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Y en el apartado "Noticias", continúo haciendo algo muy parecido a lo que hacía en este Blog, compartiendo los contenidos de mis clases.

 

No dejes de visitarlo, y si quieres podrás suscribirte para recibir un aviso cada vez que haya cosas nuevas.

 

Estamos en contacto!.

 

Un saludo,

 

Jose

 

 

September Blog (English)

Hello!

This is the last entry of this blog, because from now on I'll carry on making something similar in the "News" section of my website (www.JoeMoreg.com).

I'll keep on uploading material from my guitar lessons there, for those of you interested in learning new things. I will also use that section to let you know whenever I upload new stuff to any other page of my website.

I'm still open to suggestions and comments.

Thank you to all of you who followed this blog and got in touch with me to give some feedback. We can still keep in touch through joemoreg.com.

Also, I've created a Blog Index on my website, in order to help you finding contents which may interest you more easily, based on level of difficulty, music style and type of contents. It's still in Spanish, but you can check it in this link (I'll translate as soon as I can).

http://www.joemoreg.com/indice-del-blog

These following videos are a sample of the stuff I've been uploading lately.

Thank you for checking out my blog, and see you at

www.JoeMoreg.com

  

   

Blog de Septiembre (Spanish)

 Hola!






  



 * English translation of this entry will be available very soon.

Este blog vá con algo de retraso, pero por fin está aquí.

Esta será la última entrega por el momento, porque a partir de ahora voy a continuar haciendo algo parecido en la sección "Noticias" de mi página web (www.joemoreg.com).

En ese apartado seguiré subiendo material procedente de mis clases de guitarra para aquellos que queráis aprender cosas nuevas, y también avisaré de cualquier contenido nuevo en la web.

Sigo abierto a sugerencias y comentarios, que procuraré reflejar en dicho apartado.

También seguiré revisando y corrigiendo todos los contenidos que he realizado durante este año haciendo el blog, y no descarto subir más material complementario que añadiría al mes correspondiente.

Gracias a todos los que habéis seguido este blog y a aquellos que me habéis enviado algún comentario o sugerencia. Como os dije, podemos seguir en contacto a través de mi web.

Otra novedad es que para ayudaros a navegar por estos 12 meses de blog, he creado un índice donde indico el nivel de dificultad, el estilo musical y los contenidos para que podáis dirigiros al mes que más os pueda interesar. Podéis verlo en este enlace:


http://www.joemoreg.com/indice-del-blog



A continuación tenéis algunos de los contenidos que he subido en el apartado "Noticias" (del más antiguo al más reciente). Para más información sobre estos videos y para poder ver las partituras haced click aquí.

En este video estoy improvisando sobre la progresión de acordes de "I'm going down" de Bruce Springsteen.

Este es el riff principal de la canción "Clocks" de Coldplay, adaptado para que sea más fácil.

Y para terminar, el solo de guitarra de la canción "Maneras de vivir" de Leño.

      
Gracias por haber seguido este blog, y nos vemos en 

www.JoeMoreg.com

 

August Blog (English)

Hello Everyone!,

This month I'm going to talk about a Slipknot song called "Vermilion Pt 2".

I uploaded my "Vermilion Pt. 2" cover on the 25th of July 2008. This video  was originally intended to be a tutorial of this song for Linda, one of my online students. She was my student while I live in Dublin (Ireland), and when I left Ireland I kept teaching her, among other students, via email.

I got an email with her request on the 7th July 2008, and I replied with the full lesson a week after.

I thought it would help other people, so I decided to upload it to youtube a few days later.

It has so far 444.653 views and counting, and it's definitely the video with most views in my channel so far.

Just to thank everybody for your comments and views, I'm going to share here a few things in order to help you learning this great tune.

I've also recorded a new video with the lead guitar part.

Remember this is my own adaptation of the song, and although I believe it works well, I'm not using the very same tuning and positions used in the original recording.

TUNING

Because Linda had only been playing guitar for just a few months, I thought I would adapt the original song to standard tuning, just to avoid the hassle of changing the whole tuning for just one song. I focused on the rhythm guitar part.

Also, whenever I'm learning a song for the first time (it was the first time I was playing it), I feel much more comfortable using the tuning I'm more used to.

Even if I decide to use an alternative tuning, I like to be able to understand and play the song in standard tuning.

I believe the original tuning is Drop D down 1 1/2 steps. So if Drop D is

D A D G B E (low to high)

the tuning of the song would be

B F# B E G# C#    

For the lead part, I've tried not to alter the standard tuning too much, so I've only tuned down the 6th to B and the 1st down to C#. 
 

CHORDS


Here is a chord dictionary with all the chords involved in the song. 

You probably know already that A chord can be played like this (I preferred the previous voicing but they both work fine).

In this diagram you can see the main chord of the INTRO (in blue), with the extra notes needed to play the riff (in red).

 

RHYTHM

This is probably the trickiest part. Mainly because of the time signature changes. 

The whole song is mainy in 3/4 (1 2 3 beats), but 4/4 and 2/4 also appear. That's at least how I felt the rhythm worked.

The strumming is basically 2 strums per beat. I combine down-stroke and up-stroke, but it could also be played down-stroke all the time.


LEAD GUITAR

I've recorded this new video for my Youtube channel with all the lead guitar parts. This time I've change the tuning of the sixth and the first strings. I've tuned down the sixth to B and the first to C#.
I wanted to be able to play the whole song keeping the standard tuning as much as I could, and also finding an easy adaptation for all the parts. 

This is my transcription:

 

I hope you've found this useful. Please have a look to my previous entries of this blog; I cover many different styles and topics, but you could find something that may interest you.

If you have any doubts or comments, please leave a comment here, or just get in touch through my website 

 www.JoeMoreg.com
 

Thank you,

Jose

July Blog (English)

                                                                 Hello!








                

Welcome once again to a new entry of this blog.

A few days ago I received an email from Frank, a former student. He mentioned he was interested in making a finger-style arrangement of "Logical Song" by Supertramp.

I thought it wold be a good idea for this blog, so I'm going to show you step by step how to create an easy one guitar arrangement using this song as an example.

The idea is to create a guitar piece including the harmony (chords), the rhythm, the lead melody and riffs.

The first step I followed was to learn the chords and the structure of the song. I've copied my first notes here:

I normally use ">" to indicate that a section of the song has to be repeated. For instance, after Verse 1, I've written "> Verse 2", which means "go to Verse 2" (in this case it will be exactly the same as Verse 1).

Next thing will be to check if the original key is the most appropriate for the arrangement.
I decided to use a capo on fret one in order to avoid bar chords and also to play chords and melody together easily.

Once the capo is ready, we have to use new chord positions. It's like transposing the song (changing the key).

The following image is my transcription with all the main elements. 

The following diagrams will help you to learn the chords involved in the arrangement (black), and also the melody (red). As you can see, each chord matches a section of the melody.

I would recommend you to use this diagrams in conjunction with the previous Tab. 
In order to play the melody notes in red in the right order, you should do it by ear, o just checking the Tab.

 




The final step consists in trying to put everything together, maybe using the metronome, and also adding a few notes to fill the gaps between the melody notes or the riff. 

I've recorded two videos where you'll see me playing the final result. I play it slowly in the first one, and then I play it at the original tempo (118bpm).
 
I decided not to use the capo, just in case you  don't have one with you, and also to have a better control of the tuning. Sometimes the capo is pushing too much the strings against the fretboard, so you need to double check the tuning, and that can be tricky. 

I wanted to focus in the arrangement, but in case you're also interested in practicing the improvisation I've created a backing track with the Verse's chord sequence, which is also the accompaniment for the sax solo.

Here is the chord progression, which will repeat for 40 times:

  

||: 4/4   Cm    | 2/4   Ab  |  4/4  Gm    |  Bb       |2/4   Ab    | 4/4   F7/A      |

|  4/4   Cm      | 2/4   Ab  |  4/4  Gm    |  Bb        |2/4   Ab   | 4/4   F7/A      |  F7/A  :||

 

The following image will take you to the section of my web where you'll find it, right at the end of the page.

 




 

I've also recorded an improvisation over this chord sequence. I'm mainly using C Minor Pentatonic Scale, and I've also added notes from the Natural Minor Scale (Aeolian Mode). 

C Natural Minor Scale
(C Pentatonic Minor Scale)

C D Eb F G Ab Bb

All the chords in this sequence belong to C Natural Minor Scale, except for F7/A, which in this case belongs to C Dorian Scale. 
 

C Dorian Scale
(C Minor Pentatonic Scale)

C D Eb F G A Bb


Pentatonic Minor Scale will be a safe option to improvise here, because it works well in both C Aeolian and C Dorian.
 

 
I hope you find this information useful.

If you need me to explain further something or just want me to add some extra stuff, please let me know, and I'll update this blog as soon as I can.

I would recommend you to try an arrangement like this. You should start with a song you are very familiar with. If you know the chords very well, just try to follow these steps.

You can let me know how it goes.

Regards,

Jose