Guitar Techniques

Example5 blues with a twist

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Noy can play blues with the best of them, with traces of players such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robben Ford never far from the surface. Here we see how he

Bb) might mix chord tones from C7 (C-E-G- with the associated minor Pentatonic

Eb- Bb), (C- F-G- moving onto one of Robben’s favoured Pentatonic­s, minor with major 6th (R- 4-5-6). Things become much more jazzy from bar 5 and beyond, starting with an ascending chromatic figure that targets in turn the root and 5th of C, before briefly flirting with a line implying G7alt to C, with the appropriat­e G Superlocri­an altered scale (R- 2-3- 5-

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