Fripp/King Crimson style Guitar Picking Exercise:

Modern Jazz Fusion Chords part 2. Steely Dan, Dan Chord and Slash Chords

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Robert Fripp/King Crimson Style Guitar Picking Exercise: Alternate Picking/Cross Picking

Hi Guys,

Today, a “Quirky” Fripp-esque/Crimson-esque guitar picking exercise.

Here is the first part:

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As you can see this is very intervallic and as Robert Fripp might call it, “Finickity” picking pattern.

Alternate picking starting on an upstroke works really:

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Also, the pattern “Down Down Down Up” works well: [with a short amount of alternate picking on the C B E notes in the bass]

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Moving on from this we have chromatic movement: So from here on in we employ strict alternate picking starting on an “Upstroke”:

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In this next phrase we have a contrapuntal effect with arpeggio and scale movement put to good use.

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We finish the first part with more descending chromatic movement with the last line imitating the phrase before it.

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In the 2nd part we exploit whole tone scale movement:

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We will decorate this by employing 4ths:

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Now we will dismantle the whole tone scale by making a chordal quartal melody and strum this up a semitone and back to create a colourful sound:

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This is then repeated up in Major thirds.

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Up another Major third:

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Finally we descend from the 12th fret with this little motif:

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Modern Jazz Fusion Chords part 2. Steely Dan, Dan Chord and Slash Chords

Mixed Guitar Picking Patters Fripp/King Crimson

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King Crimson Robert Fripp Guitar Picking patterns Lesson

Please watch video above for a detailed analysis:

Hi Guys,

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.

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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:

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

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

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

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

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Jazz improviser approaches King Crimson/Fripp with Guitar Lesson

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King Crimson/Fripp Polytonal Guitar Lesson for the jazz improviser

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PDF FILE KING CRIMSON FRIPP GUITAR EXAMPLE:

In this short study/etude the jazz improviser looks at how to compose in the style of Robert Fripp and King Crimson with the whole tone scale’s major 3rds and employing polytonality with a polytonal picking guitar turn around:

HERE IS THE NOTATION/TAB:

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King Crimson Guitar Polytonal and Whole tone scale 3rds
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King Crimson Guitar Polytonal and Whole tone scale 3rds

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King Crimson Guitar Polytonal and Whole tone scale 3rds

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