deefstes
I was watching some videos of mics (don't ask me why 'cause I'm nowhere near the league who'd be looking at buying these mics) but I am curious about the guitar playing in this video.
The dude keeps running through scales that sound pretty interesting. They're not a typical pentatonic minor or anything that sounds familiar to my ear. I suspect he may be in an alternate tuning as well. He starts doing it for the first time at 2:47 and again at 4:17. I particularly like the riff at 5:30 which is where, surely, he must be in a different tuning.
Any ideas?
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ryanguit
standard tuning until he plays that stuff around 5:30 where he is on another guit tuned top to bottom B F# B E G# C# which is interval identical to Drop D so the licks will also work in drop D, just starting on B so sometimes called drop B but that could mean anything to some people.
the licks are harder to explain. basically take C scale:
which has C D E F G A B C
and triads C Dm Em F G Am
add a chromatic run with an F# resolving to D and you've snuck in a D major chord, do that with a C somewhere and youve got urself a D7. sneak a G# in there and you are implying an E7... sneak a Bb in to that "boring" C scale and you have a C7... very common in country and bluegrass... his licks are just him sneaking in notes to change the chords and tonality.
A7 add a C# (eg: A G slide C to C# resolve)
C7 add a Bb
D7 add a F#
E7 add a G#
F7 add a Eb
G7 add nothing but works well to come from Bb like in C7 (F G slide Bb to B)
hope that is a useful starting point
deefstes
Thanks Ryan, I might give these a try. My problem with stuff like this is always that, while it sounds cool, it probably has rather limited use and there are so many other techniques that I need to get down.
