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3 alternate picking jazz fusion guitar licks

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

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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:

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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”.

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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”.

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altered 2 5 1 short jazz/fusion lick

Posted on January 24, 2023January 26, 2023 by Modern Music Theory and Application

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Jazz/Fusion quick ii V7 I altered improvised lick lesson

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Hi Guys,

Just a short ii V7 I alternate picking guitar lick. [This starts on a down stroke]

The chords are altered:

So, for chord ii Bm we replace it with B augmented with a sharpened 9th. This in turn gives us the Major 3rd and the minor 3rd and so we can apply a simple B minor scale.

Also, notice that I have placed accents on the 3rd note of each 4 note grouping. Accenting like this will help to keep the rhythm in tight tetrachords [4 note] groupings.

In the next bar the “Dominant” chord has the 5th raised to create an Augmented 7th sound:

For this chord we can employ the F melodic minor scale:

Finally we slide the C natural up a semitone to C# to resolve the cadence to the 3rd note of A Major 7 the tonic chord.

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Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin-Strumming Guitar Lesson

Posted on January 9, 2023January 12, 2023 by Modern Music Theory and Application

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Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin-Strumming Guitar Lesson

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The key to learning percussive guitar strumming is to be able to shift through the rhythmic gears. When you can do this then you can double the time and add percussive flourishes [al la Al di Meola] to your right hand strumming.

Start by counting the quarter note and then move to the eighth note and then up to the 16th note.

SEXTUPLETS:

The next grouping to contend with is the group of 6 notes called sextuplets.

You can count 1 2 3 4 5 6

or you could break it up into 16th’s as in,

I prefer to employ Konokol and use this as my count for the rhythm. This is because it is easy to say quickly and will register with my brain and produce lightning reflexes with my right strumming hand

In order to get 16th notes in quick succession it is essential to count them as:

1 e and a 2 e and a 3 e and a 4 e and a

Mixing Rhythmic values:

The next concept is where it all falls into place. This consists of mixing up the rhythms and creating double timing patterns for percussive effect.

Example 1: