Learn lead guitar in the style of Joe Satriani

Course details

Learn to play lead guitar in the style of one of the most influential modern rock guitarists of all time. Joe Satrianis brilliant and creative playing has influenced countless guitarists all over the world. He is truly one of the greats, and we can all be inspired and empowered through his playing.

In these lessons you will learn all kinds of techniques, devices, scales, tricks, and soloing strategies in the style of Joe Satriani. Throughout the course you will be given a step by step breakdown of his style and playing techniques.

His uncanny ability to re-invent common blues licks into catchy melodies is truly amazing. He is also known for his fluid legato technique, unique two hand chord and arpeggio tapping, exotic melodies, super interesting and unique chord voicings, shifting modalities, and musically compelling song structure. These all help define his unique guitar style and we will be going over ALL these techniques in this course.

Now you can learn to play all kinds of techniques, devices, scales, licks, legato, arpeggios, and approaches to soloing in the Joe Satriani style. Learn all about fluid legato playing, two-handed tapping, modal playing, tremolo tricks, chord centers, arpeggios, pentatonic & blues licks, and more. Learn to infuse your playing with melody and learn all kinds of licks and more licks and even more licks.

This course is taught by Next Level Guitar instructor Dave Nassie and contains 17 in-depth video lessons.These total over three and a half hoursof pure step-by-step, move-by-move instruction you can pause and easily follow along with our on-screen tablature. You also get seven killer jam tracks is in the Joe Satriani style. These are the exact same tracks that we utilize throughout the video lessons.

And you also get a highly detailed 35-page PDF eBook that coincides with the videos. This valuable eBook gives you crucial tips, scale diagrams, soloing strategies, and charts to speed your progress.

We break all the licks, devices, and techniques down into digestible pieces and demonstrate them at slow and regular speeds. Then weteach you how to practice and apply them over the included jam tracks. And all the lessons feature on-screen tablature and close-ups of the fret and pick hands with multiple camera angles to make it easy to follow along.

Throughout these lessons you will learn:

-How to dial in your gear and equipment so that you can get in the wheelhouse of the Satriani sound.

-Signature-sounding Satriani style licks, but also how to make them your own to blow away your listeners.

-To master tons and tons of killer pentatonic and blues licks in this style.

-How to combine minor and major pentatonic scales for killer new sounds.

-How to strengthen your fret hand with awesome hammer-on and pull-off exercises.

-How to play one-string patterns, sequence licks, and position shifting.

-Learn fun tremolo bar tricks and make wildly interesting noises you thought were not possible.

-Allabout alternate picking in the Satriani style.

-How to infuse melody into your playing.

-How to add all the infamous "Joe-ish" nuances to your playing.

-How to build killer two-handed tapping licks in both the Satriani clean style and in the distorted style.

-How to play one string and open string licks in theSatriani style.

-The soloing strategies and thought processes that go into playing over the included jam tracks.

-All about chord centers and adding intervals and arpeggios for additional textures and colors.

-Learn all about the harmonic minor scale and the Phrygian dominant mode and application.

-How to play in Phrygian Dominant and other modal avenues like Lydian, Ionian, Phrygian and how to add it to your soloing.

-Scale mapping across the entire fret board.Learn to move patterns around the fret board making it easy playing through multiple scale positions.

-Fluid legato, we teach how you can play complex passages and make them smooth. Learn all the techniques behind this crucial device, including how to apply it to all kinds of scales and modes and more.

-All about scale CHOICES and soloing OPTIONS and you will be able to open up the fretboard by learning whats behind what your playing.

-New ways to visualize the entire guitar neck as one big opportunity rather than remaining stuck in your "safe place", or in just a few "boxes". Learn to glide effortlessly across the entire guitar neck.

-Everything in its proper musical context by APPLYING it in a musical context by jamming over the custom made backing tracks that coincides with the video lessons.