Joel Hoekstra is back! In this special edition of "School of Rock" Joel shows you 15 ways to take a simple riff to the next level and get you sounding like a rock star! Check it out!
1. Palm Muting 2. Pinch Harmonics 3. Vibrato 4. Sliding Up Into The Note 5. Sliding Down Into The Note 6. Raking Into Notes 7. Hammer-Ons 8. Pull-Offs 9. Trills (Bonus: Sliding Finger Along The String While Trilling To Get Harmonics) 10. Artificial Harmonics (Tapping Over The Fret An Octave Higher, Also Works At Other Natural Nodes) 11. Fingerpicking 12. Volume Swells 13. Tremolo Picking 14. Bends (Fast Bends, Slow Bends, Ghost Bends, Staccato Picking While Bending) 15. Using A Slide Bonus Technique: Killswitch Effect
Joel is an amazing teacher. All of his lessons are easy to follow and he does a great job simplifying these riffs so you feel motivated to work on them and not deflated cuz they seem too hard, rather you feel confident
Hoekstra and Guthrie Govan are probably this generations best teachers for rock, as well as other styles on the guitar. Both very humble, very good at holding your attention, and very good at illustrating the lesson.
Best pick hand techniques tutorial ever! All encompassing. Shows many great “tricks.” I am self taught. My pick hand has always held me back. Thanks for sharing.
THANK YOU SO MUCH Joel! You boosted me 3 years ahead. I'm learning the guitar now for 18 months and it's exactly what you telling here. Riffs, licks, solos suck. Whyyyyy (arrrrrrrgh....) I wondered all the time. Your 15 (and a half) steps to Rock n' Roll put all the bits and pieces l've learned so far together. Now I understand. Now I see the whole picture. It's amazing, it works. Wow! Again, Joel - thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you !!!
Thanks Joel! Your instructional videos are first class. This new vid followed by your string bending video from a while back are personal favorites. Appreciate your time!
This may be the most valuable lesson anyone can learn. Having a foundation of knowing how to make a single note and then a simple slow phrase sound good ought to be compulsory before learning how to shred. As for hammer-ons, Joel is doing a thing he doesn't really explain or realizing he's doing; he's sometimes re-picking the fifth fret note immediately before hammering-on to the seventh fret note. That almost qualifies as a trick in its own right. Using fingers or hybrid picking is the standard way for country pickers, but heavy rock guys like Richie Kotzen does it exclusively too
Joel muchas gracias por estos regalos son unas lecciones increíbles y nunca cambies esa humildad, Joel thank so much for these gifts they are amaizing lesson and never change your humility, greeting from Chile
great lesson, I'm very happy you demonstrated artificial harmonics. My own logic told me you tap on the 5th, 7th, 12th fret from the note, but without seeing it demonstrated and having someone explain it it was just me guessing. Thanks for the lesson.
GREAT stuff as usual! It's necessary to point out that pick/pinch harmonics, trill harmonics and false (tapped) harmonics are much easier to achieve when the bridge pickup is selected. They'll work on the neck--or both pickups, but not nearly as easy to nail. Cheers!
Joel is a beast.. And cools everything down so people can understand.. Great instruction…! Yes Gilbert and Guthrie are just as amazing.! However the great master Shawn Lane talks everything slow and amazing however still can’t figure his stuff out..!!
Hmmm, well if this here old dog (65) can select a few of these ways and actually use them constructively and regularly, then my guitar playing abilities would have greatly improved !! Making the transition from bass to guitar has definitely been challenging to say the least, but I love it !!
Me gusta mucho como usted toca , Joel , yo soy bajista cubano con cincuenta anos de experiencia en el rock me gustaría contar con su amistad , y watesnake , una banda formidable me encanta Pepe fuñy ,
Joel, you forgot the fake wah: Instead of the 10 bridge/0 neck volume toggle switch trick, do it on the tone controls. Bob Kulick did this when subbing for Ace on Alive II (side 4). You don't have to have it 10 on the bridge and 0 on the neck for the tone controls either. You can have it 8 and 3, etc. for a more muted wah (sorta like a Jerry Cantrell wah, for instance). And since the middle position will sum the two, you can get 3 different wah type voicings. Try it sometime.
What gear does he use here to have so great sound???!!! Joel is an amazing musician anyway, I saw him live with Whitesnake, he is a killer guitarist!!!
Some of these techniques do require a fairly high gain distortion tone, pinched harmonics and the harmonics when trilling won't happen easily without that.
My vibrato needs help. Now that I think about it, so does my picking, fretting, phrasing, tone, pull-offs, slide ins, slide outs and bending. I'm sure I left something out. Yeah, I pretty much suck.
Joel is back!! SOB...now where is that instruction GW video ?? jokes man but make one if you can we would all get it..WELCOME BACK BROTHER!! what a surprise man wholly shit!! Dam.
My first teacher told me to do what ever I do at home . Wich was nothing resembling music I just purchased the quitar. The entire lesson he was on the phone trying to sell his 12 string work to different people. Then before I left he showed how to play Peter gun on one string. I never went back to that guy
I think when it come fake harmonics dimebag gave me the the best advice for both natural and and fakes he said it's a technique that will be dicking with your whole life something learn and master and remaster different way fucking with different shit I still fuck with harmonics all the time lots of different ways to use them so if you read this comment and having issues with pinch are natural just start fucking around with them a ton of different techniques you will learn by simply messing with them
