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7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets Click Here 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets Click Here >>> (Video Course) - 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets - (Video Course) 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets Disclaimer and Terms of Use: Your reliance upon information and content obtained by you at or through this publication is solely at your own risk. The author assumes no liability or responsibly for damage or injury to you, other persons, or property arising from any use of any product, information, idea, or instruction contained in the content provided to you through this report. This information is intended for individuals taking action to achieve higher musical awareness, and expand their lead guitar vocabulary. However, I can’t be responsible for loss or action to any individual or corporation acting, or not acting, as a result of the material presented here. Reproduction or translation of any part of this work by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, beyond that permitted by the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is unlawful. Much effort has been applied to assure this report is free from errors. These proven lead guitar success secrets are the result of 25 years of lead guitar playing, and teaching. You’re about to learn 7 extremely effective Lead Guitar Success Secrets to quickly ramp up your lead guitar playing. In moments, I'm going to reveal 7 highly important lead guitar success secrets, and you're going to focus upon them quite possibly more than you ever have in all your years of guitar playing. Say goodbye to stale lead guitar playing, and hello to an injection of fresh horsepower. Don't make the mistake of underestimating the power of these simple techniques, as they're the foundation to RockStar Lead Guitar Players Worldwide! Get excited, you’ll soon have people saying…“How do you play like that”? Let’s find out! Rockin Your Guitar Success, Top Fuel Guitar Instructor © Copyright – TopFuelGuitar.com Contact Info: [email protected] All Rights Reserved © Molton Media - Robert Lee Molton Click Here >>> (Video Course) - 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets - (Video Course) 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets 1. Phrasing & Structure Phrasing and Structure is one of the most important elements of Lead Guitar Playing. In fact, it’s how you’ll create your own style and signature. Even though it’s one of the most important elements, it still requires several additional elements of lead guitar playing to be very strong as well to support great musical phrasing and structure. When all of these important elements are used together, they ultimately help develop the critical phrasing and structure techniques within your lead playing. Phrasing and structure is used very much like the human language, in that, it's your musical language, used in a very similar way. I see many of my guitar students get their “ah ha” moment after understanding this concept. I hope to do the same for you as well. Let’s Rock! What is the importance of musical phrasing and structure? It’s one of the most important elements of music in general, in regards to any instrument being played, including drums and percussion. It’s how you speak to your listener. There is a degree of intelligence that goes along with the musical language, and can be improved upon as you get better. Picture a well-spoken public speaker speaking to an audience, compared to a person that has a limited speech vocabulary, which has rarely spoken to an audience. You get the idea… There’s going to be a quality difference in the delivery between them. Click Here >>> (Video Course) - 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets - (Video Course) 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets 1. Speaking The Musical Language: This is something that requires you to think your thoughts all the way through. Whether long or short, try to complete the thought as a musical phrase. Create tension, go through a couple peaks and valleys, and then resolve it. This can be done with very few notes. In fact, you should practice this technique with very few notes… Then build upon the phrase. Adding several phrases together will create a structure. The structure is the big picture built with clever phrasing. 2. Question and Answer Method: Within the simplest form of a “question and answer” method, it requires a quick tension build up, then a quick release of the tension. Example: In the key of (A) – Play a three or four note lick, and end the lick on any note other than the (A) note… Then immediately play another three or four note lick and DO end on the (A) note. This is the question and answer method in its simplest form. When you learn this simple technique, you’ll find that the musical question can become more specific and elaborate, and the answer can be more detailed and thorough. 3. Create a Story: Your goal is to create a beginning, middle and an end. This can be easier said than done, but if you picture creating a longer beginning, longer middle, and a longer end, you’ll start to see that it builds slower and more cohesive. This is where you’ll begin using a series of phrases to create a bigger picture. Think of having a conversation with your audience. You’re telling them a story, and you get more involved with the story as you tell it. Now you'll begin adding more details to the story, which makes the story more interesting to the listener. Click Here >>> (Video Course) - 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets - (Video Course) 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets 4. Expand Your Story Into a Musical Conversation: To reach this level, you’ll need to be comfortable enough with the previous elements, to start being able to play what you hear in your head. As i mentioned earlier, this is very much like having an interesting conversation with a person. In that, if what you are saying is interesting, or being told in a captivating way, it holds your attention and you listen. The same thing is true with the musical language. You want to use multiple quality phrases, and mini structures, as tools for free flowing creativity. When you're able to start playing the things you hear in your head, your range of musical vocabulary and creativity with skyrocket. I honestly feel that when a guitarist reaches this point in his career, it’s like breathing new life into them as musicians. You're now becoming a mature musician… (Seasoned musician), as the industry says. Just like teenagers... most of them think they know it all and mom and dad can't tell them anything they don't already know... Then, as they get a little older they realize, wow, they didn't really know much at all at that age. That's when they start becoming mature and really learning. This is very true for guitarists as well. After playing for several years, they begin to think they've got a grip on everything that makes a great guitarist what they are. Then... of course, as years go on they begin realizing they don't understand nearly as much as they thought. That's when they really start learning and becoming the seasoned musician they've always wanted to be. I hope this information sheds light on the importance of Phrasing and Structure within your Lead Guitar Playing. Click Here >>> (Video Course) - 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets - (Video Course) 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets 2. String Bending String Bending is a very important element of Lead Guitar Playing. It’s another part of what helps develop your style and signature as a Lead Guitarist. Many guitar players do not spend the time that is needed on this element of their playing. Therefore, end up spending many more years trying to figure out why their playing doesn’t sound as good, or... stand out from all the other players. When you become hyper aware of this all important “secret”, your lead guitar playing will certainly begin to skyrocket from where it's at now. What is the importance of Lead Guitar String Bending? String Bending is a major contributor to your overall style. When you use string bending as a tool within your guitar playing, the one thing you'll have to master is... determining where your whole step and half step notes are from the note you’re currently on. This is a must! Now, it does require your ear to be trained, but, because you are now aware of this critical element you’ll quickly jump ahead of the learning curve. As long as you know what you’re listening for, and then consistently practice it, your ear will become trained automatically! This is a precision skill you’ll use throughout your entire musical career. It will help you in every aspect of musicianship from this point forward. 1. Whole Step Bending Upward: As a rule of thumb, you should use the High E, B, & G strings as notes to be bent upward. The reason being, if you bent the High E, and B string downward they would tend to pull off the side of neck. Click Here >>> (Video Course) - 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets - (Video Course) 7 Lead Guitar Success Secrets The best way to practice this technique is to simply pick a note, and practice bending from that position, to a whole step higher. The goal is to nail the pitch every time. You’ll want to stay in this position until you've got complete control over that particular whole step bend. EXAMPLE: If I wanted to practice bending the G string on the 7th fret upwards a whole step, it should sound exactly like the G string sounds on the 9th fret without being bent.
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