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Tom Quayle Legato and Arpeggio Lick - Guitar Lesson - Part 1 of 4 - Guitar Breakdown - Guitar instruction and Breakdown.

In this guitar lesson we are going to breakdown another Tom Quayle lick. This is based on part of an improvised solo where Tom was practicing playing over chord changes. Practicing over chord changes is a great way to improve your improvising skills. It can be a difficult thing to do at times even over simple chord changes if you are not used to doing this.

Most guitar players start out playing over a simple blues progression which basically consists of three chords (I, IV, V). Generally they improvise using a single blues scale over all three chords and usually don't focus on the individual chords they are playing over. This technique works fine for the most part. Sometimes you'll land on some dull notes but for the most part it will all work out fine.

However the next step in really improving your solo improvisation is to figure out why some notes in that simple blues scale sound better then others over certain chords. In analyzing this you will begin to find that primary chord tones are a big part of sounding like you intentionally played what you played over specific chords. These are sometimes referred to as target tones or target notes.

We will get into this subject much deeper in a future series of lessons. But in this guitar lesson we will touch on this subject a little to get you started and try and show how you can take parts of this Tom Quayle lick and use it in your own soloing.

If you are not familiar with Tom Quayle ... just do a youTube search and you will find a lot of great videos of him improvising. He's been posting videos for several years now. Take a look at some of his older videos posted years ago and compare them to the more recent videos and you will see how much he has improved as a player. He is pretty well know for the technique we will breakdown in this lesson ... mixing legato and arpeggios in an extremely fluid manner.

His legato technique is up there with the best and it is something you can achieve with a lot of practice and patience. Work slowly with a metronome and really concentrate on getting every note to be at the same level dynamically. You want every note to be equally as loud (or soft) ... and eventually be able to control the dynamics of each note at will.

Alright ... enough yapping ...

To hear the Tom Quayle play this solo for himself, just go to this link:

http://youtu.be/xxy3J6X3sjY?t=59s

The solo begins around 1 minute in.

Ok ... hope you enjoy this lesson and continue to check out our videos. We have a lot of fun things planned for the future, hope you stick around ...

Taught by David Clayton

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