Artist / Song: Roberto BarlocciTechnique: Sweep picking, tappingDifficulty: 7Lick: # 4 A very popular arpeggio is the diminished arpeggio . The only question is, how can you improvise with this „rare“ arpeggio or where can I use it? Of course, the „Diminished“ chord appears more often than you think. Especially in jazz. But diminished chords…
Artist / Song: Roberto BarlocciTechnique: Strumming, ghost notes, mutingDifficulty: 5Riff: # 4 Funk has a lot of ghost notes. This means that the left hand constantly mutes all the strings and actually only leaves those open that need to sound. The „x“ in the tabs indicate the ghost note. The right hand plays 16th notes…
Artist / Song: Leonard Cohen – HallelujahTechnique: Fingerpicking, hammer on, pull offsDifficulty: 5MelodyChords: # 3 I know there are already a million different Hallelujahs MelodyChords Versions. But at least my audio quality was bad (unfortunately I still haven’t managed to record the acoustic guitar properly: P). A version that I personally like very much is…
Artist / Song: Roberto BarlocciTechnique: Alternate Picking -, Hybrid Picking, Hammer On, Pull Off, Palm of courageDifficulty: 8thLick: # 3 For hybrid picking, we also use middle and ring fingers in addition to our pick. At most also my little finger, although I use it less with the hybrid picking technique. In this song I…
Artist / Song: Leo Moracchioli – Whats UpTechnique: Palm MutesDifficulty: 3Riff: # 3 Leo Moracchioli played (and still does) metal covers of probably most of the „radio songs“ in recent years.It also often integrates the most common cliché metal riffs and is therefore very good for practicing metal guitar. So if you want to switch…
Artist / Song: Lady Gaga – ShallowTechnique: Fingerpicking, hammer on, pull offsDifficulty: 5MelodyChords: # 2 I think Shallow was the most heard and played song in guitar lessons. At least for me.As soon as the movie „A Star is Born“ came out, I was forced to play this song with students at least once a…
Artist / Song: Eagles – Hotel CaliforniaTechnique: Bending, ghost notes, alternate picking, slidingDifficulty: 5Lick: # 2 The difficulty with bending is getting the note just right.The best way to do this, is to use the same string-gauge over and over again. If you use e.g. For a long time always a set of 9 and…
Artist / Song: Atomic Symphony – AbyssTechnique: Alternate picking, sliding, octavesDifficulty: 5Riff: # 2 This riff is in a different tuning. Namely Drop D.Here the lowest string (E) is tuned down to a D. The difficulty with this riff is the octaves in my opinion.You should be able to hit it somehow, but everything else…
Artist / Song: Avicii – Heart Upon My SleevesTechnique: Fingerpicking, hammer on, pull offsDifficulty: 7MelodyChords: #1 Personally, I like Avicii very much because I think that he managed to combine modern party music, which often only consists of „BumBumBumBum“ with „real“ instruments. If you were to play some of his songs with a distorted electric…
Artist / Song: Roberto BarlocciTechnique: Alternate-, economy picking, sliding, legatoDifficulty: 7Lick: #1 We all know how important the pentatonic scale on the guitar is.So now and then I try to write down my licks which I play all the time and „present“ them here. It makes no sense to „steal“ a whole lick, as there…