Mike1836
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Keneally Retro
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Keneally Retrospective
Join Mike Keneally in a retrospective of his music over the past 3 decades. His work with Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Dethklok and others have heavily influenced his own original compositions creating a truly unique mash up of eclectic styles.
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About this course
Join Mike Keneally in a retrospective of his music over the past 3 decades. His work with Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Dethklok and others have heavily influenced his own original compositions creating a truly unique mash up of eclectic styles.
What you'll learn
- Use diminished scale intervals to create tension and resolution
- Create more compositional and abstract sounds from traditional country vocabulary
- Apply interval-based thinking to create variations on standard licks
- Transform basic country licks into more sophisticated harmonic variations
- Develop smooth legato sliding technique across the fretboard
Release date: 07/30/2013 • 3h 01m runtime
Sample lessons
Fingerpicking/Hand Sync Challenge
Workout!
Using Counterpoint
Counterpoint
How to Solo over Shifty Chords
Full Demo
Messin' with Hendrix
Messin' with Hendrix
What's included
23 lessons • 19 charts • 3 Jam Tracks
Mad scientist guitar player for Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Dethklok and others brings a retrospective artist series to JamPlay. Draw on his experience as a "first call" band leader and musician, learn how to put old licks into a new context, and learn to play passages of many staple Keneally songs that span his lengthy and diverse career!
Mr. Keneally looks at an excerpt from one of his original songs "Dee 'n' A" and presents quite the musical workout for both the right and left hand. Have fun! There's a lot more to come!
Mr. Keneally looks at an excerpt from one of his original songs "Dee 'n' A" and presents quite the musical workout for both the right and left hand. Have fun! There's a lot more to come!
Mike teaches some key licks from the instrumental interlude to "Cause of Breakfast" off of his 1994 album Boil That Dust Speck. Be prepared for some wicked string skipping and interesting harmonic dissonances! See Mike play the whole song HERE!
Mr. Keneally continues with part 2 of 3 on the "Cause of Breakfast" interlude. Get an idea of the crazy, yet calculated compositional ideas that went into this solo and learn some classic sounding licks used in an unconventional context!
Put all the pieces together and play the entire interlude as a whole. Be sure to check out the complete song too! Mike dives deeper into the process of stream of consciousness writing and talks in greater detail about the subtleties in this arrangement.
Keneally teaches the verse to his song "Dee 'n' A" and illustrates how you can play a constant bass line at the same time while playing counterpoint melodies and rhythms. There's only ONE guitar track here, folks!
+ 16 more lessons
Reviews
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Overlord1
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02/10/25
Very Cool
Super interesting coming at the guitar from a different perspective than most courses or mindsets. Contains info you wouldn't reach through conventional learning
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