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 World.
00:22We're going to carry on the ideas that we were working on in the previous segment with On Your
00:27Boy Sweet Soul and using some hybrid picking ideas. In the first installment, we played some pretty
00:33simple melodic things, but really getting lines to have a dynamic shape by utilizing the pick and
00:39the finger. So 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. So let's look at a few basic ideas to kind of get
00:50you down the path of working on using your picking fingers. I'm going to stick to basic E major today
00:55since we were talking about On Your Way Sweet Soul in this key. Just do a simple phrase like that
01:03where I'm just, I'm playing E major. Just one, two, three on the A string. And then using my middle
01:12finger picking up on the note B, on the D string. So at first I'm playing a, just kind of, you know,
01:29eighth note, 16th note. Speeding up to a little triple D. Here's another idea in E major ascending
01:42on the A string. We're going to use one articulation for each string. So pick on the A string,
01:48and then up hip with the middle finger on the D string. Then repeat that on the G string,
01:58then on the B. A little multi-step bend at the end. Okay. I'm bending from that. The last phrase,
02:20I'm bending from a C sharp down to the D, from the C sharp to the E, D sharp, and then releasing
02:30it to the C sharp. Nice little melody there. And by using the middle finger, it just has a different,
02:40a different articulation and a different flow that you can get just using the pick.
02:43Doesn't sound bad, but it's another one in E major. And it's essentially a lick that I
02:56played wrong for most of my life until I met Jeff Carlisi. There's a great song called Hold On Loosely
03:03that was a big hit for them in the eighties written by the great Jim Peterick. And the solo I used to
03:08try to play when we, on my early cover bands, I got most of it right, but there was this one lick I
03:13could never get the feel right. And the grouping of notes. I could do kind of a version of it,
03:23but I finally got to meet Jeff. It's been about 15 years ago. We did one of these rock camps together.
03:28And then finally face to face, Jeff, you got to show me the lick. Oh man. Yeah. He picked my guitar
03:33up. And it's a hybrid picking thing where he's, it's basically out of the E major chord shape,
03:38which is using the, the middle finger to play the top note. And everything else kind of flows
03:52behind it. So thank you, Jeff Carlisi for that lovely tidbit. And I used it in one of my recorded
03:57solos. I forget which song right now, but I totally took that from Jeff and put it in one of my own
04:01tunes as a little tribute to him. So I hope you dig that.