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Guitar Lessons with Tony Macalpine

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Description

Tony MacAlpine’s own musical style.

Tony MacAlpine is the epitome of contemporary musical brilliance. Tony has shown that he is one of rock’s most incredible and flexible artists by fusing elements of jazz, progressive rock, and classical music. From “This special Master Course will explore the 30 trademark styles of Tony MacAlpine, from “Concrete Gardens” to the Edge of Insanity.

Learn more or start the course with membership, or get lifetime access with purchase. Dig into the style and technique of one of the most accomplished and innovative guitarists of his era as Tony breaks down over 30 song passages from his extensive catalog while offering focused instruction on melodic development, composition, soloing, picking and legato techniques and more.

Regarding This Course

From “Edge of Insanity” to “Concrete Gardens,” Tony MacAlpine teaches 30 guitar lessons in high definition with complete extra material, guitar pro files, and tabs “the 30 hallmark styles of Tony MacAlpine will be covered in this special Master Course. This course is a must-take from JamPlay and is provided in 1080p with tabs, JamTracks, and Master PDF as additional resources.
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Explore the approach and style of one of the most talented and innovative guitarists of his time! In addition to providing detailed instructions on melodic development, songwriting, soloing, picking and legato techniques, and other topics, Tony dissects more than 30 song parts from his long discography. Tony addresses

Lead Structure
Writing Lines and Motifs
Creating harmony and melody
Legato and ornamentation
Using Advanced Techniques to Respond
Detailed Exercises
and a lot, much more…

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What You Gain

You may either buy this course and keep it forever, or you can join JamPlay to stream it. Without a current membership, ownership enables you to store videos and tabs to all of your devices or access the course online. What you will get is

30 Lessons in 3 hours and 40 minutes
videos with a 1080p resolution
Tabs and Notation (PDF, Guitar Pro)
Background Music with MP3s
Exercises and Practice Examples

To make your practice sessions more fruitful, save all files with complete extra content. Our lectures are given to you in 1080p, MP4 video and are shot in 4K with six cameras for precise, beautiful video quality.
the course’s lessons

View the whole course schedule and investigate the subjects covered in this Master Course.
1
series beginning

Discover what Tony’s Master Course has to offer.

3:39 Duration

difficulty 0.0
2
Interview

Before the chaos starts, take a seat and unwind. In addition to discussing his music and career, Tony provides some wise counsel for the budding musicians among us all.

Runtime: 22:46

difficulty 0.0
3
The Captive

Start out Tony’s style with some of his distinctive string-skipping motion. When practicing this style of playing, this little piece is an excellent place to start because it clearly demonstrates Tony’s string skipping method.

Runtime: 3:03

Difficulty: 4.0
4
Rhythm of Concrete Gardens

You’ll feel like a superhero because to Concrete Gardens’ powerful, staccato beat. Tony uses alternating picking to keep things moving along quickly, and palm muting to make things clear.

2:59 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
5
Solo Concrete Gardens

Tony discusses another concept using a sequential notion that has been repeated on many groups of strings. This concept involves both smart picking and key hammer-ons to make it flow smoothly.

2:52 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
6
Clean Concrete Gardens

Tony adds this clean, chorus-laden tone over the top, producing a rich texture that he likes to regard to as “icing on the cake,” while the drums and rhythm guitar are chugging along like a freight train.

2:14 Duration

difficulty 0.0
7
Blvd. Exhibitionist

Your brain will likely spin after seeing this pattern. It uses the deep, unclean 7-string sound, is heavily syncopated, and goes up as it goes down.

2:39 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
8
Displayist Blvd Chorus

Prepare to put your fingers and wits to the test. This line demands fast changes in picking patterns while keeping a steady finger pattern.

4:53 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
9
Circular Squares

Tony has a talent for making sounds that stick in your ears by combining rhythm, repetition, and intricate harmonic structures. This song features some really bizarre harmonic concepts. Though very peculiar, the rhythmic patterns keep it together and make it approachable in a significant sense.

3:17 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
10
Opening Rhythm for Square Circles

Returning to the beginning of this wonderful composition, let’s examine the rhythm. This line draws on and emphasizes the bass and drum sounds occurring in the music by utilizing a variety of methods, such as muting and hammer-ons.

2:26 Duration

3.0 Hardness
11
Aspen Morena

When you use changed tonalities, you’re aiming to deliberately modify how the music would typically flow. You’re essentially in one tonal area, but you’re stealing notes from the direction the song is taking to prepare for what you haven’t performed yet! Although we begin in a major key, the way the chords change as Tony plays causes it to seem strangely harmonically minor. Two significant payoff notes that tie everything together may be heard throughout the sequence.

3:09 Duration

3.0 Hardness
12
Part 1 of the Dream Mechanism

In this section, break free from ominous guitar concepts with a straightforward melody that highlights a fundamental chord sequence. With it, Tony plays a nice “road-trip style” groove and performs a portion of one of his most popular songs. If you want to learn how to create your own tunes, you should dig into this melody and progression. Additionally, pay close attention to Tony’s subtle phrasing subtleties as he plays the melody, which is gradual and flowing.

2:57 Duration

difficulty 2.5
13
Part 2 of the Dream Mechanism

Tony brings home the idea that, for him, some of the most amazing melodies come from just following where a chord progression wants to go by first outlining the chord structure and explaining how it inspired the solo he performs over a section from his popular song “Dream Mechanism.” You’ll hear some fantastic straight-ahead rock mixed with Tony’s compositional inclinations with a classical touch.

2:31 Duration

3.0 Hardness
14
Part 1 of Pyrokinesis

This line first appears to be a raking or sweeping concept. Tony examines it more closely and discovers that legato playing allows for a more flowing performance. It is crucial that these arpeggios are clear, not too percussive, and well placed in the groove since they serve as the thread that connects the song’s overall theme. When played at a fast pace, they fly by quickly, so take your time studying Tony’s detailed explanation.

Runtime: 3:01

3.0 Hardness
15
Part 2 of Pyrokinesis

This flurry of notes contains a lot to digest. Three notes per string sequencing, accurate alternative picking, and quick position changes will all be used. The potential to have more consistent fingering throughout is really made possible by the position changes. The player can just keep repeating the same fingering to achieve quicker speeds rather than attempting to maintain position. One of those runs that does an excellent job of preparing a soaring target note is this one.

2:14 Duration

Difficulty: 3.5
16
Part 3 of Pyrokinesis

You’ll have the opportunity to maintain your place, play in harmonic minor, and make use of some brisk triplet ideas inside a slower pattern. From a picking viewpoint, the rhythmic variety is difficult, and it is simple to become tense when attempting to control these brief bursts of speed. To acquire a sense of how the pick is meant to quicken, Tony advises practicing the triplet transitions separately first. Work them back into the complete sequence after you have these down.

2:36 Duration

Difficulty: 3.5
17
Part 1 of “Poison Cookies”

Tony explains a run from his song “Poison Cookies,” which has been the subject of several inquiries since it was first included on his album Concrete Gardens. Live and on record, it moves by so quickly that it seems more complicated than it is! With Tony’s gradual breakdown of the line, you’ll see that it primarily relies on triads and employs a deliberate combination of legato playing and sequential picking. Tony also discusses the chord progression’s harmony and how it connects to the line itself.

2:36 Duration

Difficulty: 3.5
18
Part 2 of “Poison Cookies”

Tony looks at the build-up to the solo section of the song “Poison Cookies” as an illustration of repetitive rhythmic patterns that travel from chord to chord across a progression. The emphasis in studying this paragraph should be on emphasizing the rhythm because it is what will “catch” the listener’s attention. Even as the line accelerates up near the finish, it’s important to pay close attention to pick accenting and palm muting to accurately depict the beat.

2:53 Duration

Difficulty: 3.5
19
Part 3 of “Poison Cookies”

Tony analyzes the chorus outro into the run from his song “Poison Cookies,” which is performed with many guitar players when it is performed live. Tony lays out many target notes in the line that serve as landing sites for all players involved and addresses the essentials of locking in with other performers, particularly in the context of lead guitar. Play both over the background track and with Tony to get the most out of this lesson.

2:55 Duration

Difficulty: 3.5
20
Rhythmic Poison Cookies

You will definitely want to hear more after reading this line. The simple rhythm and melodic movement, which are built off of the open B string, feel excellent in your hands. This line’s pace and string skipping may be difficult, but with practice, you’ll master them. This lyric serves as the band’s unifying force and is essential to the song’s mood.

2:00 Minutes

3.0 Hardness
21
A Medieval Monument’s Confessions

Many guitarists use sweep picking by default with lines like this. Tony claims that in this situation, in order to acquire the right note separation, these arpeggios actually need to be addressed using alternating picking. Utilizing some of the other strategies Tony uses in this section is also made easier by sticking with alternate picking. You will get to apply sophisticated muting strategies and deliberate legato playing over a wide-ranging arpeggio line as he constructs an epic chord sequence.

3:05 Duration

Difficulty: 3.5
22
Part 1 of Epic

Use a “little ballad,” or song inside a song, as Tony puts it, to get a quick education in melodic progression. The goal is to develop a melodic phrase that is distinctive from the rest of the music and turn it into a hook. It’s a great exercise in putting melody first and offers a welcome respite in the midst of an otherwise intense situation. You’ll be one step closer to creating catchy tunes if you can imagine your guitar as a voice.

3:50 Duration

Difficulty: 3.5
23
Part 2 of Epic

Whole tone scales are infamously hard to use. In his song “Epic,” Tony gives an excellent illustration of how to use this scale by highlighting additional, more melodic notes that are not part of the entire tone scale. Along with the rest of the band, he also develops a catchy sequence. The end result is a wild yet purposeful sound that unites the entire band at one point.

1:58 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
24
Epic Tempo

This song’s title says it all. This rhythmic line’s lengthy, resounding tones are nothing short of epic. Although this piece is rather simple, some of the muting may be difficult. Your ear will be forced to think outside of the box by the harmonies present. Holding your own as the guitarist is essential to generating the forceful sound Tony is striving for even when everyone in the band seems to be doing something different.

3:20 Duration

3.0 Hardness
25
Great Clean

In this lick, Tony employs neighbor tones to produce a supple, vocal-like line.

3:36 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
26
Part 1 of Napoleon’s Puppet

Parts of Napoleon’s Puppet’s rhythm section are taught by Tony.

2:28 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
27
Part 2 of Napoleon’s Puppet

Tony demonstrates a line that makes use of the whammy bar using pieces from Napoleon’s Puppet.

3:29 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
28
Part 3 of Napoleon’s Puppet

A legato passage from Napoleon’s Puppet is taught by Tony.

Runtime: 2:07

Difficulty: 4.0
29
Part 4 of Napoleon’s Puppet

Part four of Napoleon’s Puppet is taught by Tony. To do this, you’ll need to be somewhat dexterous and knowledgeable on various picking techniques.

1:39 Duration

difficulty 4.5
30
Line 1 of King’s Rhapsody

Tony demonstrates the solo from King’s Rhapsody, which incorporates several lines at once.

3:38 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
31
Line 2 of King’s Rhapsody

Line 2 of the King’s Rhapsody solo, which features an ensemble-like sound, is taught by Tony.

2:22 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
32
Line 3 of King’s Rhapsody

In lesson 32, Tony demonstrates the third line of the King’s Rhapsody Solo using an octave-based melody.

2:44 Duration

Difficulty: 4.0
33
Performance and Q&A

Tony MacAlpine performs a live concert before responding to your inquiries. Come hear his advice in its purest form and witness spectacular live renditions of his songs. Tony is undoubtedly among the greatest guitarists in history.

1:49 Duration

3.0 Hardness
Backing tracks, exercises, and complete tabs in Guitar Pro and PDF formats are included with every lesson. 4K streaming is available online.

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