Outside Phrasing

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Introduction Hey guys, this month, I wanted to explore some tricks inspired by numerous players in the category of "outside phrasing". Meaning, small things that can be executed which could spice things up in the area of phrasing, and sounding unique. We'll be experimenting with three different techniques, bending, sliding as well as regular ol' scale-play...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Bending So let's start by diving into some extended bends covering a range of intervals. A technique common to the likes of Jeff Beck, bending in this context can create for some powerful melody lines warranting a sound reflective of a bow instrument. Exercise A: This exercise comes from the first 4 bars of an original track of mine entitled "Grandfather"...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Sliding Exercise A This exercise is Petrucci-esque, it's a technique he frequently uses when playing the harmonic minor scale as, yet again, it's dirrivative of something very middle-Eastern. The note sequence is a very simplistic descend in E harmonic minor, but the positions shifts while adding "slide-in's" before every note is something to practice. It ...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Harmonizing This one's an extra I decided to throw in, it's a trick commonly executed by the likes of Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry) or some of the more bombastic, sometimes over-the-top players like Bumblefoot. The concept: Creating wacky-sounding dissonance through harmonizing with the minor 2nd interval. First, let's analyze the minor scale so we can see ...

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