Too many notes! Now that we’ve worked out the melody reduction and cross-picking arrangement in the upper register, it’s time to drop it down an octave and repeat the process. First off we have the melody reduction. Here it is with the melody, and chords: + Since we’re in the lower register we’ll be using […]
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! […]
Since repetition is the mother of mastery let’s go over the ideas I use for working up a cross-picking arrangement of a song, or tune. Learn the chords and the melody (for extra credit, learn the melody in more than one octave). Work out a Carter style arrangement. From the Carter style arrangement, work out […]
This is the last part of the series on slurs. So far we’ve talked about hammer-ons, and pull-offs, and now we’ll be exploring slides. One of the things that I haven’t mentioned about the slurs is their lyrical quality. The voice has a very smooth transition from note to note, unless the vocalist chooses otherwise, but plucked […]
Now that we have some ways to arrange a tune, the next step is one that can help you get into a more improvisational style. It’s a way to start adding small variations to what we’ve already worked on, and with this we’ll be able to add a little pizzazz to our arrangements. One of […]
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 […]
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