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In this exclusive lesson, Jared James Nichols demonstrates key techniques for creating dynamic solos. Discover his secrets for using D minor sequences, 16th-note palm-muted runs, and powerful low-string drones to build excitement.

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00:11I love to utilize going into double bends. I think here almost Ted Nugent, Pat Travers
00:17kind of doing Johnny Winter and I love the excitement and also the rub. Everything I'm
00:29doing is almost like a graceful rub between yeah it's right on the note but also a lot of it's
00:36just
00:36it just feels like it's like a train wreck. So going into that then I start to do things a
00:42lot
00:42of times where I'll do sequences. I'll think of them as sequences. I'll take for instance a D minor
00:50chord and I will walk up this D minor chord almost in an not arpeggio fashion but it'll sound like
00:58this
01:04walking through that kind of motion hitting that minor third the second so it'll go
01:15but what I like to do is I'll play that in 16th notes so it'll go
01:22and I'll do that with a little bit of palm muting just to start to give the illusion from mass
01:27chaos
01:28to clean kind of you know a little bit more efficient guitar playing. Now I'll do that in
01:33different octaves so I'll do it down here let's say in our open kind of
01:40sometimes I'll walk that all the way up
01:45yet again there I'm thinking Johnny Winter I'm thinking of you know kind of efficiency
01:50and I find those patterns all over the neck that I'll really roll across like
01:54uh going to the D minor pentatonic. And now it's not the most musical phrases but what it does is
02:08it kind of can cut cut in between you know certain melodic ideas and you start to add these almost
02:15little bit of rhythmic things to trick your ear it's like cat and mouse. I love doing things like
02:20that and as always any sort of kind of double bends or country s things I can do I always
02:26do
02:26and one of the great flavors is striking that low d string
02:32and then playing over that so I'll do things like this
02:57it almost gives that kind of a country-esque raunchy flavor with that bluesy undertone
03:04and that's kind of the way I like to look at Hardwired. Every night's different and I really
03:10try and go you know on my tippy toes and see how far I can push it into the madness
03:14but while retaining that kind of cool collected feeling. So have fun over that and see what you
03:21can do yourselves.
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