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Guitar Secrets - Emotional Softrock If you want to carry a instrumental softrock tune over 3 minutes you need to learn to create a theme, make variations of the theme and interact with the arrangement or in short words you need to make music and let your guitar sing in a way which touches the hearts of your audience. You love such songs from artists like Gary Moore, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and many others. The system is always the same. I share with you my experiences of many years of professional guitar playing and professional composing. Playing live is also composing - I call it instant composing.

I have always been a huge fan of Steve Vai. For me is still the unchallenged number one rock guitar player. It's about time to make it to make a tutorial about his types of instrumental rock ballads. They often come along in the measure of 6/8. I created a track in the key of E minor in the measure of 6/8 and in this tutorial I show you how the rhythm guitar is played and after that very short introduction to 6/8 rhythm guitar I going to give you some easy going instructions how to create great rock balade lead sounds and how to create those long notes which make them so great. The really great feature of Steve Vai’s guitar playing is it absolute perfect tone control in every situation of lead guitar. I give you some insight how you can work with slight pinch harmonics and slipping the tone into overtones and to create great long notes with your lead guitar. So this tutorial doesn't really talk about how to do the typical Steve Vai guitar licks. It’s more about tone control and how you can control with your tone with your vibrato, your bendings and the distortion settings in combination with pinch harmonics. Rock Balade ( Steve Vai Style ).pdf Rock Balade ( Steve Vai Style ).gp rock balade ( steve vai style ).mp3

Here you can hear an instrumental rock balade in the style of Gary, Steve Vai or Joe Satriani. It tells the story that sometimes you want to go to the moon but you didnt know how far it or even impossible can be.

Here you can learn the main theme of Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton. I show you the original melody but mainly a wonderful solo guitar arrangment which I created. 1:38 Original Theme ( Beginners ) 3:16 Full Version Theme - Wonderful tonight.pdf

Here you can learn a nice long meter rock balade lick which you can play to the backing track of my song " Winter Blues " which I recorded some time ago. winter blues jamtrack.mp3 Long Meter Rock Balade Lick ( Em ).pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92roJXjv5OQ Here you can learn everything you need to know about playing a rock balade. This is episode 1 where you learn the rhythm guitar and the basicis in soloing. Enjoy - You find the jamtrack on my website : http://www.hpcrazy.com