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I couldn’t comment on your post until I picked up my guitar to figure out what you did.
I was surprised to discover this was actually a D dorian lick with an unexpected #5. The major 6 note really is the cherry on top, though.
Curious to know if you thought about it this way or whether you were using your ear. I suppose it’s sometimes easier to do the analysis after the fact. Did it start out as a G minor pentatonic lick with some dissonant choices?
Really great job on getting outside the usual pentatonic.
What amp model did you use this time, you’ve got some great choices.
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Oh yeah! That works! Imagine that ringing around a stadium as the opening lines of a sell out gig! Love the dive bombs at the end, gave it cool badass vibe. Awesome
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Very good Michael, I was like John – grapped the tele & played along to figure out here thiose less predictable sounds were comiong from.
What’s the chord at 34 seconds please?
I assume you mean the last lick in the sequence. It starts by fretted G to open D which gives me just enough time to play the A note on 3rd string sliding into the A# and holding down the D note on 2nd string. This sets up an open G hammer back to A on 3rd string while the D is still fretted (striking both the A and D at the same time gives it that power chord tonality. Finishing by playing the F to open D with a dive to C which is a whole step lower. Just make sure all other strings are muted when doing the dive from D to C.
Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.
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I couldn’t comment on your post until I picked up my guitar to figure out what you did.
I was surprised to discover this was actually a D dorian lick with an unexpected #5. The major 6 note really is the cherry on top, though.
Curious to know if you thought about it this way or whether you were using your ear. I suppose it’s sometimes easier to do the analysis after the fact. Did it start out as a G minor pentatonic lick with some dissonant choices?
Really great job on getting outside the usual pentatonic.
What amp model did you use this time, you’ve got some great choices.
JohnThis all started with the phrase in the very first bar while messing around with Dm pentatonic (position #3 and #2) and hearing that sequence of notes in my head. So I added the major 6 note for that reason. I was not thinking, let’s see what happens if I add the major 6th in there, it was already what I heard in my head. The ending lick that slides up into that A# from a basic D shaped D chord. I stumbled on this during my jam session and immediately latched on to that as well and from there it was just figuring out how to connect the two pieces together in rhythm. The secret there was playing the fretted G and playing the open D note. That gave me just enough time to play the lick. Once my wife heard me play this over and over, she didn’t just say she liked it, she hummed the main phrase back to me and that brought a big smile on my face. I had just hooked her.
There are a lot of other parts that were born out of the many jam sessions using this hook as the basis. Still need to work on cleaning up some of the parts, but it is coming together nicely.
Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.
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Great hook Michael! It could be the intro theme for a new spy story movie, or TV series something like the “the adventures of a young James Bond ” 😅 . It really has that ’60’s-70’s vibes. Very well crafted and played!
That’s funny you mentioned that. I envisioned the same thing as well.
Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.
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