Pentatonic- Alternate Picking IDEA [John Mclaughlin Style]

Pentatonic- Alternate Picking IDEA [ John Mclaughlin Style]

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Just a simple idea of building longer pentatonic lines with more of a modal flavour by employing alternate picking guitar technique [John Mclaughlin Style].

These are built from a very simple fingering in order to give a “Solid” foundation to fall back on.

Here is the simple finger and scale:

pentatonic-modes-alternate-picking — Pentatonic- Alternate Picking IDEA [ John Mclaughlin Style]

Ascending:

Here is a change of position and the one change with the 2nd finger.

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Author: Clifford Martin Musical Artist: Guitar Gti

Modern Music Theory

Clifford Martin is a trained classical musician and composer. His 1st study being piano and composition and a deep study into the meticulous world of modern music theory. He also studied jazz piano and jazz drums privately. Clifford later came back to the guitar and studied in the jazz fusion style of John McLaughlin and Al di Meola. It was at this point that he put all of his years of learning together into one musical form This website is a sort of cataloging of ideas and musical concepts for exploitation and development in the arts of musical composition and improvisation. What started out as a jazz improvisation site has grown into a full blown, harmony, timbre, pitch and rhythm library. Peace, Enjoy!