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Publisher: Truefire | Language: English
Video: MP4, 864x486 (16:9), 971 Kbps, 29.970 fps
Audio: MP3, 128 Kbps, 44100 Khz, 2 channels
Size: 858 Mb | Length: 01h 42min

Tony Smotherman’s Power Ballad Soloing edition of Essentials will equip you with a rich palette of technical and harmonic tools for crafting epic and melodic power ballad solos. You’ll learn how to craft power ballad solos over a wide range of popular chord progressions and two-chord vamps. You’ll work with pedal points, double stops, huge bends, hard vibrato, sweeps, slides, chord tone targeting, and a variety of scales to achieve a distinctive vocal quality and create engaging solos.

”I've prepared 10 performance studies that focus on the techniques, creative approaches, and soloing skills that you’ll need command of to perform searing, inspiring power ballad solos. We'll focus on whole, half and unison bends, slides, arpeggiated lines, open string applications, and targeting specific scale tones to get a really memorable effect. We'll make use of double stops to add a chordal feel to break up the use of the scales. Most importantly, you'll learn to breathe musically -- when playing ballads, it's just as important to breathe between notes as it is in faster-paced solos.”

Tony’s 10 power ballad soloing studies cover the range of keys, feels, and chord progressions that are most common in power ballads. For each soloing study, Tony will first demonstrate the solo and then break it down for you note-by-note.

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