McLaughlin's drill -- for guitarists only one-word@ml.ee Sun, 1 Jun 1997 08:42:25 +0300 * Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] * Next message: one-word@ml.ee: "Re: Strunz & Farah" * Previous message: one-word@ml.ee: "Re: A reply to: What is kosher (a meta discussion)?" * From: Bunard Hello! Here's a nifty little drill that you can use to torture your left hand (if you will). I picked it from "Mind Ecology" (Shakti, "Natural Elements", 1977). This is the guitar-violin (or is it viola?) unison little melody after both John and Shankar had their solo flights (don't have the CD, so can't tell the exact timing, but I'd say it's towards the ending of that piece, rather than being the middle part): E|-7-3-------3-7-3----7------ B|-----7-5-7------------5---- G|--------------------------- D|--------------------------- A|--------------------------- E|--------------------------- - repeat the above four times. The phrasing: play all the notes very fast up untill the eighth note (G, third fret on the first string). The note following that one (B played on the seventh fret, first string) to be very brief and emphasized, followed by the short pause, and then finish the phrase on E (fifth fret, second string), and let ring. Fingering: I play this by covering 5 frets (from third to seventh); third is covered by the index finger, seventh by the pinky, and fifth fret is covered by the middle finger. So far, very easy. Now, shift the same pattern up by 6 frets, to cover from 8th fret to 12th fret. Play twice. Then back to the first pattern, play twice. It is this shifting that causes the most problems (at least to me). You see, the trouble is in swift re-calibration of the amount of stretching one has to apply. Hope you'll find this useful. Alex P.S. Finish this drill by the ascending lick, that John rehashed for that occasion from "Jack Johnson". It is somewhat in the vein of "Honky-tonk Heaven", if you follow my drift. -------------------------------------------------------------- John McLaughlin mailing list list info: http://www.cs.ut.ee/~andres_d/mclaughlin/mlist.html * Next message: one-word@ml.ee: "Re: Strunz & Farah" * Previous message: one-word@ml.ee: "Re: A reply to: What is kosher (a meta discussion)?"