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hello and welcome to talkin blues
this month we're going to talk about a subject thats maybe a little less
technical then are than most but I go talk about scales in
licks per say we're gonna talk about more BR
an overall concept above
freezing what are the most important ingredients in freezing in fact
but one that's often overlooked and I'm talking about dynamics
now when you think about what makes a blues liquor any leak in any style
you got three basic ingredients you got the notes whatever the scale the
arpeggio or however you organize
no choices you've got the rhythm with which you place the notes inside the
music
and then you've got articulation articulation is kinda the
other the everything else category which includes all the stuff you do in your
in your of reading here like vibrato and string bending and all the little
of things that you put on a note to give it some a personality
and also includes how you attack the note in the right-hand
now I know from my own experience as a player that
for many years my focus was almost exclusively
on my fretting hand it was about learning skill patterns
learning how to organize the neck know what key I was in you know
are and then as far as my my right hand was concerned he was really
learning to pick with a coordinated attack so that I I will hit the note on
time
but other than that I didn't really delve too much into the right hand it
was just sort of a
an accessory in really the action I thought was all in my other hand
but as the years go by I E us solo
step back and start to listen to my own playing into the playing a father
are artist world with a different set of beers
I start to recognize that that third ingredient the articulation
is really the key to your personality
that's that's where you are everybody plays the same notes the rhythms are all
pretty much the
alike but you reside in how you play those notes that's what makes you sound
like you
so this time we're going to talk about specifically
how to use the loudness and softness in your plane to give your play more
personality
now when you're learning scale parents and things like that
a if you have an organized mess that one of the things that you do
routinely is you play with a metre
do you know whatever the pattern is it doesn't even matter the scale
but you learn that very concise organize
left and right hand coordination and what are the things that
that you tend to do as you practice is
whether consciously or not you tend to hit every note with the same volume
level
now when you do that it has the same effect on the music
as speaking in a monotone does when you're talking to somebody
the sample that comes to mind is is our
it we've all heard it Martin Luther King delivering
his I have a dream speech and when you hear that even if
or he remembers those forwards you remember the intensity there's something
about his delivery that just stays in your consciousness
after the words have have drifted away I
now imagine that Stephen Hawking
if you know him he's a scientist who who has a disability that
allows them only to speak through a computer text to voice
are interface if he was reading the I have a dream speech will come out like
I have a dream you know i'm saying is kinda funny but at the same time
you lose everything you lose the message you lose the context
all you hear is the words so in music
you have to think the same way that the notes are only part of the message the
rest the message comes from
how you play the notes just look at a couple ways kind of artificial but still
helpful
forearm starting to focus on dynamics in your own play
per say we're gonna do is take the world's most familiar spiel I think for
you guys
and for me the minor pentatonic it will do it or old
user-friendly Kiev a do
okay now I just played it up and down in the typical fashion using my flat pecan
alternate picking and all that I and every knows pretty much the same volume
okay now I wanna concentrate on developing contrast between soft allowed
the first say I'm gonna do is put down the pic cuz I'm too
comfortable with it and I'm gonna take up a technique that I'm not so
comfortable with and as bare fingers our play the same scale
it right along with me here so we'll play that a minor pentatonic scale or
only use
thumb and finger I'm not really I don't have a technique
so I'm just gonna try to grab the most any way I can
do now as I attacked those notes
you can hear that every note sounds a little different from use my former my
finger
it creates a different effect and thats dynamics in a nutshell
is that rise and fall in the attack that makes one note sound more
important than the other because it's a little bit louder