scales and technique
whats a good way to get into a technique? im trying for a String Cheese Incident/Grateful Dead like tone, but im not sure how im supposed to achieve it.
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What you need to do is work on phrasing, meaning how you're going to blend the notes you play together.
You can make your lick go
Tada tada tada
or tadatadatada
or TADAtadaTADA
Etc... With the SAME rythm and note, just changing articulation (or phrasing)
Legato was used extensively by Jerry GARCIA, meaning you don't pick every note you play. You achieve a more fluid sound thanks to this technique...
You can make your lick go
Tada tada tada
or tadatadatada
or TADAtadaTADA
Etc... With the SAME rythm and note, just changing articulation (or phrasing)
Legato was used extensively by Jerry GARCIA, meaning you don't pick every note you play. You achieve a more fluid sound thanks to this technique...
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# 3
legato is playing with maximum hammer ons and pull offs (just like Joe SATRIANI) you can find a lot of those in the tricks section
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# 5
It depends on the phrasing you want to get. If you need a harsh sound, don't legato, but if you need a smooth line, legato...
# 6
I don't think Jerry did much legato technique, he was mainly a picker, big fan and player of bluegrass roots music.
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# 8
well jerry picked almost every note. he was a 'picking-junkie' as well as a few other kinds of junkies.
but he had such fluid guitar playing, sometimes i wonder.
but he had such fluid guitar playing, sometimes i wonder.
# 9
If you want to learn technique---start by learning all your modes--then penetonic scales then your 7th arpeggios
Record chord rythem changes and improve over them. Improvisation is not "just making stuff up right on the spot" It's rather a form of musical sentences which you already know. Think of every lick you learn as a word. The more words you know the more origanal you will sound. True improvisation draws upon your own knowledge of the fretbord and musical ideas you have already learned at home.
Record chord rythem changes and improve over them. Improvisation is not "just making stuff up right on the spot" It's rather a form of musical sentences which you already know. Think of every lick you learn as a word. The more words you know the more origanal you will sound. True improvisation draws upon your own knowledge of the fretbord and musical ideas you have already learned at home.
# 10
I have to disagree with you... Even though what you say is true for some players(the words and sentences)for example Edward VAN HALEN has 20 favorites licks and he links them together to make his solos (Eddie lovers out there, I'm sorry, but it's a fact, I'm a fan too, but his solos are very predictable)
I try to find some new melody everytime I play a solo, making it up on the spot, or picking what the bassist or drummer are playing, to take it somewhere else, then giving it back to them...
I try to find some new melody everytime I play a solo, making it up on the spot, or picking what the bassist or drummer are playing, to take it somewhere else, then giving it back to them...
# 11
yeah, i agree with lal because thats all what improvisation is about. its not about replaying everything you've already played, its about changin stuff around, making things UNPREDICTABLE.
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