Sam Vallen: awesome legato wide intervals

I just love this video, moving you away from the standard arpeggio sweeps and really tricking the ear.

Sam Vallen says:

Welcome to my first online lesson, if you enjoy this one check back regularly for more!

Guitarists seem to get stuck in ruts working on triplet and quaver based patterns. I think it's a shame considering the fact that a lot of the new breed of guitar players end up sounding very alike, especially in their faster work, All it takes to sound unique is a little experimentation in your practice time!

And I intend to fix this by showing you some ways you can spice your regular licks up with often overlooked ideas and techniques.

This first lesson deals with legato, not particularly unlike the legato masters might, but substituting taps in place of R.S.I inducing four-note per string shapes. It's a combination of C and G minor pentatonics, with a chromatic run and some "outside" notes to finish. You'll need a working knowledge of legato, sweep picking and tapping to master this. If you haven't spent much time on these techniques yet, I'll be putting up a primer very soon.

Part 1, legato+wide stretches+tapping=unpredictability

all legato 'cept the sweeps:

|--t22-20-18-15--/10-13-15-t18-15-13-10--/13-14-15-16-t17-16-15-14-13---

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|----------------------------------------------------------10-13-15-t18--15-13-10-

|-t17-16-15-14-13-------------------------------------------------------------------

|---------------------t17-16-15-14-13--10-12-15-t17------------------------------

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|------------------------------------------15-20-t22--20-15-11-15-11--------------

|---------------------------------------16-------------------------------13-----------

|-t17-15-12-10--------------------17-------------------------------------12---------

|---------------------------------17------------------------------------------13------

|-----------------15-10--15-18-------------------------------------------------15-10-

|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|-----------------------------------------------t20-11-/21----20-19-18-------------

|--------------------------------t20-11-------------------------------------22~-----

|------------------t20-10-------------------------------------------------------------

|--t20-10------------------------------t20-8-----------------------------------------

|--------------------------t20-8------------------------------------------------------

|----------t20-8----------------------------------------------------------------------

Subscribe if you like, I hope to be putting a new lesson up every week or so. The next one will be on incorporating odd-note groups (quintuplets, septuplets) into your regular picking arsenal, by way of same creative use of economy-picking.

Gear in this video: Gibson SG special with Seymour Duncan JB straight into my ENGL Powerball with a Boss DD-6 in the loop, Marshall 1960AV cab.

Check out my bands:

Quandary- Brisbane based progressive-rock (www.myspace.com/quandarymusic)
and
After the Reign- Gold Coast based metal (www.myspace.com/afterthereignmusic)

Incidentally: this lick is off After the Reigns forth-coming EP

Finally, you can check out my solo stuff at www.myspace.com/samvallen, there'll also be a blog featuring tabs for all the lessons I do, including, of course, this one

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Unpredictability part 1 - Legato+wide stretches+taps=unpredictability