Guitar Techniques

ExamplES mixing dominant and minor tonalitiES

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(shape #5) another country-rock-style example here that starts

T'his off w3ith a held benAd7at the 16th fret ofoethe third string while adding other Peoentoeat­obnoeic notes from the topAt7wo strings to form anja major triad. is followedG/A oey-r scoeale

eeoenaoeMi­noeor by some typical coAun7tr oeck aj r double-stops befoGre/A

bridgjes #a finishing with paAss7age that, again, the gap betw aGn/Ada Major &(dominant). Try making a note of wjhereobr oebackthe C and C# notes occur, and

stnooef Coe# how the C note is either resolved to the down to a B note.

tw' (shape #2 to #1) Here, we havBeUtheB­fiDr o examples that

dou~b~le~stoEGp isBpDrompt­l'y shifEt through positions. We start with an emphatic Major4soun­d via a comprising a 5th and major 31r2d, b14ut tBhUi(s followed by a

BcontradEi­cxto9r(ySmhaipneo­r#P5e) nntaoetoni­c lioene. From there, the interpolat­ion between

throughooe­ut minor aEnxd9m(Sajhoarpce­o#n5ti)nues (make a note of wGhe/Are a C or a C#

uEsxeoe9d) note is

to #4 to #5) although the start of thGis/Aexam roAm7atico­eno ocuoeses pleoe features ch tes, it also f on chord tones. ThGe/Afirst t

wooenotes, aoere

vedoeup e and C# the 5th and 3rd of a7. This two-note motif is then mo chromatica­lly to G and e (12th frets of third and first strings respective­ly), which areHtBohlU­de flbeanttde­ned 7th and 5th of a7. The shift from minor to major happens of1b5ar 46,1i4n which a17C note1(5minor 3rd against a7) is bent up to16C(#1(8m)a1jo7r(318rd) o15fa(178).)14

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