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Today, a quick look at building from the “Ascending group of 5” with alternate picking guitar technique.
This group of 5 exploits the “Up” stroke. It works well as a tool for building longer and longer lines/phrases.
This is NOT shred and is really only for jazz, fusion and world-esque music like John McLaughlin’s super creative outlet Shakti. It is an improvisers tool.
ASCENDING 5:
Here is an example of the 5 figure. It consists of an open string and starts on an upstroke.
This 4 note + 1 sets up the upstroke for the string cross.
Here’s how it would be as a tetrachord to the next beat. [As opposed to a quintuplet or Ta ka di mi Thom.
EXAMPLE/EXERCISE 1:
Let’s now build off of the ascending 5 figure.
In the example below, we can clearly see the extension from the 5’s to 7’s to two groups of 4 note tetrachords.
From here, we will add a Dom7th chord to the scale/phrase.
This sets us up nicely to descend smoothly starting on the upstroke.
EXAMPLE/EXERCISE 2:
Here, we will do exactly the same thing, except that this time we are moving from G7 to C Major. [Notice the open string and 5 figure extended].
Once again, the descent is on the upstroke.
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EXAMPLE/EXERCISE 3:
Here, we see the process in action again. The line building from the 5 figure.
The descent starts on the upstroke as before, but, this time leads to a perfect V I cadence:
VARIATION:
Here is a variation, but, this time in the key of A Major.
The same form of descent is employed that once again ends in a V I cadence.
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