Tonality Analysis
The rhythm guitar plays the following chords:
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Slaying May Tour with Lost in Salvation
Hell Yeah!
After visiting the last gig of my friend Daniel’s band Lost in Salvation I received a call for help: their guitar player Andi dislocated his shoulder in a sex accident and they wanted me to replace him during a four gig tour through Franconia. Continue reading Slaying May Tour with Lost in Salvation
Tunings
Ok, what are tunings?
Standard Tuning
Surely you still remember how the strings of your guitar are tuned, right?
Exactly: E – A – D – G – H – E
Evil Lynn – Solo of the Week
Now we investigate the solo from the Excess Pressure Song “Evil Lynn”.
Riff
Psychology
Practice creates masters! But how do we manage to take our daily dose of exercise? I have students who bravely pack their guitar in the case / case and then let it disappear in the closet or under the bed. And then they ask themselves why they did not come to practice again during the week. Quite simply: out of sight, out of mind. Continue reading Psychology
Brand New Start – Solo of the Week
Rome wasn’t build in a day but here it is: another Solo of the Week! As you may already know we start with listening to the track:
These are the chords:
The Chords point to a very distinct B minor tonality Continue reading Brand New Start – Solo of the Week
Cream Cheese – Solo of the Week
Tonality
Those are the chords. Looks suspiciously like C# minor.
But now onto the solo Continue reading Cream Cheese – Solo of the Week
Joe Would Be Proud – Solo of the Week
Chord Analysis
The rhythm guitar plays the following chords:
| Chord | D | Am | C | Bm | G | Em | A | D |
| Third | F# | C | E | D | B | G | C# | F# |
| Fifth | A | E | G | F# | D | B | E | A |
Ok, what we’ve got here? Let’s sort:
| G | A | B | C | C# | D | E | F# |
Well, C und C# in the same scale?
What’s going on there? Song starts in G major (G A B C D E F#) and end in D major. That’s called modulation.
And because these tonalities differ in just one note, it’s no drama at all. We take the scale from G major and make sure to avoid playing the C when we hit the A major chord!
Bars 1 to 4
We start with an upbeat on our first target note – the third of D major F#. Syncopation, bends and a slide is happening in bar 2 to land on the next target note, the C (minor third of A minor). In bar 3 we play more of the A minor chord by jotting in the root note.
Bar 5 to 8
We play around the fifth of C major G with some nice hammer on / pull offs to get via the E (C major’s third) to the F# (fifth of B minor). With a bend from E to F# we create some finesse. Well done!
Bar 9 to 12
Root note G and via target notes B and D and slide into the anticipated E. With a frivolous tapping of B on beat 4 in bar 11 we substantiate the E major chord.
Going up the fret board intensifies the thing.
Bar 13 to 15
In bar 13 we play the A and the E from A major and ignore the problem with C / C#. At the end of the solo we raise tension with the bend from D to E.
We finish off in bar 15 with a 1 1/2 step overbend from B to D to land on the root note of the D major chord.
Now all You have to do is practice. Enjoy!
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