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Hi Guys!
Today, a quick look at applying octave displacement into your alternate picking guitar technique.
This [12 tone] concept was originally taken from the brilliant 12 chromatic forms by jazz guitar great Pat Martino and then re-developed into a more 20c classical picking Fripp-esque guitar etude.
PART 1– Octave Displacement:
I am starting this little etude/exercise on an “Up” stroke with alternate picking guitar technique. [You may prefer to start on a downstroke]
As an example here is the first part:
The key to be aware of = The exploitation of “Octave displacement”. This creates unique harmonies and S.A.T [B] style 12 tone lines.
As you can see in the diagram above, this is just the chromatic scale, but, moving/resolving through the different registers.
This octave displacement technique, offers us a way to create/extract interesting colourful music from the chromatic scale [12 tone], whilst, complimenting our instrument through the high low high or low high low resonances.
PART 2: Scale Employment:
Although, [for this etude] I have employed octave displacement, I have also incorporated some basic scale parts to link it all together and avoid intervallic monotony.
I am starting both of these scale fragments on an“Up” stroke with strict alternate picking once again:
Here is the full Etude/exercise:
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