Riff Of The Week™ - Season 3: Developing Scale Sequences

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Hi, I'm Dave Weiner. I'm a Favored Nations recording artist, a G.I.T. graduate and have been playing in Steve Vai's band since 1999.

Every Wednesday I do a new Riff Of The Week™ guitar education video. Here's Season 3, Episode 31 "Developing Scale Sequences"

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Thanks for visiting. Enjoy!

Dave

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[mastariffa]

i love that distortion.

what is it?

you said it was some pedal?

[riffoftheweek]

That's some horrid patch I made in Guitar Rig

[Altered6Chicken]

This is a very interesting approach to writing riffs. I like how you are able to take any sequence of random notes and rhythmically make it sound awesome! The main thing standing between me and playing something like that though is "knowing the notes on the guitar COLD". I really admire your playing man. More so than the lightning fast shred guitar players. You make it much more interesting and...well, musical. Thanks!

[riffoftheweek]

Thx. Yep get those notes down cold and then when you're playing, keep rhythm as priority #1.

[6XstringXsamurai]

wow that was a really helpful video dave!

i'm gonna call you ambidextrous dave since you wrote with your left hand, cut with your right, and play right handed.

[haruko958]

very nice lesson dave, i dig the concept a lot.

[Wallimann]

Love your videos! :-)

[devvilboyy676767]

this is pretty useful, I do the same thing with my riffs write 12 tones on a paper and randomly choose 2 notes, 3 , 5, etc, find which frets are that same note and just play around :P (sorry for my bad english)

[thecableviking]

this is an awesome way of creation. I will definitely try this one!

[jimbang]

greta idea!

[jakerowguitar]

Hey Dave, EXCELLENT Material!!! Thanks for sharing!

[jman2077]

thats coooooool

[GerrysJamSession]

Excellent idea!!!

[lloydire]

great idea man!