Faster By The Day | Week 2 (Patreon)

Welcome to Faster By The Day week 2! Attached below is an intermediate practice routine, designed to accelerate your guitar progress as fast as possible. Exercises include, Enter Sandman, C Lydian Improv, Chord Inversions and an easy Classical Shred Lick. Let me know what you think of this lesson. Did it help? What would you like to see in the future?

1. Introduction

-lesson objective: improv ASAP on guitar

-how? TITS framework (technique, improvising, theory, songs)

2. Technique | Enter Sandman

-power chords, position shifts, vibrato, slides, syncopation, picking, pedal tones

-how to practice with MEAT (main idea, execution, assemble, timing)

3. Improvising | C Lydian

-objective: develop unique musical voice

-lydian theory, 4th mode of major scale, bright, uplifting, nostalgic, tears of joy

-developing ideas: octave sequence

4. Music Theory | Chord Inversions

-why learn chords? most emotionally dense component of music

-what is a chord? 3 notes or more

-what are inversions? re-ordering notes

5. Songs | Classical Shred Lick

-lick from Bach's Dm Fugue

-easier than it sounds, pull off technique, legato