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Sustainable Playing

Sustainable Playing. There's nothing wrong with having a solo prepared in advance, but what happens when you're not able to make that happen? Do you get the desired result when you're put on the spot in a musical situation and have to come up with something? In other words, is your playing sustainable? Rafael Moreira brings his vast experience to the subject of improvisation to give you the tools and concepts you need to play freely.

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Sustainable Playing
Rafael Moreira

Rafael Moreira

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About this course

Sustainable Playing. There's nothing wrong with having a solo prepared in advance, but what happens when you're not able to make that happen? Do you get the desired result when you're put on the spot in a musical situation and have to come up with something? In other words, is your playing sustainable? Rafael Moreira brings his vast experience to the subject of improvisation to give you the tools and concepts you need to play freely.

What you'll learn

  • Execute sliding seventh arpeggios using combined picking and legato technique
  • Execute a pentatonic lick that shifts from 5th to 1st position
  • Apply seventh arpeggios in improvisation over major key progressions
  • Apply palm muting for tonal control
  • Connect all seven modal arpeggios across the fretboard in one key
Release date: 02/14/2020 • 9h 44m runtime
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Sample lessons
Pentatonic Shapes in Groups of Three Notes
Pentatonic Shapes in Groups of Three Notes
Lesson
Shape Proximity
Shape Proximity
Lesson
Chromatic Lines
Chromatic Lines
Lesson
Arpeggios, Bends and Tapping
Arpeggios, Bends and Tapping
Lesson

What's included

84 lessons • 54 charts • 45 Jam Tracks

Introduction
Join Rafael Moreira as he discusses the key techniques and concepts in this course, Sustainable Playing.
Establishing Feel (Chromatic Exercises)
Sometimes, it's not all about the notes, it's about feel! Rafael starts us out with a couple of awesome exercises designed to accentuate certain notes that will in turn accentuate different feels.
Establishing Feel (Chromatic Exercises)
Sometimes, it's not all about the notes, it's about feel! Rafael starts us out with a couple of awesome exercises designed to accentuate certain notes that will in turn accentuate different feels.
Pentatonic Shapes Across the Neck
Learning certain scales across the neck like they are second nature is a key element to being free in your playing. When you don't have to think about your scales, you're free to focus on other aspects of improvising. Let's start with the pentatonic scale.
Pentatonic Shapes Across the Neck
Learning certain scales across the neck like they are second nature is a key element to being free in your playing. When you don't have to think about your scales, you're free to focus on other aspects of improvising. Let's start with the pentatonic scale.
Pentatonic Shapes In Groups of Six Notes
Of course, we rarely run a scale up then down when playing and improvising. In this lesson, Rafael shows us how to make the pentatonic scale a bit more musical by running them in groups of six notes.
Pentatonic Shapes In Groups of Six Notes
Of course, we rarely run a scale up then down when playing and improvising. In this lesson, Rafael shows us how to make the pentatonic scale a bit more musical by running them in groups of six notes.

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Sam

10/30/25

Awesome Teacher!

Rafael (Rafa) has such an amazing and successful body of work that it is incredible he still wants to share his knowledge and experience on his OWN time and in ANY manner! His method of teaching is through a focused and structured lesson plan that HE tailors in a way that will appeal to each student's own level of skill, and has instilled a desire in me to improve as rapidly as possible in between each lesson. I am in my 60s and have subscribed to - and/or - downloaded THOUSANDS of internet guitar teaching channels. Rafa blows them all away! You will NOT be disappointed!!!

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