Volume 8

Table of Contents

• Introduction to the Fifth Position
• 5th Position Notes on the 1st String
• Exercises 8:1.1-A – C
• 5th Position Notes on the 2nd String
• Exercises 8:1.2-A – C
• 5th Position Notes on Strings 1st & 2nd
• Exercise 8:1.2-T
• “Movin’ Up”, “Practice What You Reach”, “Don’t Look Down”
• “Top Two Tickle”, “Two Heavy”, “Slim Pickinʼs”
• 5th Position Notes on the 3rd String
• Exercises 8:1.3-A – C
• 5th Position Notes on Strings 1 - 3
• Exercise 8:1.3-T
• “Drawn In Quarters Blues”, “Wax On, Wax Off”, “Sixty Cycle Hum”
• “Minor Mulling”, “G-String ʻGʼ-Thing”, “Topside Jive”
• 5th Position Notes on the 4th String
• Exercises 8:1.4-A – C
• 5th Position Notes on Strings 1 - 4
• Exercise 8:1.4-T
• “Fifth Wheel”, “Solid Body Hotty”, “Wound Up”
• “Deuce D Loose”, “Paleo Aeolio”, “Four-Way Bop”
• 5th Position Notes on the 5th String
• Exercises 8:1.5-A – C
• 5th Position Notes on Strings 1 - 5
• Exercise 8:1.5-T
• “Takin’ the Fifth”, “Gawk This Way”, “Five String Blues”
• “Dark Matter”, “Bentwood Rocker”, “Outside Jive”
• 5th Position Notes on the 6th String
• Exercises 8:1.6-A – C
• 5th Position Notes on Strings 1 - 6
• Exercise 8:1.6-T
• “Take Six”, “Born Under a Flat Sign”, “Gnu Wave”
• “Session Player”, “Little Bitty Ditty”, “Fifth Floor Flat”
• “Primordial Blues”, “Chart Breaker”
• “Power Horde”, “The Reign in Spain”
• “Pulling Some Strings”, “What It Is?”
• “Runnin’ with the Big Dogs”, “Zig Zag Jag”
• Positions I-V, Notes on Strings 1-6
• “Front Man”, “Richter Scale Rock”
• …with slides:
• “Tussled Shuffle”, “Stage Flight”
• “Nifty Shifty”, “Dejá Doo”
• Introduction to the Fourth Position
• “Uptown Backdown”
• “Vinyl-ly There”, “Fusion Power”, “Feeling Partial”
• “Major Six Shtick”, “...ʻBʻ-Four You Leap”, “Mixʼ Take”
• “Catʻs Cradle”, “Back in the Zone”
• “Heavy Mental”, “Inner Space Pace”, “Agavé Suavé”
• Duet – “On A Higher Plane”
• Duet – “Upside Down Bound”
• Duet – “JabberRocky”
• 4th & 5th Position Chords
• 4th pos. E, 5th pos. E7, Em7, A, Am, A7, D, Dm, D7- 4th pos. Eb7, Ebm,
• 5th pos F, Fm - 4th pos. B, B7, B5, Bm - 5th pos C, C7, C5, Cm ,
• full-bar G#/Ab major, 7, m, m7; full-bar A, A7, Am, Am7; full-bar C#/Db major, 7, m, m7
• full-bar D, D7, Dm, Dm7; full-bar F#/Gb major, 7, m, m7; G, G7, Gm, Gm7
• Chord Exercises 8:1-1 thru -4
• Chord Exercise 8:1-5 & Chord Solo – “Go Figure”
• Guitar Solo – “Warped Neck Blues”
• Guitar Solo – “Narada Fodder”
• Guitar Solo – “High-Z, Low-Z”
• Introduction to Grace Notes
• “Sore Fingers”, “Punch In”
• “Heavy Wedgie”, “Slam Bang Twang”
• “Presto-Chango”, “Echo Deco”
• “The Tail That Wags The Dog”, “Ballpeen Bop”
• “Frantic Antics”, “Lizard of Oz”
• “Rack ‘em Up”, “Schizo Scherzo”
• “Demo-lition”, “My Flog Has D’s”
• “Open Jam”, “Goosed Spruce”
• “Twitchcraft”, “Piece of Cake”
• Grace Note Slurs with Chords
• Chord Solo – “Wang Clang”
• Chord Solos – “Hammer Slammer” & “Two Fingers Full”
• “Stuff It” & Chord Solo – “Chord Horde”
• Duet – “Hipshot”
• Duet – “Nicto Barada”
• Guitar Solo – “Schtick It”
• Guitar Solos – “Doppler Effect” & “Hey Jimi”
• Guitar Solo – “Engelman Juice”
• Introduction to Sextuplets & Triplet 16th Notes
• “Marshall Your Forces”, “Take Me to Your Lieder”
• “Phrygʼed Fidget”, “By the Shord Hairs”
• “Toxic Haste”, “Up Front Jump”
• “Nervous Pervis”, “Volcanic Rock”, “Smokin’!!!”
• “CPR Rock”, “Downtown Meltdown”, “Jive Five”
• “Tortilla Flat”, “Thrash Pick-Up”
• “National Dent Blues”, “Single Coil Shriek”
• “Fla-Metal Emergent-cy”, “Pattern Patter”
• “Shoot the Moon”, “Umpteenth Notes”
• “Cantata Errata”, “Melting Point of Shred”
• “El Ka-Bong”, “Folk Swaggerin’”, “Flatapus”
• Duet – “Doppelganger”
• Duet – “Mac Daddy”
• Chord Exercises 8:3-1 thru -3
• Chord Solos – “Keepin’ On” & “Sturm und Twang”
• Guitar Solo – “Decibel Wars”
• Guitar Solos – “Event Horizon” & “Vintage Trax”