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Quick John Mclaughlin Acoustic guitar jazz/fusion Lick#3

Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 by Jazz fusion guitar Improvisation lessons and modern music theory

This short lick incorporates John Mclaughlin’s main left hand fingerings that he employs when improvising jazz/fusion guitar lines. He ascends and descends using pentatonics, tetrachords, arpeggios and quartal groupings.

In this lick I employ strict alternate picking with the right hand for tight rhythmic 4 note [Tetrachord] groupings.

Tab/Music Notation

Jazz fusion guitar lick of John Mclaughlin alternate picking acoustic guitar technique — John Mclaughlin jazz fusion acoustic guitar lick

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Transposed Modes of the Melodic Minor With C as Parent key.

The C melodic Minor 2nd Mode transposed with C as the parent key note. We now have “Dorian b2” this being the same as Bb melodic minor but starting on the parent key root note of C.

Altered Scale Jazz Fusion Guitar Concepts [John Mclaughlin lick]

The chord sequence is Dm7b5 G7″Altered” resolving to C major7th. Break each four note grouping into tetrachords, learning a group at a time. Altered Scale Jazz Fusion Guitar Concepts [John Mclaughlin lick]

2 Short Bebop Jazz Guitar Lines [Breakdown]

Notice the off-beat set up and triplet figure that pushes the line along. This is a typical bebop phrasing technique that always works well. These simple little rhythmic figures are very common but give command to good jazz bebop phrasing.

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9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
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