Lead Note Displacement

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Hello fellow shredders! This lesson will focus on a fairly simple concept, in principal, but it serves as another tool to add to your toolbox of creativity. "Displacement" serves as a handy method for breathing life into existing licks and pushing your phrases into different rhythmic territority. Be sure to practice each exercise to our handy IG metronome fi...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style

Excerpt: So let's take a simple Am scale passage, and apply the displacement concept to it to gain a clearer understanding. First, we'll play through the note sequence. Then, we'll shift the passage one 16th note to the right. Be sure the displacement is only by one sixteenth note. A common mistake here is to leave an eighth note gap. The sixteenth displacement is a...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Let's take a look at a lead phrase that has a bit more musical depth. You'll start to recognize how the "hills and valleys" of a phrase that has a typical starting and ending point takes on a life of it's own when applying this rhythmic shift. By shaving off a note in the starting position of bar one, we'll also be eliminating one 16th note at a time in bar ...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Try out this backing track for the first couple exercises, but futhermore, try experimenting with some of your own licks while utilizing this rhythmic thought-process. The chords bounce between Am7 and Dm7.

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style

Excerpt: So now, let's see how this concept works in a "tuplet" environment. We'll be moving things ahead by an eighth triplet, then two eighth triplets, then by a full quarter note (three eighth triplets). As aformentioned, a very handy mental tool here is to visualize the missing note/s - I often find myself exhaling in place of where my fingers would normally star...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style

Excerpt: To clue up, let's take a look at a longer phrase. This exercise extends over four bars and follows a D harmonic minor descending pattern. The challenge here is trying to block out the initial rhythmic context of the lick as we begin displacing. Again, it helps to be extremely familiar with the note pattern before complicating things. Much like the last ...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Improvising Style: Any Style

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