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Learn lead guitar in the style of Joe Satriani (Udemy.com)

Learn rock lead guitar devices, techniques, licks, and soloing strategies inspired by Joe Satriani - with jam tracks

Created by: David Taub

Last updated May 2024

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What you will learn

  • Play lead guitar in the style of Joe Satriani
  • Have more lead guitar confidence and more soloing avenues when soloing and jamming
  • Overall increased knowldge of lead guitar, soloing, jamming, and improvisation.
  • Increased abilities to nail all the Satriani type techniques that make this style so amazing
  • Play fluid legato, two-handed tapping, modal play, tremolo tricks, pent & blues licks, chord centers, arpeggios, and infuse your playing with melody

How it compares

Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 46% of them
  • Reviews54#145 of 184 by number of reviews
  • Length4 hourslonger than 58% of them
  • Last updatedMay 2024more recently than 77% of them

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Course Description

Learn to play lead guitar in the style of one of the most influential modern rock guitarists of all time. Joe Satriani’s brilliant and creative playing has influenced countless guitarists all over the world. He is truly one of the greats, and we can all be inspired and empowered through his playing.

In these lessons you will learn all kinds of techniques, devices, scales, tricks, and soloing strategies in the style of Joe Satriani. Throughout the course you will be given a step by step breakdown of his style and playing techniques.

His uncanny ability to re-invent common blues licks into catchy melodies is truly amazing. He is also known for his fluid legato technique, unique two hand chord and arpeggio tapping, exotic melodies, super interesting and unique chord voicings, shifting modalities, and musically compelling song structure. These all help define his unique guitar style and we will be going over ALL these techniques in this course.

Now you can learn to play all kinds of techniques, devices, scales, licks, legato, arpeggios, and approaches to soloing in the Joe Satriani style. Learn all about fluid legato playing, two-handed tapping, modal playing, tremolo tricks, chord centers, arpeggios, pentatonic & blues licks, and more. Learn to infuse your playing with melody and learn all kinds of licks and more licks and even more licks.

This course is taught by Next Level Guitar instructor Dave Nassie and contains 17 in-depth video lessons. These total over three and a half hours of pure step-by-step, move-by-move instruction you can pause and easily follow along with our on-screen tablature. You also get seven killer jam tracks is in the Joe Satriani style. These are the exact same tracks that we utilize throughout the video lessons.  

And you also get a highly detailed 35-page PDF eBook that coincides with the videos. This valuable eBook gives you crucial tips, scale diagrams, soloing strategies, and charts to speed your progress. 

We break all the licks, devices, and techniques down into digestible pieces and demonstrate them at slow and regular speeds. Then we teach you how to practice and apply them over the included jam tracks. And all the lessons feature on-screen tablature and close-ups of the fret and pick hands with multiple camera angles to make it easy to follow along. 

Throughout these lessons you will learn:

-How to dial in your gear and equipment so that you can get in the wheelhouse of the Satriani sound.

-Signature-sounding Satriani style licks, but also how to make them your own to blow away your listeners.

-To master tons and tons of killer pentatonic and blues licks in this style.

-How to combine minor and major pentatonic scales for killer new sounds.

-How to strengthen your fret hand with awesome hammer-on and pull-off exercises.

-How to play one-string patterns, sequence licks, and position shifting.

-Learn fun tremolo bar tricks and make wildly interesting noises you thought were not possible.

-All about alternate picking in the Satriani style.

-How to infuse melody into your playing.

-How to add all the infamous "Joe-ish" nuances to your playing.

-How to build killer two-handed tapping licks in both the Satriani clean style and in the distorted style.

-How to play one string and open string licks in the Satriani style.

-The soloing strategies and thought processes that go into playing over the included jam tracks.

-All about chord centers and adding intervals and arpeggios for additional textures and colors.

-Learn all about the harmonic minor scale and the Phrygian dominant mode and application.

-How to play in Phrygian Dominant and other modal avenues like Lydian, Ionian, Phrygian and how to add it to your soloing.

-Scale mapping across the entire fret board. Learn to move patterns around the fret board making it easy playing through multiple scale positions.

-Fluid legato, we teach how you can play complex passages and make them smooth. Learn all the techniques behind this crucial device, including how to apply it to all kinds of scales and modes and more.

-All about scale CHOICES and soloing OPTIONS and you will be able to open up the fretboard by learning what’s behind what your playing.

-New ways to visualize the entire guitar neck as one big opportunity rather than remaining stuck in your "safe place", or in just a few "boxes". Learn to glide effortlessly across the entire guitar neck.

-Everything in its proper musical context by APPLYING it in a musical context by jamming over the custom made backing tracks that coincides with the video lessons. 

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Instructor Details

David Taub

Hi - I'm David Taub and have been teaching guitar for over 25 years. I started one of the first online video teaching curriculum in 2005. I have taught hundreds of thousands of students all over the world through my private lessons, online tutorials, courses, 2 large YouTube channels, and my instructional website at Next Level Guitar.  

I am certain I can get your playing to the next level in the fastest and most efficient manner. I have created courses for all levels players whether you are just starting as a beginner or are a more advanced player.

My one YouTube channels at "Rock On Good People" and "Epic Guitar Instruction" have over 450,000 subscribers and over 220 MILLION views worldwide.

I try and make learning fun and keep it light and interesting while empowering students throughout their guitar journeys. My lessons are designed like both student and teacher are in the same room as I put myself in the students shoes to ensure I am best assisting them to reach their guitar and music goals.

My methods work and produce results. Give my courses a try and I hope they will exceed your expectations. 

Please feel free to contact me with any questions and I wish you the best in all your guitar and musical endeavors!

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Reviews

4.6

54 ratings on Udemy

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By Isaac Rajesh Emmanuel on 5/13/2026

I’m sorry, I know a lot of hardwork has been put into the making of this course, but you can easily find the same teachings on Youtube for free. I don’t understand the reason for paying my hard earned money for something that can be learned for free. I was expecting more.

By Daniel Henley on 9/3/2023

I really like the instructor...great teacher and seems like a cool guy.

By Mike Gilbert on 7/14/2023

si es bueno el curso esta bien esplicado

By Richard Toft on 4/18/2022

well presented if you could provide tablature of in video tabs it would make practicing much easier.

By Zach S on 3/10/2020

Although the beginning is too repetitious, I’ve seen the pdf for this course, and it’s great. And the explanations for the modes and other hands-on are very good.

By Jesus Francisco Rivera Peralta on 8/29/2019

una excelente elección un gran curso

By Eric blend on 2/11/2019

The first great thing about the course is, you get right to playing! From the very start, you’re getting productive exercises and theory. Mr. Nassie is an awesome communicator of the topics. Satriani covers the broadest area of any guitarist out there. This course is organized in a way to get the inside details of each facet of his playing, but nothing is overwhelming. The other best thing about this course is that you are learning and internalizing the ‘theory’ that makes up his style(s), so you can apply these lesson RIGHT AWAY to your own improvising. Mr. Nassie has a way of teaching you how to play like someone else, but like yourself all at the same time. This isn’t just a note-for-note run through of Satriani licks. It’s a guitar musical education. I completely understand the application of modes, and using pentatonics in modes now after a couple weeks. After just a few videos, I was jamming and improvising my own Satch style kicks in E Lydian, and they sounded good with little effort. Just gotta learn how to apply the right tonality, and it opens an entire world of possibilities!

By Tim Teather on 1/2/2019

A good match for my intermediate skills. Taught some warm up which will build strength and skill needed later.

By Vinod Kumar K on 11/15/2017

Insightful....rich content

By Vandenhurkh@gmail.com on 11/12/2017

Best instructor on the net. Would have loved to see more of his foot dealing with the wah wah....

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Overall Score : 92 / 100