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Lead Note Displacement

Chris Feener
AdvancedAny styleImprovising 8 lessons10m

Hello fellow shredders! This lesson will focus on a fairly simple concept, in principal, but it serves as another tool to add to your toolbox of creativity. "Displacement" serves as a handy method for breathing life into existing licks and pushing your phrases into different rhythmic territority. Be sure to practice each exercise to our handy IG metronome first, to ensure notes are falling where they should. Also, be sure to check out the backing tracks available to have some fun for yourself in a more musical context!

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  1. 1 1:23 Lesson · 1m Lead Note Displacement - Intro Hello fellow shredders! This lesson will focus on a fairly simple concept, in principal, but it serves as another tool to add to your toolbox of creativity. "Displacement" serves as a handy method for... Guitar Pro
  2. 2 1:30 Lesson · 2m Lead Note Displacement - 16th Notes So let's take a simple Am scale passage, and apply the displacement concept to it to gain a clearer understanding. First, we'll play through the note sequence. Then, we'll shift the passage one 16th note to... Guitar Pro
  3. 3 1:44 Lesson · 2m Lead Note Displacement - Two-Bar Phrase (16ths) Let's take a look at a lead phrase that has a bit more musical depth. You'll start to recognize how the "hills and valleys" of a phrase that has a typical starting and ending point takes on a life of it's own... Guitar Pro
  4. 4 0:40 Backing track · 1m Lead Note Displacement - Backing Track #1 Try out this backing track for the first couple exercises, but futhermore, try experimenting with some of your own licks while utilizing this rhythmic thought-process. The chords bounce between Am7 and Dm7.
  5. 5 2:04 Lesson · 2m Lead Note Displacement - Triplets So now, let's see how this concept works in a "tuplet" environment. We'll be moving things ahead by an eighth triplet, then two eighth triplets, then by a full quarter note (three eighth triplets). As... Guitar Pro
  6. 6 0:30 Backing track · 1m Lead Note Displacement - Backing Track #2
  7. 7 1:43 Lesson · 2m Lead Note Displacement - 4-Bar Phrase (Triplets) To clue up, let's take a look at a longer phrase. This exercise extends over four bars and follows a D harmonic minor descending pattern. The challenge here is trying to block out the initial rhythmic context... Guitar Pro
  8. 8 0:43 Backing track · 1m Lead Note Displacement - Backing Track #3

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