solinski
Verified buyer
02/18/21
Great course
I am really enjoying this course and Jeff's teaching style. This was a great way for me to start learning sweep picking and two hand tapping. Jeff's explanations and examples were very helpful.
Rock Tricks
This interactive video course will seriously and quickly overhaul every aspect of your playing
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About this course
Rock guitar offers players more dialects, techniques and colors to draw on than any other style of guitar, bar none. Today's rock player needs tasty chops, a more sophisticated sense of rhythm and harmony, a bagful of rock techniques, improvisational skills and other essential tricks of the trade. And that's where Rock Tricks comes into play -- this interactive video course will seriously and quickly overhaul every aspect of your playing.
Jeff Scheetz is one of the few top notch performing and studio artists who can also expertly communicate the what, why and how of modern rock guitar. Scheetz exploded on the scene a few years back as the "Hot Pick" of all the major guitar pubs. He now tours the Jeff Scheetz band, has several CDs to his credit, authored countless educational articles and conducts clinics around the world.
Rock Tricks is a hands-on playing course, which guides the student through ten distinct rock rhythm patterns and variations, ten distinct solos and variations, essential right and left-hand techniques, rock guitar tricks and a very effective harmonic system for coloring your solos and improvisational work. No tedious theory or exercises, no long monologues -- you will rock your way through the course.
Here's how it's presented...
1. Ten essential rock techniques are broken up into two video lessons each.
2. Each technique is first broken down step-by-step and then it is presented in context.
3. The solo lessons demonstrate the solos, then breaks them down note-by-note, with several variations.
4. Each pair of lessons (rhythm and solo) feature a corresponding backing track to practice over.
5. Text descriptions provide overviews of the tune along with background on the style or technique.
Jeff Scheetz is one of the few top notch performing and studio artists who can also expertly communicate the what, why and how of modern rock guitar. Scheetz exploded on the scene a few years back as the "Hot Pick" of all the major guitar pubs. He now tours the Jeff Scheetz band, has several CDs to his credit, authored countless educational articles and conducts clinics around the world.
Rock Tricks is a hands-on playing course, which guides the student through ten distinct rock rhythm patterns and variations, ten distinct solos and variations, essential right and left-hand techniques, rock guitar tricks and a very effective harmonic system for coloring your solos and improvisational work. No tedious theory or exercises, no long monologues -- you will rock your way through the course.
Here's how it's presented...
1. Ten essential rock techniques are broken up into two video lessons each.
2. Each technique is first broken down step-by-step and then it is presented in context.
3. The solo lessons demonstrate the solos, then breaks them down note-by-note, with several variations.
4. Each pair of lessons (rhythm and solo) feature a corresponding backing track to practice over.
5. Text descriptions provide overviews of the tune along with background on the style or technique.
What you'll learn
- Execute fretted harmonics using right-hand finger technique
- Combine hammer-ons and pull-offs with sweep picking for smoother execution
- Apply harmonics in both clean and distorted settings
- Apply partial sweeps to smaller note groupings
- Identify harmonic nodes across the entire fretboard
Release date: 09/01/2005 • 1h 04m runtime
Sample lessons
Natural Harmonics
Performance
Sweep Picking
Breakdown
Sweep Picking
Performance
Legato/Staccato
Breakdown
What's included
20 lessons • 8 charts • 8 Jam Tracks
Natural Harmonics
Natural harmonics occur "naturally" at certain places on your neck. It has to do with string divisions and is a logical mathematic problem. But since we wanna "rock" - we are not going to get bogged down with something pesky like math.
Suffice it to say that you can hear natural harmonics from many bands, both electric and acoustic, and adding them to your arsenal will make you a more complete player.
Natural Harmonics
Natural harmonics occur "naturally" at certain places on your neck. It has to do with string divisions and is a logical mathematic problem. But since we wanna "rock" - we are not going to get bogged down with something pesky like math.
Suffice it to say that you can hear natural harmonics from many bands, both electric and acoustic, and adding them to your arsenal will make you a more complete player.
Pinch Harmonics
This is one of the trickiest techniques to master. It is something you really have to work at because it is such a feel thing. But listening to players, who use this - from Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top to modern day screamers like Zakk Wylde, will show you just what is possible. It is a great way to get different notes from the same place without moving your left hand, you just move your right hand harmonic and voila!!!
Pinch Harmonics
This is one of the trickiest techniques to master. It is something you really have to work at because it is such a feel thing. But listening to players, who use this - from Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top to modern day screamers like Zakk Wylde, will show you just what is possible. It is a great way to get different notes from the same place without moving your left hand, you just move your right hand harmonic and voila!!!
Sweep Picking
This technique also comes from a desire to go fast! Well, actually, that and the concept of minimizing your motion come into play here as well. But when your left hand is once again faster than your right, and your alternate picking can't keep up, that is when using several down or several up strokes in a row will speed things up.
Lots of quick players use this technique like Paul Gilbert and Frank Gambale. Once you get the synchronization of your two hands down, you can do some licks you have only heard in your head!
Sweep Picking
This technique also comes from a desire to go fast! Well, actually, that and the concept of minimizing your motion come into play here as well. But when your left hand is once again faster than your right, and your alternate picking can't keep up, that is when using several down or several up strokes in a row will speed things up.
Lots of quick players use this technique like Paul Gilbert and Frank Gambale. Once you get the synchronization of your two hands down, you can do some licks you have only heard in your head!
Palm Muting
The key to our palm muting technique is finding the right place to have your right hand touching the strings. Too much and you kill the strings or change the pitch, too little and you get too much ringing out. So, once you find the right place you can get some great effects.
Heavy tunes usually have some muting simply for dynamics sake. Sometimes you can change the feel of the song completely without actually changing the chord structure just by the way you palm mute.
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Reviews
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carvin01
Verified buyer
11/30/20
Rock Tricks by Jeff Scheetz's
Excellent! I really like this course and Jeff's style of teaching. He shows you the how and let's you work it out on your own.
Matt
06/02/20
Great Content, Needs Updated
I love your sound and teaching method, however, I'd like to see this course updated to include modern views. It makes it pretty tough for me to pull all of this stuff up, then close it, open it up. I think you'd have 5-stars across the board with these updates. Hope to buy the course soon.
gregdeB
Verified buyer
11/16/19
Rock Tricks
This is a good but dated course
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