I’ve had a few requests from people to do a lesson on the cool tapping sequence from Guthrie Govan’s “Fives”. So here it is! alas split into two videos due to running over 10 mins (TAB is available here):
New MasterThatMelody looking at the iconic ‘For The Love Of God’ ( aka FTLOG ) by Mr Steven Vai.
New MasterThatRiff, looking at ‘She Builds Quick Machines’ by Velvet Revolver.
Recording Collective October task was:
October’s task is to play solo guitar. No overdubs, it’s got to be one guitar from finish to end. You can record more than one take obviously but the one you put up has to be a ‘live’ recording of you on guitar. No drop ins, no fiddly electronic stuff.
With this in mind I went for my archtop again and wrote a short melody which I then harmonized solo jazz guitar stylee.
Gear Used:
Guitar: Ibanez AF105NT -> Carvin Legacy -> Rode NT1A Condenser Mic
Just finished a short video talking about some of the gear I use to create the Master That Riff! videos as I get asked many questions about the sound etc:
A closing date has finally been announced for the Vai Competition,the 30th September, so I’d like to beg just one more time for yer votes 
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Here are my vids:
There are some fantastic entries and world class players in the competition , it’s been fun watching them all and having a pop at it myself.
NB: Voting requires a Lick Library login, which is free. You can register here if you aren’t a member.
Yes… another plea regarding ‘that Vai Competition‘.
I’ve uploaded another vid, this time one which actually follows the rules *cough* and is no more that 30 seconds in length.
So your votes and I may buy *two* pints…yes TWO!!
Thankyou for your time.
The July task for the Recording Collective was to:
Make a piece of music involving a palindrome, where the second half of *something* is the reverse of the first half. This can be the main melody, the riff, the chord sequence, whatever you want… but something has to be palindromic.
I started by taking a repeating two bar chord change for the A section with a B section consisting of a set of descending chords.
For the second half of the piece, I reversed the B section then swapped the two chords around in the A section, ending up with a structure like:
[A] [B] [A] [B] [rev B] [rev A] [rev B] [rev A]
Basically a mirror image hence why I called it ‘Reflection’ .
Also opted to do some filming again and recorded myself laying down the main lead guitar part on camera 
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Gear Used:
Lead/Rhythm Guitar: Ibanez RGA321 -> Guitar Rig 2
Bass: Peavey Dynabass -> Guitar Rig 2
Drums: Triphop Loops from eJay
Quick jam over a nice cheesy 80s rawk ballad style backing track. The bum notes are ‘colours’ man…added ‘colours’..*cough* 
Quick jam over a nice funky backing track with the good old swirl Jem:
Some of the same ol’ licks creeping in there, time to get out the lick notebook!
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