GuitarTricks - Eric Barnett
Flash Video | ~1200 kb/s | 640x360 | duration: n/a | English: MP3, 128 kb/s (2 ch) | + PDF Guide | 458 mb
Eric Barnett brings a high level of skill to Guitar Tricks- he's a fluid, top-notch player. His current lessons, teaching his original song "The Source", are the most difficult on the site!
Eric began playing music at age 5 as a violinist, attending Manhattan School of Music and Juillard summer programs. After switching to guitar, Eric attended GIT in Los Angeles, and played and taught in LA until 1991. Later on, Eric worked in New York as a studio musician, including with noted performer/producer Kenny Vance (Jay and the Americans, Steely Dan). Eric has shared the stage with national acts as diverse as The Offspring, Henry Rollins, Ween, and The Lemonheads. Eric has been based in Northern California for several years now, and focuses most of his musical energy on his original band, Points North. This melodic, guitar-driven instrumental group has shared the bill with the likes of Steve Morse, Larry Carlton, Michael Schenker, Al Di Meola, Steve Lukather, and more.
Tutorials included:
Introduction to Sweep Picking
In this tutorial, Eric Barnett gives you the essentials of sweep picking, to get you started on this rock and metal guitar technique. We'll go through what sweep picking is, the right and left hand functions, and detailed exercises on both and how to put them together.
Advanced Sweep Picking I
In this tutorial, Eric Barnett takes you up into advanced levels of sweep picking. Picking up where he left off in "Introduction to Sweep Picking", Eric will show you how to embellish 5 string shapes in a couple of different ways, how to sweep tap, and moveable shapes.
Eric Barnett "The Source"
The Source is a beautiful and powerful instrumental guitar piece composed and performed by the instructor himself, Eric Barnett. In this tutorial, Eric will dissect his composition for you, showing you the structure, chords, voicings, and soloing techniques and approaches- plus some of his "compositional intent" behind the song.