Andy Aledort - One and Two String Melodies with Drones
In Deep by Andy Aledort
THERE ONCE WAS A NOTE
A great challenge for exploring new soloing ideas is to play improvised lines up and down a single string. There are a variety of benefits to this approach: primarily that it pushes one out of playing “learned” positional lines and patterns based on muscle and visual memory; additionally, this approach forces one to be aware of the specific articulation techniques — slides, hammer- ons, pull offs and bends — that are pretty much necessary to play lines in this way, which in turn plays a major role in the way any given melody “speaks." As usual, the more creative and adventurous one chooses to be, the more there is to discover.
THERE ONCE WAS A NOTE
A great challenge for exploring new soloing ideas is to play improvised lines up and down a single string. There are a variety of benefits to this approach: primarily that it pushes one out of playing “learned” positional lines and patterns based on muscle and visual memory; additionally, this approach forces one to be aware of the specific articulation techniques — slides, hammer- ons, pull offs and bends — that are pretty much necessary to play lines in this way, which in turn plays a major role in the way any given melody “speaks." As usual, the more creative and adventurous one chooses to be, the more there is to discover.
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00:00 Hey, I'm Andy Alladort.
00:16 In this edition of In Deep, we're going to be talking about playing single note melodies
00:21 that traverse the entire fretboard, staying on one string, combined with open string drones.
00:28 Let's talk about if you were to play a melody on one string, and then you join that with
00:42 the drone on top.
00:59 Of course, you can fill it in by adding a note on another string.
01:12 So try that stuff where you're going to go like...and then switch to adding one string.
01:37 That's a good one to end on.
01:49 [music]
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