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Christopher Woitach
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Posted 16 Feb 2016 7:40 am |
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I had a request for the Pat Martino "activities", which I put in the tablature section. They are tabbed out for Bb6 U12 pedals up, but with a little tweaking, you can play them on C6 10.
They are tabbed out for my approach, so you may find better ways to play them...
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Ian Kerr
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Posted 16 Feb 2016 5:42 pm
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Thanks Christopher for those Pat Martino activities.Having now put them into 10 string C6 mode I wonder if you could help me with their interpretation.Firstly, are they so fast you don't bother about pedals and just concentrate on bar movement and secondly, any hints, clues etc to include them in actual songs.eg I hope they are more than just picking and bar movement exercises, maybe improvisional tools to use in songs etc.The other thing is the absence of chords. Do you still bear these in mind playing these activities?Would you have to follow the whole 5 bar sequence or could you choose various snippets ?
Hope I'm not asking too much,
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Christopher Woitach
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 16 Feb 2016 7:00 pm
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Those are great questions, and I'll try to answer them as best I can!
First off, I play them pedals up, but there are a lot of ways to play them if you work out some pedal stuff, probably quicker and cleaner. I've fooled around with that some, but I mainly play pedals up to get my bar hand better at some of the chromatic lines and the various bigger jumps.
To really use them well you would need to study Martino's book, Linear Expressions, and one of my hopes by posting these is that people WILL purchase it, to help support this great musician. I can give a very quick and dirty explanation, to get you started.
The basic concept is the reduction of all chords to their minor equivalent. For Maj7 chords, play the relative minor (CMaj7=Am), for Dom7 chords play the minor a 4th lower, as if playing over a ii chord (G7=Dm), for m7b5 chords play the minor a min 3rd above (Emi7b5 =Gm). This is the most basic explanation possible- to really get it in deeper you will need to carefully go through the book.....
Definitely use bits and pieces of these, they are full of melodic ideas, and, for the steel player, extremely useful pockets that fit in with many other lines you might play. And actually they really are great technique building exercises, as well, more musical than most exercises.
I hope this helps!
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Ian Kerr
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Posted 16 Feb 2016 9:39 pm
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| Thanks Christopher for your help and ideas. |
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Christopher Woitach
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2016 8:21 am
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It might be useful to try something like this:
Stella by Starlight, first 4 bars are Em7b5, A7, Cmi7, F7
So, in minor reduction- a bar of Gm, bar of Em, 2 bars of Cm.
Play any Gm activity for a bar, then switch to the nearest Em, then the nearest Cm.
You'd just use bits and pieces so it's a "real world" application of Martino's concept
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Ian Kerr
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Posted 17 Feb 2016 2:21 pm
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Good, I follow that.When you say Gm are you talking Gm7 or Gm6 ?ie throw in pedals 5 or 6 or doesn't it matter much ? Also instead of straight or pure Martino , instead of 2 bars Cm , could you play F7 alt ? So would you suggest sticking to minor reducement all through the song or where more convenient for the next nearest could?
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Christopher Woitach
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2016 2:29 pm
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I'm just referring to which key of Martino activity to play over each chord, not replacing the chords themselves
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Christopher Woitach
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2016 2:42 pm
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And absolutely - I think these are great things to play, but I like them best as vocabulary to include with your other lines
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Ian Kerr
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Queensland, Australia
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Posted 17 Feb 2016 3:00 pm
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| I will have to concentrate more on these 5 Martino forms and how to apply them in different chord situations.Till now I've used mainly a chord /melody/arpeggio style approach to improvisation as I still like listeners to recognize the song I'm playing so I still like the melody to be in there a bit. |
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