Let me ask you a question:
Would you like to learn the picking techniques that guitar greats like Paul Gilbert, John Petrucci, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Stevens and many more use, including some closely guarded techniques that can transform your playing?
Are you tired of learning from badly written tabs from the internet or amateurish YouTube videos?
Are you fed up with the rate of your progress and do you have the feeling that everybody else is overtaking you in their development as lead guitar players?
Is your wallet on a diet from buying yet another ‘internet course’ from a so-called ‘expert shredder’ with just tons of unrelated exercises that bore you to tears after the third day?
Trying To Figure It Out All On Your Own?
If you’ve ever tried to ‘figure it out’ all by yourself you will probably be answering one or more of the above questions with a big, fat YES. I know that I would.
Even though in the beginning I was having classical guitar lessons, I started teaching myself how to play the electric guitar after listening to Joe Satriani’s album ‘Flying in a blue dream’. At the time there was no internet (hard to believe, I know) and the only source were your own ears and a handful of books and VHS video tapes.
The books were great but had their limitations. The video tapes however, would allow me to ‘get access’ to my guitar heroes and study them ‘in depth’. Because now I could actually ‘see’ how a certain player would play a specific lick or riff. Many of these videos were good but unfortunately, some of these videos where more of a marketing vehicle than a useful guitar lesson - disappointing... and expensive!
A few years after ‘going it alone’ I was able to study guitar at the Munich Guitar Institute (MGI) in Germany, which was a great experience and eye-opener. And even though I studied with some great teachers, I still found videos and DVDs immensely helpful in my development as a player. And I also learned that lesser-known guys oftentimes had more to offer than ‘the big names’.
A Big 'A-ha' Moment
That’s one of the reasons why I decided to put together my own DVD - 'Taking The Lead - Picking Techniques and Strategies for Lead Guitar' - with the kind of stuff that I would have wanted all those years ago; combining fundamental techniques and solid strategies with interesting and sometimes uncommon applications as well as revealing the ‘little secrets’ that are usually never talked about. There is definitely more than one ‘a-ha’ moment on this DVD.
In fact, I still remember the moment I learned about 'Inside Picking'. When I was studying at the MGI, during a particular lesson I got stuck on a difficult lick. My teacher looked at me and said: "why don't you play this with inside picking?" "Inside what?" was my reply. Once he explained the concept a big light bulb lit up above my head. I'm sure that you will have those moments too when watching 'Taking The Lead'.
Become The Lead Guitarist You Want To Be
'Taking The Lead - Picking Techniques and Strategies for Lead Guitar' will help you become a more articulate lead guitar player by showing you several techniques and concepts that players like Paul Gilbert, John Petrucci, Yngwie Malmsteen, Al Di Meola, Steve Stevens and more use in their lead guitar work.
Some of these techniques are very closely guarded and 'Taking The Lead' takes them one step further and turns them into concepts so they can be applied to your existing licks.
For example, making just one simple change to your picking stroke and the way you cross the strings can reduce your effort by up to 30% and by using economy of motion you'll be able to play faster and with more precision.
Simply watch the DVD and follow along with the 66-page PDF e-booklet, one section at a time. Take the licks you've learned and apply them to your own songs or over a jam track. Then take the concepts and apply them to your own licks for total integration.
From one string scale ideas to full blown speed runs blazing across the fretboard, this superb DVD will add speed, dexterity and accuracy to your playing, while increasing your musical knowledge with an arsenal of power licks you can use in your every day playing.
Some Testimonials
This stuff is tight Chris on so many different levels. Great stuff!
Randy Johnson
What an amazing teacher you are Mr. Basener.
Rovan Deon
Cool technique. Great presentation.
Nathan Dashnaw
Chris Basener is a wonderful player and teacher... The additional "add on pack" of goodies was WELL worth it.
Jason Sheroan
Focus On The Right Things
The focus of 'Taking The Lead - Picking Techniques and Strategies for Lead Guitar' is to provide proven, interesting as well as uncommon concepts to improve your picking technique and plectrum control while increasing your musical understanding and vocabulary of licks. As you enjoy playing the musical examples your picking will improve.
This collection of lead guitar picking techniques will help you expand your existing lick knowledge and create new ideas for your own blazing solos.
Develop your skills with alternate picking, horizontal playing, small three string sweep and arpeggio ideas. Learn techniques like the closely guarded inside picking, economy picking, octave shifting and full neck runs as well as the unique pick ‘n’ mix technique. Add color to your style with tetrachords, string skipping, quintuplet and sextuplet speed runs, two string speed riffs and much more!
In addition to this, ‘Taking The Lead’ features a complete warm-up section for getting both hands ready to race across the fretboard as well as lifting the secret of how to sound like a pro - instantly!
Here's What You Will Discover
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Alternate Picking
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Single String Licks |
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Mutola Technique |
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Quintuplet Speed Runs |
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Sextuplet Speed Runs
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Octave Shifting |
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Horizontal Playing |
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Inside Picking |
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Modal Arpeggios |
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Economy Picking |
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Tetrachords |
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Two String Speed Riffs
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Pick ‘N’ Mix
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Speed Burst |
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String Skipping |
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Bonus section: Warm-up
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The Secret That Will Make You Sound Like A Pro
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90 min. running time & Over 50 Licks and Exercises |
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Here Is What’s So Great About This DVD
- Do it right from the start: develop the foundation for a strong lead guitar technique in any style that all other techniques build up on
- Never run out of things to play: learn the patterns used by Yngwie Malmsteen, Vinnie More and many others...
- Discover Al DiMeola’s muting technique and add this uniques sound to your arsenal
- Find out how to spice up your playing with odd-note groupings and learn a counting method from India and how a cocktail(!) can help you play more precisely
- Shred with with the best and learn the speed patterns of players like Paul Gilbert or John Petrucci
- Watch how to take a simple idea and expand it across the fretboard, effectively tripling your licks and make them sound more musical
- Break away from the pentatonic box position and use the same expressive concept of players like Joe Satriani and Steve Vai
- Discover the closely guarded technique that can transform even the most challenging alternate picking idea into an easy-to-play lick
- Learn how to stand out in your arpeggio playing with the use of these unique arpeggios and play them effortlessly
- Find out how to become 30% more efficient with your picking, allowing you to play the licks you already know faster and with ease
- Discover how to arrange pentatonics and scales into easy to play four-note groupings that let you blaze up and down the fretboard
- See how you can use two string speed riffs to outline long chord progressions a la Steve Stevens
- Find out how to combine two simple techniques that can forever transform the way you play high-speed licks - a new approach that is easy to execute, sounds terrifyingly fast and improves your phrasing at the same time
- Kick your playing into overdrive once you understand how to effectively use the speed burst technique
- Put it all together and follow chord progressions with scale sequences that are closely related to the underlying chords using string skipping, speed bursts and the pick ‘n’ mix technique
- Get both hands ready to rock with this essential section of warm-up exercises while introducing beneficial speed and muting habits at the same time
If you are ready to go fast instead of finishing last, join me in the "ultimate picking DVD".
WARNING: this DVD is not for every guitarist. It is designed for the intermediate to advanced guitarist - if you’ve only just started playing guitar this DVD is not yet for you.
Great guitarists like Joe Satriani or Steve Vai will tell you that, as guitar players, we are always students and never masters because once we stop learning we stop developing as artists. And stagnation will only produce boring, unexciting music.
That's why 'Taking The Lead - Picking Techniques and Strategies for Lead Guitar' is a great addition to any existing DVD collection and/or a great start to your very own library of guitar education materials.
If you teach guitar you can also use these concepts and techniques with your students as part of their lessons.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
You will also receive the following SUPER BONUS
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