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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
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