This weeks theme is by Warren
Theme: Double-Stops
A double-stop is two notes played simultaneously, and on the guitar takes about a bazillion different forms in all kinds of musical genres. Your task this week is to create a piece of music that emphasizes the use of double-stops in some way or another, whether in a riff or as part of a lead melody or anything in between. Even the "Smoke On The Water" riff is played with double-stops (all fourths).
For inspiration, you can find the use of double-stops almost anywhere, but here are some suggestions:
Wes Montgomery - Wes loved playing double-stops in the form of octaves, to the extent that lots of people now think of octaves as sounding "jazzy".
Jerry Reed - Jerry played some really flash country lines using double-stops, some of which are quite fast and challenging to play.
John Scofield - Sco' uses all sorts of different intervals when playing double-stops, some of which are quite dissonant but very effective.
Chuck Berry - Chuck gave us loads of different little double-stop-based licks (also combining bends) that are still repeated in various forms today.
Hendrix / SRV - Listen to these guys playing "Little Wing" and you'll hear all kinds of lovely, fluid double-stops being used. One of my personal favourite ways to spice up the blues!
Obviously this challenge is quite open-ended, so everyone from the acoustic egg-heads to the tattooed metalheads can have a go, stereotypes notwithstanding...? You can play them clean or with distortion, with pick or fingers or hybrid etc.
@Beginners: Create a piece of music that places a heavy emphasis on the use of double-stops.
@Advanced: As above, but incorporate legato techniques at the same time.
Theme: Double-Stops
A double-stop is two notes played simultaneously, and on the guitar takes about a bazillion different forms in all kinds of musical genres. Your task this week is to create a piece of music that emphasizes the use of double-stops in some way or another, whether in a riff or as part of a lead melody or anything in between. Even the "Smoke On The Water" riff is played with double-stops (all fourths).
For inspiration, you can find the use of double-stops almost anywhere, but here are some suggestions:
Wes Montgomery - Wes loved playing double-stops in the form of octaves, to the extent that lots of people now think of octaves as sounding "jazzy".
Jerry Reed - Jerry played some really flash country lines using double-stops, some of which are quite fast and challenging to play.
John Scofield - Sco' uses all sorts of different intervals when playing double-stops, some of which are quite dissonant but very effective.
Chuck Berry - Chuck gave us loads of different little double-stop-based licks (also combining bends) that are still repeated in various forms today.
Hendrix / SRV - Listen to these guys playing "Little Wing" and you'll hear all kinds of lovely, fluid double-stops being used. One of my personal favourite ways to spice up the blues!
Obviously this challenge is quite open-ended, so everyone from the acoustic egg-heads to the tattooed metalheads can have a go, stereotypes notwithstanding...? You can play them clean or with distortion, with pick or fingers or hybrid etc.
@Beginners: Create a piece of music that places a heavy emphasis on the use of double-stops.
@Advanced: As above, but incorporate legato techniques at the same time.
