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Guitar Lab: Speed, Precision & Endurance Vol. 1

Intensive Examination of Technical Workouts & Approaches For Lead Guitar

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Guitar Lab: Speed, Precision & Endurance Vol. 1
Brad Carlton

Brad Carlton

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About this course

Speed, precision, and endurance are three important athletic components of a musician's skill set. Brad Carlton's Guitar Lab: Speed, Precision, & Endurance is designed to assist a guitarist to develop these principles.

The concept of practicing in a rhythmic grid will be of paramount importance in all the studies throughout this course. You will learn various left hand techniques to assist you in developing speed decision and endurance. These techniques will include tapping, hammer ons, pull offs, and legato slides.

You will also be presented with the concept of thinking about theoretical analysis and fingerboard knowledge while practicing repetitions of speed drills. Throughout the course, I will explain in detail all fingering and dampening principles in addition to picking schemes when applicable.

The jam tracks provided in this course are modal in nature and will assist you in ear training. The minor pentatonic scale will be the foundation upon which the Dorian, Aeolian, and Phrygian modes will be overlaid. In addition, there will be a Phrygian dominant jam track and a mixolydian jam track.

What you'll learn

  • Understand how to break down complex musical passages
  • Understand complex rhythmic patterns
  • Develop speed and precision in bass line playing
  • Develop finger speed and dexterity
  • Improve technical precision
Release date: 02/02/2017 • 1h 32m runtime
intermediatelate intermediateacoustic guitarguitarelectric guitartechniqueapplied theoryreference
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Sample lessons
Building Speed
Building Speed
Bass Line
Rhythmic Options
Rhythmic Options
Duplet and Triplet Figures
C Minor Pentatonic
C Minor Pentatonic
b7, 1
C Minor Pentatonic
C Minor Pentatonic
b3, 1

What's included

15 lessons • 14 charts • 4 Jam Tracks

Speed, Precision, & Endurance Vol. 1
Speed, precision, and endurance are three important athletic components of a musicians skill set. This course is designed to assist a guitarist to develop these principles. The concept of practicing in a rhythmic grid will be of paramount importance in all the studies throughout this course. You will learn various left hand techniques to assist you in developing speed decision and endurance. These techniques will include tapping, hammer ons, pull offs, and legato slides. You will also be presented with the concept of thinking about theoretical analysis and fingerboard knowledge while practicing repetitions of speed drills. The jam tracks provided in this course are modal in nature and will assist you in ear training. The minor pentatonic scale will be the foundation upon which the Dorian, Aeolian, and Phrygian modes will be overlaid. In addition, there will be a Phrygian dominant jam track and a mixolydian jam track. Throughout the course, I will explain in detail all fingering and dampening principles in addition to picking schemes when applicable.
Building Speed
The bassline in these two jam tracks is a good project for developing speed and endurance. This lesson will demonstrate the concept of a melodic idea being the equivalent of a chain, and each connection between notes can be viewed as a link of that chain.
Rhythmic Options
This lesson will demonstrate duplet and triplet rhythmic figures as applied over the jam tracks. Is imperative that a musician here's the different levels of rhythmic activity not only to be in sync with the ensemble, but also as a rhythmic grid work to assist in improvisation.
C Minor Pentatonic
This lesson will deal with the b7 and the root of the C minor pentatonic scale and will demonstrate various places and ways to play those two notes.
C Minor Pentatonic
The definition of a chord scale is: each note move up to the next note in the scale in whatever group of note you're dealing with. In the previous lesson we played the b7 and the root. By moving up through the minor pentatonic scale we will now play the root and the b3.
C Minor Pentatonic
Now we move up another note through our chord scale of the C minor pentatonic scale which will yield the b3 and 4.
C Minor Pentatonic
Next up will be the 4 and 5 of the C minor pentatonic scale.

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stebe539

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03/17/25

Brad is a great teacher. Extremely knowledgeable and to the point. Explains things point by point without trying to present too many things at one time. Explains clearly what you should understand and practice before moving on to next phase

bakerbakermusicmaker

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07/24/24

I really like Carlton's teaching style. I have been playing for decades and it's refreshing to find teachers that move along at a healthy pace.

solinski

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05/16/21

Great course

This is a great course to do exactly what is says: work on speed, precision and endurance. Brad give great exercises and explains the little nuances to help do them correctly. Great way to learn proper technique and feel, which will lead to speed and precision.

lucianaeris

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03/26/21

Good so far

It seems a bit premature to be writing a review so soon after buying this course, but it seems great so far (although I'm still on the first exercise).

wholmer

01/04/21

I wish Brad did this years ago!

Brads Guitar Lab series is awesome! He takes an element of every aspect of guitar playing and dissects it, laying open so you can easily understand it. The bite size lessons and his teaching method are really very well thought out and very comprehensive. I am always pleased with the outcome.

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