Rocco Zifarelli Video Masterclass pt3

In the third instalment of this six-part video feature, Rocco Zifarelli demonstrates some evocative acoustic lead work over an orchestral backing track, Days Long Gone, with Jon Bishop as your guide.

- Jon Bishop

This month we welcome back Italian session guitar wizard, Rocco Zifarelli to take on another Jason Sidwell penned track, this one called Days Long Gone.

Rocco has a real passion for acoustic instruments and likes the dynamics and resonance that they provide.

As he explains, the core tonality for the number is E Natural Minor, containing the same notes as G Major (G-A-B-C-D-E-F#). The song briefly modulates and Rocco likes to move with these changes. An approach that he loves to employ is using triad arpeggios to construct melodic lines so that they sit perfectly over the underlying chords. Once this foundation is nicely in place, notes of the scale can be added along with simplifying the tonal palette back to the useful Major and Minor Pentatonics.