ADVANCED LEAD GUITAR CONCEPTS

Joshua Craig Podolsky

From his prolific solo work as a Producer, Writer, Video Game Music Composer and Author, to his prominent memberships in many influential hard rock and metal groups, Joshua Craig Podolsky of THE ALIEN BLAKK has displayed one of the most fiery creative personas and influential approaches to lead guitar playing ever. Joshua has continually affirmed his stance in the upper echelon of contemporary super guitarists with accolades that include his work with Rob Halford of Judas Priest, Xzibit, Motograter, Christina Aguilera, Coolio, Dr. Dre, and Mark Hamill, as well as members of Metallica, Megadeth, Fear Factory, Testament, KISS, White Zombie, Whitesnake, CKY, Flotsam & Jetsam, Soulfly, Fight, Methods Of Mayhem, Black Dahlia Murder, Death and Cypress Hill to name a few.

Equally attention-grabbing are Joshuas incendiary chops, technique, personality on guitar and his proven teaching style (focused on in Advanced Lead Guitar Concepts). Joshua walks the walk and talks the talk and proves himself and his theologies and mindset with every live performance, clinic, guitar lesson or lecture he gives. Advanced Lead Guitar Concepts: Mindset & Theologies in Improvisation will affirm any player with an advanced background in music that there is farther for you to go. You can get to that next breakthrough level in your guitar playing.

This new method and approach of personal self discovery on the guitar will let you achieve that personal and very important goal. This is a brand new way and in a way, a reinvention of the wheel in discovery of lead guitar that you have never before thought of. Advanced lead Guitar Concepts is a book/CD/DVD set that is a must own tool for the modern day contemporary rock, metal and shred guitar enthusiast alike.

Advanced level.

Contents

Points of Interest for Use of the Material in this Book
Your Mindset
Your Thought Process
Heart vs Brain
The Mind's Eye
Painting a Picture with Sound
Stretching
Warm-up Exercises
Setting up a Lead Section
Playing Melodically
A Question
Sol Amente
In the Name Of
Rhythmical Displacement and Accented Meter Manipulation
Rhythmically Displaced Accents and Groove Playing
Mirror Figures
Mirror Figures Examples
Fragmented/Backwards and Upside Down Scale Approach
Ascending Major and Descending Minor
Backwards and Upside Down Scale Approach Examples
String Skipping/3-Note per String Scales
String Skipping/3-Note per String Scales Examples
Playing "against the time" with Subdivisions (Oddly Grouped Note Phrases)
Three different approaches to counting 7 over 1
Three different approaches to counting 5 over 1
9 over 1
7 over 1
5 over 1
Playing "Against the Time" with Subdivisions (Oddly Grouped Note Phrases) Examples
Sequences
Sequencces Examples
Arpeggios
Arpeggios in Root position, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Inversions
Arpeggios beginning with different finger positions and varied position shifts
Major 7 Arpeggio Etude
Major 7 Ascending and minor 7 Descending Arpeggio Etude
Unique Arpeggio Etude
Connecting the Dots
3rds/Upper Structured Triadic Formative Clusters
3rds/Upper Structured Triadic Formative Clusters Examples
Rhythmic Approach to Lead Playing
Rhythmic Approach to Lead Playing Examples
Polyrhythms
Polyrhythms Examples
Ambient/Intervallic Ideas
Modes: Debunking the Mystery
Characteristic Modal Pitches
Rules of Thumb (for): Modal Characteristic Pitches
Major/Dominant Modes
Minor/Half-Diminished Modes
Polymodality
Modes Examples
Unique "Non-Traditional" Modal Scales
Mixo-Blues Scale and The Jimi Hendrix Chord (E7♯9)
Soloing with Harmonic Minor
The Phantom Scale and "Outside the Box" Style Playing
Importance of the Middle Finger in all Minor Scale Formations of Soloing
Out of Key Exotic Notes
E minor/Chromatic with all Modal/Harmonic Characteristic Considerable Pitches
Diminished Playing over the Dominant Seventh Chord
Augmented Scale and Chord Playing
The Art of Speed Picking
About the Author