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Andy French's Musical Explorations

Andy French's Musical Explorations

Month: December 2017

Exercises for playing 7th intervals

In GuitarTags Guitar, Intervals, Scales27th December 2017 Andy French

This post contains exercises for guitar to practise scales using 7th intervals rather than note by note. …

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Chord families (harmonic functions)

In Jazz Theory, Music TheoryTags Guitar Chords, Harmonic Functions, Jazz, Music Theory26th December 2017 Andy French

In this article I explore the basics of chord families (also known as harmonic functions) and their use to create forward motion in music. The Tonic, Subdominant and Dominant families are discussed and some examples provided in G major for the guitar. …

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Another way of learning drop 2 voicings

In Guitar, Jazz Theory, Music TheoryTags Drop 2 Chords, Guitar Chords17th December 2017 Andy French

This post covers an approach to deriving drop 2 chord voicings for guitar by taking a starting chord - such a s a major 7 - and changing one interval at a time to create fingerings for dominant 7, minor 7 and minor 7b5. …

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Diatonic 13th Arpeggios

In Guitar, Music TheoryTags Arpeggios, Guitar6th December 2017 Andy French

Please take a look at the previous post Diatonic 11th Arpeggios for a discussion about how these arpeggio shapes came about. Basically they are based on an approach created by Rusty Cooley in his …

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Exercises for playing 6th intervals

In GuitarTags Guitar, Intervals, Scales6th December 2017 Andy French

This post contains exercises for guitar to practise scales using 6th intervals rather than note by note. …

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Diatonic 11th Arpeggios

In Guitar, Music TheoryTags Arpeggios, Guitar5th December 2017 Andy French

Guitar maestro, Rusty Cooley, in his shred-tastic DVD set Arpeggio Madness introduces a couple of ideas that I have found very useful; in particular his shapes for diatonic 11th and …

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Andy French was the lead guitarist and vocalist with the British alternative metal band The Hollowkind. The band is no defunct but their tunes are available on Spotify or SoundCloud.

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