Meet Charlie Griffiths
Meet Charlie Griffiths, guitarist with the band Haken, who teaches the metal pieces across the Rockschool grades.
What's in the course
43 lessons (3h 11m) · 1 free
01. Intro to Approaches to improvisation
1:00
02. Getting started with improvisation
9:22
03. Improvising over chord tones
10:18
04. Assignment: Finding chord tones
4:05
05. Adding rhythmic interest to your solos
4:11
06. Assignment: Improvising over a chord change
2:52
07. Challenge: Submit your improv
0:24
08. Embelleshing a melody
5:36
09. Challenge: Submit your melody
0:26
10. Rhythmic improv & comping
9:55
Lesson transcript
Welcome to Your Guitar Lesson
Hello, I'm Charlie Griffiths, and I'm a guitar player for the band Haken.
About Me
- I wrote some of the rock score syllabus.
- Some of the pieces you might be learning are my compositions.
- I've been a contributor to the guitar magazines Total Guitar and Guitar Techniques for many years, since the time of the dinosaurs, it seems!
What We'll Cover
In this lesson, I will:
- Play through the metal pieces from grades two to eight.
- Break down each piece.
- Show you some tips on how to approach learning the songs.
Techniques to Focus On
We'll look at:
- Improving your playing
- Improvisation
- Technical skills, such as:
- Left and right hand coordination
- Alternate picking
- Fretting
So dive in! Join us, myself and the other guitar teachers, and bathe yourself in Rock School. Goodness, it'll be fun, I promise.
Come on, let's do it!
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