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Brian said that he didn’t recall offhand the name for his first technique. Bebop guitarists call it an “approach.” There are two kinds of approach, and this lesson has them both: chromatic and diatonic. An approach can either be from above the target note or from below it. Thus, the first technique is a chromatic approach from below. The second is a diatonic approach from above. You could also do a diatonic approach from below, or a chromatic approach from above.
Jazz guitarists call the third technique an enclosure. This happens when you approach a target note first from one side, and then from the other. You can do this with any combination of approaches. Thus you could do chromatic from below, then above and then the target. Or diatonic from below to chromatic from above, etc… The third technique uses chromatic from below followed by diatonic from above.
This opens up lots of possibilities. You could concentrate on nothing but the implications of this lesson for a year or more.
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