This lesson builds on the skills covered in FNK-01 and teaches your student how to improvise and come up with their own funky riffs. A few different styled riffs are given with detailed explanation in the Teacher's Guide on how to create variations to each riff. Your student must be able to easily play the exercises in FNK-01 before attempting this lesson.
The exercises in this lesson will teach your student how to build funk styled rhythms. Basic rhythmic skills are covered in a progressive way to help your student understand what is needed to play a funky rhythm. If your student is interested in learning funk, this is a great starting point.
The included Teacher's Guide will explain how to give the lesson even if you aren't familiar with funk.
This lesson will introduce polyrhythms to your student and show how they can be used in improvisation. The exercises will focus on helping the student learn to play different polyrhythms and understand how they are formed. Rhythmic displacement is also covered and explained in the included Teacher's Guide.
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This lesson introduces string skipping to your student. The purpose of the lesson is to get your student feeling comfortable with string skipping in a variety of different contexts. This means the student will learn how string skipping is used with chords, scale runs, arpeggios and using different picking techniques.
The included Teacher's Guide will explain how to use these exercises and make it easier for your student to pick up the technique. It's recommended that the student practice these exercises with all picking techniques such as alternate, all down, all up, economy, etc. as this will improve their confidence.
This is a great lesson for any student who is starting to learn improvising. Quite often the student will start to improvise then hit a plateau when they realize they're playing the same stuff over and over. They may feel like everything they play sounds the same and even if they try different scales it all sounds the same.
The solution to this problem is to teach your student how to use passing tones to add 'color' or 'flavor' to their improvisation. This lesson will introduce passing tones and show the student in various exercises how they can incorporate passing tones in their playing. The included Teacher's Guide will explain the best approach to this content and will help you explain in simple terms how the student can use passing tones. Although an understanding of music theory will definitely help, the lesson is written in a way that the student doesn't need to fully understand scale theory.
This lesson continues on from MET-05 and allows the student to focus on a few different riff techniques used in metal. Your student will be able to focus on each technique then learn how to create their own metal riffs using the same ideas. The Teacher's Guide will explain how you can use this material in the lesson and provides advice on points to touch on.
If your student is interested in learning metal then this is a great way to introduce them to the techniques used and it will prepare them for learning actual songs.
This lesson plan will teach your student how to start applying tapping in their improvisation. Each exercise will teach the student a different aspect of tapping and will slowly introduce new techniques and concepts. It's recommended that the student complete lesson TEC-07 before moving on to this lesson. You can also use lesson PRO-03 Eddie Van Halen as it focuses on how he uses tapping.
The exercises are presented in a musical way and the included Teacher's Guide gives advice on how to extend these basic idea around the fretboard.
This lesson plan will teach your student how to start applying legato runs in their improvisation. Each exercise will teach the student a different aspect of legato and will slowly introduce new techniques and concepts. It's recommended that the student start with basic exercises as provided in EXE-06, 07 & 08 then move on to this lesson.
The exercises are presented in a musical way and the included Teacher's Guide gives advice on how to extend these basic idea around the fretboard.