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MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons - HYBRID VEHICLE, PART 2 This month, Andy Timmons continues exploring some of the many different and effective ways one can apply hybrid picking to melodic phrases. #AndyTimmons #ThemeFromaPerfectWorld

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 Hey, everybody.

00:19 Andy Timmins here, and welcome back to Melodic Muse,

00:21 my column for Guitar World.

00:22 We're going to carry on the ideas

00:24 that we were working on in the previous segment

00:27 with On Your Way Sweet Soul and using some hybrid picking

00:30 ideas.

00:32 In the first installment, we played some pretty simple

00:34 melodic things, but really getting

00:36 lines to have a dynamic shape by utilizing

00:38 the pick and the finger.

00:39 So let's carry on.

00:40 We're going to come up with some melodic exercises

00:42 now to get you on the path of using hybrid picking yourself.

00:46 So let's look at a few basic ideas

00:49 to kind of get you down the path of working

00:52 on using your pick and fingers.

00:54 I'm going to stick to basic E major

00:55 today, since we were talking about On Your Way Sweet

00:58 Soul in this key.

00:58 But--

00:59 [GUITAR PLAYING]

01:02 --just do a simple phrase like that,

01:03 where I'm just playing E major.

01:06 It's one, two, three on the A string.

01:10 And then using my middle finger, picking up on the note B

01:17 on the D string.

01:17 [GUITAR PLAYING]

01:25 So at first, I'm playing a--

01:28 it's kind of eighth note, sixteenth note.

01:30 [GUITAR PLAYING]

01:33 Speeding up to a little triple D.

01:40 Here's another idea in E major, ascending on the A string.

01:44 We're going to use one articulation for each string.

01:47 So pick on the A string, then up pick with the middle finger

01:53 on the D string.

01:56 Then repeat that on the G string.

01:59 And then on the B. A little multi-step bend at the end.

02:05 [GUITAR PLAYING]

02:09 OK.

02:13 [GUITAR PLAYING]

02:16 I'm bending from that--

02:19 the last phrase, I'm bending from a C sharp down to the D--

02:27 from the C sharp to the E. D sharp,

02:30 and then releasing it to the C sharp.

02:31 Nice little melody there.

02:33 [GUITAR PLAYING]

02:36 And by using the middle finger, it

02:39 just has a different articulation

02:41 and a different flow that you can get just using the pick.

02:43 [GUITAR PLAYING]

02:46 Doesn't sound bad, but--

02:47 [GUITAR PLAYING]

02:50 Here's another one in E major.

02:54 And it's essentially a lick that I played wrong

02:58 for most of my life until I met Jeff Carlese.

03:01 There's a great song called "Hold On Loosely"

03:03 that was a big hit for them in the '80s,

03:04 written by the great Jim Peterick.

03:06 And the solo I used to try to play on my early cover bands,

03:11 I got most of it right, but there was just one lick

03:13 I could never get the feel right.

03:14 And the grouping of notes was--

03:15 [GUITAR PLAYING]

03:19 I could do kind of a version of it,

03:23 but I finally got to meet Jeff.

03:25 It's been about 15 years ago.

03:26 We did one of these rock camps together.

03:28 And then finally, face to face, Jeff,

03:30 you got to show me the lick.

03:31 And oh, man, yeah, he picked my guitar up.

03:33 And it's a hybrid picking thing where he's--

03:36 basically out of the E major chord shape--

03:38 [GUITAR PLAYING]

03:42 --where he's just using the middle finger

03:44 to play the top note.

03:45 [GUITAR PLAYING]

03:49 And everything else kind of flows behind it.

03:52 So thank you, Jeff Carlese, for that lovely tidbit.

03:55 And I used it in one of my recorded solos.

03:57 I forget which song right now, but I totally

03:59 took that from Jeff and put it in one of my own tunes

04:02 as a little tribute to him.

04:03 So I hope you dig that.

04:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]

04:07 (upbeat music)

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