Jimi Hendrix (1969, Purple) Music Poster Print - 24" X 36"

This poster shows Jimi Hendrix in a purple shirt. His eyes are closed and he is playing a white guitar. At the bottom it says "Hendrix" and "1969". This poster measures approx. 24" x 36" Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist, songwriter, and singer. Hailed by fans and critics, he is considered one of the most influential electric guitarists. His albums include Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland, The Cry of Love, First Rays of the New Rising Sun, Band of Gypsys. Popular songs include Hey Joe, Purple Haze, Wind Cries Mary, Fire, Foxy Lady, Voodoo Child, All Along the Watchtower, Machine Gun, Bold as Love, Little Wing

May I suggest that you begin with a very easy melody with just one voice or maybe a two voice piece with bass notes on open strings. Learn a couple of bars by heart and play the melody over and over again and try to change the melody slightly without losing the classical touch.

When I was a fifteen years old guitarist playing rock solos and classical guitar pieces I remember that I had a desire to be able to improvise on my guitar in a classical manner. Nowadays I have developed this skill and I love to improvise in the style of composers like Sor, Tarrega, Paganini or others or just trying to find myself somewhere among the notes. These special moments are a form of meditation that clears my mind and also helps me as a composer to stimulate my creative abilities.

The ultimate exercise is to use advanced classical guitar solos. If you think about it you will realize that classical guitar pieces are filled with wonderful licks, more or less complicated. These licks can be developed and added upon to give you material that will help you developing your improvisational skills. For example, take a two bar passage in a classical guitar piece that you like and practice it until you master it and then memorize it. Now you can play around with it and break it down, change it, analyze it and so on. If you want to improve as an improvisational guitarist and musician you can regard classical guitar pieces as collections of very musical licks just waiting to be used.

I hope you feel motivated to try these hints and reap the benefits from improvising the classical way. I described how I was affected by this type of guitar playing and I guess you might feel the same. Good luck!

There are many ways to develop this skill. You can start with major scales, experiment with easy chords, or easy classical guitar pieces. The most basic requisite is that you want to learn this art and with this desire you will find ways to practice improvisation in all your guitar playing. I will just mention using classical guitar pieces in this article.

The most important reason for learning classical guitar improvisation is that it's fun! If you learn classical guitar improvisation it will also help you memorizing sheet music, it will be easier for you to compose your own guitar pieces in a classical guitar style, you can make up your own techniqal exercices on the go and it will help you understand your guitar in a better way.

Guitar: How To Improvise The Classical Guitar Way

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It's all about the intervals...

Because we've chosen Ionian, the intervals of that scale are as follows...

Now, the reason we have a particular order for these modes/scales is because when you put them together in that sequence using the intervals of the major/Ionian scale, you get one big scale. Let me explain...

4. Lydian - a flavour of the major/Ionian scale

Guitar Lesson - Mode Mysteries

Say you wanted to solo over the E major chord. You could just select the first mode, Ionian, because it's a major mode. You need to find the root note of the E major chord (E) and start whatever mode you want to solo over it from that root note (of course, you don't have to START the solo on the root note, just make sure you start on a note that's within that scale - the SCALE starts on the root note).

- Phrygian is the 3rd mode

- the 2nd note of Phrygian is the root of the next mode, Lydian

- follow the order of modes to the 4th note...

It means once you know which "flavour"/mode you want to solo over a chord, you can follow the sequence of intervals in that mode and suddenly, all the other modes in sequence at those intervals become part of that same flavour and scale!

7. Locrian - the odd one out. Diminished scale.

It's true that most guitarists ignore the theory side of things, and it's no surprise - the majority of sites and books out there don't exactly make it look..."fun".

e.g. picking a random one out the air... What mode starts (has its root note on) on the 4th note of Phrygian?...

So What Does This Mean?!

2. Dorian - a flavour of the natural minor scale

What's interesting is you can use the note intervals of WHATEVER mode you're playing and use each note as a starting point for the next mode in sequence - e.g....

I know, I know, it's kind of obvious why a lot of guitarists just cannot be bothered, but I promise you, learning the modes is so so beneficial because not only will you learn to add "flavour" to the same old major/minor lead guitar, but knowing this also leads onto being able to write songs at the snap of your fingers and have a visual map of each mode scale all up the fretboard - no more box playing!

This is the relationship between the modes and their intervals that many guitarists fail to see, they just learn the boxed mode shapes and don't realise how they all tie in together.

If you were playing Dorian over a minor chord, the next mode is Phrygian - because it's the next mode, it starts on the 2nd note of Dorian!

5. Mixolydian - a flavour of the major/Ionian scale built around dominant 7th chords.

1 W 2 W 3 H 4 W 5 W 6 W 7 H 1

So do invest some time into learning the modes and how they work. You'll only understand how important they are once you learn them! It's weird that way!

The best way to think of modes are as scales. These scales, like the pentatonic or major scale can be mapped out on the fretboard. Think of the modes as "flavours" of the major and natural minor scales.

6. Aeolian - the natural minor scale the other minor modes are based around

- Learn the intervals of each mode (e.g. we looked at 1st mode Ionian's intervals above)

- Learn the order of modes, so you'll know which mode applies to each note in each mode (this does take some time)

The answer is: Aeolian

- Play "A Dorian" over the A minor chord

- The 2nd note in A Dorian is a whole step higher, so it's B

- The mode after Dorian is Phrygian

- Therefore, you can play B Phrygian over A minor and it will sound like Dorian!!!

1. Ionian - this is just the "major scale", but it's also the first and most important mode in western music.

The 7 modes are, in order:

3. Phrygian - a flavour of the natural minor scale with a Spanish flamenco feel

W= Whole step (2 fret interval) H= Half step (1 fret interval)

E.g.

If you were playing Lydian over a major chord, the next mode is Mixolydian, so because it's the next mode, it starts on the 2nd note of Lydian.

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Malcolm Young AC/DC Limited Edition Sculpture

All sculpture in the Rock Iconz series are limited editions and the Malcolm Young AC/DC figure is very exclusive with only 3000 pieces slated for production. This is an officially licensed product from AC/DC.Standing 8 inches tall, this limited edition figure is cast in poly-resin and hand-painted in fine detail. Each sculpture in the Rock Iconz series is hand-numbered and displayed on an attractive wooden base.

5. Distortion - What is distortion? Why is it important in the equation of getting good rock guitar tone? Well, distortion is the crackling of sound. You probably know that, but just in case, the question now becomes, what is a 'good' crackling of sound. The secret is in the ear of the beholder, so really only you can decide what good distortion is. Try lots of pedals and different amps and try to figure out what kind of distortion makes you sound best. Some people like bluesy, overdriven type of distortion, while some people like total chaos, fire-breathing inferno distortion, and let me tell you, if you are looking for it, it is out there, in some strange colored pedal. Distortion helps us cover up our mistakes, but not only that, but it makes you feel cooler inside, sustain notes and make them breathe, and much more. Try to do some research on guitarist that you like their tone, and see if you can find what kind of pedal and amps they use.

3. Humbuckers - You want humbuckers on your guitar for a couple reasons. The main one is that is produces more sounds, it is 2 magnets, not just 1, so there is more sustain, tone, and most of all, when pushed, create more distortion... hoo ray! We love distortion here! Another thing that makes humbuckers cooler than single coils is that they are quite. Don't you hate how single coils buzz? Isn't it really annoying when you think there is someone in the room with you, but it is just the buzz of your neck pickup? I know you have... admit it... anyways, humbuckers are quite, produce more sound, more distortion, killer sustain and most of all look cool! Go out and get some humbuckers for your axe today. It's ok, you won't be dissapointed. Even the cool mini humbuckers that fit into a single coil slot sound great and if you really don't want to miss your single coil twang, you can get a coil splitter or a push-pull volume or tone control to switch your mini humbucker into a single coil. Aren't humbuckers great?

6 Essential Elements To Getting The Best Rock Guitar Tone

6. Feeling - If there is one thing that you need have to get the best rock guitar tone you are capable of, it is to put all your feeling, attention and focus on what you are doing. Once, back when I was in music school, a well respected musician said to me, was "Once you are done learning all that stuff, you have to learn to forget it and then the magic starts to happen!" So, feel the music, feel it in your heart... take everything you know and touch the celestial, play the things you really want to, let the music take control and just give it all your energy letting the spirit of music flow through row body, into the strings, through the cord, into the amp and making the speakers wail! Feeling... it is a beautiful thing

4. Locking Tremolo System (aka Floyd Rose) - Why do you need a locking tremolo system? You need it because to do all the cool airplane whammy divebombs, kitten purrs, and extreme harmonic divebombs you need a locking tremolo system. Why? because they do 2 things, the first is stay in tune during all this chaos and abuse you put your poor guitar through, but also because these systems are the only ones designed for these kind of advanced guitar, and musical maneuvers, attempted by many, but successful and perfected by few. If you want to see some cool stuff on guitar divebomb whammy's check out Van Halen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani or some unknown guys on YouTube who are really great! Go have a ball going crazy on your new locking tremolo system equipped guitar, and have a smile on your face after because your beauty if still in tune, ready to rock on... wherever you take it!

2. Big Strings - Big strings are essential to big rock guitar tone because they contain the more mass, therefore move more air, creating a larger magnetic field, resulting in the speakers moving more, in essence, rocking more! Big, fat, juicy strings bring out the lows of the guitar and also make your high's more precise, louder and evenly balanced in volume to the other strings. Bigger strings also give you more grip, allowing you more control and manipulation over the guitar strings. Big strings are even more essential on guitars that are de-tuned... once you de-tune a guitar, the strings slack a lot and when you strike the strings hard they go out of tune, so most rock guys who de-tune most of the time; like down to D, C, B, A should use some pretty heavy strings. My recommendation is use at least 13's if you are tuning down crazy low. However, if you are a regular or Eb tuner, try to use 10's or 11's on your guitar, they won't rip your hands apart and will give you much better tone. For your info, Stevie Ray Vaughan used 13's and it is said he used to have to super glue his fingertips on after shows... that's rocking!

Getting awesome rock guitar tone is not hard. I have heard professional players play through low-quality, out-of-tune, distorted equipment and it sounded great! This says 2 things; one - your tone is in your hands, two - distortion is a good thing and on your side! In most history of the speaker, the goal was to be crystal clear, not until some rocker decided to turn his amp up too loud and distort the sound,real rock guitar tone was born. As an added fact, I forget who, but some famous guitarist actually used to buy radio brand shack speakers (because they sounded the worst), and then cut them with razor blades to get the sound they were looking for... beautiful. Ok, let's move on to the 7 essential elements to getting the best rock guitar tone.

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