Chords for Greg Howe's String Skipping and Hybrid Picking Legato | Inspired Licks

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[Bm] _ What's up you guys, so for today's lick I decided to do something based around Greg
Howe, really cool fusion guy, one of the true pioneers of the modern fusion style.
Now it's a pretty cool lick, I'm using a couple different things, I'm actually using the B
minor pentatonic scale, I'm using the B blues scale, I'm using B dorian as well and I'm
using a little bit of chromatic fillers.
_ Now this all stems from a concept I like to call scale weaving, I actually have a book
on this, you can check it out on Amazon.
_ _ But enough about that, let's get on to the actual lick.
So the lick starts out with the B minor pentatonic scale.
So the first movement I do on the lick is this guy right here, and I do it with the
use of some hybrid picking.
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[Em] So it starts out that way.
Now right after that I do a little bit of string skipping, I skip the fifth string and
I go right up to the fourth string.
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_ _ _ From there I start thinking [D] dorian.
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[E] Then I add some chromatic notes, some chromaticism, you can think of it as adding the natural
seventh, [A#] _ _
_ [A] _ _ [E] the natural seventh from a lot of minor or something like that.
I tend to think of it more as a passing note, so you have this natural [G#] sixth, flat [A] seventh, _
natural [A#] seventh, then the [B] pentatonic.
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_ _ [A] Then we go to the third string and back to dorian.
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[B] Again still using that hybrid picking right there.
[C#] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] Here I start thinking more of a blues type of approach and I start thinking more as a
legato type [A] of thing.
[D] So I do this from the blues scale.
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[F#] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ So once I [Dm] land on this note, [A] I start thinking about the blues scale and I just, to be honest,
I just add the flat fifth but I still think of dorian.
So it goes in like this.
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_ _ [E] Then I do [D] the same type of movement but jumping the second string and I go right to the first
string and do pretty much the same type of movement.
[C#] Then _ _ [D] _ _ [B] I finish the leg with this aggressive style vibrato or slides from side to side.
This [D] thing right here.
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Which is now a pretty common type of move for a lot of modern fusion guys.
But I believe, at least I heard an interview, I heard Greg Howe in an interview explain
how he created that in the studio.
Because the producer just kept asking him to _ play a little bit more aggressive and more
to the point where his vibrato just couldn't get any more aggressive so he just did that.
Producer liked it and he actually, and then it stuck on and he started doing it more often.
I don't know if that's true.
I don't know if he's actually the first guy to do it.
I tend to believe it because I haven't really heard it until, because I hadn't really heard
it before he started doing them [Bm] and now all the fusion guys are doing it so I don't know.
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_ _ _ _ _ So that's it right there.
That's it for this video.
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