Tom Quayle
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Hi there. My name’s Tom Quayle. I’m a professional guitarist and teacher from Leeds in the UK. I started playing guitar when I was 15 developing the interest after listening to my dad playing – he’s phenomenal! Beginning with bands such as the Wild Hearts and Nirvana I learned loads of riffs from magazines and by ear before very quickly becoming obsessed with Dream Theater and Steve Vai!
After almost failing my exams through excessive guitar practice, I realised this was what I wanted to do in life. I took guitar lessons for a year before going to Leeds College of Music to pursue a degree in Jazz Studies. My guitar teacher introduced me to Allan Holdsworth and Scott Henderson and my life was altered forever! I spent the next 3 years studying really hard and playing with some amazing musicians, attempting to learn to play over changes and play jazz.
In 2002 I graduated with a BA (hons) in Jazz Studies and played gigs for a while, then I got disillusioned with my playing. I felt unoriginal and like a poor jazz imitator. I’ve spent the last few years developing my playing to try and achieve my own unique sound.
I was a finalist this year in the Guitar Idol 2008 competition and came 2nd after Andy James in the Greg Howe play for me II contest – picked by the man himself! I’m currently writing my first album and have some really exciting collaborations coming up in the future. I recently played on fusion bass player extraordinaire Adam Nitti’s new album ‘Liminal’ due for release in March 09!
I am endorsed by Suhr guitars, Toadworks USA and use Xotic pedals, Mesa Boogie amps and some Ibanez and Yamaha guitars too.
Currently, I teach for Yamaha and of course Infinite Guitar and will have a tuition DVD coming out in the near future!!
Hope you guys enjoy my guitar lessons and this fantastic tuition resource, I look forward to hearing from you all and checking out your music too!!
Cheers,
Tom
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Hi there guys and welcome to this tutorial on creating backing tracks! We're going to be focusing on how I record my backing tracks with specific reference to the software I use and the plu...
Okay! So now we've got the drum track set up in a simple form (no need for fills here as we want just an 8 bar loop). I now need to come up with a chord sequence to play over. As we've been...
Now for the bass part in Trilian. In order to keep the video's time down I've already written the bass part off camera but I'll go through it for you in the video. The Trilian interface is...
The final part I want to add is actually a lead guitar part. In other words I'm going to try jamming over the backing track I've created. For this guitar part I'm running my Suhr into the n...
Okay so that about raps things up for this tutorial. Again, be aware that these are just the tools that I use for creating backing tracks, but there are many other products on the market th...
Hi there and welcome to part 2 of 'Playing over Changes'. This time we'll be dealing with melodic minor chords and their associated scale choices and also with motivic development over chang...
Our next chord is very common in fusion and jazz music and has a very attractive but dark sound. It's called a Major7 #5 chord and is the III chord from the melodic minor scale. The scale r...
Our next chord type is dominant 7th chord with a sharpened 11th interval. This gives us a lydian dominant chord also known as the chord symbol 7#11. From the root note G this would give us G...
Our penultimate chord type is based on a min7b5 chord, also known as a locrian chord. The difference here is that the melodic minor version of this chord contains a natural 9 and is the 6th ...
Okay, our final chord type is named an altered dominant chords. If you've seen my other melodic minor tutorial you'll know that an altered dominant is a dominant chord that contains any of t...
One of the hardest things to do when playing over changes is phrase well through the chords. In order to do this successfully we need a few things in our playing bag of tricks. The first is ...
Okay, here's the video example with the accompanying transcription below. I'm playing over four chords. The sequence goes as follows. A7sus4, Bb7#11, Dmaj7, C7#11 so two of these are melodi...
Now, when using motifs to play through chord changes you must remember that this is only an exercise and were you to play a complete solo this way, with very little rhythmic variation, you'd...
Here's the example of anticipating the changes. The changes here are:- Amaj7, Bb7alt, Dmaj7, C7sus4 Try playing over each chord a beat earlier than it actually comes in or even two beats....
Here's the first backing track using melodic minor chords. The changes are:- ||: Am6 / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | F#m6 / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :|| Use A melodic minor...
Here's backing track number 2. A mixture of major and melodic minor harmony. The changes are:- ||: A7sus4 / / / | / / / / | Bb7#11 / / / | / / / / | Dmaj7 / / / | / / / / | C7#11 / / / | ...
Here's backing track number 3. The changes are as follows:- ||: Am7 / / / | / / / / | Bbmaj7#5 / / / | / / / / | D7sus4 / / / | / / / / | C7#11 / / / | / / / / :|| Use A Dorian over the A...
Here backing track number 4, The changes are as follows:- ||: Amaj7 / / / | / / / / | Bb7alt / / / | / / / / | Dmaj7 / / / | / / / / | C7sus4 / / / | / / / / :|| Use A major/lydian over t...
Here's the final backing track. The changes are as follows:- ||: AmMaj9 / / / | / / / / | Bbm7b5nat9 / / / | / / / / | Dmaj7#5 / / / | / / / / | Cmaj9 / / / | / / / / :|| Use A melodic mi...
Hi there guys! Welcome to this months tutorial which is a slight departure from what you were probably expecting. First let me say that "Playing over Changes Part II' is coming your way nex...
So, as I said in the previous video, we'll be using convolution technology to record the preamp section of our amp and model the Power Amp and Cabinet section. This enables us to keep the fa...
Okay, so I have my FX send connected by a standard guitar cable into Input 8 on my soundcard. Remember - I have NOT unplugged the speaker from my amplifier. I can still hear the sound of the...
Here's the links for the IR hosts named above, LAConvolver for the Mac http://audio.lernvall.com/ Kefir for the PC http://habib.webhost.pl/ Voxengo Boogex for the PC http://www.voxengo...