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Yngwie Malmsteen Asylum Theory

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, February 7, 2019, In : yngwie malmsteen

The habits that ensures fast alternate picking

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, January 24, 2019, In : Alternate Picking

Disco Shred

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, In : Economy Picking

Really fast Blues or Joey Tafolla style

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, January 20, 2019, In : blues shred

In this new video I show you how to implement a really cool Bluesy lick into your improvising over a Dominant chord, its also quite inspired from one of my early inspirations, Joey Tafolla

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Frankenstein Techniques

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, January 12, 2019, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

In my example I use the sweep picking technique and the legato technique and the sliding technique and finally the tapping technique to make something new and fun, its very inspiring and this concept can spawn a whole bunch of new techniques and licks

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How to use all your fancy chops

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, January 10, 2019, In : how to improvise

In this video I show you a simple way to start making use of all your material.
So if you have a bunch of licks that you can play but never make use of when you improvise or solo you MUST check out this video

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Richie Kotzen is so underrated

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, January 7, 2019, In : ritchie kotzen

in this video I talk about one of my early inspirations and about he was one of the guys that was very inventive in the late eighties and for some reason never got that much credit for it as far as im concerned, I also show you some of he's ways to shred, and you can download the material in all the videos of course

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Vinnie Moore's Legato Conjuring

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, January 5, 2019, In : vinnie moore

Here's some of the techniques that Vinnie Moore uses to get he's sweet sound. The combination of legato and whammy bar is some of what I consider being Vinnie's sound, I know he probably did not invent the idea but its a big part of he's sound, especially on the older albums. Also presented in the video are some ideas to get a real smooth legato sound like Vinnie
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How Yngwie Malmsteen builds solos

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, January 2, 2019, In : yngwie malmsteen

I did an analysis of the Yngwie Malmsteen song Black star from he's debut album and this is what came up.
It's kind of weird that Yngwie was always accused of just playing fast, because actually I would say that the solo's I analysed was closer to something like 70 percent melody and then only 30 percent fast licks. So in this video I will show you how
Yngwie typically builds a solo

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How Tony Macalpine does it

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, December 30, 2018, In : tony macalpine

Here's a typical Tony Macalpine approach to improvising. I always know Tony Macalpine's sound when I hear the combination of sweep picking arpeggios tapping and bends, specifically the bends is so much he's sound. I did a little analacys of he's improvised soloin the song poisened cookies which is a live song he does found on youtube
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What would Yngwie Malmsteen do

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, December 25, 2018, In : yngwie malmsteen

Yngwie Malmsteen's approach to solo using the Natural minor. I did a little analyzis of the track Brothers from the Yngwie album Seventh sign, it's an instrumental if you don't already know it.

It's Not a note for note solo but more a video showing you what Yngwie does in this situation to get the sound he has, whats awesome about that is that you don't learn he's licks but more how to develop your own way of playing Neo Classical Shred guitar. Remember to click the lick under the video if...
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How to change your sound with Pentatonics - Super imposing

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, December 20, 2018, In : how to improvise

Did you check out the lessons, yesterday ? we are continuing the concept of super imposing today but moving the Pentatonic scale so we now get a flattened ninth to enjoy in our Pentatonic scale, and nothing is changed in the pattern, see how easy it is in the video

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Kill with the Pentatonics - Super imposing

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, December 19, 2018, In : how to improvise

What we do is actually improvise over a chord that is not there, it sounds crazy but thats the idea, so here we improvise over an A minor chord but for the Super imposing part we use a D Pentatonic scale giving us the flat sixth.

Now you might say that we get that note anyway if we use a natural minor or Harmonic minor or Melodic minor scale. But if we want to keepour Pentatonic sound and also in this case our Pentatonic chops we do it this way, see the video to get a better idea...
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Alter your sweep picking for beginners

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

In this video I will give you a quick way to ad extra notes to a simple triad so it becomes sevenths and major sevenths.
This is a lesson for beginners so if you are new to sweep picking tapping then this i s a good place to start or if you have never thought about the theoretical side to them then you may enjoy this too
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Simple alternate picking trick to melt peoples faces

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, December 16, 2018, In : Alternate Picking

Inspired from a non shredder. I have an old friend who is not a shredder at all but in all the bands he's been playing in is he still the one to take the solos and I noticed a lot of people are inpressed with them even though he never really
studied the guitar for soloing using scales and arpeggios but he found a simple thing that always works for him when he wants to impress.

So he has this short little alternate picking phrace he does every time he needs to intensify the solo and it works l...
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How to play major pentatonic really.... really fast

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, December 14, 2018, In : Guitar Tapping

I think I have solved the noise problem on my videos so from the next video(I think you will get on monday) should be noise free, woohooo ! this video has some noise im sorry, but the material kicks butt and remember to download the chart under the video on youtube if you need it.

The Major Pentatonic is quite boring but you can also use it as a second pattern for the minor Pentatonic, aaand many other things, but thats a video for the future, for now you can use this awesome lick as a second ...
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How to play really fast Blues chops

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, December 13, 2018, In : blues shred

Playing the Blues scale extremely fast up and down the neckis no easy task, believe me I have tried, so instead og doing it the traditional way using alternate picking with a variety of two and three notes per string I present to you a really killer way using three notes per string patterns in the fretting hand and tapping with two fingers with the other hand, be sure to download the chart under the video on youtube

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The Tapping Revelation

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, December 11, 2018, In : Guitar Tapping

Two ways of playing the Pentatonic scale using Tapping, the first way is to play the Pentatonic scale as a three notes per scale pattern and then adding one note as Tapping, using this way you play a new pattern on every other string.

The other way is to play the good old Pentatonic pattern you may know using two notes per string, then the cool thing is that the pattern you would play on every other string, in this case the A, G and high E string you add to the same string using a two note Ta...
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Crazy creativity with Tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, December 9, 2018, In : Guitar Tapping

Dont hate me for the intro I do ha ha ! I just accidentaly started to play that
riff and I realised how well it worked with Tapping.

Anyway in this video I give you some fun ideas to start being more creative
with Tapping, im goofing a little bit off but the ideas is I just take a scale and
then decide how many fingers I want to use in each hand and work from there
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What's the deal with 8 finger tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, December 6, 2018, In : 8 Finger Tapping

It's absolutely a valid question to ask since it seems very much over the top to play 8 finger tapping.
The first thing that comes to mind that makes this a valid technique is the sound that is not really possible to get without using this technique.

If you have been using basic tapping before you will also see that the technique makes you able to play stuff you would not have done with other techniques. Some people will say that its possible to do the job just with legato but its a ridiculou...
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Alternate picking enlightenment

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, November 29, 2018, In : Alternate Picking

Make sure you drill all the situations that you will ever face when you are using the technique for improvising and not just one little detail in the technique.
Obviously you can do both as long as you dont exclude the all the different aspects of the technique, get more into detail
in the video
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How arpeggio inversions are used

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, In : sweep picking

Have you ever wondered how guitarists play all over the neck but still using the same sound? if so I will show you a cool little concept called inversions where you re use the same notes again and again all over the fret board making you able to sound like a pro

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Turbo Techniques

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, November 20, 2018, In : how to practice

Build a strong foundation
Imagine that you are trying out as the new guitar player in
a new band or you need to show your skills that kills somewhere
maybe in a guitar shop or if you are improvising a solo with a band.

Then you seriously need some kick ass chops that work every time
so here in this video I get into a topic that can get you the gig in the
future
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Super charge your results

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, November 18, 2018, In : how to practice

It's so simple
Its all about results and often we forget that to get results we need to be a little more exclusive in what we practice instead of trying to learn everything at the same time.

Of course you should at some point learn all the techniques you want to master but not everything at the same time.

What kicks us in the butt to practice and makes the process so much more fun is the results so instead of trying to learn everything now, let's focus on just one thing at the time and get resul...
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The mindblowing facts of sweep picking

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, November 18, 2018, In : sweep picking

Read this
Here's some interresting facts that you really need to think about when you practice your arpeggios using the sweep picking technique, for example that many of the triad arpeggios using five and six strings actually consists of different techniques, namely
- sweep picking
- hammer on's
- pull off's
and in some cases legato for longerlines of notes in four note arpeggios and up

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Extreme Sweep Picking 8 Finger Tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, November 1, 2018, In : sweep picking 8 finger tapping

Technique
This is sweep picking combined with 8 finger tapping and to be able to do this properly you have to learn and master the technique where I slide the pick up the thumb using my index finger, this movement enables you to use all four fingers on each hand to do the 8 finger tapping technique. This is obviously not an easy technique but its a technique I developed many years ago to combine those two wonderfull techniques, sweep picking and 8 finger tapping

Theory
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Ionian #5 sweep picking arpeggio

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, October 24, 2018, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

Technique
This is a combination of the Sweep Picking technique and the multi finger tapping technique, but also I play a four notes per string legato pattern on the high E string with my fretting hand and then I tap using the long finger and the ring finger and still keeping the pick between the thumb and index finger

Theory
This arpeggio is very specific so it can mainly be used from the sixth step of the Harmonic minor scale

How to practice
If you by any chance already feel relatively comfortabl...
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Extreme Tapping Locrian omit fourth

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, In : extreme tapping

About
So this technique is actually the same we make us of in the Major scale and Dorian and Phrygian Extreme Tapping lick we did the last few times, we just change the major third into a minor third and change the ninth or second into a flattened and use the index finger for this of course, this way get the Locrian, then this new pattern in the tapping hand makes sure we get the flattened fifth and omits the fourth, the two whole steps in the tapping hand also gives us the flattened sixth and...
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Extreme Tapping Phrygian omit fifth

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, October 2, 2018, In : extreme tapping

About
So this technique is actually the same we make us of as the Major scale and Dorian Extreme Tapping lick we did the last few times, we just change the major third into a minor third and change the ninth or second into a flattened and use the index finger for this of course, this way get the phrygian, then this new pattern in the tapping hand makes sure we get the seventh and omits the fifth as opposed to omitting the seventh as the last few times

Technique
This technique is something I inve...
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Dorian Extreme Tapping Omit Seven

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, September 27, 2018, In : extreme tapping

About
So this technique is actually the same we make us of as the Major scale Extreme Tapping lick we did last time, we just change the major third into a minor third and this way get the Dorian scale except for the seventh note of the scale but other than that its the same fingering I make use of and the same technique

Technique
This technique is something I invented because I wanted to use as many fingers as possible for tapping but still keeping the pick between my index finger and thumb. Th...
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Extreme Tapping Major Scale

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, September 21, 2018, In : extreme tapping

About
So this lick or scale is one of my ultimate trademark licks that really got my playing going and it can for you too. Once you get a hold of this baby you will be able to shred like a maniac for sure

Theory
This is sort of a Ionian scale but it can also work as a dominant scale since there is no seventh in it, so its a complete major scale with no seventh and therefore you can use it either as a Ionian scale also called the major scale or you could use it as a dominant step scale, or a mix...
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Advanced stunt sweep picking tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

About
Here is one of my all time favorites, I have been using this lick and alikes for many years now, both for improvising and composed solos since the early nineties. So here I will give the technique to you

Theory
This row of arpeggios is three different inversiens of A minor, its triads and then I add some extra notes using multi finger tapping, the notes being E, G and A in the first inversion which is just the seventh added to the sweep picking triad arpeggio. then the next inversion mak...
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Alternate Picking The Secret Technique

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, February 18, 2018, In : Alternate Picking

Alternate picking - the secret technique
Obviously its not a secret, the inside outside technique, but what im presenting to you here is a very sxrutinized look at what exactly goes on when you play alternate picking and giving you a example on how to clean up your sound with a specific way of practicing

Why does my alternate picking sound like crap?
Some of the explanation could be what im describing in the video because as I also have noticed that even some great guitarsists has this problem...
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Alternate Picking Help

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, February 11, 2018, In : Alternate Picking

Alternate picking
A large part of developing the perfect Alternate Picking technique is a numbers game, and few people ever develop a good enough technique making them able to play really fast and clean alternate picking.

How to practice alternate picking
Once you are one hundred percent sure that you are playing the alternate picking correctly, you know you always without exceptions play an up stroke after playing a down stroke and vice versa and all the other little but critical elements, for...
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Alternate picking secrets part 2 and the hidden dampening technique

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, January 20, 2018, In : Alternate Picking

Palm mustin

Palm muting as commonly known by most guitar players out there and in many a situation palm mustang is just great and also enough to get the job done, for example for rhythm playing and lines of hammer on's and pull off's. but to get that clean alternate picking sound that we know and love palm muting just is not enough, so we need something extra to clean the sound up thoroughly

The hidden technique

So if you have whatched the complete video you will discover that to clean up your ...
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Alternate picking secrets

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, January 13, 2018, In : Alternate Picking

Perfect technique enables speed

In order to get the speed up in any technique you need to have the best leverage to get there, you will never be fast and clean without great technique.
So how do you find out if you have great technique? its quite simple really, do you play fast AND clean? if you can't give a loud and proud YES to this question then you probably don't have great technique.

The first alternate picking secret revealed

So the first step to get great technique is as I explain in t...
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Arpeggio Study Part 3

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, December 3, 2017, In : music theory

Stacking the Arpeggios to the max

Remember to watch the two previous instalments of Arpeggio study before watching this to get the deepest possible insights on the theory of Arpeggios unless you are already up to date on the Triads and the theory of Inversions.

The Major seven

So this time we are going to continue from where we left off with the Triads, the theory you may know by now is that we take every other note in the scale that we work with, and in the example I'm using I work in the C M...
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Arpeggio Study Part 2

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, November 28, 2017, In : music theory

Inversions of chords and arpeggios
The idea of inversions is that you take the notes of the chord or arpeggio which essentially is the same but executed differently, so as an example if you have a C chord, that consists of a root note, a third which gives you the information of whether its minor or major and in this case its Major. so the notes would be root note is C, the Major third is E and the fifth is G. So those three notes can be used again in a different sequence, lets use the terms 1...

Arpeggio Study Part 1

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, November 17, 2017, In : music theory

What is Arpeggios?

Let me explain this to you in a way that I think will uncover what somethimes can seem a bit of a mystery. Imagins the dawn of time some people agreed og a group of notes, in this case the Major scale, and then imagine a monestry a group of munks are singing and one of them notices that when you skip every other note in that scale and ask three munks to sing the first, thir and fifth note of that scale it sounds awesome, then take those three notes and sing the notes one a...
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How To Master The Guitar

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, November 11, 2017, In : how to practice

How to master the guitar
This is probably a phrace you heard many times before but it is certainly a concept that is much easier to obtain than you may think and not at all impossible as it may seem. As important is it to understand it can be a wonderfull experience and an enjoyable process once you find you nitch, the road to mastery

Find your voice
The most important thing in mastering the guitar is becoming completely clear about what it is you want to achieve on the guitar and the awesome...
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Chopin Etude No. 12 op. 25 Shred Guitar

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, June 18, 2017, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar

About
This lesson is taken from Chopin's 12 Etudes Opus 25 not to be mistaken from Opus 10. Its just parts of it but still very enjoyable. Regarding the technique, as I also explain in the video I use the Sweep picking technique with the pick using my thumb and index finger, this enables me to use my long finger and little finger to use the Taping technique and play the final notes of the Arpeggios. Regarding the Diminished sevent Arpeggios I use the Hammer on and Pull off Technique combined w...
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Monuments Arpeggios

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 24, 2017, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar

About these Arpeggios
This piece comes from my new album Concerto, its the third track on the album and is called Monuments, this partucular thing is the intro Arpeggios and represents a lot of different interresting Arpeggios mainly using Sweep picking. We both getu regular triad Arpeggios but also four note Dominant Arpeggios in different inversions, Major seven and diminished sevens plus the really cool Major seven raised fifth from the third step of the Harmonic minor scale

Techniques
The s...
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Blues Shred Sweep Picking Tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, January 3, 2017, In : blues shred

Theory
So this is obviously a blues lick and by the way sorry for the late blog text. Its such a cool lick, I myself have started to work it into my improvisation where it ultimately belongs. The way to start working it into your playing is to pay attention to when you reach the second mode of the Major scale, or if you think of it as being in the fifth position from the A string of course which is of course theoretically more correct since thats the Mixolydian step which is Major with the low...
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Advanced Sweep Picking Tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, December 21, 2016, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

About Scales
This lesson is all about four note Arpeggios and in this case the A Major seven and the E Dominant seven, as I explain in the video you can easily incorporate it into the A major scale or of course the Major scale in general, start it from the first step of the Major scale, regarding the technical stuff

Technique
As you can see I combine Tapping using two fingers and in this example I use the long finger and the Little finger, this helps me easily go into the Sweep picking techniqu...
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Contemporary Shred Guitar Lesson 3

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, In : contemporary shred guitar

About
Hi there here is the third Contemporary Shred Guitar lesson and this time its exclusively tapping, its quite advanced Tapping and requires mastery of the index finger and little finger or the long finger and little finger on the Tapping hand. The idea is taken from my debut Sage's Recital album from the song The Last Unicorn but just transformed into a six string pattern but without the Dominant step. Enjoy

Dampening
This is obviously not for the faint of heart this technique and other tha...
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How to practice to become your best

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, February 7, 2016, In : how to practice

How to practice to become your best
This is a topic I touch upon again and again becaue its such a critical element in developing as a guitarist and musician and you might have heard it before but you can have the absolute best tools but if you dont use them and work with them you will not improve. So here in this blog I will go through what has helped me and still is helping me develop today.

What to practice
First of all you need to identify what it is that you need to develop in your playing....
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How To Play Fast - what everybody ought to know about playing fast

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, January 14, 2016, In : beginner shred guitar

A simple system that often seem complicated
This video presents to you the do's and dont's of learning to play fast. Learning to play fast is actually simpler than you might think but what you first of all need to know is to cut through all the talk and hype about learning to play fast. I have been teaching guitar for twenty plus years now and again and again I hear students that first come to me talk about stuff they read or saw on the internet that should be the "trick" to learn to play fa...
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Christmas Shred Sweep Picking Tapping Arpeggios

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, December 21, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

About

So this is the last lesson of the year and I hope you will enjoy the hollidays. As I explain in the video you can choose to approach this either as quite a few individual licks that you can grab and make use of in your own playing or you can see it as a crazy way to play Last Christmas with Sweep picking Tapping Arpeggios. Even though this is not that fast to make sure you master each technique you will defitnetly have to drill the techniques quite a bit until you get them down. As a...
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Creative practicing Neo Classical Shred

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, August 31, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar

About
This lesson is a piece I have had a lot of benefits from practicing now for some weeks. This is the awesome thing about composing a piece that makes use of all the things you want to be able to play in any situation. So for example if you need to work on either your Sweep picking, your Alternate picking or you 8 finger tapping, this could be a good example of a put together piece that will work on those, so identify what you need to work on and put together a cool piece or by all mean...
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Fancy Arpeggios

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, August 14, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

About
This is a C Major slash A minor Sweep picking, Tapping, Legato and sliding Arpeggios. It's really cool sounding and you can work it into your own playing from the second position of the Major scale, this means that when you are improvising and soloing and you at one point reach the second Scale position and also the G string you can break into this lick. Of course this is in the key of C but it will benefit you to the extreme if you try to use it in other keys, you could skip the 24th ...
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Japanese Scale Arpeggio

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, August 7, 2015, In : exotic scales

About
This is an old lesson from my old channel, but the lick is kinda cool. The thing about the Japanese scale is that it only consists of five notes, and just like in the Pentatonic scale, it pretty much trims all the fat and this way makes sure that each individual note sounds awesome in conjunction with the chord. Regarding the lick that I still call an Arpeggio even though it makes use of all five notes of the scale, but its played using Sweep picking and you still get the Arpeggio type...
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Sweep picking Tapping Mastery - Chopin Etude 1

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

About
This piece is not only to learn an extremely cool Frederik Chopin inspired Etude but also a lesson that takes you through the crucial elements of really mastering a technique to the fullest, in this case Sweep picking combined with Sliding and multi finger Tapping

Step 1
This is the step where you will learn all the fundamentals like getting down all the right notes and the fingering which is an absolute critical part. As well as the picking patterns. This is also the step where you can j...
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Chopin Etude Alternate picking lesson

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, June 21, 2015, In : Alternate Picking

About
The first thing that I need to mention here is that once you have played through the lesson the first time and if you have played Alternate picking through the whole piece you will start over with the opposite type picking stroke. This means that if you started with a down stroke you will play the second time round with an up stroke. This certainly created a few challenges for me, but thats great, this means that you will improve you Alternate picking technique both starting with and up...
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Blues Shred Arpeggios

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, June 10, 2015, In : blues shred

About
It's obviously not often that you would use sweep picking Arpeggios in a standard Blues, but you can absolutely get the sweet benefits of the Blues sound in almost everything else, so here are a standard Blues Vamp using four note Dominant arpeggios with added the minor thirds or raised ninths if you will into the Major seven Arpeggios which is a typical "trick" that are one of the "building stones" of creating the Blues sound. As I also state in the video its extremely important that ...
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Effective practicing

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, In : exotic scales

About
Other than a cool little musical piece presenting some interresting scales and modes like Major raised five, Dorian, Locrain and Eight note scale used as a dominant, plus the awesome Major seven raised fifth Arpeggio, this video and blog is about creating a nice and inspiring environment for your practicing. Because if you are like me it can sometimes be a little tough being alone with just the guitar and you racing mind, so what really works great for me and helps me keeping my focus ...
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Creative Shred Guitar

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, May 4, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

About
This video is about getting your own creativity flowing regarding shred guitar and shred techniques. I really feel that once I started to create my own licks and sort of created my own techniques like Sweep picking 8 finger tapping and Sweep picking combined with Extreme and Advanced Tapping I became much more creative and what was awesome about that was also that it gave me many more reasons to practice as much as possible. Im not saying that no one else was doing this in the world, b...
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Neo classical shred guitar lesson 3

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, April 25, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar

About
This is the third contribution to the Neo Classical Shred guitar lessons or Neo Classical Metal lessons that I have been creating in this period and it is the full pice so there's a lot of Tablature in this one. This one is in a way a little more basic because I only use Sweep picking triads and Alternate picking in six tuplets. There's a lot going on in the backing track so I hope you can still hear whats important, the guitar. There are a few points that does not start on a downbeat w...
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Neo Classical Shred Guitar Sweep picking 8 finger tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, April 17, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar

About
Hello again, here are yet another Neo Classical Shred Guitar lesson that are a lot of fun both to listen to and to play. I have again chosen to focus on the combination of Sweep picking and 8 finger tapping as well as the 8 finger tapping alone. So I believe that the sliding of the pick up the index finger using the thump is essential to be able to do this technique since its crucial to have access to all four fingers on both hands if you want to play those sweet 8 finger tapping patter...
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Neo Classical shred guitar extreme 8 finger tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, April 10, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar

About
This lick contains a lot of different techniques like Sweep picking, Alternate picking, Legato, 8 finger tapping and combinations of those techniques as well. But in the lesson part I want to concentrate on the Sweep picking 8 finger tapping combination as well as the all out 8 finger tapping part.

Technique
As I also talk about in the video, playing 8 finger tapping and also the combination os Sweep picking and 8 finger tapping you really need to master the Dampening game bless you want...
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Sweep picking - Tapping - Cross hands technique

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, April 5, 2015, In : stunt guitar

About
Hey hey ! here is the first new blog post since my old website was hacked and destroyed. As you may know this is the new url where things are going down from now on. I wanted to congratulate that all the old blog posts are up and running again and now with this latest addition to the blog posts you'll get a very short and sweet lick addressing both Sweep picking tapping and my crazy Cross hand technique. Obviously this is not something that is easy to use in improvising and therefore I ...
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Exotic scales Enigmatic scale Legato lesson

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, April 2, 2015, In : exotic scales

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This lick is composed from the really weird scale called The Enigmatic scale, and the name actually makes a lot of sense because just hearing the scale in itself gives no real clue as to what the root is. But the lick works perfectly as a lick you throw into something that's very harmonic which then will really throw you off for a second because it sounds so out there. Other than that the video is also made in the period where I produced the Mega program about mastering the Legato techni...
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Extreme Tapping Arpeggios combined with Guitar Scales

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, April 2, 2015, In : extreme tapping

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In this arpeggio I play a variety of economy picking and sweep picking. All the ascending part is economy picking and the descending part is mostly sweep picking but also some economy picking concepts are used

Economy Picking

The economy picking technique has a few concepts that you pretty much cant derive from without using a new technique

1. Even number of notes to change direction

2. Odd number of notes to stay in the same direction

3. The picking technique directs the fretting hand

The...

Economy picking Diminished Arpeggios

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 29, 2015, In : Economy Picking

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This arpeggio calls for a specific fingering to make it work which is also typical for economy picking. Its as the title says diminished and I will shoe you a cool way to work it into a traditional Major scale

Technique

As you can see in the picking part of the video I play a picking stroke on each and every note, so no pull off´s or hammer on´s on the spots where I play more than one note which is typical for Sweep Picking. But in Economy or Speed Picking you pick every note and arrange...

Harmonic minor Alternate picking speed

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 29, 2015, In : Alternate Picking

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In a way this is just a simple Alternate picking lesson, but again there's so much to be able to be fast and clean in the Alternate picking technique. But once you get the fundamentals down in the technique you are able to play fast in everything that is build from the scales with the three notes per string concept, that's also the reason that it looks so easy for the players who really master the Alternate picking technique and who has a strong basis in the three notes per string concep...
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Paul Gilbert Scarified solo Tutorial

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 29, 2015, In : paul gilbert

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This is the original solo from Scarified from the second Racer x album called Second Heat and in my opinion this is certainly the strongest of the Racer x albums, well the first one also kicks ass. But this is back in the days where Paul Gilbert really kicked ass, in those days you could really hear in he's playing that he was practicing a lot, there was so much "freshness" in he's playing and it really shows in the original solo in Scarified, so if you have not yet checked out the old ...
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Alternate picking speed Formula

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 27, 2015, In : Alternate Picking

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So as the video explains, I get some great benefits from just practising fifteen minutes every morning. So first thing in the morning I stretch my fingers a little bit and then start slowly with the first lesson. As I also state in the video it's not really the material that does the trick but more the idea of getting really deep into the technique every morning and I don't even try to play any of the pieces I practice fast, or try to reach my max. Whats important in this idea is to get...
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The 5 critical Steps to fast Alternate picking

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 27, 2015, In : Alternate Picking

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Alternate picking can be such a frustrating technique because you develop the speed in another way than with many other techniques, in Alternate picking we develop the speed in quantum leaps instead of gradually getting faster. So a lot of people give up because they don't see the improvement they expect. But check out these five steps in this video and adjust any possible "wrong" way that has not taken you to the result you are after

Step 1. Practice at a pace where you have total cont...
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Sweep picking 8 finger tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 27, 2015, In : sweep picking 8 finger tapping

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Merry Christmas everyone, heres my little Christmas present for you, it's a Sweep picking 8 Finger Tapping lick which obviously takes a lot of getting used to, but the real reason I make these videos with quite advanced licks is because even though they take a lot of focus and practice I experience that they really inspire in general to play and practice more. Of course if you are a beginner you will also need some more beginner stuff to practice to get some faster results and successes....
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Altering the sound of the Major 7 Arpeggio

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, March 26, 2015, In : sweep picking

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This arpeggio is really amazing sounding in my opinion, and its very refreshing to use these Major seven arpeggios if you are normally using the traditional triad arpeggios. Theres absolutely nothing wrong with triads, I use them all the time, but its a question about what sound you're after, if you want Neo Classical Metal or Shred guitar then the triad arpeggios are perfect, I might also add a Dominant seven arpeggio to a Neo Classical Metal piece of music though, but thats pretty much...

Extreme Sweep picking Tapping plus slides

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, March 26, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

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Here is a very sweet sounding lick in E minor using all three of the minor inversion of the minor triads using a variety of five and six strings. Notice the first inversion might be a little uncommon in the fingering, if thats the case for you, play the root note E as the first note on the A string using the index finger hammering on to the little finger instead. This lick also takes up quite a bit of the fretboard so make sure you are in a key where there's enough space on the fret boar...
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Extreme Legato and Improvisation

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, In : Legato Guitar Lessons

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This lick is really extreme to the max because it makes use of the Pentatonic scale which has some quite large stepsand played with four notes per string and string skipping. I actually think it makes it a little easier to play little sequences between two patterns and it can also help you to do repetitions on each pattern. I also strongly suggest that you warm up your hand for stuff like this to make sure the quality of the notes is good because if you dont then you might experience tha...

Jason Becker Altitudes

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, In : jason Becker

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Here is my version of the famous Arpeggio pice from the classic Jason Becker song Altitudes. This song has obviously been heavily covered on youtube, but this is sort of a new view of the beautifull piece. Theres many a simpler version of the Arpeggio piece on youtube but the fact is that its actually not that easy, when you listen really close you can clearly hear the slides Jason are doing in between some of the Arpeggios. The topper is the two Taps Jason are also using, I have never ...
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Blues Shred Improvisation

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, March 23, 2015, In : how to improvise

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This lick is composed from the B minor Blues scale but played all legato style and three notes per string style. I actually see the lick from the first position of the Blues scale which is B minor but I connect it with the B natural minor which shares notes with D major which is the key of the song so this way I can easily make my way to the lick I actually create the melodic side of the soloing from the B natural minor. The other thing which is really cool in this system is to combining...

Extreme Pentatonic Improvisation

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, March 23, 2015, In : how to improvise

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Here is a Pentatonic lick played shred guitar style three notes per string completely legato and also to a jamtrack so you can here how it sounds in a musical situation. Added to this lick also some string skipping which is sometimes necessary when you play pentatonic three notes per string style.

Improvising

To impliment this lick into an actual improvisation situation I made a system that makes it easier to do this. In this particular lick even though the lick is pentatonic I analyze it...

Harmonic minor Sweep picking Tapping advanced

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, March 23, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

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This lick is really cool and I have used it quite a lot on my recordings like in Infinity Overture: The Infinite Overture pt.1 and my solo album Sthenic. Its a combination of a minor sweep picking triad and a lot of notes added from the Harmonic minor scale with tapping with three fingers on the right hand

Technique

One element that to some degree can make a very advanced lick like this seem a little easier is the hammer on´s I do as a help to make the shift between the sweep picking tec...

Major 7 Sweep picking Arpeggio extended version

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 22, 2015, In : sweep picking

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This sweep picking arpeggio is one that I would normally play on a sevenstring guitar but someone(Thank you !!:)) came up with the idea of playing it on a six string and so I was just taking the same notes as I was playing on the seven string guitar and came up with a way to play it on a six string. The pattern did definetively not become easier but actually quite the contrary "But we do love to practice stuff we cant play... right?"

Technique

This technique is one that I in the beginning...

Melodic Minor Legato lesson

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 22, 2015, In : Legato Guitar Lessons

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Hi guys this is actually the first time I post a specifically Melodic Minor lick for some reason. And Isay so because I really love the sound of that scale. In the video I do quite some in depth explaining but if you are one of those who prefer to read let me talk a little about it here. The lick is completely composed from the patterns in the Melodic Minor scale and the specific patterns I use from the Melodic Minor scale is the second and first position. I made it so that it starts and...

Neo Classical Arpeggios 5

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 22, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar

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This cool little and very typical neo classical shred guitar sounding phrase introduces a dominant arpeggio that might be new to you. It´s a little bit non typical in the way that I add extra notes on the way while ascending and descending and in this case it is on the D and on the G string instead of only on the two E strings. The idea of connecting arpeggios together with scale patterns is vey typical for the Neo Classical Metal genre. It especially reminds me of Symphony x Damnation...

Alternate picking study 12

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 21, 2015, In : Alternate Picking

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Hi there here is cool little alternate picking run that is very reminiscent of something Paul Gilbert used to do in the eighties and probably still does, there´s no doubt that the three notes per string alternate picking ideas from the Classic Intense Rock really inspired me and a lot of other guitar players out there and created the basics of playing fast alternate picking. The idea of starting an alternate picking run from the low E string and continuing it through the scale patterns ...
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Neo Classical Capricci 2

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 21, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar

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Here is the second contribution to the Neo Classical Shred Guitar Caprice. This one makes use of three different invertions of the E minor triad sweep picking arpeggio and also of the Harmonic minor scale in the second and first position. This is again a piece that can easily be divided up into all the sweep picking arpeggios and then also the final sixtuplet alternate picking pattern. Apart from you making faster technical progress on something like this, this is also a really cool ways...
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Neo Classical Capricci 1

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 21, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar

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Do you love it ? Well I do ! This little caprice kind of thing is in the key of B minor and is obviously executed in the Harmonic minor scale so if you dont know the seven scale positions in the harmonic minor scale then it is definitively a great contribution to learn stuff like this because it will give you a great over all view of the patterns that´s going on in stuff like this. I find that if im learning stuff that is making use of patterns like scales and arpeggios I know then I le...
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Neo Classical Sweep picking Tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

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Hey there ! here is the first idea of some neo classical shred guitar patterns I want to present to you. it consists of a chord structure which is Im Vm Im I so it is Cm to Gm and back to Cm and ends in C major which is pretty classical sounding. Its a pretty cool pattern that starts off with tapping parts of the arpeggios using both the long finger and little finger. I keep the pick between my thumb and index finger which makes it easier to do the tapping with two fingers. What you need...
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Advanced Tapping lesson

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : Guitar Tapping

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It´s guitar tapping time ! In this one I start in a basic E dominant tapping arpeggio which expands into a frenzy of an E9 and finally into an E11 tapping arpeggio. Notice that I use the long finger when I tap on the A string and the ring finger when I tap on the G string and the little finger when I tap on the high E string. This is simply something I came up with just to work on the precision of those fingers when I started out with the extreme tapping many years ago. You dont have to...
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Extreme Guitar

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : stunt guitar

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I think we can all agree that this extreme guitar lesson is totally and completely over the top. It features a variety of techniques such as Sweep Picking, Legato, tappin and 8 finger tapping and three and four notes per string patterns. I guess you can also see and here that its highly improvised and that is the reason that I did not slow it down. I basically play a E minor sweep picking pattern and the first time I do it I add a four notes per string on the high E string played legato ...
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Alternate Picking Basics part 2

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : Alternate Picking

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Hey there, I made this video because I got some feedback regarding the previous video touching on the subject of the right hand picking method. So I realized that the previous video was not thorough enough and its funny that whenever I go into detail on a subject that seems quite simple to the untrained eye "such as my own" then I suddenly conceive that there is much more to the case that I first thought. So in this video I will go more into detail on the ways to hold the pick. For me pe...
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Alternate Picking Lesson 7

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : Alternate Picking

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This alternate picking idea is pretty cool in the way it makes use of re using a lot of notes and this way you in a little area play a lot of notes but it still sounds like a lot is happening so to say. the same concept is used in three spots with the little turnaround as I like to call it where the first is pivoting on the A string. The pattern is also being executed in the third position of the Major scale and the key is C minor which is sharing the same notes as the E flat Major scale...
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Guitar Tapping tutorial

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : Guitar Tapping

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By public demand ;) I created this video showing you some of the concepts and ideas that make up licks, chops and phrases that are possible on the guitar. Of course there are endless resources available as soon as you start to get your mind going on what you can do with the concet of guitar tapping. In this video im showing you a few basic concepts from the Pentatonic scale in the key of E minor. I touch upon the subject playing the full scale and then both minor triad arpeggios and four...

Extreme Tapping Major Arpeggio

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 15, 2015, In : extreme tapping

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Its Shred Guitar time again. Here is a really awesome tapping pattern that I have been using for quite some years but I expanded it with a few more notes... what a bonus. Its one of those techniques where its pretty difficult to damnp the strings while you play because you need to tap with several fingers on low and high strings, so to make it juuuust perfect I sometimes use the neck pickup to kill the noise if I need to. For example a live situation where feel less confident than when s...
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Neo Classical Sweep picking Tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 15, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar

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If you have checked out my band Sage's Recital you might notice that the intro lick in this one became the intro in the song "you hold the key" or second song on the Sage's Recital debut album :)

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Sweep picking 8 Finger Tapping Extreme guitar

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 15, 2015, In : sweep picking 8 finger tapping

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Heres another one of my home made original techniques, the Sweep picking 8 finger tapping technique. If you like this stuff you can check out the Sweep picking 8 finger tapping course on my website or as I also call it The Ultimate Guitar Technique :)

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Stunt Guitar 2

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 15, 2015, In : stunt guitar

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Here is a new 8 finger tapping lick that is another way of doing eight finger tapping than I normally do it. Its a little inspired from TJ Helmerich who I would say actually use the Right hand in general 75 procent more than the left hand when he is soloing. The first thing of difficulty that comes to mind is the individual work of the right hand fingers since the first pattern the right hand is doing is almost all on different strings. What I found especially challenging was the part wh...
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Stunt guitar

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 14, 2015, In : stunt guitar

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This is a highly advanced technique I invented years ago where I add Tapping sort of behind the fretting hand, for lack of a better name I call it theCross Hands technique. Added is a sweet Sweep picking Dominant Arpeggio I invented too, I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do

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Extreme legato 2

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 14, 2015, In : legato

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Hey guys and dolls ! here is a phrase that both works fabulous as a lick and as a drill to work up your four notes per string patterns and legato technique. You are probably finding out that not all the four notes per string patterns are equally easy or hard to perform. In my case its especially the stretch between the ring and long finger I have a problem with and so I made this drill slash lick so it has a equal amount of easy and challenging fingerings. Then theres of course also the ...
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Extreme Legato

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 14, 2015, In : legato

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Hey guys I have started a new category called Extreme Legato and and even more cool title Attack of the helping hand. The mission of the helping hand is to not only to teach you some advanced chops but even more valuable in my opinion give you som tools to start incorporating the material into your own playing, because it will give you a very measureable way to see what your entity of playing and chops fathoms. So in this case with the first Extreme Legato chop the helping hand shows you...
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Steve Vai style idea 3

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 13, 2015, In : steve vai

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Here is the third Steve Vai inspired phrase. As I explain in the video I once again kick of the lick from the fifth position of the Major scale which makes it relatively easy to start using in your own playing. The real kicker to the technique is playing the legato parts and moving back to the starting point of the lick to do the slides without hurting the slides. So good luck friends !!

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Steve Vai style idea 2

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 13, 2015, In : steve vai

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Here is the Steve Vai Solo Concept 2 and Its shredding time ! The whammy bar is such a lovely addition to the guitar and with mastery creates a whole new world. Here I present an idea that I started using after hearing Steve Vai. I discovered that even though it seems easy to "just" dip and dive the whammy bar. There´s actually more to it, you have to develop a feeling for the whammy bar and in the video I give you a nice and easy way to start to get used to the bar. I see people who...
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Alternate picking Paul Gilbert style

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, March 12, 2015, In : paul gilbert

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Shred Guitar Lessons in Alternate Picking Three notes per string like Paul Gilbert and even using the ideas and concepts in your own playing. In this video I give you the tools to start doing just that

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Dominant arpeggio and scale tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, In : how to improvise

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Here in this example you will get first of all a really cool way to play a four note arpeggio, it's a Dominant arpeggio using quite a bit of Legato in between this Sweep picking Arpeggio. But you will also learn how to use Tapping to play a scale in a really cool way that does not take up a lot of the freeboard which is often the case when Tapping a three notes per string scale with additional Tapping. In this idea you will usie two fingers to tap, I use the long and ring finger mos...
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Sweep picking tapping advanced and easy version

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

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This lesson gives you a sure fire way into start using the quite advanced technique Sweep picking Tapping in your own playing and even more importantly when you improvise

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Paganini Alternate picking speed lesson

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, In : Alternate Picking

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This little piece I use as an Alternate picking technique lesson is taken from the Nicolo Paganini masterpiece Moto Perpetuo. Mind you, Moto Perpetuo exists in more than one version so you might even have heard a different version than this

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Sweep picking 8 finger Tapping beginner lesson

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, In : sweep picking 8 finger tapping

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This is a great introduction into the combination of Sweep picking and 8 finger tapping, especially because the intervals in the right and left hand are not crazy demanding as they often tend to be in those type of licks, so good luck and shred on !

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Steve Vai style lesson 1

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, March 9, 2015, In : steve vai

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Here is the first Steve Vai style lesson. The idea is to take some of his incredible ideas and to add them to our own playing which is one of the most satisfying and benefitial thing you can do for your playing. So whach the full video and see the ideas added to the scale and the way then to use the material when you are soloing. A few of the typical techniques Vai is using is represented in the lick like pinch harmonics, slides and whammy abuse. I hope you love it !!

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Alternate picking adjusting the pick part 1

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, March 9, 2015, In : Alternate Picking

Alternate picking adjusting the pick part 2

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, March 9, 2015, In : Alternate Picking

Alternate Picking Basics

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 8, 2015, In : Alternate Picking

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I did this video a while ago with the intention of starting a site with only beginner guitar stuff. I saw the video through and I think the video has some important knowledge if you want to learn how to play guitar shred guitar and lead guitar style of course. I go through all the pitfalls I believe there can appear when you want to play fast alternate picking such as where to establish your control of the right arm and hand. The first point of control of the movement actually starts in ...
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8 Finger Tapping Extreme Shred

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 8, 2015, In : 8 Finger Tapping

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This lick is really awesome I think, once you get used to tap with all four fingers and play legato with all four fingers you can produce these long lines of shred guitar phrases. This is a quite long lick that can easily be divided up into smaller licks that are much more easy to incorporate into you own shred vocabulary. This is definetly something I will post videos about in near future so stay tuned. I suggest that you make one or two of the four notes per string patterns into one d...

Jason Becker The black cat

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 8, 2015, In : jason Becker

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Hey fellas, this piece is Jason Becker's Sweep picking extrordinaire from the cacophony album Go Off. If you have not checked it out yet I can tell you that its a must have album if you're into Shred Guitar and of course especially if you love Jason Becker. Theres a few not so typical ways of playing Sweep picking Arpeggios in this piece, or at least thats the way I play it since I never saw Jason play it I just listened to the notes from the album and created this, I hope you'll enjoy...

Jason Becker Serrana Arpeggios

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 8, 2015, In : jason Becker

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Hey guys I really feel there is a need for a tutorial in this incredible shred guitar piece by the Sweep picking Arpeggio master Jason Becker. But first of all I want to describe the version I did. Its almost completely true to the version that Jason Becker does in the popular clip he did in a clinic in the eighties.

But when I was listening to that version I was very unclear on some of the final arpeggios so I instead turned to the sequenced version which is on the album Perspective. An...

Sweep picking Tapping technique tutorial

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 7, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping

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In this lesson we are going to dig all the way to the bottom of learning first of all how th play Sweep picking, but also how to combine it with Tapping. The focus of this video is also to make a seemingly very technical lick into something that can be grasped by anybody, even beginners. So if you feel you are a newbie at playing guitar or Shred Guitar, dont be fooled by the apperant relative high level of difficulty, because this lesson is also for you. What it takes is some dedication ...
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String skipping Alternate picking

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 6, 2015, In : string skipping

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Hey guys and dolls ! here is another shred guitar lesson, this one is string skipping and as I also explain in the video the obvious inspiration is of course Paul Gilbert but also that I prefer playing alternate picking all the way through instead of combining alternate picking with hammer on and pull off as Paul Gilbert does. There´s no doubt that this way of using alternate picking all the way is way more challenging since you have to be really quick with the picking hand to avoid spa...
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Fusion type arpeggio

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 6, 2015, In : sweep picking

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8 Finger Tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, March 18, 2013, In : 8 Finger Tapping

One of the very important elements in playing 8 finger tapping is to be able to play it without having the surrounding strings buzz making it sound awful in general. When I go from one string to another I make sure that I lower my right hand palm to damp the strings as much as possible. Good luck !

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Sweep Picking Harmonic Minor Sixth Mode

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 17, 2013, In : sweep picking

This Major seventh arpeggio fits the sixth step in the Harmonic Minors scale as well as it fith the first and fourth position in the Major scale.Regarding the sixth mode in the Harmonic Minor scale it is called the Metropolitan scale but using a simple four note arpeggio only calls for a Major seventh arpeggio even though the scale itself has a raised ninth. Good luck !

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Sweep Picking Etude

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 16, 2013, In : sweep picking

Sweep Picking Etude

This little symphony of Sweep Picking arpeggios consists of a few different elements than the obvious sweep picking triads. The second arpeggiosI play is a E7 when I both play the seventh on the G string and on the high E string. And between the E dominant arpeggio and A minor triad I play a few Pentatonic style legato phrases and here you need to be aware of adjusting the index finger to be able to move into the A minor triad in order to be able to cover both the high E st...
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Sweep Picking Inversions

This arpeggio moves through a large variety of inversions of E major and you need to take note of the specific fingerings that I show or make your own fingerings that works for you and then drill those fingerings exclusively in order to make something like this work. Good luck !

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