For this final Lick that we’ll look at in this package we’ll advance ahead a bit in the Too Cool for School solo. Guthrie continues to come up with new ways of playing chromatic ideas while keeping them all extremely musical. The first chromatic idea here is a simple simple walkup on the B string from the 9 fret to the 12 fret (notice how he breaks up a 4 note chromatic run by throwing in one note on the G string). s tring). The second chromatic idea here takes place in that 12th fret position of the all too familiar E minor (or G Major) pentatonic pentatonic scale. Between bending bending the 15th fret of the the B string up to the unison note on the 12 fret of the E string Guthrie starts to throw in three chromatic notes on E string (12th, (12th, 13th and 14th frets). He plays around in this area a bit turning the phrase around a bunch of times before he start s to climb chromatically up the E string while pivoting off the B note 12th fret on the B string. To finish this off he eases back into phrasing with the pentatonic scale. Between just these last two “Licks” we’ve seen Guthrie introduce more then a handful of ways to create interesting licks and phrases with chromatic movement at the heart of the ideas. Never again should should any of us be content to just play a chromatic scale straight up
LICK 20 As recorded by jamtrackcentral.com (From the 2014 Album GUTHRIE GOVAN'S 20 ESSENTIAL LICKS)
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