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We cid the record al the Have Note tin ‘Osaka, Japan), and every night Visit down ina mom with Larry and go, “Okay. what's mylesson for te daye” Hed critique my play Ing and saythings ike, “‘Thatwasagreatset, ‘andyou were buming, but heres something to think about..." Then hell uarew out all, test oie: options, URE: “Ia the key of E Yyoucould play aiound FB By 8, Amd D major triads” in other woids, stop think {ng int, and siartthinking oth [Fig 2) He thinksinte:ms ofthreeto fveditfereni chord substitutions at all times, So if you're just Jonraing in you can cura the whole jan Inside oi [Figs-84-B), instal of ust play ing E minor pentatonic stull, Although, if strange bends you six that up wih som [nigs-44-B), diathelps, Thore aro alot of interesting Bonde in your more famous leads. Like this Hig. 5]?That kind ofliko the Sse solo in “Rosanna,” whare I bend up to with myring finger than grata Ri wath my pinky Thatsagandone, hacnuse isnot the Dinioushend ‘What kinds of thinas were iniuencna ‘your ines back then-especally vour use of chromatic passing tones? WsiustizestlT ike this lx. 6), The whole thing abou Teac bow co play azz 0 come to the realization there are really no wrong notes; every nore has a pave. 1 al here you'e going that makes you « legit imate player or not. It the right iV turn around or voice-leadinginto theneet change while steying in the sale tht sopecaes the men irom the bors Were you listening to alot of jazz players? Yeah, I was listening to a lot of that stu But what really changed everything for me was Carlton’ playing on [Steely Dan's) Royal Scar. Hearing that soundé—a mek Sounit playing dhrotigh changes—struck a neive with me. He was cranking up tis Hoge amp and playing bebop lines with the blues in there, oc, ‘that's where all that eluomaticism—trying to snake an (SE) oA (Ha8] oH AERA eee! oneiineRatsn rete aS [Fa aa] oT ‘Ta.GUITAR ONE « gutaronemeg.com s DECEMBER 2002GUITAR SCHOOL - - Eminer scl sounda it move mtr. | EER) MEAN ing comes from, You studied m right? went there during high school with Mike Landau, Sve Porcaro, Carag, and allot ‘ouirbuds Wewantedto*stady" mate Fagin the concept these days! landan and | used to practice together wel try to play everything, We thought thestudio guy" thing was really | [ER7] @7iGtbanaga hip: thet was thebig quest. Wed tle every gi Rtg you ould possi think of—inanystyle—jast togetourplayingand walingchops up. There was se mach five work then, because there werent any machines. an with demo ses- sions, you could get like $25 a tune—pretty good in 1974. 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