EXAMPLE7 FUSION – PENTATONIC/QUARTAL VOICINGS AND GAMBALE-STYLE SWEEPS (2- 4/1-3)

Chords based upon 4ths, or derived from three-string fragments of the Minor Pentatonic (R-b3-4-5-b7) provide the fusion-based examples below. We switch between ascending A Minor Pentatonic voicings and a tension and release descending pair of shapes that contains a stationary high tone held against a pair of chromatically descending 4ths. We round this example off with sweeping ideas derived from another descending figure, based around a pattern in which the highest note follows A Minor Pentatonic and moves in parallel down the fretboard in a style frequently employed by Frank Gambale.