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Short “Shakti”John McLaughlin style guitar lick
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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.
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Pentatonic- Alternate Picking IDEA [John Mclaughlin Style]
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Hi Guys!
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:
Ascending:
Here is a change of position and the one change with the 2nd finger.
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Shakti- Guitar Slides on alternate picking “Downstroke”
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In this exercise the key is to get the slide/slur on the “Down stroke” when alternate picking quick bits of scale [or Raga]
This exercise starts on a down stroke: Try to accent the 1st and 3rd notes and count time as you do so: For example:
1 e and a etc or Ta ka di mi etc
Shakti/John McLaughlin Guitar Alternate Picking Exercise in full:
SHAKTI/MCLAUGHLIN PDF:
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