{"id":2500,"date":"2017-01-11T14:32:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uptempomusic.com.s56415.gridserver.com\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2017-01-11T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:32:48","slug":"separate-ways-guitar-solo-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/separate-ways-guitar-solo-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Separate Ways Guitar Solo Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1868\" src=\"https:\/\/vancouverguitarlessons.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/jpg-4-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/>Separate Ways Guitar Solo Lesson<\/h3>\n<p>Hi everyone, thanks for joining me!<\/p>\n<p>Today we are learning &#8220;Separate Ways&#8221; by the band &#8220;Journey,&#8221; who are about<br \/>\nto be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Neal Schon, the band&#8217;s guitarist, is a bad mofo that can play<br \/>\nwith amazing melody, feel, and technical precision and he<br \/>\ndoes all of that in this solo.\u00a0 It figures that he was tapped<br \/>\nto play with both Eric Clapton and Santana at the age of 15 (he chose Santana).<\/p>\n<p>Neal plays melody for the first 3\/4 of this solo and burns it up<br \/>\nthe last few bars for good measure.\u00a0 There is liberal use of<br \/>\nbending and vibrato and Schon relies strictly on the Em scale<br \/>\nin 2 different positions of the guitar which I have notated for you.<\/p>\n<p>When performing the fast phrase, use strict alternate picking like<br \/>\nSchon to achieve the speed necessary, and observe the fingering I<br \/>\ngo into in the video portion of this lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun with this one, it was a fun one to transcribe and play. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/a9bc5-emscalesseparateways-6.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Em Scales For Separate Ways<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/7ef21-separate-ways-solo-6.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Separate Ways Solo Tabulature<\/a>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Separate Ways Guitar Solo Lesson - Journey\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9VQhMVEPy-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separate Ways Guitar Solo Lesson Hi everyone, thanks for joining me! Today we are learning &#8220;Separate Ways&#8221; by the band &#8220;Journey,&#8221; who are about to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2017. Neal Schon, the band&#8217;s guitarist, is a bad mofo that can play with amazing melody, feel, and technical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[109,182,183,213,269,331],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar-lessons","tag-free-guitar-lesson","tag-journey-guitar-lesson","tag-journey-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame","tag-neal-schon-lesson","tag-separate-ways-guitar-solo","tag-vancouver-guitar-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}