Rabea Massaad Full Guitar Masterclass

Recorded in late 2019, here’s the legendary Rabea Massaad performing killer tracks from Grinding Gears and sharing his insight into navigating the fretboard, creating ambient tones, and much, much more. Check out and subscribe to Rabea’s channel here: 00:00 In the Face of the Nameless Performance 03:20 Grinding Gears Origin 05:06 Writing for a Gear Demo 07:09 Silo Prototypes 12:25 Limitations of Learning Technique Through Learning Songs 16:26 Scales and Modes Rabea Uses 19:14 Finding your Voice on the Guitar 20:49 Visualising the Fretboard 23:31 Writing Music for Different Projects 26:31 Pre-Internet vs. Post Internet Musician 31:34 What did Rabea do after studying music? 34:04 Intentionally writing or holding onto riffs until the right time 36:28 How to write riffs 40:11 What Rabea wishes he’d learned earlier 44:06 Creating Ambient Tones 48:35 Writing Transition Parts 52:14 Multi-genre guitarist vs