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          <div class="message"><p>As a follow up to the previous post about how to learn the notes on the guitar neck, I made a graphic to visually represent the "white notes" on the guitar.&nbsp; This is what you should 'see' when you look…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/words/blog/6860162/guitar-players-learn-all-the-notes-update">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Ear training is obviously an extremely important pursuit for improvising musicians.&nbsp; I spend a significant portion of my practice time on ear training activities, and try to find ways to incorporate an ear training aspect into all of my practicing…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/words/blog/6860163/ear-training">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>This post is directed at guitar players, all other instruments can safely ignore it.&nbsp; It's a quick 5 minute lesson that will result in your knowing the whole neck if you practice about 5 minutes a day for 5 weeks…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/words/blog/6860164/guitar-players-only-learn-all-the-notes-on-the-neck-in-5-weeks">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>One specific idea for using wider intervals in the beginnings and endings of phrases is to land on a chord tone and leap two chord tones up or down.&nbsp; This is effective at both the beginnings and endings of phrases…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/words/blog/6860165/starting-and-ending-phrases-cont-d">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Large intervallic leaps and interesting rhythms can make phrases more compelling.&nbsp; The most effective place to use both devices is at the beginnings and endings of phrases.&nbsp; Intensifying one's focus on how one starts and concludes improvised musical phrases has…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/words/blog/6860166/starting-and-ending-phrases">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Here transcription of "the lick" from Zhivago. I've deconstructed it and will post some of what I came up with in the next post.<br><br>Note that he's using his weird tuning so there are some unreachable low notes for a…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/words/blog/6860169/kurt-rosenwinkel-zhivago">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Here's a continuation of the previous Augmented scale study, using three maj7 chords.<br><br>Since the augmented scale can be related to three augmented tonics, it makes sense to me to relate it to the harmonic major (major b6) scale on…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/words/blog/6860170/more-augmented-scale">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p><br>Here's an an older one from my workbooks. I've spent a lot of time exploring the possibilities for using various triads in improvisation. They create such strong lines and have a compelling internal logic an musicality.<br><br>These examples are pretty…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/words/blog/6860171/triads-in-the-augmented-scale">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Okay, here's the first post . . . ready?<br><br>This is something I've been working on. It was inspired (somewhat secondhand) by George Garzone. Garzone has a whole triadic concept for improvising that I don't know a whole lot about…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/words/blog/6860174/two-triads-conencted-by-chromatic-passing-tone">Read more</a></span></div>
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