Like the wonderment Dorothy must have felt traveling that yellow brick road, I too tend to feel that same wonderment when working on hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides. Especially when used in the context of a tune. There are several reason why we might use these slurs, but the most important to me is variation. Another […]
Too many notes! If you’ve seen the movie Amadeus then you might remember the scene where the emperor tells Mozart this, and that he should remove a few. I’m sure, like Mozart, Colonel Sanford C. ‘Sandy’ Faulkner would be asking, “Which few did you have in mind?” Mr. Faulkner would probably be aghast at the […]
At this point in the video (2:36 to be exact) Grier is practically at string melting velocity. Yeehaw! He’s clocking somewhere from 308 to 320 bpm! As with anything that you’re trying to learn, always start very slow, and with a metronome. So here’s the fourth and final part of David Grier’s solos from this video posted […]
This is the third part of a series of posts that are transcriptions of each of David Grier’s solos from this video posted on Fretboard Journal. If you didn’t see the first one, you can find it here. This solo starts at about the 2:07 mark in the video. At this point he ramps it up to about 280 bpm! […]
We’re continuing the cycle, by taking the Not So Carter, Carter Style arrangement and converting it to a cross-picking arrangement. The melody of this version is in the higher register, so we’ll be using the backward roll to cross-pick it. Let’s first look at the first four measures of the Carter style version: Now we’re going to apply the backward roll. […]
This is the second part of a series of posts that will be transcriptions of each of David Grier’s* solos from this video posted on Fretboard Journal. If you didn’t see the first one, you can find it here. In the video he starts with a moderate tempo, and continues to increase the tempo with each variation. There are a […]
In case you missed it, recently Fretboard Journal posted a video of David Grier performing Soldier’s Joy, and you can check that out here. He has some very tasty bits of cross-picking throughout the performance. I transcribed the very first solo of the tune, and posted it for anyone wanting to try it out. You can […]
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