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download all 11 songs for $4.99 and receive the bonus session photos and liner notes

Tracklist:

Drivin’ With the Top Down
Call His Name
Arrow and the Stone
Woman’s Mind
Persian Princess
Just Turn it On
Our Love
Tell Me Why
Ugh Social Media
Copper on a String
Only Heaven Knows


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CHET THOMPSON

GUITAR LESSONS


Learn guitar techniques taught to Chet directly by Randy Rhoads!


Be the Keeper of the Flame

LEARN FROM A GUITARIST WHO:

  • Learned from the master: Randy Rhoads
  • Created his own style
  • Toured the world
  • Released 13 records
  • Owns a recording studio
  • Taught: 5,000+ students, including: Tracii Guns of LA Guns, Chris Homles of W.A.S.P, Sinhue Quirin of Ministry, Max Collins of Eve6

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All Skill Levels

With Chet's diverse lessons, all skill levels are welcome and encouraged!

Fully Virtual

Take lessons at your own pace, on your own time.

Proven Success

With over 40 years experience, Chet's lessons have been proven to work.

ABOUT CHET

Hi…My name is Chet Thompson. As a teenager I studied with Randy Rhoads in 1979 for over a year; until the day he left for Ozzy.


Randy and I shared the same classical guitar teacher, Robert Vaught. During my lessons, Randy said I was his best student. He asked me how I improved so quickly. I told him that I also studied classical guitar. Randy asked me to introduce my teacher to him and he immediately began taking classical guitar lessons. 


If you listen to many of Randy’s compositions and solos, you realize the fact that Randy’s ability to fuse his  Classical guitar influence into heavy metal songs is part of his genius.


I will teach you these concepts I learned from Randy and my classical guitar teacher so you can learn melodic classical guitar phrasing, composition, soloing and create your own classical heavy metal style. 


Randy emphasized that everyone should create their own style. So...


Be the Keeper of the Flame

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REAL DIAGRAMS FROM

RANDY RHOADS

That will be taught to you!

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Each Lesson Contains:


  1.  Video downloads of lessons played slow and fast with easy-to-understand instructions.

  2. PDF of Music Notation and Guitar TAB printouts of the lesson

  3. Lesson material sheets written by Randy Rhoads

CHAPTER 1

Beginner lesson.


Riffs in the Style of Randy Rhoads Beginners Part 1

 

Creating a memorable solo by first creating a memorable chord progression to showcase your strengths. Includes 

Traids, scales and chord progressions used during our lessons.

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CHAPTER 2

Intermediate to Advanced lesson.


Mind blowing ways to approach tertial harmony riffs using three octave triad

scales and our fav pent/blues boxes.


Fire breathing Dragon Riffs!

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CHAPTER 3

The Style of Randy Rhoads’s Melodic Mind

 

Musical theory behind both the rhythm progression and soloing over the chordal progression and why creating a song within a song for your solo works so well in classical metal.


You can do this!



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CHAPTER 4

BONUS RIFFS as taught to me by Randy Rhoads:

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Here is a fire breathing dragon riff that Randy taught me during our lessons.


Loads of fun to play! 


Randy always said, “create your own style”! So put your own style into it and make it your own.

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All lessons include a FREE video download: Chet Thompson Explains Crazy Train from His Lessons with Randy Rhoads

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