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John Coltrane, like Charlie Parker, is someone all instrumentalists look up to and study. Ex. 6 is a brief D minor pentatonic (D–F–G–A–C) lick, but it’s probably unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.… More…
Let’s get to the nuts and bolts of super-charging your slide playing—string skipping. This is relatively easy because the slide lays across strings easily enough, but you still have to rock it back and… More…
Let’s start with Ex. 1, an odd-meter groove featuring open-string chord voicings, low-E string riffing, and a twangy hammer-on/pull-off lick. The motif is split into two time signatures: 7/4 and 4/4. The… More…
Although I generally like to apply vibrato from the start, it can be effective to practice easing into it on a stationary note. This allows you to clearly hear the fundamental pitch, and then contrast… More…
Many guitarists have a tough time with phrasing, but Keith has that down. One way to avoid the “running-up-and-down-through-scales” sound is to create a snippet of a melody and play it back-to-back in… More…