http://intellectualmusician.com -Where Musicians Come To Think Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:33:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en http://intellectualmusician.com/ababoian/want-to-make-your-solos-sound-%e2%80%9cout%e2%80%9d-whole-tones-can-help http://intellectualmusician.com/ababoian/want-to-make-your-solos-sound-%e2%80%9cout%e2%80%9d-whole-tones-can-help#comments Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:38:15 +0000 Alex Baboian “out” steps improvising licks lick frets tone augmented http://intellectualmusician.com/ababoian/want-to-make-your-solos-sound-%e2%80%9cout%e2%80%9d-whole-tones-can-help The whole tone scale is one of the most underused scales in improvising, in my opinion. It has revolutionized my approach to improvising on a tune. People always talk about playing “out” and they will spend years and years working on all kinds of complicated ways of doing it, but the answer is right under our noses and its really not all that complicated. Whole steps. That’s it. Just play whole steps. I’m dramatizing a bit, but essentially that’s the idea I’m talking about. (more…)

]]> http://intellectualmusician.com/ababoian/want-to-make-your-solos-sound-%e2%80%9cout%e2%80%9d-whole-tones-can-help/feed http://intellectualmusician.com/ababoian/want-to-revolutionize-your-right-hand-technique-try-hybrid-picking http://intellectualmusician.com/ababoian/want-to-revolutionize-your-right-hand-technique-try-hybrid-picking#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:24:03 +0000 Alex Baboian hybrid picking picking diad ringing hours spend pick http://intellectualmusician.com/ababoian/want-to-revolutionize-your-right-hand-technique-try-hybrid-picking I’ve found that most guitarists underestimate the effect their right hand technique can have on their playing. When the average guitarist sits down for a couple of hours to practice, I imagine that he/she doesn’t spend 2 minutes thinking about what their right hand is doing. It just goes on auto-pilot. You hold the pick between your thumb and first finger, but what about those other three fingers on the right hand? They just sit there and don’t get to have any fun. The solution to this situation is “Hybrid Picking”. (more…)

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