Live Plus: Rock Soloing Camp, Episode 01
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About this course
Originally broadcast live, this edition of TrueFire's Rock Soloing Camp, featuring Angus Clark and Chris Buono focuses on a variety of techniques and creative approaches for crafting engaging, melodic rock solos.
Expanding on core concepts from their top-ranked TrueFire courses, the educators present new approaches, more advanced techniques and additional creative inspirations for taking your rock solos to the next level.
Angus Clark's series of lessons will take you through new scale and modal options for mapping out rock solos on the fretboard, as well as a handful of expressive techniques inspired by rock legends Neal Schon form Journey and Jeff Carlisi from 38 Special.
Chris Buono takes you through a power pack of rock soloing studies to ramp up your technical and creative methods, including one octave cells, symmetrical fingering patterns, zig-zag sliding techniques and the "warp refraction zone".
This course includes all of the video lessons, backing tracks, Q&A sessions and prep materials presented both before and during the camp. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s rock with Angus Clark and Chris Buono!
Expanding on core concepts from their top-ranked TrueFire courses, the educators present new approaches, more advanced techniques and additional creative inspirations for taking your rock solos to the next level.
Angus Clark's series of lessons will take you through new scale and modal options for mapping out rock solos on the fretboard, as well as a handful of expressive techniques inspired by rock legends Neal Schon form Journey and Jeff Carlisi from 38 Special.
Chris Buono takes you through a power pack of rock soloing studies to ramp up your technical and creative methods, including one octave cells, symmetrical fingering patterns, zig-zag sliding techniques and the "warp refraction zone".
This course includes all of the video lessons, backing tracks, Q&A sessions and prep materials presented both before and during the camp. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s rock with Angus Clark and Chris Buono!
What you'll learn
- Discover the Guitar Gym series and its focus on technique development
- Preparing for interactive learning experience
- Learn to apply the same fingering pattern across multiple strings
- Learning about available course resources and previous lessons
- Learn about Chris Buono's background as a TrueFire educator
Release date: 11/27/2020 • 2h 57m runtime
Sample lessons
Mixing Blues & Mixolydian
Overview
Mixing Blues & Mixolydian
Performance
Mixing Blues & Mixolydian
Breakdown
Warp Refraction Zone
Overview
What's included
53 lessons • 12 charts • 4 Jam Tracks
Live Plus: Rock Soloing Camp, Episode 01
Welcome to this edition of TrueFire's Rock Soloing Camp, featuring Angus Clark and Chris Buono. Originally broadcast live, the Rock Soloing Camp focuses on a variety of techniques and creative approaches for crafting killer rock solos. Expanding on core concepts from their TrueFire library, the educators present new approaches, more advanced techniques and additional creative inspirations for taking your rock solos to the next level.
Angus Clark's series of lessons will take you through new scale and modal options for mapping out rock solos on the fretboard, as well as a handful of expressive techniques inspired by rock legends Neal Schon form Journey and Jeff Carlisi from 38 Special.
Chris Buono takes you through a power pack of rock soloing studies to ramp up your technical and creative methods, including one octave cells, symmetrical fingering patterns, zig-zag sliding techniques and the "warp refraction zone".
The course includes all the video lessons, backing tracks, Q&A sessions and prep materials presented both before and during the camp. All the performances are tabbed and notated, and you'll be able to sync the notation to the video using TrueFire's Learning Tools. You can also loop or slow down any of the videos so you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar, and let's rock!
Angus Clark's series of lessons will take you through new scale and modal options for mapping out rock solos on the fretboard, as well as a handful of expressive techniques inspired by rock legends Neal Schon form Journey and Jeff Carlisi from 38 Special.
Chris Buono takes you through a power pack of rock soloing studies to ramp up your technical and creative methods, including one octave cells, symmetrical fingering patterns, zig-zag sliding techniques and the "warp refraction zone".
The course includes all the video lessons, backing tracks, Q&A sessions and prep materials presented both before and during the camp. All the performances are tabbed and notated, and you'll be able to sync the notation to the video using TrueFire's Learning Tools. You can also loop or slow down any of the videos so you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar, and let's rock!
Introducing Angus Clark
We'll start things off today by introducing our first artist, Angus Clark. He's one of our favorites to work with, releasing numerous courses here at TrueFire. Let's give him a warm welcome and check in with Angus!
Mapping Out the Solo
Let's talk a bit about the first lesson. Here we're looking at mapping out a solo, or having an idea of what the entire solo looks like, just like you would map out the form of a song. Once we have an idea of the map, then we can fine tune the individual parts of the solo.
Mapping Out the Solo
This lesson involves mapping out your solo. My creative process for working out a solo is to take a few passes on the solo to see what things sound like and what the form of the solo feels like. Where is the peak? How much do I want to build things up or do I want to go big right out of the gate? Does the scaler stuff work, or should I just go for classic blues licks? Should I use an effect? Check out where your chops are, can you cut 16th notes? How about 16th note triplets? If not, you need to either work within your limitations, or go back to the woodhsed. Sometimes this stuff comes together quickly, sometimes you have to back off and listen some more and see what else is going on in the song to see if there's something to pick up on. Should the solo just be a restatement of the vocal melody? Or is there a signature melodic hook that needs to be there and just can the idea of taking a "solo". All of these choices are on the table, and deserve serious consideration.
If it's a go for broke lead feature (yay!) then you need a map. Mine are usually based on what areas of the neck I am working in and how fast I'm playing. If it's a 16 bar form, the first 4 bars are in a lower octave, sparser licks, second 4 bars moving up and the licks get a bit more intense. Downbeat of bar 9 features something dramatic, fast stuff ensues leading into a building passage that pays off right before the vocal comes back in - and DON'T STEP ON THE VOCAL. I guarantee you that if the last note of your solo bleeds onto the vocal entrance that the mix engineer will destroy your solo by killing the last note that ends the solo so that it's not fighting with the vocal. And that's a fact.
If it's a go for broke lead feature (yay!) then you need a map. Mine are usually based on what areas of the neck I am working in and how fast I'm playing. If it's a 16 bar form, the first 4 bars are in a lower octave, sparser licks, second 4 bars moving up and the licks get a bit more intense. Downbeat of bar 9 features something dramatic, fast stuff ensues leading into a building passage that pays off right before the vocal comes back in - and DON'T STEP ON THE VOCAL. I guarantee you that if the last note of your solo bleeds onto the vocal entrance that the mix engineer will destroy your solo by killing the last note that ends the solo so that it's not fighting with the vocal. And that's a fact.
A Page From Zep
Let's start old school with a Zeppelin inspired jam. I'm sticking to the blues scale here, although I do make a point to hit an A major pentatonic run where the rhythm section turns around on an A chord. There's a couple of crazy bends and a pattern lick in there, fun stuff to work on that you can use anywhere, anytime.
A Page From Zep
The longer runs are mapped out to get me from one place to another, so when you look at the licks in this solo, watch how I set myself up to hit the A chord, and then coming off the A chord, see how the run ends with a lick that sits me back into the E pentatonic scale. This takes planning. It's a relatively short solo form, so there's not a lot of "building" going on here, I come on strong out of the gate.
Mixing Blues & Mixolydian
For our first variation, we're looking at mixing blues & Mixolydian, taken from Michael Schenker's bag of tricks.
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