Expand your vocabulary and build your improv skills
Guitar Tactics courses blend jazz and blues guitar with Arabic modal theory
Arabic Electric Guitar Courses
$19
Arabic Guitar Lick Starter Pack
Play your first Arabic lick in 15 minutes. This is enough material for a solid week of practice.
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Hijaz for Guitarists
An app-based method book with plentiful examples of the Hijaz mode. These phrases blend hijaz patterns with rock, blues, and jazz guitar vocabulary. You can work on it for a month, and come back to it for fresh ideas.
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Arabic Maqam for Electric Guitar
Guided, step-by-step lessons introducing the 5 principal Arabic maqamat, applied on electric guitar. Each lesson is designed for a 20 minute practice session with a tutorial video, written exercise, and backing track. You'll learn quarter tone phrasing and intonation using microbend techniques. Includes a listening guide for each maqam.
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Your teacher
Rami Atassi
Rami Atassi is a musician and teacher based in Chicago. He founded Guitar Tactics in 2021, running group improvisation classes out of his studio.
Through his studio practice, Rami produced over 300 instructional exercises. This is the foundation of his Guitar Tactics curriculum.
Beyond the teaching studio, Rami is an active composer and bandleader. Some highlights include: Dancing Together (2023) released on Ropeadope Records. Best Original Music, 2022 Fine Arts Film Festival. Played guitar on Skylanding (2016), produced by Yoko Ono.
“For Rami Atassi, sonic inspiration extends far beyond the city's borders. He has amassed an eclectic range of influences — desert guitar, jazz, Tropicália, samba, Arabic folk music, and Afrobeat — that populate his music.”