
Instrumental Rock carries with it many creative aspects both in writing and playing. By the end of this series, Chris will have covered almost everything you will need to know to create and play your very own melodic instrumental rock piece, with emotion!
Lesson 1
Chris Liepe introduces his Phase 2 Rock Essentials lesson series. By highlighting specific instrumental rock styles and techniques, Chris will help you become a more melodically creative player.
Length: 3:57 Difficulty: 1.0 Members OnlyLesson 2
Chris Liepe starts off his Rock Essentials series with a lesson on 3 on a string scales. Utilizing 3, 4, and 6 note sequencing, Chris begins to dive into instrumental rock style phrasing and provides several...
Length: 37:00 Difficulty: 3.5 FREELesson 3
Chris introduces the pentatonic scales as well as some of their basic applications.
Length: 19:35 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 4
Chris Liepe takes some time to explain chord numbering. Understanding how chords are built will only help in your overall knowledge of the guitar.
Length: 16:25 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 5
Chris breaks down the CAGED system and its chord chemistry. He covers both major and minor chord forms.
Length: 35:06 Difficulty: 3.5 Members OnlyLesson 6
Chris digs into the sweep picking technique. He uses the C, A, and E forms introduced in the previous lesson to help with finger synchronization.
Length: 27:15 Difficulty: 3.0 Members OnlyLesson 7
Chris moves on to the subject of modes. He explains where modes come from, how they sound, and how they are used.
Length: 30:04 Difficulty: 4.0 Members OnlyLesson 8
This lesson demonstrates how to modify the old trusty 5th fret A minor pentatonic position to make it sound modal.
Length: 10:30 Difficulty: 3.5 Members OnlyLesson 9
How do you know which mode to use? There are giveaways with every chord progression, and Chris covers them in this lesson.
Length: 17:12 Difficulty: 4.0 Members OnlyLesson 10
Chris demonstrates how to complete the major and minor scale by using pentatonic positions based on the roots of the I, IV, and V chords.
Length: 14:52 Difficulty: 4.5 Members OnlyLesson 11
Chris Liepe utilizes everything he has taught in the series so far to demonstrate how to create catchy lead lines over a backing track.
Length: 15:30 Difficulty: 4.0 Members OnlyLesson 12
Chris Liepe delves into the world of implied tonalities. This lesson details how a single arpeggio can be implied over various chordal sounds.
Length: 25:40 Difficulty: 4.0 Members OnlyLesson 13
Chris teaches the solo that was used in the introduction lesson for this series. He uses the solo as an example of how to effectively compose your own solos.
Length: 22:09 Difficulty: 3.5 Members OnlyLesson 14
It's time to give the right hand hand some work with two hand tapping on the guitar neck.
Length: 31:26 Difficulty: 3.5 Members OnlyLesson 15
With so much material out there, what should you focus on? How much time do you spend on a certain topic? How do you progress? How do you measure progress? Chris covers all of these topics in this lesson.
Length: 17:16 Difficulty: 1.0 Members OnlyLesson 16
Chris Liepe offers up some insight into his past. Hopefully this lesson will help you further your own goals as a guitarist.
Length: 11:42 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
About Chris Liepe
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Chris Liepe was born on September 17th, 1981 in Portland OR. His first instrument was piano which he pursued until discovering his love for the electric guitar in high school. He became fans of such groups as Soundgarden, Collective Soul and U2 inspiring him to start singing, songwriting and helping others in their musical endeavors with teaching, co-writing and album production.
Having moved to Colorado with his family, he began gigging, recording and teaching in a number of music stores as well as out of his apartment until deciding to pursue music full time. He moved to Denver, CO to complete a Bachelors in Music Technology and was then hired on by Sweetwater Productions, a division of Sweetwater Sound and one of the largest, most successful recording studios in the Midwest.
Chris spent nearly 4 years at Sweetwater as a producer, recording engineer, studio musician and writer. During this time he had the privilege of working with many artists including Augustana, Landon Pigg, Jars of Clay, and Mercy Me. He also wrote for and played on numerous independent albums and hundreds of radio/TV commercials.
Wanting to get back to his favorite State in the world (Colorado) and feeling the urge to 'go freelance', Chris moved to Greeley, CO and opened his own recording and teaching studio. He continues to write and produce music for artists and agencies and is happy to be among the proud JamPlay.com instructors.
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Discussions with our instructors are just one of the many benefits of becoming a member of JamPlay.Can you apply this in a modal context. Suppose you playing A Dorian and alternating Am Em chords. I would assume the Minor scale pattern works in Am and Em then you shift A-Dorian over the D. Any Comments.
yes you can! you could play A dorian over an Am /// D major /// progression using the pentatonic position. For added taste, insert the natural 6th and it will sound truly dorian. see my lesson on modal pentatonics later in the series
I get it!!! AWESOME
Can you add the blues note to 1 4 5 pentatonic shapes or does that ruin the tonality of the parent minor scale?
the blues notes can sound cool, but it will not be "major scale" sounding at that point. We added those in on one of my live chats and it works very nicely if you're playing over the right stuff. the can work a lot of the time as passing tones, but you'll want to be really careful if your targeting one of them and your not playing over a bluesy track
Glad you guys are enjoying this!
I lied about your last lesson being the best lesson ever. This was the best lesson ever.
good job-your really helping me man thanx
Ha, and I was just talking with someone about this stuff on Jamplay the other day. Hope he finds his way here. Lots of people seem to be wanting to find ways to improvise with the pentatonics these days - so improvising across chord changes and such has come up. This lesson is a big help for sure. But, now I've got to go to work - I'll have have to sit down with this later.
Wow.. super awesome lesson. Very interesting!!!