the funk realm or the meedly-meedly shred zone. This one on the other hand is in the textural ambient floating in the clouds realm. So turn on the reverb and let's dig in!
This part wasn't writte...
This week let's do a fun single note spanky part!
I'm often trying to pay homage to cool things when writing a guitar part, and this one was inspired by David William's guitar playing on early MJ records. Don't Stop Til You Get Enough is a good example of this single note style.
The o...
2022-09-12 23:59:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a continuation of last week's lesson, as we continue to dig into the ultra fun song of Ladyworld. While in the same song, the part itself is very different from the chorus part we learned last time. So turn off that distortion, get your cleanest sparkliest sound ready, and let's go!
This is one of my fav parts of all time (no exaggeration!). It takes a simple motif and transforms it a lil' bit with each chord change. The motif in its most basic form is this:
E--3-5-5-3-5-5-3--
B--3-5-5-3-5-5-3--
But you can add slides to it and make it fun, like this:
...Somewhere out there? How right here, this beautiful guitar lesson you're able to check out?
This song is probably #1 for the most different guitar approaches in one song. There's some rock n roll guitars, some shredding, some vibey slide guitar, and some funky strumming. It's the funky ...
Hello Phibbilings!
Here's a Van Halen-y kinda part for you all. These tight palm muted parts high on the neck with a a nice crunchy tone really gets you into that territory where you think "Oh yeah, it's that sound"
The trick with these palm mutes is getting the right palm p...
Okey dokey! Here we go again.
Cosmic Tides has a few different parts, and because it's instrumental none are really a verse or chorus. So I'll call this the B Section. The A Section was covered a while back, search the track title and you'll find it.
Like many of the parts cove...
Here's a continuation of a lesson we did a while back on the fusion-y bridge of this song.
This song originally started as 2 songs which we joined together. The working title for this middle section was originally called 'Potato Man'. We should have kept the name, right?
Lots of jazz...
Here's somewhat of a legacy track. Always loved playing this part, and now you can learn it too! I believe in you all.
The entire part is 8 measures long. You can think of it as four 2 measure phrases. Each line in the TAB represents one of these phrases (let's call them A B C and D)
Funk people! Here's a fun and simple part. It only plays in every odd measure of the section, responding to the vocal melody.
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The rhythm with this part is fairly important, you might want to analyze it a lil' bit:
1 e & a 2 e & &n...
This week's lesson is a solo that's almost halfway to a being a shred lord tier vid! Usually I'll go totally ham in a solo, but this one is more restrained. So it's a good one to learn if you're someone who maybe hasn't yet swam in the ocean of guitar solos but want to get your feet wet.
Th...
2022-07-08 14:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Phobos Nation! Today we'll be looking at this funky verse. It consists of 3 main chords:
C#m - B - F#
C#m - B - F# - G#sus4
I use funky 3 note voicings of these on the top 3 strings, which keeps things light 'n' sprinkly sounding - perfect for funk.
There's no exact...