Description

If you want to learn modern Guitar soloing techniques used by legendary guitarists, such as Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, Alexi Laiho, Kirk Hammett, Al Di Meola, Eddie Van Halen and many others, then Soloing Techniques For Electric Guitar is for you. Soloing Techniques For Electric Guitar comes with accompanying audio and includes 14 extensive chapters. Topics include: Which pick works best. Fingerings. Warm-up exercises. Muting techniques. Single-string exercises. Different rhythmic groupings. Octave licks. String skipping. How to embellish diatonic scales with chromatics. Pivoting (pedal tones). Arpeggios across all six strings (sweep picking). Exotic scales, andmuch more.

Contents

1. Foreword
2. Not improving as fast as you want to?
3. Pick and fingerings
4. About the exercises, and tablature
5. CHAPTER 1 Warm-up exercises
6. Left hand
7. Stretch”vningar
8. Right hand13
9. CHAPTER 2 Picking exercises
10. Muting technique
11. One-string technique
12. Open strings, song exercise
13. Open strings20
14. Slides
15. One-string technique with chord progressions
16. Using several strings
17. Special exercises
18. Combining strings
19. Using three strings
20. Playing across all six strings
21. CHAPTER 3 Note groupings
22. Using sixteenth notes as sixteenth triplets
23. Grouping in groups of 5, 7 and 9
24. CHAPTER 4 Inside/Outside picking
25. Inside/Outside song exercise
26. CHAPTER 5 Interval exercises
27. Thirds and fourths
28. Fifths and sixths
29. Sevenths and octaves
30. Kapitel 6 Using octaves
31. Sixteenth notes and sixteenth triplets
32. Sixteenth triplets
33. Song exercise
34. CHAPTER 7 Chromatic ideas
35. Chromatic patterns
36. Pentatonic and diatonic ideas
37. Chromatic chord progressions
38. Chromatic song exercise
39. CHAPTER 8 Pedal tones or Pivoting
40. Basic exercises
41. Starting from the root
42. Using chord progressions
43. Leading with a bass note
44. More ways for using this technique
45. CHAPTER 9 Arpeggios
46. Two string arpeggios
47. Three string arpeggios
48. Four string arpeggios
49. Five string arpeggios
50. Six string arpeggios
51. CHAPTER 10 String skipping
52. Song exercise and arpeggio
53. Arpeggio and a Dorian string skipping exercise
54. CHAPTER 11 Tapping
55. Playing all over the fretboard
56. Combining patterns
57. Using string skipping
58. Mirror tapping
59. Double tapping
60. CHAPTER 12 Variations on the circle of fifths
61. Chord progression and variations
62. Pivoting techniques and thirds harmony parts
63. Using sextuplets
64. Using arpeggios
65. CHAPTER 13 Legato
66. Using octaves
67. CHAPTER 14 Exotic scales
68. Iwato and Hindu
69. 8 Note Spanish, Hungarian Minor, Oriental
70. Enigmatic, Overtone, Algerian
71. Exotic scales
72. Final words
73. Personal thanks and inspirations