Sweeps a la Frank Gambale

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Fusion

Excerpt: Hello again! In this tutorial I'll be showing you how to approach a Frank Gambale style sweep using 4th voicings (please reference my tutorial on 4th voicings). We'll be playing in the key of g major while focusing more on the relative A Dorian tonality. The rhythm and technique behind this sweep is pretty straight forward. It's a burst of four 16th tripl...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Fusion

Excerpt: As I said earlier we are basing these shapes off of the 4th voicing shapes I taught in one of my previous tutorials. Just to recap a little bit, 4ths voicing are stacked 4th intervals as opposed to stacked thirds that we would see in triads or 7th chords. Although, in these examples, we are adding one extra note to create these patterns. The note we are ad...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Fusion

Excerpt: I'd like to leave you with another way to approach using this type of sweep. In the final example we will view the notes as being related to the (A minor) pentatonic scale rather than thinking of them as 4th voicings. When we approach it this way we are able to open doors into new ways of thinking and ultimately get more out of what we have learned. The s...

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