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Post by delb0y on Mar 19, 2017 14:09:06 GMT
there are only four patterns but the variations within them are pretty infinite. Therein lies the key, I think. There are only four basic patterns in the Hansen books, but by the time you've chopped those patterns in half, or into a smaller fragments, allowed for different string combinations and the occasional dropped note or delayed note, then I reckon you could take almost any bar of finger-picked music ever and it would fit one of these patterns. The secret is to get so familiar with the patterns that you're doing that chopping and revising and delaying on the fly and suddenly, though you're using only four patterns, it no longer sounds like patterns.
This is actually how I learned electric guitar. Dickie Betts (one of my favourites) outlined the approach in an interview I read when I was in my formative years and I adopted the approach. He said he learned a Chuck Berry (RIP) solo, then a second. Sometimes he would play the first four bars of one and the second four of the other. He would mix the last four bars up. He would swap the turnaround around. By the time he learned a third and fourth Chuck Berry solo he had so many choices that he was actually creating his own solos. I think I only ever learned three solos but those three have given me enough soloing choices to last a lifetime.
So three electric solos and four finger-picking patterns. That's me :-)
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