A couple months ago, I decided to revisit Richie Kotzen’ debut LP. Wow, what a sound! The thing that stuck out to me the most was how wide Richie Sounded. When I say wide, I mean that his note choice was characterized by the jumps he made between intervals in the scale. Rather than play a scale as…
Cover of JS Bach’s Prelude in C Minor tuned to Eb standard. This piece was originally recorded as part of German Schauss’ Shredding Bach series. JS Bach Analysis The beginning is great alternate picking exercise that runs through a myriad of pedal tone chord shapes. The real key here is to focus on the clarity…
So I recently whipped out my copy of Ozzy Osbourne’s Tribute album, a fantastic live release dedicated to the memory of Randy Rhoads, and finally noticed what appears to be a hand written lesson on extended 9th chord arpeggios in one of the picture collages. This was a perfectly timed discovery, as I’ve been spending a…