Pavel Denisjuk
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About Pavel
Hey there! Welcome to my profile page and thanks for checking it out!
I’m coming from a family of professional musicians from Ukraine. I started playing guitar after I moved to Croatia. My first guitar was a classical no-name guitar and I started my journey in a local music school where my mother works as a piano teacher. I played classical guitar for 4 years and then got my first electric guitar – an Ibanez RG370DX. After finishing music school, I quit classical guitar and continued teaching myself on the electric.
After that came 5 years of practicing – a lot of practicing, different video instructionals, and just experimenting. In 2006, I bought my dream guitar – an Ibanez JEM7. I was a HUGE fan of Steve Vai at the time. It’s still my main axe today.
Players that have influenced me the most are Rusty Cooley, Steve Vai, and Luca Turilli. Classical music is also a big part of my taste so I listen to a lot of power/symphonic metal and compose a lot of orchestra arrangements for my music. You can hear some samples in the audio player on this page. The music samples are from different years so you will notice some difference in recording quality and arrangements.
What are my goals? To become a professional touring guitar player – be it with a metal band or as a solo guitarist. And with IG – to help you with your music and guitar playing in any way I can.
Thanks for reading this and see you around IG!
Greetz, Pavel
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Hey there! I put this lesson in the "Beginners" section because I think all beginners should practice with their pinky. That's one of the elements guitarists forget the most - they always f...
Here is the backing track, pretty much inspired by classical music. The instruments here are strings ensemble, flute, and clarinet. As it is pretty short, I looped the backing track 3 times ...
Hey guys! Sometimes we get tired of practicing and just want to have fun on guitar. What is better than a couple of groovy riffs! In this short piece you'll get a chance to have fun with so...
Ready to rock? Hit the play button and enjoy riffing with the backing track. If you feel like recording, record this piece and post it on our forum - we'll be glad to listen and comment. :) ...
Welcome to my neoclassical lesson! If you have read my profile page than you probably know that I'm a huge fan of classical music and everything that goes with orchestra so I very often writ...
Alright! Here we are at the first part of this piece! The whole exercise is played 100% alternate picking so you won't have to worry about some fancy picking patterns. Instead we'll concentr...
Here comes part 2! To me the most difficult part to play because we have a lot of movement going on here and also some string skipping. When you first start practicing it you might want to o...
The last part is mostly based on movement between 2 strings so a lot of control and muting is required to play this cleanly. Besides that, nothing spectacular is going on here so just learn ...
Now that you have learned the whole piece you can have fun with the backing track! Enjoy it and rock on! Any questions about this lesson are welcome at our Infinite Guitar forum so feel fre...
Hey there guys! Welcome to my little tutorial on Alternate Picking Phrasing. You can also call it "Melodic Sequencing" as we'll use sequences to build a melodic solo and practice a bit of ph...
Ready to have fun with backing track? This one is definitely fun! It's inspired by cartoons in general - no particular cartoon, but I bet you heard a similar piece of music in some cartoon m...
Alright! Time for some metal riffing! What we'll do in this lesson is - we'll take a simple key of E but will turn it into a Locrian mode and apply such techniques as standard down stroke pi...
Learned the riff? Start rocking with backing track! Don't forget to relax while playing. And if you feel like recording - record your playing and maybe add a solo to it and post at our forum...
Welcome to our first lesson in Cubase. Cubase covers a huge area of recording and editing your audio and MIDI tracks, so I will break it into small lessons and explain it part by part not to...
Latency is the main problem music producers encounter when recording audio tracks and working with VST instruments. It's an unwanted delay we should get rid of straight away, before we start...
Greetings! In this chapter we'll go through some general stuff concerning MIDI tracks and you can find some more detailed info at this link MIDI@Wikipedia, and also you can read a bit about...
Ok, now when you know some basic stuff about MIDI tracks, let's actually work with them! So to get started you need to create an Empty Project (like in our very first lesson of this tutoria...
Learning certain technique can easily become boring sometimes. So to break out of a routine, we'll make it more fun by mixing up different techniques in giant licks which you can use in your...
Hey there IG guitar players, Let's start working on a very useful technique called legato. After you watch the video explanation, let's once more review the important parts of legato: 1. b...
In the previous lesson we worked on moving our fingers totally separately from each other. In this one will work on getting your fingers to work in linear sequence. The difference is that in...
Ok, it's now time to move from single string exercises and have a bigger bite. :) 2 strings exercises are more difficult as you now have to watch carefully what you mute and what you pick s...
OK, remember the first legato lesson? Well, now we'll use that same exercise and play it on 2 strings which will make it way more difficult. First of all, I want to turn your attention to t...
Here we go - 3 strings legato exercise. As you can see, we involve a few pickstrokes here and there. These are unavoidable as we move between strings a lot and we only use picks when we are...