Paul Gilbert Style String Skipping Arpeggios Guitar Lesson

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In this video guitar lesson we will take a look at the unique string skipping arpeggios style of the great Paul Gilbert.

Paul Gilbert is undoubtedly one of the most popular guitar shredders of all time. He is known for his otherworldly technique and precision. He literally never seems to ever mess up. That is why we all love him yet hate him at the same time. :)

The technique we are studying in this video guitar lesson is his string skipping arpeggios style. He uses this technique often in his popular instrumental "Scarified".

"Scarified" is a dual guitar instrumental that he wrote back when he was in Racer X. Take a listen to that track and you will hear a bunch of string skipping arpeggios all over the place.

This is a very exciting technique and once you get the patterns down it really isn't very difficult. In this video lesson I show you a little etude that I wrote that uses the string skipping arpeggio technique throughout.

Everything will be much easier to follow if you download the TAB first. Be sure to download it here: http://www.guitarlessons365.com/paul-gilbert-style-string-skipping-arpeggios/

Have fun and take your time with this one. Some of the large stretches may take a little getting used to.

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Lesson Taught By: Carl Brown

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[Benevolar1]

Thanks for the great lessons. If it is possible, it would be helpful to include the chord names and the individual note names on the TABs.

[RoxxGuitar]

Great Lesson Carl!

[abelltiger]

Been obsessed with mastering this since I found it last week. Great lesson. Especially love the retraining of my right hand towards a total economy of motion. No wasted motion! Thanks

[MrLuisucho]

it sounds like neoclassical in the most part of the lick!

but sounds really cool! thanks

[Greyforce12111]

Great Lesson, thank you for your time!!!

[chefbakercook]

All this guitar technical talk is hard to me :/ but eh! As long as I learn the technique haha.

[flayshon]

When you get used to see PG using outside picking for this kind of pattern, everything else looks so strange :P

but nice lesson anyway...

[billmeedog]

Hi Carl,

One more thing...

IMO, these Paul Gilbert/Nuno arpeggios can be helpful to those who feel intimidated by the traditional sweep-picking (1-note-per-string) technique, but maybe have confidence with traditional Pentatonic-Patterns/Boxes, which are predominantly 2-notes-per-string patterns, and thus similar to these (mostly) 2-note-per-string arpeggio-shapes (Although these arpeggios require string-skips to access the requisite traid/tertiary-intervals (Roots, 3rds, and 5ths.)

[billmeedog]

Great lesson Carl!

Nuno Bettencourt also approaches some of his arpeggio-ideas this way

(ex: Extreme - "Play With Me" - Solo!)

Anyways, I thought I'd point out that your picking approach makes sense to me (and I'm sure to most!) as it capitalizes on "common sense" as well as "economy-of-motion!" However, Paul Gilbert has that whole "Outside-Picking" approach to his picking (right) hand string-transitions, seemingly w/o exception - LOL!

Either way has merit, if one stays CONSISTENT!

[boneprone00]

Great lesson