• The Power of Simple Melody
• Ultra-Modern Blues Lines
• Hybrid Picked Double-Stop Lines
• Arranging Modal Arpeggios
Melodies that move slowly, that repeat phrases and that connect strongly with chord tones are very powerful. These kinds of melodies flow easily and almost anyone can easily relate to them. By applying specific compositional ideas, you can make your own powerful simple melodies.
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Modern Blues lines played by guitar players like; Scott Henderson and Robben Ford contain outside notes that slightly clash with diatonic tones. Many of these outside notes are easily sorted out if students make a quick study of the Diminished Scale. In the lesson, the Diminished is explained and several lines are also demonstrated for practice.
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Hybrid Picked Double-Stop Lines
Hybrid picking guitar technique is a killer idea to use when playing long melodies. Combining 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, and 6th intervals with the technical side of hybrid makes for an awesome performance. The video covers a wealth of information. Including a smokin intro. piece to learn, along with 4 cool examples, and a great refresher segment on the Hybrid technique itself.
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By taking a mode and arranging it so that its intervals travel as 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 we can develop the modes own unique arpeggio. It would be similar to thinking of the arpeggio as the modes unique seven tone arpeggio. The end results of the sounds we can create from these modal arpeggios are very interesting.
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