John Mclaughlin Alternate Picking Jazz/Fusion Guitar Lick/Lesson

This John Mclaughlin Jazz/Fusion guitar lesson employs alternate picking for solid rhythmic fluidity. I start on the down stroke with the guitar plectrum.

^{Alternate Picking Mclaughlin Lick in Parts.}

The first part is built from simple Pentatonic cells.

The second part uses scale fragments 4ths, and Arpeggios

The last part Uses 4ths and a Pentatonic Shape

Full Score of Lick:

Alternate Picking John Mclaughlin Guitar Lick

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This little alternate picking guitar exercise is taken from John Mclaughlin’s acoustic jazz fusion C.D “Belo Herozonte”.

Although this is a simple and short exercise it displays the way to open up and extend long fluid alternate picking improvised jazz fusion guitar lines.

You can either employ orthodox fingering or the fingering that I use.

John Mclaughlin Alternate Picking “Belo Herozonte’ Guitar lick/Exercise:

alternate picking jazz fusion john mclaughlin guitar lesson

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Author: Clifford Martin Musical Artist: Guitar Gti

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!