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Topic: What is this scale Buddy Emmons play? |
Jean-Sebastien Gauthier
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Posted 22 Oct 2014 4:46 am |
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I hear him playing this dissonant scale / pattern in a couple of songs but I dont know this sound and would like to know how its called.
You can hear it from 3:55 to 4:01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDBUNjISx0aFM&v=fhLqe2xbqS8
Last edited by Jean-Sebastien Gauthier on 23 Oct 2014 4:53 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Glenn Suchan
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Austin, Texas
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Posted 22 Oct 2014 6:29 am
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Jean-Sebastien,
The scale you are referring to is a chromatic (12-tone). The reason it sounds unusual is that some of the half-step progression jumps an octave, back and forth. This is a type of lick popularized by jazz guitarist great, Pat Martino. Mr. Emmons has adapted it into his 'vocabulary' on the PSG and calls it "Martino's Monster Lick".
Here is a link to Buddy Emmons' website with a TAB and sound file of "Martino's Monster Lick":
http://www.buddyemmons.com/monsters.htm
It's a fun lick to master, but challenging to just throw in here and there in a solo, as Buddy does... 'The Maestro' always makes it look so easy. 
Keep on picking'
Glenn
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier
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Quebec, Canada
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Posted 22 Oct 2014 3:38 pm
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Ho wow I hear it now! That the octave that make it very weird! Thanks a lot Glenn!
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Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier
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Quebec, Canada
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier
From:
Quebec, Canada
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Posted 23 Oct 2014 3:22 pm
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Thats what I figure out too, very cool lick! I like how he return to the chord after, very fluid playing!
Mike I look at your page today and now that I have more jazz knowledge I can appreciate it more there is very nice stuff you show! I hope I will see you live in a jazz band someday. |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 24 Oct 2014 1:59 am
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| Out in the real world, this type of trick or schema are as common as bugs. These chromatic ones are kind of optimized for the Zipadee-look-at-me comic relief moments - hey, maybe a funeral gig needs a little pep! Friggin' drag, man. There's a continuum-towards-calm for these things though, play four low notes and four high ones, back and forth, for the call-and-response-all-by-yourself effect. Or a few low notes going up, a few high ones descending, a few more rising, descending, until they meet in the middle. Except DON'T, not right away, don't give it to them that easy - make them wait a half measure. Back in the good old days before recordings defined the "right" way, dicking with people's expectations was sort of the whole point. What is a solo..... |
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