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Andy French's Musical Explorations

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Tag: Guitar

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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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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Reading music for guitar (learning notes names)

In Guitar, Music TheoryTags Guitar, Music Theory3rd December 2017 Andy French

This post contains some mnemonics to help get started reading music (staff notation) for the guitar by helping you to learn the note names. …

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The basics of Pentatonic Superimposition

In Guitar, Jazz Theory, Music TheoryTags Guitar, Jazz, Music Theory, Scales24th November 2017 Andy French

This article covers the basics of Pentatonic Superimposition for guitar, a simple technique for adding colour to your improvisation over IIm7 chords. …

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Andy French was the lead guitarist and vocalist with the British alternative metal band The Hollowkind. The band is now defunct but their tunes are available on Spotify or SoundCloud.

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