the finest guitar lessons on the planet 247 SEPTEMBER 2015 PLAy LIkE THE LEGENdARy... CARLOS JOHN RENBOURN 8-page tribute to a fingerstyle SANTANA genius Learn what makes this iconic STyLE STUdIES guitarist so special - master his ERIC CLAPTON rhythm and lead styles today! Acoustic style explained GUNS N’ ROSES Play like the brilliant Slash JOHN MAyER His bluesy side exposed JIM MULLEN Thumb picking jazzer CHICAGO Classic soft rock TRANSCRIBEd CLASSICAL Fernando Sor’s Study In C tabbed for solo guitar CLASSIC TRACk TABBEd! ALLMAN BROTHERS Statesboro Blues Learn this guitar extravaganza from Duane Allman & Dickey Betts ISSUE 247 SEptEmbEr 2015 the finest guitar tuition Welcome you can Just some of your regular buy! GT technique experts... steve allsworth A most versatile player, Steve has played THIS MONTH WE have a triple artist focus, Band (with Michael Bloomfield and Elvin with Ronan Keating, Lulu, Rod Stewart, all very different styles, feels and genres. First Bishop) were the US equivalent to John Westlife, LeAnn Rimes and Lily Allen. He is a man who has been on top for decades. He Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac and also teaches rock at BIMM Brighton. shot to fame with a set that took Woodstock Cream, and made stars of these players just as Festival by storm. His liquid style sounded like Mayall had done. Steve Allsworth offers a shaun baxter One of the UK’s most respected music nothing we’d heard before and his band’s Latin faithful take on one of the group’s greatest educators, Shaun has taught many who rhythms had the vast crowd dancing in the tracks: the powerful Statesboro Blues in which are now top tutors themselves. His Jazz mud. Yes, it’s Carlos Santana. And while Carlos Allman and Betts both display their genius. Metal album is considered a milestone. does divide opinion, who can deny a career When acoustic fingerstyle giant John that spans six decades, 10 Grammys and Renbourn died in March this year we were jon bishop Jon is one of those great all-rounders album sales that top 100 million? That his determined to honour this wonderful musician who can turn his hand to almost any recent works, Supernatural and Shaman are with a full feature on his playing. We asked style. No ‘Jack of all trades and master of among his most successful of all is testament Stuart Ryan to come up with something none’, he nails every one with ease! to his generation-spanning appeal. Phil special; Stu has done us proud with a lesson Capone looks at Carlos’s unique style, that shows just what made Renbourn so phil Capone Phil is a great guitarist who specialises in covering Latin rhythms, bending and respected by his peers and fans alike. So blues and jazz. He teaches at ICMP in picking, tone, choice of scales and more; enjoy these articles and this issue’s other London, writes for GT and Total Guitar all ending up with a final jam that you great lessons and features. and has published 10 top tuition books. can learn in its entirety, or use to WIN! You’ll also notice an amazing practise your new Santana licks! competition to win thousands of £££s’ les davidson Les has worked with Mick Taylor, Rumer, Our recent ‘jam’ feature got worth of group gear. Open to UK Jon Anderson, Pete Townshend, Tina us thinking of the American residents only, it’s an Turner & more. He also runs a recording bands that inspired that amazing chance to kit studio and teaches at BIMM London. great nation to take up your whole band out Charlie griffiths blues guitar and which, with top-of-the-range Guitar Institute tutor Charlie first came in turn, were the key to gear. Please do enter - and to fame in Total Guitar’s Challenge discovering their own I’ll see you next month! Charlie series. He’s also one of the UK’s original blues artists. top rock, metal and fusion guitarists. Bands like The Allman phil hilborne Brothers (with Duane The UK’s original magazine guitar tutor, Allman and Dickey Phil’s something of a legend. A great Betts) and The Paul Neville Marten, Editor player, he’s currently touring Europe Butterfield Blues [email protected] with the Champions Of Rock show. pat heath DON’T MISS OUR AMAZING DIGITAL EDITION BIMM Brighton lecturer, ESP product demonstrator and all-round busy musician, Pat brings you six cool licks Guitar Techniques’ digital edition is now even better! each month in 30-Minute Lickbag. david mead As ex-editor of both Guitarist and Guitar Techniques magazines, and author of top-selling tutor books, David is the perfect choice as Theory Godmother. bridget mermikides Guildhall and Royal Academy trained, Bridget is a Royal College of Music, examiner, a respected classical player and award-winning blues guitarist. stuart ryan Head of Guitar at BIMM Bristol, Stu is an acoustic guitar virtuoso who performs throughout the UK. His latest book/CD GES ‘The Tradition’ is available now. 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For full details and how to receive our digital edition OVER PH Joauztz n. Howis noenw iT aulnbeusm a nEdn sAemmabzloe nF.utur is raelsgou flianrdly ,u gso o tno w bwit.wly./zginuiiota.crotemch (Pnlieqausees n (iof tyeo: uZ ilnivioe iend tihtieo nUsK d) oo rn boitt .hlya/vgeu iintatertreacchtiuvse (toavbe orsre aausd). iYoo).u can C September 2015 GuitarTechniques 3 WIn A BACKLInE for Your BAnD • CONTENTS • SEPTEMBER 2015 • Worth over £14,000 p36 Learning Zone LESSONS INTRODUcTION 51 GT’s music editor Jason Sidwell introduces another action-packed lessons section. 30-MINUTE LIckBAg 52 BIMM’s Pat Heath has six more great licks at easy, intermediate and advanced levels. BLUES 54 Les Davidson looks at a player who tops the pop charts and plays killer blues – John Mayer. ROck 58 Martin Cooper examines one of the mightiest of US bands: Chicago and guitarist Terry Kath. cREATIVE ROck 70 Shaun Baxter continues to explore his string- pair cells – this month, it’s larger note groupings. cHOpS SHOp 76 Andy Saphir introduces a great scale for blues, jazz, rock and country: the Mixolydian mode. HARD ROck 78 Charlie Griffiths continues his new series with a look at those bad boys of 80s US rock – the brilliant Guns N’ Roses and guitarist, Slash. JAzz 82 John Wheatcroft unravels the unique thumb style of Scottish jazz legend, Jim Mullen. CoVer FeaTUre AcOUSTIc 88 Stuart Ryan looks at the acoustic side of a blues CARLOS SANTANA 14 and rock icon – the one and only Eric Clapton. Santana is one of the most recognisable MUSIc READINg 92 electric guitarists on the planet. Phil Capone Charlie Griffiths continues his series with more analyses every facet of the great man’s style. full pieces for you to tackle. FeaTUreS rEGuLAr fEAturES ViDeo MaSTerCLaSS WELcOME 3 NIgEL pRIcE, part 1 62 trAnSCrIPtIon #1 Nev discusses this issue’s triple-pronged attack. This amazing British jazz guitarist astounds with THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND TALkBAck 7 his first video masterclass on chord melody. Statesboro Blues 26 In your own words... Steve Allsworth dissects a brilliant track from THEORy gODMOTHER 9 this legendary band with inspiring slide from Fingers in knots or brain tormented by some Duane and cool regular solo from Dickey Betts. unfathomable musical conundrum? Then let Dave Mead be your Theory Godmother. SPECIAL fEAturE #2 INTRO 10 60 Seconds, Session Shenanigans, One-Minute JOHN RENBOURN TRIBUTE Lick, That Was The Year and Hot For Teacher. Farewell to an acoustic legend 38 SUBScRIpTIONS 68 Stuart Ryan looks at the styles that made John Save time and money – get GT delivered! Renbourn such an influential player on the world’s acoustic fingerpicking scene. BAck ISSUES 94 Missed one? See how you can get it – here! trAnSCrIPtIon #2 ALBUMS 95 New guitar CDs and DVDs reviewed and rated FERNANDO SOR by our very own Roger Newell. Study In C 46 NExT MONTH 98 Bridget Mermikides arranges and transcribes Sort Out Your Picking; Parallel Worlds (major another of this great Spanish composer’s and minor); The Snack, My Sharona; Brian May, etudes for solo classical guitar. Van Halen, Buddy Guy, John Lennon and more. Spring 2015 GuitarTechniques 5 Post: Guitar Techniques, Future Publishing, Ivo Peters Road, Bath, BA2 3QS. Email: [email protected] using the header ‘Talkback’. JAMMY GENERATION the various teaching websites to Your recent editor’s letter about which people have access. Back in my the days you used to jam endlessly day, a few kids I knew had piano with a friend (GT245), really lessons, but most saw this as a form struck a chord with me as I’m sure of purgatory – like learning poetry. it did with many readers. When I Actually, we’ve had no letters from started playing (this is not a sob young people saying whether they story, just the truth), we had no get together and jam or not, but I’d guitar magazines that catered to love to hear from any that do. our tastes; videos and DVDs Perhaps genuine human interaction weren’t invented, guitar books is not dead yet! were rubbish with all the songs in F and C (even Stones songs that I INTERESTING INTERVALS knew were in A and D), and no I loved the feature on using chord one taught modern rock, pop or intervals in blues (GT244). I think blues guitar. The only way a I got more out of that than any whole generation learnt to play lesson from anywhere in a long – and that will include the Gary time. People always talk about Moores, the Joe Satrianis and so homing in on chord tones but I Jamming together on – was to knuckle down with a never really knew what they is a great way for all of us to improve record player and slog at it, trying meant. With this feature the to figure out what you could just penny dropped well and truly. I by listening. If you were lucky the suppose like many older readers ranges. Often people are told, ‘Use have the rest of my life to get band you liked were on Thank I’d noodled around for years, such and such a scale over such and better gradually. As a result I Your Lucky Stars, Shindig or having gained a degree of such a chord,’ but this doesn’t get to really like to work from accurate Ready Steady Go, and you might fingerboard dexterity and a sort the heart of the problem since, while and precise information. just get to see where their fingers of understanding of scales but I the scale may indeed work, it still falls In the June issue of Guitar went. Usually the cameraman never felt my solos went to the player to choose the best note, Techniques, in the article was doing pretentious angles, or anywhere. Then I’d hear other and put it in the best place at the best Dynamics and Articulations you focusing on the bass player guitarists, seemingly using the moment. Any note in D minor have a large bold quote: “The first during the guitar solo! same notes as I was, but making Pentatonic (D-F-G-A-C) will work over method of denoting the volume The light at the end of the their solos make sense and sound a D minor chord, but in the context of of a piece or a section is by using tunnel for us was those jams with fantastic. Going through Jon a piece of music that’s moving in 4/4 the letters p and f – piano and your pals, comparing licks, Bishop’s examples the light went time the D, F and C will sound strong forte, or loud and soft’. However, laughing at each other’s wrong on – target the prime notes in the when played on the beat, and the G in the article it states: ‘The first chords and basically striving to chords as they change! It means and A less so. But you also have to method of denoting the general get better together. you need a better understanding create a shapely lick or line in which volume of a piece or a section is I don’t know if any younger of the licks you are playing, and strong notes do then land on strong by using the letters p and f. These readers have written in with their where they are going, so you can beats. You need a mental road map are the initials of the words piano stories, but I’d be interested to ensure you do land on a good on which you can plot the licks you and forte; ‘p’ means soft and ‘f’ know if our culture of learning note. It didn’t take long before I are playing so this ideal situation is means loud…’. I don’t mean to still exists today in any form. Or, started to get the hang of it. achieved. Something simple on paper nitpick, as I really do like what as with seemingly every other This single lesson has moved becomes more complex in practice you put out, just wanted to let pastime, it’s turned into a solitary my playing on dramatically. So, because so many external forces you know that you had a small event that usually involves thanks, Jon – and thanks GT! enter the equation – experience, slip-up. Thanks again for a laptops or mobile phones. If William Donovan taste, technique, musicality (or lack of wonderful publication and keep that’s the case I feel sorry for the it), choice of notes, and so on. The up the good work. generations that are missing out Whenever I’ve done any kind of best advice I can give is that practice, Danny White on such a brilliant social, teaching, such as IGF or GuitarBreak and using your ears more than your educational and enlightening weekends, this has been the major eyes (ie listening rather than relying Oh dear, Danny! It looks like one of way to spend their formative problem for most students – solely on tab), is most likely to yield those cases where someone didn’t musical years. especially those in the older age the results you are looking for. write what they meant to (probably Bill Padstow I’m glad Jon’s article was the me since I usually select and create catalyst to your becoming the the pull-out quotes). The various It is indeed a different world player you want to be. people who read the article after now, Bill. Learning an that, didn’t spot it either. So slapped instrument has never been DON’T KNOW OUR PIANOS wrists all round and thanks for easier, what with schools being FROM OUR FORTES spotting the mistake – ‘piano’ is more focused on music, parents First off I applaud your indeed soft, and ‘forte’ loud, in case wanting their kids to succeed in publication. I really there’s still any confusion. And, as I’m ever-broader areas and willing Hitting a chord appreciate the content and sure you all know, it’s the reason the to stump up for extra-curricular tone on a strong viewpoints and I try to take piano-forte is called the piano-forte, beat is a good activities such as guitar lessons. in everything I can each as its pedals and touch sensitivity place to start CK Not to mention YouTube and month. At my age, I don’t allow it to play both loud and soft! O IST September 2015 GuitarTechniques 7 Q A & Theory Godmother Post your posers and teasers to: Theory Godmother, Unit 5, Pines Way Industrial Estate, Ivo Peters Road, Bath, BA2 3QS; or email me at info@ davidmead.net – your every wish is Fairy Godmother’s command! Intruder Alert! EXAMPLES 1 – 6 guitarist knows that we are limited in Dear Theory Godmother GUITAR TECHNIQUES MAGAZINE 2 4 7 terms of close harmony or some interval Theory Godmother - David Mead I was looking through a songbook EExx 1 1 stretches, so often the solution is to the other day and I found a song in Gmaj7 Am7 F7 Bm7 retune the strings to make life easier. the key of G that includes the chord &# 44 œœœ œœœ œœœ œœœ ##œœœ œœœ nœœ œœ Sometimes it might be a question of F#7. I know that F#7 doesn’t belong œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ dropping the bass strings from E and in the key of G and so I’m wondering E A to D and G, and the difference is B 3 3 1 1 2 2 3 3 how you’d approach soloing over this G 4 4 0 0 3 3 2 2 immense in terms of fingering. D 4 4 2 2 2 2 change. The rest of the song appears AE 3 3 0 0 2 2 2 2 On other occasions, I think adopting to stick to the chords in the key of EExx 2 2 an unorthodox tuning can present Gup bsuett tmhyis aotdtedmbapltls c thoa pnlgaey soeveemr ist .t Ao ny &# 44Gmœaj7œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Amœ7œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Bmœ7œ œ œ œ œ œ œ afr ecshhaellneinngge u apn ydo huars m thues iecaffle pcet rosfp ective. advice would be greatly appreciated. G Ionian A Dorian B Phrygian With the strings retuned in an abstract Dave E 3 3 5 3 5 7 way, it forces you to explore the B 3 5 7 3 5 7 3 5 7 GD 5 7 4 5 7 4 5 4 5 landscape anew and this is often all you A I’ve outlined the changes you sent me E need to spark a great idea. in Ex 1 and, yes, the F#7 really does EExx 3 3 Gmaj7 F#7 Well Read? iGwm ompuoaldsjoe sr o ictlshoeo lofr vdaes sr ae t qhvuiese iGtnomcre ian. jN7 a,o nAr mmota7hl elayrn wydoi sue &# 44 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ##wwww DI kenaor wTh yeooury’v Geo bdemeont haeskred this before, Bm7 using a mixture of scale and chord EB 2 but what are your views on a guitarist G 0 3 tones and if we wanted to look at the D 0 2 4 2 today learning to read music? Is it A 0 2 3 pure vocabulary available, it would E 3 2 really necessary or just purely a nicety take the form of G Ionian, A Dorian EExx 4 4 and not really that vital? I ask because F#7 aonf dth Be Pfohuryr gcihaonr d(Esx, 2y)o. uS’ore f oorn t hprreeett yo ut &# 44 œ #œ #œ œ œ œ œ œ mseyri oteuesn aabgoeu sto pnu sresuemings tao c baere deer aind ly safe ground if you just stick to the G music and he is putting up a lot of major scale. As you know, the trouble EB 2 5 2 5 2 resistance regarding learning to read. G 3 3 begins when we hit the F#7; in Ex 3, DA 4 Bob E I’ve outlined both the chord and the G EExx 5 5 major scale it’s visiting and you can see Gmaj7 Am7 F#7 Bm7 Had you asked me this 20 years ago I straight away that the note F# itself is &# 44 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ #œ #œ œ œ œ œ œ might have replied that it can’t hurt to native to G major, but both the C# and acquaint yourself with music’s written A# present a problem. language. Even if you just master the E 2 3 2 5 My simple solution is not to look at B 3 5 2 5 3 basics it can provide information above G 4 2 5 3 4 D 5 4 a relative scale for the F#7; as the chord A and beyond the numerical sequences E has only a fleeting presence in the EExx 6 6 of tab. These days though the situation sise aqtu tehnec ceh aonrydw toayn,e tsh teh fiermsts pellavcees. tIo’v elo ok &# 44Gmœaj7œ œ œ Amœ7 œ œ #Fœ#7 #œ œ œ Bmœ7 œ œ hwahsa ct hita wngaes da.n Tdh eit ’sm oufsteicn i nthdeu sctarsye i stnh’at t written out an F#7 arpeggio in Ex 4 and freshly-graduated guitar students have as you can see, it includes the notes F#- to teach to subsidise their income E 2 3 5 2 A#-C#-E. If we treat the whole sequence BG 4 3 3 5 3 2 5 3 2 4 while exploring available gigs; plus D as a line of arpeggios, we will begin to AE many guitarists look towards work in pit hear the effect you want to achieve orchestras or other situations where a (Ex 5). It might not sound too much like good reading ability is essential. a solo, but it’s accurately outlining the Name That Tuning so on seem to choose the weirdest Competition for work in music that chords and getting the point across. Dear Theory Godmother tunings for their music, some of which will pay enough to live on is far more The next thing to do is to get Having just begun to explore the make no sense at all. So where do the fierce than it was when I entered the those arpeggios under your fingers world of acoustic instrumental acoustic’s wilder tunings originate? profession many years ago. It’s very using a backing track so you can hear music for myself, I am amazed at Ross much a question of only the most well- everything falling into place. Then try how many players seem to have equipped players finding the best jobs. some experiments: alter the rhythm, moved away from standard tuning Obviously, it’s difficult for me to get into So why not explore the idea of your play extracts from the arpeggios, mix in in favour of alternatives. Some of these players’ heads, but I think that son attending one of the many guitar some notes from the G major scale on these I can understand, like tuning you can look at the wilder tunings in schools out there? A quick Google the G, A and B chords and if you work to a chord obviously makes sense for two different ways. If you’re writing a search will reveal them to you and all at it, you should begin coming up with certain pieces and even DADGAD is tune away from the guitar, it’s easy to are well aware of the skills necessary to something like Ex 6. It might not be too fathomable in this respect. But players come up with something that’s very enter the world of professional guitar elegant, but it’s bang on correct! like Andy McKee, Antoine Dufour and difficult to put onto the fretboard. Every playing. Tell him he needs to read! September 2015 GuitarTechniques 7 60 Seconds With... Just one short minute is all it takes to find out what makes a great guitarist tick. Before she jumped into her limo for the airport, we grabbed a chat with exciting Finnish blues and slide guitarist, Erja Lyytinen. GT: Do you have a type of pick that GT: Who was your first influence you can’t live without? to play the guitar? EL: When playing slide I get a EL: My Dad. louder sound with Dunlop fingerpicks. I use a thumb pick GT: What was the best gig you and a middle-finger pick. I need ever did? fingerpicks to be able to play EL: Opening for Robert Plant in Travis picking style with heavy 2001. It was just a girl and a guitar gauge strings. When playing – scary, but so cool! regular guitar, I use a red Dunlop Jazz III. It fits my small hand well GT: And your worst playing and makes my playing precise. nightmare? EL: In Sweden, a huge biker GT: If you had to give up all your festival. The crowd was nice, but pedals but three, could you do it the weather was horribly cold and what would they be? – two degrees C in the summer. EL: Fulltone Clyde Standard My fingers really hurt. Wah-wah. In addition to the wah sound, you can leave the pedal in GT: What’s the most important different positions to get this nasal musical lesson you ever learnt? sound. TC Electronic Flashback EL: Play what you feel. When Delay with Looper, so many you’re on stage, forget what you’ve pre-sets to have fun. Delay adds a learned; scales, fancy chords etc. feel of sustain to playing. Mad Feel is so important. Professor Mighty Red distortion. I rarely play without distortion. GT: Present company excepted, who’s the greatest guitarist that’s GT: Do you play another ever lived? instrument well enough to EL: Jimi Hendrix was just be in a band? phenomenal for his time. EL: I play some bass and drums. I also play keys and I’d love to GT: Is there a solo you really wish someday be able to record some you had played? standards – just a woman and a EL: Mike Stern on Little Shoes. He Erja Lyytinen piano. I made the horn has got the blues – until he shreds with sparkly arrangements on the Sky Is Crying G&L ASAT and it to 36 million notes. album using a piano, so it is an Monster amp essential instrument to me in that GT: What’s the solo or song of your respect too. GT: Do guitar cables really make a Monster Amps (Finnish), but own that you’re most proud of? difference? What make are yours? recently bought a 135-watt Twin EL: Song: Grip Of The Blues; it GT: If a music chart were put in EL: Yes they do. My pedal board Reverb from 1975. Volume and has some nice chords, a deep story front of you, could you read it? has been built with George L’s gain both 5.5, spring reverb at 3, and lots of wah-wah distorted EL: Yes definitely! I got a Masters cables. Sometimes I use a wireless not too much bass. guitar. Solo: The Sky Is Crying – degree in music from Sibelius system though and then it’s Stage there’s the Elmore legacy and it Academy, Helsinki. It’s a very Clix, which hardly changes the GT: What kind of action do you keeps growing. basic but important skill. original sound, but boosts it a bit. have on your guitars? (Any particular quirks etc?) Erja Lyytinen’s GT: Is there anyone’s playing, EL: I use a high action. Standard Live In London of which you’re slightly jealous? guitar action 2.0 mm at 17th fret album is out Play what you EL: Eric Johnson and Pat and on slide guitars it is 2.5mm. now on Tuohi feel. When you’re on Metheny both have a brilliant Records. Her sense of melody. They’re amazing GT: What kind of strings do nationwide stage, forget what soloists and composers too. Sonny you use? 13-date UK you’ve learnt; scales, Landreth has his own unique style. Standard guitar, it’s D’Addario tour starts October 2nd at the n .010-.046 and when playing slide, Darlington Blues Club. one fancy chords. Feel is GT: What’s your favourite amp and I use .012-.052 and change the For further information on hk ani Ma so important. hEoLw: I d uos eydo uto s pelta iyt? a lot with hthigichkeesrt ssotruinndg .to .015 to get a Ewrwjaw L.eyryjtainlyeynt,i nveisnit.c: o m J 10 GuitarTechniques September 2015
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