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Sunday, March 9th, 2014
A big thanks to everyone for all the support following the release of my new app “Modern Rock Guitar,” designed for iPad in conjunction with Leafcutter Studios. I am pleased to announce that after much demand, the app has now also been released for mac desktop!
Featuring over 50 exercises, 20 high quality video demonstrations and over 25,000 words of detailed explanations including a section on how to practice along with all relevant theory, this app covers the legato, two-handed tapping, alternate picking and sweeping techniques – an essential resource for all students and fans of legendary modern rock players such as Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Vinnie Moore, Tony Macalpine, Jason Becker, John Petrucci and Paul Gilbert. Read more…
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Martin Goulding new columnist for Guitar Interactive Magazine
Monday, February 24th, 2014
I’m very pleased to announce that I have been invited to join Guitar Interactive magazine as monthly columnist. It gives me great honour to be on the team producing one of the worlds premier online guitar magazines, working alongside such great players as Tom Quayle and Rick Graham. The title of my column is ‘Modern Rock Techniques,’ and I’ll be starting in Issue 25 with a solo study i’ve named ‘Hard Rocker,’ and which features a free downloadable backing track…
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Yngwie Malmsteen Special Feature by Martin Goulding
Sunday, December 8th, 2013
Back in July 2005, I was given the honour of interviewing one of my own main early influences, Yngwie Malmsteen. This was my first professional job for Guitar Techniques magazine and along with my good friend Charlie Griffiths who was writing for Total Guitar magazine, we met up with Yngwie at a hotel in Kensington, London, and spent a couple of hours talking guitar, and filming some incredible ‘off-the-cuff’ improv over some backing tracks i’d prepared.
I’m pleased to present the un-edited video improvs for the neo-classically inspired Solo 1, along with the Jimi Hendrix inspired Solo 2 which demonstrates Yngwie’s hot rodded approach. Both solos are presented with the transcriptions in Guitar Pro and PDF format, as well as the same backings Yngwie himself played over! Follow this link to download the complete package for free…
Tags: alternate picking, guitar solo, martin goulding guitar lesson, martin goulding guitar lessons, modern rock guitar, rock video lessons, Shred lesson, sweeping arpeggios, yngwie malmsteen
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Thrashed solo study now available from Live4guitar.com
Saturday, December 7th, 2013
My third solo study “Thrashed” is now available from Live4guitar.com. This solo takes influence from the Thrash metal style, which gained popularity from the early-mid 1980s with bands like Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. Based around an uptempo 8th note feel with a choppy down-stroke riff, the solo combines some blues-based E minor pentatonic ideas, with some more modern sounding E Dorian 3-notes-per-string scalar runs.
The full package includes fast and slow high definition video demonstrations, along with a 10 minute video breakdown/lesson. Also included is a high quality audio backing track with a set of midi versions at slower speeds, and with all tabs presented in Guitar Pro format as well as PDF’s…
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