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3 alternate picking jazz fusion guitar licks

Posted on January 30, 2023February 3, 2023 by Modern Music Theory

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3 alternate picking jazz fusion guitar licks

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Hi Guys,

Today we have 3 mid tempo 130-150 Bpm alternate picking jazz fusion cadence guitar lines.

They all employ the same principles of barring, a bit of scale and arpeggio.

This first line starts on an “Upstroke” alternate picking on the up beat. This in turn will let us start on the beat with a down stroke on the first beat of the next bar alternate picking.

Here is the full improvised guitar line:

PDF DOWNLOAD Of above Guitar line:

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Guitar Line 2: This line starts with an Up-Beat but because there is an “Even” grouping of notes it starts on a “Down Stroke”.

PDF DOWNLOAD Of 2nd Guitar line:

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Guitar Line 3: This line is just a simple 2 bar line with no upbeat. Strict alternate picking starting on a “Down stroke”.

PDF DOWNLOAD Of 3rd Guitar line:

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Alternate Picking Guitar Exercise [4 Positions]

Posted on December 24, 2022January 2, 2023 by Modern Music Theory

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Alternate Picking Guitar Exercise [4 Positions] Guitar Lesson

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Hi Guys,

Today we will look at an exercise for connecting scales in 4 positions along the fingerboard with alternate picking.

The first point to take into account is that it is best to “Accent” the third note of each 4 note grouping.

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This will drive the music/exercise along.

The next point to consider is the simplistic guitar fingering employed because this makes it easy for the fretting hand to connect the different positions together.

Here is the exercise:

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Mixed Guitar Picking Patters Fripp/King Crimson

Posted on December 22, 2022December 24, 2022 by Modern Music Theory

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King Crimson Robert Fripp Guitar Picking patterns Lesson

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Today we will look at mixing guitar picking patterns in the style of Fripp/KingCrimson

To begin with we will employ “Down Down Up” [Down Up]

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Next we will add two extra notes [Down Up] in order to get back to starting on the down stroke again.

We then repeat the riff and finish this time with one note so that we can start the next phrase on an up stroke with strict alternate picking:

We now apply the strict alternate picking starting on the “Up stroke”:

After repeating the above we start the next part with alternate picking starting on a “Down Stroke“

We finish this phrase on a down stroke in order to start the next phrase starting on an “Upstroke“

Finally, we employ a “Down Down Up” triplet figure.

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Author: Clifford Martin Musical Artist: Guitar Gti

Modern Music Theory

Clifford Martin is a trained classical musician and composer. His 1st study being piano and composition and a deep study into the meticulous world of modern music theory. He also studied jazz piano and jazz drums privately. Clifford later came back to the guitar and studied in the jazz fusion style of John McLaughlin and Al di Meola. It was at this point that he put all of his years of learning together into one musical form This website is a sort of cataloging of ideas and musical concepts for exploitation and development in the arts of musical composition and improvisation. What started out as a jazz improvisation site has grown into a full blown, harmony, timbre, pitch and rhythm library. Peace, Enjoy!