South Shields Guitar Lessons

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Queen - Friends Will Be Friends (south shields guitar lessons)

How To Play Friends Will Be Friends guitar

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Saturday, 10 March 2012

Brian May Signature Guitar - Red Special : Trisonic Pickup Selection User Guide

Just got my hands on Burns Brian May guitar from Soundslive in Newcastle.
nowhere else in the area seemed to have one.

Ive wanted one of these since I was 14 so for me its more than a guitar its buying a piece of my boyhood love of Queen.

An hour after buying it I had 3 guitar lessons to conduct. First lesson wanted her photo taken with it. Second lesson wanted a photo of it for his dad and the third lesson had already started putting money aside to buy a one to put on his living room wall.

Plugged into guitar rig 3 and selecting vox amp, treble booster you really do get that unique Queen sound of We Will Rock You and Keep Yourself Alive.

If theres a downside is the trem doesnt look like the original and the trem arm is a bit tricky to fit. But hey who's complaining.

Grover lock in tuners Burns Trisonic pickups and in and out of phase switches its the real deal.

Pickups

The first thing you'll notice is all three pickups can be switched on and off individually.
85% of Brian Mays sound is produced by using the bridge and middle pickup.

Bridge Pickup - Trebley Sound
Neck Pickup - Warm Mellow Sound
Middle Pickup - In the middle both physically and tonally
All Three - Gives a huge tone

Phase Switches

Only works when more than one pickup switched on
Two Pickups in Phase - Rich Tone
Two Pickups Out of Phase - Trebley Tone
Two Pickups In and Out of Phase - Thinner Sound

Bridge and Middle in Phase

Hammer To Fall
Tie Your Mother Down
Brighton Rock

Neck and Middle in Phase

Rich Violin Tone
You Take My Breath Away
Use Fingers instead of sixpence

Neck and Middle Pickups out of Phase

Screaming lead tone
Bohemian Rhapsody
Somebody To Love
March of the Black Queen

Neck and Bridge Pickups Out of Phase

A Strong Bright Lead Tone
Stone Cold Crazy
Liar

Neck and Bridge Pickups In Phase

A cutting sweet sound

All Three Pickups Neck Out of Phase

Rich Tone

All Three Pickups Bridge Out of Phase

Rich Tone (High Levels)

All Three Pickups With Middle Out of Phase

Brian May Calls this 'Bread and Butter'
Piercing at high levels

All together there are 13 possibilities (21 but some sound same)

Brian May Guitar Manual

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Friday, 2 March 2012

South Shields guitar lessons - Harmonic Minor Scales

Harmonic Minor Scale First Position

2nd Position (Locrian #6)

harmonic Minor Scale 3rd Position ( Ionian #5 Harmonic Major)

Harmonic Minor 4th Position (A Dorian #4 Spanish Phrygian)

harmonic Minor Scale 5th position (B Phrygian #3 Spanish Gypsy)

Harmonic Minor Scale 6th Position (Lydian #2)

harmonic minor Scale 7th position (Mixolydian #1)

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Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Brian May Super Rock Guitarist Book (Out of Print)

Brian May book out of print now but theres a few knocking about on eBay. I got this one for about £6.

Really handy book contains tab for Brighton Rock which I havnt seen in any other publication. As well as the fast version of We Will Rock You and Ogre Battle.

Keep Youself Alive, Bohemian Rhapsody and We Are The Champions are tabbed from the Live Killers album which is handy to have if you want to play these songs with your band.

Each song contains a quite comprehensive gear and theory explanation too

We Will Rock You (Fast Version)

Brighton Rock

Keep Yourself Alive

Bohemian Rhapsody

Dont Stop Me Now

Now im here

Ogre battle

Tie Your Mother Down

We Are The Champions

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