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2 short John McLaughlin Style Acoustic Jazz Guitar Licks/Cadences

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2 short John McLaughlin Acoustic Jazz Guitar Licks/Cadences

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Hi Guys,

Today just a couple of John McLaughlin “Style” acoustic guitar licks/cadences on ii V7 I’s

LICK #1

The first one has a phrasing that really feels like two groups of sextuplets. This in turn creates a sort of juxtaposed phrasing as it is picked in 4 note tetrachord groupings starting with an up beat.

But, the alternate picking pattern starting on an Upstroke pushes this juxtaposition quite naturally.

john-mclaughlin-jazz-guitar-example

The second part of the first bar simplifies this by employing basic 2 notes per string phrasing:

john-mclaughlin-jazz-guitar-example

The next bar being played over the Dominant 7th chord employs the same type of mixed phrasing as the first bar:

john-mclaughlin-jazz-guitar-example

We conclude with 2 triads of Eminor and F Major:

john-mclaughlin-jazz-guitar-example

LICK #2

This lick starts with an upbeat and an upstroke on the open E string:

From here we start on a downstroke with 4 note groupings of Tetrachord connections:

john-mclaughlin-jazz-guitar-example

The final phrase employs the same juxtaposed notes/groupings as the first exercise which finally rest on the tonic chord of C Maj7:

john-mclaughlin-jazz-guitar-example

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A Natural Minor Scale/Chords/Arpeggios:

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A Natural Minor Scale/Arpeggio:Basics

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Today a quick look at the Chords,Scale and Arpeggios of the A natural minor scale.

To begin with this scale is exactly the same as the C Major scale but starting on the 6th degree:

Chords of Major

c-major-chords-of-scale-diagram

Chords of A natural minor

a-minor-natural-chords-of-scale-diagram

Next we will play through and exploit and “Colour” the arpeggios of the scale:

A minor

a-minor-arpeggio-diagram

B Diminished

b-dim-arpeggio-diagram

C Major 7th

c-major-arpeggio-diagram

D minor

d-minor-arpeggio-diagram

E minor

e-minor-arpeggio-diagram

F Major

f-major-arpeggio-diagram

G Major

g-major-arpeggio-diagram

We will now descend in broken chords in groups of 4 notes.

arpeggios-c-major-scale

Exploiting the arpeggios over different chords of the scale:

Here are a few examples of playing a different arpeggio over a different chord of the scale:

arpeggios-c-major-scale-superimpositions

Scale ideas:

Here is a basic way of breaking up the scale by employing triplets:

First we will do this on one string:

a-minor-scale-triplets-example

Now we will cross all 6 strings:

a-minor-scale-triplets-example

This time we will employ 16th’s in 4 note groupings of “Tetrachords” creating a double time smooth pentatonic line.

tetrachords-a-natural-minor-scale-example-pentatonic

We can change the Dominant [minor] chord in the A natural minor scale and make it Major:

With this in mind we realise that the G natural is now a G# and so we can employ the A Harmonic minor scale to play over it.

Here is a simple 2 finger fingering:

a-harmonic-minor-scale-dominat-chord-example

Now, let’s extend this:

a-harmonic-minor-scale-dominat-chord-example

We could also use the E7 Arpeggio:

e7-dominant-arpeggios-example

Finally, we have a lick with an arpeggio [that also implies a triad pair] going to a pentatonic phrase:

E-dominat-chord-guitar-lick

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12 tone jazz/fusion 20c classical quartal/quintal lines

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12 Tone Jazz/Fusion Quartal/Quintal improvising and composing concepts

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Today, a look at employing 12 tone rows for Quartal and Quintal improvising and composing.

Here is the first row: Notice the movement of 5ths and 4ths.

12-tone-jazz-fusion-rows

Now, we will play it backwards with retrograde motion or reversal: Also, notice the use of changing register.

12-tone-jazz-fusion-rows

Full 2 bars:

12-tone-jazz-fusion-rows

In this next example we will employ Triadic movement and semitone connections.

12-tone-jazz-fusion-rows-triads

In the following part we connect triads directly:

12-tone-jazz-fusion-rows-triads

Finally, we will add some non 12 tone notes to complete the phrase:

12-tone-jazz-fusion-rows

From here we will exploit the tone row and make 4 bars of music from it: Here is the 12 tone row:

12-tone-jazz-fusion-rows

We will now copy it and change register: Notice that the last four notes descend:

12-tone-jazz-fusion-rows

Now, that we have this we will reverse both bars and create another 2 bars of music:

12-tone-jazz-fusion-rows

Lastly we will join together 2 different rows: We will break these up a bit with the first part acting more like a vamp:

12-tone-jazz-fusion-rows

The second part employs quintal and quuartal movement once again:

12-tone-jazz-fusion-rows

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