Hello, my name is Jake Dreyer and this is my first Lesson for Ultimate-Guitar.com. This is the second half of a solo in the song “Harmony of the Spheres” off my new solo ep In the Shadows of Madness.
What’s going on in the beginning is an arpeggio progression utilizing the sweep picking technique. The first arpeggio is F# minor in second inversion, then going to D Major in root position to A Major in 1st inversion and ending with E Major in 2nd inversion. After this is played twice, two guitars come in. One track is doing this same progression but with different inversions. The F# minor in Root, D Major in second inversion, A Major in Root and E Major in root. The other guitar is following the chords with an ascending and descending arpeggio progression on the Low E A and D strings. All of these arpeggios are presented in root position.
The transition into the rest of the solo is a series of 2 string diminished arpeggios ascending and descending up a minor third. The next part is just a standard lick in B minor followed by a whole step bend from A to B on the high e string and an E to F# bend on the B string. After this I go into a descending triplet pattern on a B sus4 arpeggio in root position followed by an ascending and descending E minor arpeggio in second inversion with a tapped note on the 24th fret (e).
Following this is a melody section in B harmonic minor. Continued by yet another arpeggio progression, the first chord is a descending and ascending G Maj7 arpeggio and I am tapping the third of the chord (b) on the high e string 19th fret. This proceeds into a D Major arpeggio in second inversion with an extension of a 13 and 7. I am using the T2 T3 technique to tap the B on the high e string 19th fret and the C# on the 21st fret. The last arpeggio is another E minor in second inversion with a tapped e on the 24th fret. To end the solo I do a standard Harmonic minor melody and end the solo with an alternate picked run descending and ascending the B Harmonic minor scale.
Hopefully I didn’t mess up any of the theory too bad in here. Have fun with it! If you have any questions feel free to drop me a line at jake@jakedreyer.com. Thanks for checking it out! -Jake
no idea what "first arpeggio is F# minor in second inversion" means or how to play it :/
You'll need to know a bit of theory, but basically the first inversion of a triad (3 note chord; major, minor, diminished or augmented.) Is arranging it as flat 3rd, 5th, root instead of root, flat 3rd, 5th.
So.. The 2nd inversion is repeating that and getting 5th, root, flat 3rd.
F# Minor: F#, A, C#
1st Inversion: A, C#, F#
2nd Inversion: C#, F#, A
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