Modern Legato Application

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Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Fusion

Excerpt: Hi there guys and welcome to this tutorial on Legato and Hybrid picking that I've entitled Modern Legato Application/Approach. In this lesson I'm introducing you to 5 examples of phrases or lines that I often play when improvising. We'll be playing scale like figures and lots of arpeggios through many positions on the neck. These will use 3 main technical a...

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Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Fusion

Excerpt: Right! On to the application of this legato approach. These preliminary exercises are designed to help you warm up and develop your legato and hybrid picking. Preliminary exercise no.1 is based on a G major scale but is 'souped' up with some chromaticism to spice things up a little. This is the kind of thing players such as Greg Howe, Derryl Gabel, Brett G...

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Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Crazy! Topic: Technique Style: Fusion

Excerpt: Right, here we go! First of all I need to point out that all of these examples are written out in my 4ths tuning - in other words I'm tuned from low to high - E A D G C F. I've done this to represent these phrases in the form they'd be if I was to improvise them. I've given you standard tuned versions at the end of the tutorial. I recommend that you print t...

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Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Crazy! Topic: Technique Style: Fusion

Excerpt: Now onto exercise 2! Hope you got on okay with exercise 1! This one is also over a G major tonality. Things become a bit trickier now with some fairly big stretches. Make sure you're warmed up for this one! The first section of this line is a Gadd9 arpeggio played over 3 octaves. I use my first finger to barre across the 5th frets of the A and D strings rol...

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Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Fusion

Excerpt: Some of example 3 should be familiar to you as it borrows some ideas from example 1, namely the descending Gmaj7 arpeggio at the end of the line. Again, the line is over a G major tonality. The difficulty with this phrase comes from the slides performed with the little finger or pinky sliding from the 11th to 12th fret on the G string and from the 13th to 1...

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Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Crazy! Topic: Technique Style: Fusion

Excerpt: Here's example number 4. Now, in this example, again over a G major tonality, I use some pretty unorthodox stretches between my 1st and 2nd finger stretching between the 5th and 2nd frets on the A string. I do this because it allows me the best attack and control during the phrase. However, if this feels completely weird or wrong to you, feel free to experi...

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Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Fusion

Excerpt: Right! Hopefully you've still got some energy left in those fingers to tackle this final example. Unlike the previous lines which were constructed over a Gmajor tonality, this one moves between two separate tonalities - G Dorian and Bb Dorian. Having the ability to construct or improvise phrases moving between various scales and keeping a constant line goin...

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Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Fusion

Excerpt: Here's the TABS for standard tuning. Note that some of the examples have altered fingerings to compensate for the B string in standard tuning. Pay attention to any fingerings written underneath the TABS - be sure to compare these to the versions in 4ths tuning to see any differences and advantages/disadvantages to each version! Enjoy! Full 4ths tuning tut...

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