Picking sequence in E harmonic minor - alternate picking and palm muting (with tab)

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  • Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
  • Classical sounding picking sequence in E harmonic minor using alternate picking and palm muting.
    Video is set out as follows:
    picking sequence at two tempos
    three variations on the theme
    tab for all four sequences
    an example of combining the theme and variations into a composition / extended sequence
    tab for the extended sequence
    Some comments / explanation on a few things:
    Tempo
    I chose 80bpm and 110bpm as two example tempos for this video. 80bpm is showing that it can sound good slower, and in the case of variation 3 it works well because some beats have six notes. 110bpm is what I like best for the main sequence and variation 1 & 2. After 110bpm I think it starts to sound too fast. Of course it is possible to go beyond that if you prefer, or for practice purposes.
    Sixteenth notes at 110bpm isn’t that fast, but it might feel fast in this case as there is palm muting involved and the palm muting is on some notes and not others. So, instead of just having to coordinate pick and fingers, you also have to coordinate the palm with those two things. Also, as some notes are picked once, others picked twice, and others even three or four times in the case of variation 1, it adds a bit of complexity to it.
    Tab
    In the tab for variation 2, there are some tied notes. They look like a slur (hammer-on or pull-off) but they’re connecting two notes of the same pitch, so the first instance of the note is played but the second isn’t. I’ve used these instead of dotted notes so that the beats can clearly be seen in the notation.
    In the tab for variation 3, beats 3 + 4 of bars 1 - 4 each have six notes. When I was initially playing this, I didn’t think too much about it and just thought I was playing sextuplets… but the notes aren’t actually evenly spaced. There is a particular rhythm, which I’ve tried to capture in the tab. The dotted notes are extending the length by 1/2. So, the dotted 32nd notes are actually a 32nd note plus a 64th note.
    Fretting hand
    These sequences can be seen as being notes within the E harmonic minor scale, but in a way it is two arpeggios with some notes around them. For example, the first would be an E minor. So, I use rolling of the fingers in the same/similar way that I would if sweep picking these arpeggios. This can be seen in the video accompanying the tab. Maybe some would prefer to do it differently, but if there are notes on the same fret on adjacent strings just consider rolling the finger to hit both.
    Variations
    Whenever I write anything (a riff, lick, picking sequence, chord progression, etc), I like to play around with it and start creating variations on the theme. I think the whole ‘theme and variation’ thing is good for musical creativity and is a good thing to spend time on. It doesn’t have to be your own stuff that you create variations for, it could also be anything that you’ve learned (e.g. learning a famous riff and then coming up with a bunch of variations).
    Extended sequence
    This is just an example of how the sequences might be combined into a longer sequence or composition. While recording the video/audio for the four picking sequences, I captured the dry signal for each and was then able to arrange the dry signal tracks into an extended sequence and re-amp it.

Комментарии • 2

  • @brokennose2681
    @brokennose2681 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for the great upload. In kind of a rut and this is fresh.🤘

  • @keovongvilaykeo4799
    @keovongvilaykeo4799 3 месяца назад

    Awesome lick thanks 🙏 you as always 😊