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The 1/2 Whole Diminished Scale (Single String) This scale is heavily used in jazz, jazz-rock, and fusion. Guitar players or bands who come to mind are John Scofield, Mike Stern, Pat Martino, Gypsy jazz guitarists, John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, , and so on. However: You could really use this scale in any style of music. … The 1/2 Whole Diminished Scale (Single String)
Legato Technique. “Legato” means “fluent” in Italian. The definition: “in a smooth, flowing manner, without breaks between notes.” It’s a soloing technique heavily used by rock and metal guitarists. Steve Vai and Joe Satriani are some of the guitarists whose soloing style is heavily legato-oriented. The technique consists of playing lots of hammer-ons, pull-offs, and … Legato Technique
Improvising With Triad Pairs. This is a really fun, cool improvisation technique, not enough guitar players use or even know about. The idea is this: The band or rhythm section is jamming over a given 1-chord groove, and you improvise over the groove, using the notes of 2 different chords. For example: The band is … Improvising With Triad Pairs on Guitar
Funding an Expensive Music Education. This blog is for people who want to study guitar and who have the ambition to make music their profession, but who are worried about the financial aspect of funding expensive top-school music education. First off; there are 2 different kinds of debt: good debt and bad debt. These 2 … How to Fund The Expensive Music Education of Your Dreams
Song Examples Of The Harmonic Use of 2nd Intervals I was inspired to write this blog after encountering the occasional student who objects to practicing 2nd intervals. 🙂 I know: they sound dissonant, but all tension is important in art because it creates spice, motion, and resolution. Writing this blog had been on my to-do … Song Examples Of The Harmonic Use of 2nd Intervals
