Guitar Magic: Sequences and Patterns for Lead Guitar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- An often overlooked, yet important part of lead guitar is the use of sequences. Sequences can make improvising exciting with an amazing variety of new and interesting phrases without learning a new lick. This is the trick to create your own licks and phrases.
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The advise about having the simpler, 4 note lead pattern ready for when the nerves take over is genius. When you get out of your comfort zone it’s inevitable that the nerves will creep in, and having a simple pattern on the ready is the way to go! New guitarists, file this one away!
Thank you very much. I get nervous like everybody else in unfamiliar territory. I always think of it as the fish out of water syndrome and nothing makes me feel more comfortable playing guitar than to fall back into familiar territory.
Doug you're not only an incredible guitar teacher but an incredible teacher period. What you share is priceless and I cannot express my gratitude. Thanks man you're the best!
Thanks Joe. It's been a privilege to actually make a living doing this.
Who would leave this guy nasty comments? Thank you very much for the insightful analysis of the definition of a rock-guitar solo. My teacher with a masters in jazz from GSU didn't get around to that with me in four years-of teaching a teenager anyway.
i would never claim to know more then you!!!!! i still push a broom for a living and only make noise on a 6 string after that ha ha. but will always love loud, raw electric guitar. peace
Thanks for commenting. It's appreciated. We all know different stuff. I've been doing this a long time so I've got a lot to fall back on. Still, there's nobody out there that doesn't know something about guitar from there own perspective that could teach me a thing or two.
You're a great teacher Doug. I'm 68 and took guitar lessons in a class of ten other kids at 12 years old. Chord progressions in different keys, the chromatic scale, and reading music is what we learned. People these days don't know how good they got it watching videos on how to play in the early '70s we were pretty good at rewinding our cassette tapes over and over till we got a song note for note.
Awesome. I bought the Metal Method course on VHS in the year 2000 and it changed my life. I can't thank you enough, Doug.
That's great Duane. I always love hearing that my lessons have made an impact. Thank you for commenting.
I know some guys that bought it out of the guitar magazines in 1987!
@@michaelcraig9449 I would have been a little too young back then.
Best teaching style on youtube. Interesting and spot on.
I knew if I waited long enough, I could get my hands on your teaching for free! It only took 35 years!😆😆
Thanks for being a solid rock in the lead guitar world, Doug!
Paul, patience is very important but I think you've carried it a little too far. lol
I think Doug is the coolest guy I've ever met. Also the best guitar teacher I've ever had. I mean, how lucky was I?
Good one, Doug. I don't care either! My trajectory in guitar 40 years ago went ballistic with Metal Method. Love you, man.
Hey Adam. Glad I was able to help you out way back then. Thanks for commenting.
I need that V behind you. :)
Make me an offer. It better be ridiculous though. The serial number is 293.
Thanks for the video. I have purchased many of your videos and loved them! My playing has improved BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS because of your instruction. As an experienced player, I still like to hear your insight on certain topics. Thanks 🤘🏻
Thanks Justin. I love to share what I've learned. Good thing about it is, I continue to learn and the new stuff is exciting for me to share.
Hi Doug bought your Metal Method instuction cassaette back in the late eighties helped me big time.,glad to see your still at it helping us struggling guitarists,keep up the great work dude...
You're welcome Mario. Always love hearing from you guys that got my lessons back in the eighties. Thanks for commenting.
Around 4:15 Doug was mentioning how some smart asses might show up on here acting like they know more than he does and all that.. Listen up, Doug has been a major monster top pro guitarist since the 80's. Give him tons of respect, dont give him any grief. This is a pro guy, around long before home computers and youtube for sure. So if you are 13 and looking for a place to smart off with your teenage pals this is not it. Sure there are goofy guitar channels out there for kids and silly talk and thats ok. Everyone started out as a goofy kid. Just dont do it here to irritate Doug. The rest of us are here to try and learn some serious technique stuff and whatever else Doug is teaching.
Thanks Michael. I just became "active" on TH-cam again recently and have been pleasantly surprised by the lack of smart asses. I appreciate your message and thanks for commenting.
one of the few natural teachers out there who doesn't go galloping ahead of himself - and us!
Thanks Johnson. I learned very early on, through student comments, to make break this stuff down into easy to digest segments. I was thinking before doing this video about instructions in guitar magazines I used to read. They were often so complex that I would turn the page - not ready to work on the concept now. And of course, I never got back to the article.
Thanks Doug, please keep the videos coming! 🎸
I definitely will. I've been very pleased with the response today. If you subscribe to my newsletter you read that's what motivates me. I appreciate that people are interested. When I'm creating these things I'm never sure. On the other hand, I've been doing it so long I usually know what works and what doesn't. I was pretty confident in this lesson.
Nice to see this pop in my feed. Brings back memories. I was Metal Method class of '89 when my dad got me the VHS tapes for christmas. Glad to see Doug is still at it, he should have got a commission on that X100B half stack i bought back in the day.
Carvin was always very good to me. When students let them know that the purchase was from my recommendation, they gave me a kick back. I made that clear to my students. It wasn't like some of the bogus affiliate stuff happening today. Thanks for the comment.
That Jackson still shines!
It does, but it's picked up a little yellow over the years. Still a great guitar.
@@DougMarks some things just don't go out of style.
Tks for all lessons!!!
You're welcome.
Very good lesson. Thank you
You're welcome. Glad that you liked it.
And vibrato! Excellent stuff Doug! I purchased your metal modes lesson years ago! It opened up my ears to break out of the pentatonic scales.
Great lesson as always Doug. It's interesting to watch as you continue to iterate and break things down into more digestible chunks for all to easily understand and work on! If anyone hasn't bought Doug's course, it's spectacular for the criminally low price he asks for it. Can't recommend it enough! Thanks Doug!
Thanks Mike. I appreciate what you're saying.
Great lesson as always. The Speed and Acuracy for Lead Guitar is one of my favorites in the Metal Method catalog!
Yeah, I've always enjoyed Speed and Accuracy since I put it together. It's the same kind of stuff, simple but effective. That's my favorite type of lesson.
thank you Doug... you simlified the sesson for me
Sam you're welcome. Thanks for commenting. It's really appreciated.
Thanks for the advice Doug great lesson as always.👍
You're welcome Joe. Glad that you enjoyed it.
Thanks for sharing. Would be nicer if you show the sequence slower so that we can see and comprehend. Simple sketch will be very helpful. Cheers from Indonesia.
Great lesson Doug, thank you.
Very welcome. Glad that you liked it.
This was great. It is like seeing how music is created from the inside out as opposed to being on outside looking in. How deep can this approach go? Is it music limited by the genre music being played or just the player his or herself?
I really don't think it has anything to do with genre. At its core, we're really talking about scales. Sure, play it super fast and it's shred but I would like to think this approach can be used at all tempos.
Thank you sir
You're welcome. Hope you enjoy the program.
Thank you
Still a good lesson, I like doing 3s, 4s, and 5s. They all are different and each one was used my famous players so it's good to know all of these
Absolutely. I'm doing 3s on Saturday.
@@DougMarks for me 4 is the easiest to keep in time and play along, 3 is pretty easy too but have practiced it a lot also, and gotten some phrasing down for all of them I can use. I know Eric Johnson used the 5 up and down a lot
Awesome thumbnail, Doug! You look like a Targaryen prince. 👍
Thank you. That was a complete accident. After I saw it I thought, "got to do something with this."
Wow, Doug! When you started MM did you ever imagine you'd be doing lessons 40 YEARS LATER?
Not at all. I still remember in the mid 80s driving around town with Jim Gillette and he said, "You know, you can't be doing this for more than another five year." He didn't get any argument from me. And here I am.
Thank God he still is! Love Doug & Metal Method. Always learning & glad he's still putting out GREAT content for us!!
Doug is this sequence playing the same as a cascading lead guitar solo? I am trying to get this all figured out. I heard the term "cascading solos" a little while back.
Sorry Michael, "cascading" is a terminology that I'm not familiar with. If you get it figured out give me a heads up.
Please make more videos with your flying kitty 🐱
Two strings is all I can get when nerves hit - so now I gotta max this out!
We've all been there Sage. If you haven't checked out the four note (2 string) lead, please do so. th-cam.com/video/AUkbMFiBIsI/w-d-xo.html
15:00 very important point. Possible to play like a great guitarist just by knowing a specific area of the neck and the sequence to play.
Always wished these sequences had names. You know like hertz is named after a guy named Hertz and watts for power is named after some dude named Watts. I wonder if there is a quintessentially classic guitarist solo using this sequence which could be nominated as an unofficial, official name for this sequence. And in turn, name the other characteristic sequences after their own famous solos using them. Since "sequences are the foundation of lead guitar" then they should pop up everywhere in classic rock/metal. Listing a few of these solos with their sequences would be a great lesson. Maybe it would be easier to identify them in speed metal because fast tempos usually means the sequences are repeated several times in a row, right? At least that is a classic MAB technique, "repetition".
By whatever power is vested in me. I proclaim you the official designator of pattern titles. Maybe we could put together some kind of con selling individuals naming rights or something. lol
@@DougMarks I hearby name the one-note sequence aka One-Note Lead technique, "The Cinnamon" 😁
My solos do sound like scales… because I’m attacking a groove using a scale and it sounds boring.
I’m having problems with the phrasing part. When I try to improvise, for example the box patterns, it seems forced and lame. Except « practice and repetition » do you have any pointers on improving phrasing?
Thanks for the video! It made me pick my guitar for the first time in a while!
"It made me pick my guitar for the first time in a while!" that's awesome. Glad that I was able to motivate you. In my course there is a very large section on licks. Memorize a few of these and practice using them over a backing track. This lesson is about creating your own licks / phrases but it's very helpful to already have a vocabulary of phrases. Skills are usually built beginning with imitation. Once you begin to understand the process they'll evolve into your own original phrases.
I would suggest too, that it might be better to play so that each note is perfect, rather than be captive to 'playing in time' - I have found that approach to be a little more brain-friendly
I don't understand what you're saying here. Could you explain using a bit more detail? I'm a little confused by the difference between "each note is perfect" and "playing in time." If anybody else understands what Johnson is saying, please have a go at it.
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Hi Doug,thanks. How do I get MM lick tapes from the 80s?
The original, Metal Licks is with the '88 course store.metalmethod.com/p/metal-method-1988-legacy-course/ I recommend the updated version that can be found in the Current Complete Guitar Course store.metalmethod.com/p/complete-rock-guitar-course/
Doug, will you release a "Metal Method" app please?
Hmmm. How would that work? I haven't really checked out guitar instructional apps.
@@DougMarks Maybe something like the Yousician app except geared more towards the Metal genre, I haven't downloaded a guitar instruction app yet, but if it had your name and endorsement on it I'm all in.
Is this from one of the dvd lessons?
Hey Rev. No, the newer videos that I am recording can be thought of as an update to the course. I revise the course with information that I study since the previous revision.
@@DougMarks Oh, awesome. Thank you for your quick reply. I'm a long time fan of your course. I own the complete course and classic licks. I will soon order more. Thank you, Sarah, and the rest of your team for all you have done.
Hey Doug, why is it that I can play triplets at 86 bpm fast and beautiful but if I try to play them at 120 bpm they sound too slow and to compensate I end up playing some 4 note repeating pattern instead? Sorry if this is a dumb question.
It's absolutely not a dumb question. People don't understand what it means to gradually increase speed. I plan to do a video on the subject soon. Here's the basic rule. Practice with a metronome and don't play faster than you're able to play nearly perfectly. Once you've attained 86 bpm, for example, try 96 bpm. If that seems attainable go for it. If not, slow down to a point that seems attainable. Gradually increase speed takes much longer than people realize. Using this process it might take two months or longer to reach 120 bpm. Not everybody has equal coordination between right and left hands. We all have our limits. Follow this process and you'll soon find your approximate potential. Jumping from 86 bpm to 120 bpm just doesn't work.
@Doug Marks I understand you. It's just that I can play fast enough but when I'm playing triplets that's when I get all confused. I can play triplets really fast just by myself, but in certain songs I seem to get lost and can't figure out the measure. I hope you do that video. By the way, I bought your course back 20 years ago but I wasn't in the right state of mind back then with work and kids.
Guitar hasn't come easy for me at all although I'm sure non guitarists think I play awesome, haha. I always feel like I'm just almosy there, almost just one step to figure it all out and never get there. Sure, looking back I've come a long way but still. Anyways, can you relate? Thanks for taking the time and I'm glad you're still doing what you love. Greetings from Puerto Rico.
Sorry for keep bothering you Doug. I've been playing all day and here's where I'm stuck! I practiced triplets in 3 and 6 sequences at 86bpm and 172bpm and seem to be doing just fine. But when I tried at 60bpm and 120bpm I just can't seem to get a good fast sequence going. Why can I do it at 86/172 but sound like a novice at 60/120? I know it must be something with the 8th and 16th notes but I can't get it. It must be the way that I'm counting the measures in triplets that's confusing me. Hope you get my message. I'm 51 years old and guitar is my outlet for releasing every day stress. Thanks in advance.
What is that guitar?
False advertising. Where is the cat?
Thanks for pointing that out Michael. lol I've been waiting for this comment. Thought it might help me get a few extra views. She was sitting on the back of my chair while I was getting setup. I grabbed a frame from the video, showed a few people. They got a kick out of it so I decided, "Why not?" There is a very good chance that she'll make an appearance in a future video. She sits on the back of my chair about every day while I work.
@@DougMarks My cat perches on my shoulder when I play guitar on the couch. =)
Thank you
You're welcome Brad.