Its About Me

Faiz Ibadurahman

I was born at 30 august 1993, at Jakarta Indonesia. you know i have an ordinary life, like the common people, school, course, study, playing, you know i really love my guitar, and my guitar love me too :P, you know first time i played guitar, i was 13 years old, it's kinda old enough you know. but from a classic guitar course, month by month, years by years, i've been good enough for playing guitar.

First time i was love metal music, hardrock, thrash metal, and many more, it's really nice to hear some distortion, sweeping, shredding, and i love the sound too, but i think, i can't be a shredder, you know, it's really hard to play, and my heart not desire to play it, so, years by years, finally i found a music genre that i loved full of my heart, the genre is BLUES. why i can love it? because my father played it repeatedly in the car, so i get addicted by a vintage sound, slow beat from the blues, heavy vocal, and i can feel it too.

Day after day, i listen to the blues music repeatedly, from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, B.B King, Eric Clapton, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, John Mayer, Lance Lopez, Robben Ford, Dereck Truck, Albert King, Freddie King, John Lee Hoker, Buddy Guy, Blues Brothers, Robert Johnson, Rory Gallagher, and many more. every bluesman has specialty, honestly i love Jimi Hendrix for his vintage sound, John Mayer for the song composition, Kenny Wayne Shepherd for the blues riff, Stevie Ray Vaughan for the texas blues, B.B King for his slow tone, and Eric Clapton for his slow hand:D.

This day i try to be a great soulful bluesman. Hopefully i can be one among them. i really wanna be bluesman you know, it's really nice to play blues with your full heart and of course the soul.

How To Be A Good Shredder

Shredder Guitar Section

First, the guitar is the important object, the best shredding guitar is Ibanez, the neck are thin and unpainted, the actions is low, and the pick up isn't so dirty. Schecter are also good too, but its not necessary that you use Ibanez or Schecter.

Second, you need to know that you are holding your pick correctly. If you really want to play fast, theres only way to hold the pick. In between your thumb, and curl your index finger up. With a bit of the pick sticking out. It will feel uncomfortable for the first time, but you will accustomed by exercise that.

Third, Turn on your guitar and put a distortion to it. keep the bass low, and keep the treble high, it will gives you a thick sound to get a great sound to shredding. Also if you can put on a compressor.

Fourth, you must learn tremolo pick, just on the second string, or any fret. Tremolo picking is basically playing the same string. Over and over again, and really fast. Don't worry if you can't play fast for the first time. it takes practice to play fast you know.

Fifth, this is really hard, and trully it hard to get all the way down. Its called sweeping, and if you learned it, you will love it, when sweeping, your picking hand is basically going up, and down ina sweeping motion. When you start sweeping, you must sweep with three strings figure.

Example:

E|---19-p-15-----------15---|E
B|-----------17------16------|B
G|---------------16----------|G
D|----------------------------|D
A|----------------------------|A
E|----------------------------|E

this is the exer cise for sweeping, you must mastered it to can easy shredding the guitar. Hopefully Helpfull for you, keep exercise, keep practicing, and

GOOD LUCK!!!

How To Be A Good Lead Guitar

Lead Guitar Section

What do Synyster Gates, Slash, Tom Morello, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie J Malmsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Frank Gambale, and many more guitarist who played lead guitar on his band.

The lead guitar, the instrument which playing all guitar solos at the solo section of a song, to learn how to play lead guitar is no simple task, you must take a hard exercise, and it requires a lot of patient and sincerity, similar to the mastery of accoustic guitars, and bass guitars.

Performing lead guitar is not a simple task, you need spend hours doing the exercise, and performing the right lead guitar exercise is absolutely crucial. The first you need to do is understand your guitar.

Memorize the notes, the keys, and the chords, and know them off the back of your hand. Lead guitar exercise is extremely hard to perform if you don't know your guitar.

Beginners usually find their finger so tired very fast, and also experience sore fingertrips. Even the pros you see will have deep calluses and depression on their finger tips. If you are rally keen to learn the lead guitar, then you have to play through the pain, remember, no pain no gain. There is no other way, the only way to achieve this is to regularly play scales.

Example for the exercise:

E|----------------------------------1234----|E
B|----------------------------1234----------|B
G|----------------------1234----------------|G
D|----------------1234----------------------|D
A|-----------1234---------------------------|A
E|-----1234---------------------------------|E

this is one of another exercise, repeat this repeatedly, until your finger tired, don't give up okay!, keep exercise!

GOOD LUCK!!!

3 Things You Must Do To Be a Good Rhythm Player

Rhythm Section

Tip 1.

Volume down.

A good idea for playing rhythm section is to set you guitar volume down, why? because rhythm only for accompanist, so if you set your volume too high, the audience will be disturb by your volume, also the lead isn't sound, so it's really important to keep your volume down.

Tip 2.

Dynamic.

Develop your dynamic range by using a heavy gauge guitar pick for thick sound, using mid gauge guitar pick for middle sound, using low gauge guitar pick for thin sound. The dynamic range is created by holding the pick lightly for your soft tones, and gripping your pick firmly for the loud tones. A good exercise is to tremolo pick while counting as follows, you should reach your loudest dynamic at the number 9 Example:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

softest=>loudest=>softest.

the difficult part is as you bring the dynamic back down to soft after you playing loud, this is why you need a control from your finger.

Tip 3.

Ground Beat.

Always make sure your foot is tapping, to counting the tempo, this will make you aware of the groove. you can do amazing things rhythmicallyif you tap your foot. This one of the more basic, yet often overlooked aspects of guitar playing. Bya developing and exploring your guitar skills, you can playing a more groove on your rhythm, feel the groove to, the important point to be a good rhythmist is, how deep you can feel the groove, as deep as you can, as good as you can play. So i explain this for you, keep exercise!

Good Luck!!!

How To Play Rock

ROCK

First, you must know rock songs, try to find as many you can rock song, and try to listen to that song, listen the riff, the lead, the rhythm, and the beat.

Second, you must know the basic rock progression, rock is similar with blues, rock have the same basic progression like 12 bar blues, at How To Play Blues, strum your guitar, and try to counting one, two, three, every chord that you played, because its really important to keep the tempo, try to not out of tempo, if you out of tempo, try to back to the first tempo, it will help you.

Third, basic rock riff, pressing down on fourth fret of your guitar, and then release it quickly while fingering the A Major Chord in bar position, with your left index finger, holding the first, second, third, and fourth strings on your guitar, this is called hammering the bass.

Fourth, learn the power chords, power chords really useful in rock, a famous band like AC/DC, Nirvana, Rolling Stones, its often to using power chords, like A5, D5, E 5, and many more, only with two grips you can make a really rock or metal sound with power chords, so learn the power chords.

Fifth, try to make a song with the chords, the progression chords, and the rock riff, make a good song with the lyric too.

final word, keep exercise, fingering exercise, teoric exercise, and the practice of course.

Good Luck!!!

How To Play Jazz

JAZZ

First, jazz is important thing/genre for musician, if you can play jazz you can play anything, find as many jazz song as you can get, listen to that song carefully, feel it in your heart, feel the beat, feel the tempo, feel the note, listen to that song, take what they play, and try to improvisation the song with your skill.

Second, you must know the basic chord for jazz, like Maj7, m7, Dom7, Maj, min, and also you must memorize the 12 major scales, and chord arpeggios, its really useful for playing jazz you know, you can't play anything, if you can't play the basic right?

Third, you must know the chord progression, like circle of fourth, circle of fifth, and the others, its really useful for making jazz songs, with chord progression you can made a nice song, or nice rhytem melodic.

Fourth, buy a songbook that have the chord, tone, and also the chord progression, it will help you to play the song, play with low tempo, then try a mid tempo, and try a fast tempo if you can:P

Fifth, find a software for computer that contains the tone, and the chords sounds, and try to improvise the song with yourself, try the scales, the arpeggios, the chords, and the others.

Sixth, learn Chord inversion, Pentatonic scales of your favourites chords, blues scales, melodic minor scales, harmonic minor scales, minor scales, major scales, and the modes.

Seventh, made a jazz band! you couldn't go forward if there is no friend to ask right? ask many people about the teoric, and practice.

Good luck for the exercise!!!, remember, practice not make perfect, PRACTICE MAKES PERMANENT!!!

How To Play Blues

First, we gonna learn for how to play blues, why blues?, because blues is the root of all music, so if you can play blues you can play anything:D. It's important thing to play blues, you must get the soul, if you played blues with out your soul, the tone wouldn't out perfectly, so the audience can't catch what you play!
Basic blues is 12 bar blues, the formula is:

Basic 12 Bar Blues:

|I7...|I7...|I7...|I7...|
|IV7...|IV7...|I7...|I7...|
|V7...|IV7...|I7...|V7...|

play that blues well, and next phase is, scale on blues, with this scale you can play a blue note, a special note with blues sound or 3rd flat note.

here is the scale

Pentatonic scale : note 1-2-3-5-6 on gamut.

Blues scale : 1-b3-4-b5-5-b7-8 on gamut

two scales above, is always played on blues, so you must explores the scales and chord for blues. Blues usually played with dominant 7 chord, it's really have taste for blues you know. when people start playing blues, the soul will appear, it doesn't matter your blues skill is jerk, blues talking about soul, not the skill.

Soul number 1, skill number 2.

so and so much about blues that you must explore by yourself.