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How to improvise over altered dominant chords. How to employ chromatic jazz and fusion harmony. Apply twentieth century classical composition techniques to modern jazz music and improv. How to exploit modes of the major. minor and diminished scales. Lesson in alternate picking guitar techniques as used by John Mclaughlin and Al di Meola. How to do metal rock and all styles of alternate picking on the guitar. Plectrum pick technique for electric and acoustic guitarists. alternate guitar style of picking lessons.

Messiaen’s 5th Mode. Mode 5 [Non Transposed] Lesson

Posted on February 13, 2021June 26, 2021 by Modern Music Theory and Application

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Messiaen’s 5th Mode [of limited transposition] is well known for it’s semitones, two major 3rds and it’s tritone possibilities.

Messiaen Mode 5 [5th mode 6 transpositions]

Messiaen’s 5th mode [Non Transposed]

Messiaen Mode 5 [5th mode of limited transposition]

Messiaen’s 5th Mode Extended

Making Scalic runs: Messiaen mode 5:

Descending

Ascending

The next concept is to mirror the intervals and create an atonal sounding contrapuntal study. This is a great compositional device.

Messiaen 5th Mode Contrapuntal Etude “Mirroring” concept

Cross Picking/ Chordal Picking: Notice the use of Tritones.

Picking pattern = “Down Down Up”

Cross Picking/ Chordal Picking: With an open G string.

Messiaen 5th mode Cross Picking/ Chordal Picking:

Messiaen 5th Mode: Scale to chord Imitation device.

Messiaen 5th Mode: Scale to Chord Imitation Compositional device.

Messiaen 5th mode: 3 octave scale imitation descending line

5th mode Messiaen Descending Run [Immitation]

Cross Picking part 2: Using 4 note tritone chords.

Picking pattern =”Down Down Down Up” Cross

Messiaen Mode 5 D D D U Cross Picking Tritone guitar

Messiaen Mode 5 Cross Picking Guitar Tritones

Notice the two open strings :

Open Strings Messiaen chords Mode 5 Guitar

Messiaen Mode 5 Cross Picking Guitar Tritones Open Strings

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Pat Metheny Chords [Classic guitar sequence with pick]

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Modern Music Theory and Application

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Pat Metheny Guitar Chords Lesson

In this short blog we will look at a classic Pat Metheny chord sequence. This is a simple skeletal but very melodic chord melody that blends in with the piano or keyboards/Synth. It is played simply with the guitar plectrum picking out the bass mid and treble melody note.

Pat Metheny Guitar Chords and classic melodic sequence

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Chordal Picking/Cross Picking Guitar Arpeggios Lesson 4/4 Time

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Modern Music Theory and Application

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https://youtu.be/L0eFfnG0ERk

In this lesson we pick through some melodic arpeggiation. We do this by employing chordal picking/cross picking.

The picking pattern with the plectrum is,

Down Down Down

Up Up Up

Down Up

CrossPicking/Chordal Picking Arpeggio Guitar Loop

The above example is very useful to get the chordal/cross picking right hand guitar pattern down. It is just a loop that is brilliant to get a really confident 4/4 time in your picking hand.

The whole 4/4 Chordal/Cross picking melodic arpeggio pattern/piece.