Friday, June 1, 2012

Spotlight licks: Scott Terry

this edition of "spotlight licks" is brought to you by musician extraordinaire, scott terry. scott is a multi instrumentalist who plays, harp, guitar, banjo, mandolin and countless others. he has played with some world class musicians. he has played with the legendary bluegrass out fit the lewis family, was guitar tech for smash country stars heartland, is endorsed by martin guitars, jammed with earl scruggs and countless other great musical endeavours. he is going to demonstrate moving up on the neck, playing various voicings of the A chord and throwing in some smokin chicken pickin licks based on the A minor and A major pentatonic scales. he even throws in some chromatic notes while going up. he has some great hybrid picking throughout,has some huge bends, some great pull off licks and ends on a cool banjo-esque lick. have fun with this one. he breaks it down slow at the end of the video. that is the prime time to pick up what he is doing. if you have a tough time break it down to learning it a section at a time. consider a section of licks the area in one position of the A chord. as he moves up to the next position of the chord that is the next section and so on.

4 comments:

  1. John Beret is awesome!!

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  2. That Scott is hot! That picking makes me frothy!

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  3. That was great, Scott. Funny, I bought a Les Paul Standard and have been working on the pentatonic scale a lot.
    Out of the five notes, which one is dropped (?) a 1/2 step to make it a minor pentatonic?

    You know what I mean, my mentor...

    Billy

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  4. Minor pentatonic is simply the 1, 3, 4, 5, & 7th notes of a natural minor scale. Major pentatonic is the 1, 2, 3, 5, & 6th notes of a natural major scale.

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