Modern Music Theory and Application

Robert Fripp Cross Picking Guitar craft Technique Lesson

All of the Picking Patterns consist of “Down Down Up” with the guitar plectrum. Below you will see this basic pattern in a repeated loop.

In the next exercise we will move this basic “Down Down Up” Cross Picking guitar pattern along the fingerboard

Next, we can employ Augmented and Diminished triads in triplets which is a very King Crimson Frippesque 70’s guitar sound/technique.

We will now cross pick with the plectrum and employ an “Open string” concept.

Now, we will develop this open string cross picking with a variation exercise

This last pattern doesn’t employ any open string play but is useful in regards to the string crossing movement.

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Minor ii V I ALL 12 Keys Backing Jam Track

Here is the chart for “Minor ii V7 I in ALL 12 Keys” for improvising and practicing to Backing Jam Track

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Stockhausen Guitar Music Improvisation Composition Concepts. Intervals, Vamps, Alternate time signatures

These are a few concepts taken from the compositional thinking of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.

The first idea is a 5/4 Vamp. This employs alternate picking starting on an upstroke.

The next idea is to employ an atonal line in triplets moving from the “Bass strings to Treble strings”

The next ideas are a variation of the beginning vamp but they employ semitones as the answer effect.

Lastly we employ our old friend the atonal triplet figure again:

This are just a few basic ideas from Stockhausen for creative modern Guitar Thinking, Composing and Improvising.

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