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Clifford Martin is a trained classical musician and composer. His 1st study being piano and composition and a deep study in the application of modern music theory. He also studied jazz piano and jazz drums privately. This website is a catalogue of ideas and musical concepts for improvisation and composition.

2 short John McLaughlin Style Acoustic Jazz Guitar Licks/Cadences

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2 short John McLaughlin Acoustic Jazz Guitar Licks/Cadences

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Hi Guys,

Today just a couple of John McLaughlin “Style” acoustic guitar licks/cadences on ii V7 I’s

LICK #1

The first one has a phrasing that really feels like two groups of sextuplets. This in turn creates a sort of juxtaposed phrasing as it is picked in 4 note tetrachord groupings starting with an up beat.

But, the alternate picking pattern starting on an Upstroke pushes this juxtaposition quite naturally.

john-mclaughlin-jazz-guitar-example

The second part of the first bar simplifies this by employing basic 2 notes per string phrasing:

john-mclaughlin-jazz-guitar-example

The next bar being played over the Dominant 7th chord employs the same type of mixed phrasing as the first bar:

john-mclaughlin-jazz-guitar-example

We conclude with 2 triads of Eminor and F Major:

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LICK #2

This lick starts with an upbeat and an upstroke on the open E string:

From here we start on a downstroke with 4 note groupings of Tetrachord connections:

john-mclaughlin-jazz-guitar-example

The final phrase employs the same juxtaposed notes/groupings as the first exercise which finally rest on the tonic chord of C Maj7:

john-mclaughlin-jazz-guitar-example

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Fripp/King Crimson style Guitar Picking Exercise:

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Robert Fripp/King Crimson Style Guitar Picking Exercise: Alternate Picking/Cross Picking

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Hi Guys,

Today, a “Quirky” Fripp-esque/Crimson-esque guitar picking exercise.

Here is the first part:

fripp-king-crimson-guitar-techniques-lesson-example

As you can see this is very intervallic and as Robert Fripp might call it, “Finickity” picking pattern.

GUITAR TECHNIQUES:

Alternate picking starting on an upstroke works really:

fripp-king-crimson-guitar-techniques-lesson-example

Also, the pattern “Down Down Down Up” works well: [with a short amount of alternate picking on the C B E notes in the bass]

Fripp-king-crimson-cross-picking-guitartechnqiue-example-lesson

Moving on from this we have chromatic movement: So from here on in we employ strict alternate picking starting on an “Upstroke”:

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In this next phrase we have a contrapuntal effect with arpeggio and scale movement put to good use.

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We finish the first part with more descending chromatic movement with the last line imitating the phrase before it.

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2nd Part “Chordal”

In the 2nd part we exploit whole tone scale movement:

fripp-king-crimson-guitar-techniques-lesson-example

We will decorate this by employing 4ths:

fripp-king-crimson-guitar-techniques-lesson-example

Now we will dismantle the whole tone scale by making a chordal quartal melody and strum this up a semitone and back to create a colourful sound:

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This is then repeated up in Major thirds.

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Up another Major third:

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Finally we descend from the 12th fret with this little motif:

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A Natural Minor Scale/Chords/Arpeggios:

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A Natural Minor Scale/Arpeggio:Basics

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Hi Guys,

Today a quick look at the Chords,Scale and Arpeggios of the A natural minor scale.

To begin with this scale is exactly the same as the C Major scale but starting on the 6th degree:

Chords of Major

c-major-chords-of-scale-diagram

Chords of A natural minor

a-minor-natural-chords-of-scale-diagram

Next we will play through and exploit and “Colour” the arpeggios of the scale:

A minor

a-minor-arpeggio-diagram

B Diminished

b-dim-arpeggio-diagram

C Major 7th

c-major-arpeggio-diagram

D minor

d-minor-arpeggio-diagram

E minor

e-minor-arpeggio-diagram

F Major

f-major-arpeggio-diagram

G Major

g-major-arpeggio-diagram

We will now descend in broken chords in groups of 4 notes.

arpeggios-c-major-scale

Exploiting the arpeggios over different chords of the scale:

Here are a few examples of playing a different arpeggio over a different chord of the scale:

arpeggios-c-major-scale-superimpositions

Scale ideas:

Here is a basic way of breaking up the scale by employing triplets:

First we will do this on one string:

a-minor-scale-triplets-example

Now we will cross all 6 strings:

a-minor-scale-triplets-example

This time we will employ 16th’s in 4 note groupings of “Tetrachords” creating a double time smooth pentatonic line.

tetrachords-a-natural-minor-scale-example-pentatonic

We can change the Dominant [minor] chord in the A natural minor scale and make it Major:

With this in mind we realise that the G natural is now a G# and so we can employ the A Harmonic minor scale to play over it.

Here is a simple 2 finger fingering:

a-harmonic-minor-scale-dominat-chord-example

Now, let’s extend this:

a-harmonic-minor-scale-dominat-chord-example

We could also use the E7 Arpeggio:

e7-dominant-arpeggios-example

Finally, we have a lick with an arpeggio [that also implies a triad pair] going to a pentatonic phrase:

E-dominat-chord-guitar-lick

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