John Petrucci Style Fast And Easy Chromatics Guitar Lesson!! Lick Of The Week - Rock - Metal - Jazz

[KSGCards]

Do you have problems with your third finger being too long? lol. I'm not kidding.  I can do this stuff with three fingers but completely suck at it when I try using all four!

[NAtePoo]

Yall... it's chromatic... it's atonal. this lick just happens to start and end on an A. its not in any "key".

[Randomname600]

Is this lick in the key of A?

[PreHilbert]

Shit, these licks on single coils ...

[MrFenderSratocaster]

please give me sample of the song or the link which contains this lick. it will help me to understand the lick. thanks

[GuitarLessons365]

@MrFenderSratocaster Try the lick that precedes each chorus in "Pull Me Under" for an example of this type of scale pattern. :)

[MrFenderSratocaster]

@GuitarLessons365 thankyou so much.

[ztmsqh7]

this is the part of pull me under's solo!?

[guitarwarrior007]

can you make another one w/ this style but w/ the 4th finger/little finger?? its hard for me doing it w/o the 4th finger.. =DD

[Dust0fNation]

in what key is this?

[ShellyOFG]

@Dust0fNation 

[ShellyOFG]

@Dust0fNation

I'd say A minor is a safe bet

[iescoja]

Nice



[TheRockmonster93]

nice!

[CrimsonCleff]

fusion..

[RandyRhoadsIsAwesome]

5 seconds to play. 5 minutes to teach. i love the guitar.

[MrRuggo]

@RandyRhoadsIsAwesome You forgot one thing...years to practice :D

[arturmet]

this will help me with warm-up thnx!

[MrDarinWarren]

Nice. I now have a new picking exercise.  Thanks.

[CantrellJr]

... pretty good ... thnx i was easy to learn ... i'm gonna show my skills to my friends now

[eddieisfiction]

if you want the theory behind it, and not just him playing... what they do is, when they are playing to a key and a mode.. on a certain note of the riff, they are playing the diminished form of it, and adding extra notes to it essentially. Thats how its chromatic and at the same time, making musical sense. for example with an A minor diminished. you might play D D# E F instead of D and F. Do it where theres less space, and try to play only the notes of a scale and adding seldomly as possible

[RobinJansenMusic]

He talks like Joe Bonamassa xD

[HolyGK]

@RobinJansenMusic Lol, you are totally right

[levitheguitarplayer]

@RobinJansenMusic maybe it is joe bonamassa :O maybe this is his hobby teaching other ppl to play guitar haha :P great lessons btw !!!

[PapeModa]

Carl,

Thanks that's cool. So I can duplicate this riff in any key and use any note on the "A" string as my root note for that key? Pape.

[GuitarLessons365]

@dj0431 Close!! It's Eric Johnson signature model.. Thx for watching!!

[JgHaverty]

@GuitarLessons365 so its a 57 reissue strat with swapped out pickups ;) 

[jbeebrylle]

hope you make a video about how to use guitar pedals..

[ravenshield56]

easy? o.O yeah right

[Thefretboardist]

u've gt my support... nice one. =)

[ichi612]

can u teach us the aplication for this chromatic lesson???pls

[hamzd]

how do u get your guitar to get that sound

[lidista03]

i thought this is on the Key of A hahaha

[nabplayer]

hell with this. ECO Picking ftw :D

[P5ych00]

@nabplayer ECO picking is only for certain riffs

[steveo27545]

Sounds good over a D or D minor.

Seems like the lick has the D minor pentatonic in mind here..

Glad to see it , I use this all the time.

It still think major so F major, sound better in D so I am playing a mode.

Cool lesson.

Go's great with Coffee.LOL

[jcsamson21]

nicely done bro! gonna downlowd this one from your site. Thanks

[UnstoppableChaos]

I thought there was only 7 notes in music.

[Strawb3rryCake]

@UnstoppableChaos diatonically, but when you include the chromatics, it's 12.

[UnstoppableChaos]

@Strawb3rryCake Oh the half steps? That makes sense.

[lidista03]

what is the of this chromatic scale is in the key of A sir thanks..

=)

[916alberto]

Nice...but too quick for me..im just starting.

[askaopk]

@moucon you obviously know nothing about "harmonic changes" if you say a chromatic scale is not useful in real-life playing.

[sebace]

When is going to be an Andy Timmons lesson????

[TheMikeyyyy]

this is my comment to show my support...

[Sufferd666]

why are you using vibrato so much when you show us the notes? It distracts from the actual lesson.

[cosmogang]

@Sufferd666 If that distracts you.....then.......nevermind..­....that's just silly.

[Sufferd666]

@Sufferd666 Well silly or not, it does not add anything to the lesson right? :)

[TheStyrofoamPeanut]

another great one carl

[shaqdaddy11]

Finally some petrucci stuff. awesome.

[loveguitars]

5 Stars

[miguelangelv7]

nice

[leonelfernandezcoleo]

what scale are you use?

[andremamola810]

@leonelfernandezcoleo a chromatic scale a believe. google it xD

[joeyrotten101]

@leonelfernandezcoleo sigh*....

[MaximumThompson]

@leonelfernandezcoleo

Chromatic, Half steps

[dioseolo]

You released this lesson the same week Portnoy left DT :(

Awesome lesson though.

[TellingYouTwice]

@dioseolo Really? I have mixed emotions. He is a pretty good drummer, yet he took the band in a new direction by random growling talk.

[8T64P]

Awesome Lesson!