In , Racer X made their recording debut, Street Lethal , an album featuring the impossibly dexterous string-skipping and razor-sharp speed picking of guitarist Paul Gilbert. Since leaving Mr. So when I became a solo artist, I wanted to be a singer, too - still have intense guitar, but in the context of a band. So I figured that, before I condemn all-instrumental guitar music, I should at least give it a try - see if I could make a record that not just guitar players but also regular rock fans would enjoy.
Gilbert wastes no time making this statement, opening Get Out of My Yard with a blistering unaccompanied guitar solo. Read on for a feast of pick-melting, tendon-tearing moves, as well as some more nuanced approaches and even a few riff-writing concepts. I kick in a delay after that, to loop it, and then I go into the moving-capo part. Arpeggios are easy with this tuning, but chords get pretty tough! The whole secret is the dotted-eighth-note setting on the delay, which I got from Pat Travers and Pat Thrall.
How about a few more never-before-heard licks? This is half and half; the end is all picking, on one note. The trick is in the picking pattern, and the hammer-ons and pull-offs.
The result is a nice, wide-sounding arpeggio. There are also a lot of string-skipping triad arpeggios in the Haydn Symphony [ No.
The whole trick is the slide with your pinkie, which puts you in position for the next lick. All the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!
