MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons
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HYBRID VEHICLE, PART 2
This month, Andy Timmons continues exploring some of the many different and effective ways one can apply hybrid picking to melodic phrases.
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HYBRID VEHICLE, PART 2
This month, Andy Timmons continues exploring some of the many different and effective ways one can apply hybrid picking to melodic phrases.
#AndyTimmons #ThemeFromaPerfectWorld
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00:00Hey everybody, Andy Timmons here and welcome back to Melodic Muse, my column for Guitar
00:22World.
00:23We're going to carry on the ideas that we were working on in the previous segment with
00:27On Your Way Sweet Soul and using some hybrid picking ideas.
00:31In the first installment we played some pretty simple melodic things but really getting lines
00:36to have a dynamic shape by utilizing the pick and the finger.
00:39So let's carry on, we're going to come up with some melodic exercises now to get you
00:43on the path of using hybrid picking yourself.
00:46So let's look at a few basic ideas to kind of get you down the path of working on using
00:53your pick and fingers.
00:54I'm going to stick to basic E major today since we were talking about On Your Way Sweet
00:58Soul in this key.
00:59Just do a simple phrase like that where I'm playing E major, it's 1-2-3 on the A string
01:08and then using my middle finger, picking up on the note B on the D string.
01:25So at first I'm playing an 8th note, 16th note, speeding up to a little triple D.
01:40Here's another idea in E major, ascending on the A string.
01:44We're going to use one articulation for each string, so pick on the A string, then up pick
01:51with the middle finger on the D string.
01:57Then repeat that on the G string, then on the B, a little multi-step bend at the end.
02:06I'm bending, the last phrase I'm bending from a C sharp down to the D, from the C sharp
02:28to the E, D sharp and then releasing it to the C sharp.
02:32Nice little melody there.
02:36And by using the middle finger, it just has a different articulation and a different flow
02:42that you can get just using the pick.
02:46Doesn't sound bad but...
02:53Here's another one in E major and it's essentially a lick that I played wrong for most of my
02:59life until I met Jeff Carlisi.
03:01There's a great song called Hold On Loosely that was a big hit for them in the 80s written
03:05by the great Jim Peterick.
03:07And the solo I used to try to play on my early cover bands, I got most of it right but there
03:12was this one lick I could never get the feel right and the grouping of notes was...
03:22I could do kind of a version of it but I finally got to meet Jeff, it's been about 15 years
03:26ago, we did one of these rock camps together.
03:28And finally, face to face, Jeff, you gotta show me the lick.
03:32Oh man, yeah, he picked my guitar up.
03:34And it's a hybrid picking thing where he's...
03:36It's basically out of the E major chord shape.
03:43Which is using the middle finger to play the top note.
03:51And everything else kind of flows behind it so...
03:53Thank you Jeff Carlisi for that lovely tidbit.
03:56And I used it in one of my recorded solos, I forget which song right now but I totally
03:59took that from Jeff and put it in one of my own tunes as a little tribute to him.
04:03So I hope you dig that.