Redemption

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: Welcome! In this song tutorial we'll be learning a piece I wrote called "Redemption". As you go through the tutorial, you'll notice that the entire piece is centered on the following chord progression: C, Em, Am, F. You'll also notice that everything is played on only 2 strings (Low E and A). What I attempted to do in this piece was to make it dynamically ...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: The riffs and picking are pretty straightforward in this piece, but be sure to examine the tablature closely so you don't miss any details. Also, there a few exceptions, but most of the notes we'll be playing in this piece are sixteenth notes. In the first 4 bars of this exercise, you'll be using strictly alternate picking. Also, every note on the Low E str...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: Exercise 2 is where the rhythm playing gets interesting. This is also where you'll find a few eighth notes mixed in with the sixteenth notes. Also, be mindful of the sixteenth note rests that you'll see in each bar. For those rests, I'd recommend letting your picking hand fall on the strings to really solidify the silence during each rest. That will help ma...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: Here we have the chorus section. The main trick we have to master in this exercise is our picking. As far as our picking motions, we'll be using alternate picking. However, it gets a little tricky since we're repeating a grouping of three notes on 2 different strings. For example, the first 3 notes of the exercise go as follows: down on the E string, up on...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: Have fun with the backing track! You'll hear a couple added guitars in the background. If you ever record yourself playing along to the backing track, be sure to post it in the forum!

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