Lead Guitar - Essential Techniques

About this workshop

This is a 6 week course (one hour per week) aimed at intermediate guitarists who want to develop their lead guitar chops. This interactive workshop will look at the lead guitar techniques used by some of the worlds greatest lead guitarists including Joe Bonamassa, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Slash (Guns n Roses) and Angus Young (AC/DC). You'll learn a variety of essential lead guitar techniques used by all the greats, as well as some musical know-how to help you figure out how and when to play and use guitar scales and chord triads to spice up guitar solos. This isn't an improvisation masterclass but you will learn how to improvise to some degree, in order to get the most from this learning experience.

The venue is Colman Redland Centre, Croydon Rd. Reigate - free parking on site as usual.

This course is primarily an electric guitar workshop so you will need your own electric guitar and a small amplifier ideally. Guitar amplification is not provided on this workshop but can be supplied by prior agreement for a small fee.

You can register for this course right away by filling in a short form on the registration page. alternatively call Vin Leone on 079 1234 2773 if you are not sure which course is best for you.

The skills that you will learn include:

Modes de-mythed

We start off by looking at how easy it can be to use modes without learning any new scales. You'll learn a little bit more about Chord Harmony and get your hands on some cool lead guitar licks while were at it.

picking techniques

Every lead guitarist needs an efficient right hand - or so they say ;) But as a lead guitarist you need to pack some essential picking technique in order to execute lead guitar with passion and musical texture. However good or bad you think you are with a plectrum, you'll get better on this course.

legato & staccato

Learning how to use legato and staccato for riffs, licks and scales will transform your lead guitar sound. Armed with good legato and staccato technique, even the most basic lead guitar parts will sound a whole lot more fluid.

Licks and riffs

We will learn and analyse some of the most famous lead guitar licks and riffs so you can see how the technuiques you learn on this workshop have been used to create some of the greatest guitar solos ever.

blues catchup

Every lead guitarist needs to have that basic understanding of the blues. In this workshop we go a step further by learning how to play major minor and dominant licks over a 12 bar blues. this is where you'll learn some cool triads and dyads that will guide your guitar solos.

scales debunked

Some people love scales, some hate em. whichever it is for you is fine with me. You'll learn why scales are so useful in improving so many of your techniques. You'll also use them for creating your own licks.

About your teacher

Vin Leone - A seasoned professional guitarist who has spent the last 40 years studying, performing and teaching guitarists of all levels.

Week 1 - pentatonic porn

We start of with the most underused and overused guitar scale of them all. You'll learn how to use this scale and how to practice it effectively to generate more fluid lead guitar technique.

Week 2 - modes de-mythed

This week we look at how a simple major scale can be turned into a lead guitarists nirvana. We also look at legato and staccato techniques in the context of rock guitar licks.

Week 3 - callisthenics and coordination

We get to work this week with some essential coordination callisthenics that will improve your playing speed and ad some very important dynamics to your own guitar solos.

Week 4 - minor flavours

Playing lead guitar improvisations over minor chords usually has guitarists playing safe with minor pentatonic. But this week we look at some other important minor flavours as used by one or more of our famous lead guitarists. And best of all, you wont need to learn any new scales!

Week 5 - blues flavours & triads

This week we look at how easy it is to use chord triads to shape our lead guitar solos. We also learn some simple ways to change the flavours from major to minor to dominant.

Week 6 - hard core legato

In this final session you'll learn some very cool finger tapping movements and get to take away some tabs to work on too. We look at tapping van halen style and once more at AC/DCs Thunderstruck. By now you will know how to practice properly and learning these licks wont seem that much of a problem.

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