Matthew Charles Heulitt
@mcheulitt · Guitar · Pittsburgh, PA
@mchguitar
I'm a full-time teacher, free-lance player, ambient explorer, and jazz fusion nerd. I love transcribing and writing, so you'll find a little of both here. I also love to practice and love me some soundslice for that.
In my practice I come up with etudes of ideas and sequences that I've been practicing. This one is an example of a bunch of practice ideas I had in 2024. The first measure is just a stock jazz arpeggio… More…
Fun pentatonic exercise through the 5 main patterns. The "ladder" concept is based on the fact that we're using a 2 note per string pattern but only playing one note per string (except on the turns).… More…
Bryan's playing is absolutely monstrous, flowing, and effortless. He's just demonstrating that in the key of G major. Other than a couple chromatic movements he stays true to the key. My attempts at… More…
Solo featuring my first experimentations with the "pentatonic ladder" idea some 25 years ago from the NOIS EP. The idea is to take a position pentatonic (in this case C and G shapes) and play one note… More…
A very Mahavishnu-esque composition I wrote back in college at U of Miami. Finally recorded it a few decades later and sharing the tabs! Lots of juicy harmonic movements here and a travis-picking pattern… More…
Inspired by my years playing with South African singer Vusi Mahlasela. This was a common feel and progression that I often had to improvise over and I made this arpeggio etude to try and teach myself… More…
Shakti's La Danse Du Bonheur with John McLaughlin, L. Shankar, Zakir Hussain, Vikku Vinayakram from their 1976 album "A Handful Of Beauty". I switched over to the original recording...my attempts to… More…
This little number cycles through almost all 12 keys in just under 2 minutes. Tons of open strings, tasty chords, and riffs intermixed for this fun little guitar etude. More…