roosterjake · Transcript · · Updated
Paul Gilbert Intense Rock 1 FULL Lesson – Transcript
Video by roosterjake · Watch the original on YouTube
Summary
AI-generated from the transcript. Verify details against the source video.
- Paul Gilbert explains picking techniques such as three-note-per-string patterns and string-crossing exercises.
- Paul Gilbert demonstrates two-handed guitar tricks and unorthodox hand moves without needing a pick.
- Paul Gilbert discusses practicing arpeggios, sweet picking, and string skipping to expand guitar playing techniques.
Use this video with Pro
Reading, copying and transcript downloads are free. Create saved AI results for this video with a signed-in Pro account ($9/month).
Transcript
Search ignores accents. All transcript text stays visible.
give me an l l give me an I I give me a c c give me a k k give me an S what's that spell that's right Le
oh crew members and welcome aboard my name's Paul and in this hour we're going to be going over some techniques that I use to work on my picking my left-and hammer rod and pull-offs and a lot of different arpeggio techniques uh I also give you fingerings that you can put those in and make actual music but before we get started let's tune up here's an e a b a
g the D an A and the low E for the first couple years that I played guitar I was pretty convinced that I'd never be able to pick fast it pretty much all goes back to some guitar lessons I had when I was six uh I got
discouraged and gave up and then started again when I was nine but I had a real warped memory of how play the guitar what the guy had shown me for some reason I thought that he told me only to do upstrokes with my right hand and only to use the middle finger on my left hand which uh you can imagine how limiting that was to my playing I was I was uh remember hearing something where I had to do a kind of a
gallop and I was trying to with all upstrokes and it was it was impossible I just definitely had a lot of trouble uh when I was 11 I started taking guitar lessons again and uh the teacher took one look at me and said well you know you can do downstrokes and you can use the other fingers on your left hand and uh after that things definitely progressed a lot faster uh one of the licks that really really helped up my
picking a lot is uh based on uh something I call just three not per string patterns where you have three notes on a string in this case uh for this exercise we using uh b c and d on the 12 fret of the B string uh you start with a downstroke and then to alter piink you just do uh something different than you did the last time so it' be a down on the B an up on the C
and A down on the D the uh the hardest thing about alternative picking is when you have to go to the next string uh you have to jump and and you know there's tons of noises that uh can happen if you're not careful a really good exercise for this is basically doing just that jumping over the string uh the note I hit is e with my first finger on the 12th fret of the high E string uh so the exercise is got only
four notes in it and then I go back down and I descend so the whole thing sounds like that sounds pretty simple like that when you speed it up it's a great lick right there at the end I did a uh sequence that basically just exaggerates the more difficult part of the lick
which is crossing over the string I go from the e to the D note which is on two different strings and it would be an upstroke on the E and A down on the D and I do that twice before I descend so the whole lick is going to sound like this one more time
if you have trouble with this uh really concentrate on getting the upstrokes on the E note that's uh a lot of times if I have trouble with a lick I can kind of pinpoint the problem and I found that usually is the problem in that one is doing the UPS on the E note you can even exaggerate the motion at first you won't be able to play it as quickly but it'll help you play it clean or help it get help the idea in
your mind so um let's hear that one up to speed uh it also sounds really good alternated with the normal four up and down that would be something like
this so the first time I just go straight and then alternate between the to real aggressive sounding one of the um one of the ways to practice this uh that really helps a lot also is to uh
try it with a clean tone a lot of times with a distortion it masks uh the way the string will sound so when initially practicing these you might want to have a cleaner tone you may have to pick a little bit harder than you would with Distortion but it gives you a lot of control and it's a lot easier to lighten up on the pick and uh than it is to get harder so playing with a clean tone really helps
that another variation that really helped my picking out a lot is uh real similar to the four note sequence except this time it's got six notes uh basically the same thing we'll keep the same position just add F sharp and G which will keep us in E Minor again You' get that same upstroke on the E note keep thinking about
that and let's hear that one up to speed that's one of my favorites this sounds real good in combination with four if you do four notes up and down and then six notes up and down that's going to sound like this let me do that slow so you can hear how it
goes one more time I use a lot of these combination between four six and also going between the two strings uh for improvisation this kind of
thing loads of fun the uh the next sequence is probably the first thing the first lick that I could really play fast with picking uh the um the lick is very similar to the sixes lick except I don't descend I only Ascend uh be a little lower on the neck I'll start on the low E string on the seventh fret the B note this is still in the key E minor um there a lot of shapes in this that are really good for the
left hand also the first one would be a half step and a whole step it' be BC and d and then e f sh and G same thing we're doing but two activ lower and I'm only ascending only going up the U pattern continues on the a string and you can see the last three notes I played were on the a string so I just shift up to the next position staying dionic with that scale which
would give me the notes F Shar G and a the shape the left hand shape would be a half step in a whole step so basically what I'm doing is going up six notes and then shifting to the next pattern from there I do another pattern of six based on that position shift so uh the pattern of six will be f g a and then b c d on the D string 10th position
you have the same shape of a half step and a whole step and you're staying in the key of E minor so that's going to sound like this all alternate picking so the upstrokes that you really want to watch are the E note right here and then the B note there are certainly are other upstrokes but those are the ones that
will be the hardest because that's where you have to cross over the next string from there just keep doing the pattern where uh we ended on the D string so go to the next position on the D string should be uh two whole steps uh C D and E and then uh to the G string to do our six pattern which should give us the notes F sharp G and
a this is a shape that a lot of people find uncomfortable initially but it's uh real useful to learn it because it's uh dionic to E minor if you start on C so so far we have this uh let's continue after we get to the a
note go up to the 12th fret on the G string and do two whole steps be G A and B then on the B string to continue our pattern of six we'd have C D and D from there let's continue go to the D note on the 15th fret of the B string with your first finger and do a pattern the shape is again two whole
steps the notes would be D E F sharp g a b so basically what we have here is just a bunch of ascending sixes patterns of six notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Etc and because of the way it's fingered each of those will start with a
downstroke down down down down down so if you can practice that one initial lick all the rest should be fairly easy to do because they're all picked this exactly the same way um let's give it a try up to Tempo you can hear how it
sounds real hip this sequence is pretty much the next step in uh in picking it's uh involves a major scale C major harmonized all three notes per string so uh pretty much straight C major but it's got all three notes on each string the pattern that I use within it uh the initial one I took
that four sequence again we'll get real comfortable with this one after a while taking those uh that same kind of pattern four notes up and down 1 2 3 4 and back down then I went up six notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 and uh that's pretty much the sequence 1 2 3 4 back down 1 2 3 4 5 6 um I do that based on each set of two strings right there I did it on the E
and the a next I'll do it on the A and the D keeping the shape of the scale so I stay in the key of C forward a minor if you're di Hard Rock player uh next I'll do the uh d and g strings same kind of sequence each time but just changing the left hand shape slightly to stain the key uh then the G and B