What You Can Expect:
- How to bend properly and use hammer-ons, pull-offs and grace notes effectively to create smooth and flowing runs and phrases.
- We’ll look at the phrasing and common licks of some top players from this genre, and then look at how to effectively transfer those ideas to your own solos.
- You’ll get some 1 to 1 feedback from Pete on specific things you can work on to improve your solos.
- We’ll look at three different feels and tempos, discussing what type of licks we would use to solo over them.
- We will finish off with the students creating their own solo over a prescribed backing track to play for the class, with more feedback from Pete
Pete’s Biography:
Pete started playing guitar for Alice Cooper in 1989 on a world tour to North America, UK, Europe, Japan and Australia. A live DVD was recorded at the Birmingham NEC. Pete went on to do the European tour of Alice’s next album “Hey Stoopid”, also appearing alongside Alice in the movie “Wayne’s World”.
Pete then joined the rock band The Almighty, releasing 3 albums. The band toured extensively throughout the UK, Europe, North and South America, Australia and Japan. In 1997 Pete returned to Alice Cooper’s band to do several more tours. A live DVD from the “Brutal Planet” tour was recorded at Hammersmith Apollo and released in 2000.
In the summer of 2000 Pete played a string of summer festival dates with Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson’s solo band. In 2014 Pete played guitar in the Ray Davies/ Kinks musical “Sunny Afternoon”.
Pete has been teaching guitar for many years and is a long time friend of the team at Guitar Breaks. We love him and we know you will too!
The Detail
See below for more information about this event, how to travel to us and what to expect.
The Blues & Classic Soloing workshop is on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th August.
Two full days of learning and playing with Pete Friesen.
You will be based in our own custom built studio, with fellow guitar players.
- Both workshop days start at 10am
- We spend the mornings learning featured techniques
- Break for a packed lunch (bring your own) at 1.00pm
- Back at it by 2.00pm
- The afternoon will be spent putting into practise everything you have learnt, under the expert guidance of Pete.
- Saturday will finish around 5.00pm
- Sunday will finish at 4.00pm
- Studio located here: Milk Shed Studios, RG42 6AN
- There is free parking on site.
If you would like to travel to this workshop, there are a number of hotel options available locally depending on your budget. Here are some examples:
Premier Inn, Bracknell: Wokingham Road, Berkshire, RG421NA
You can visit the hotel’s website here
Coppid Beech Hotel, Bracknell: John Nike Way, Bracknell, RG12 8TF.
You can visit the hotel’s website here
The Village Hotel, Bracknell: Bagshot Road, Bracknell, RG120QJ
You can visit the hotel’s website here
The Stirrups Hotel, Warfield: Maiden’s Green, Bracknell, RG426LD
You can visit the hotel’s website here
