Re: Pat Martino techniques

Reed Kotler Consulting ( reed@reedkotler.com )
Sun, 02 Mar 1997 21:38:01 +0000

At 09:29 PM 3/1/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Reed wrote
>
>>On the guitar you are forced to use drop 2 voicings for the most
>>part. Thus [B E G D]
>>
>>If you want to think drop 2 on the piano, it's very easy to
>>just visualize the chord in closed position and see the 2nd voice
>>from the top drop an octave.
>>
>>On the guitar this visualization process doesnt work.
>
>Thanks for spelling it out so clearly for me. I guess the flip side is
>that guitarists have an easier time "planing", or transposing. Right?
>
Definitely the guitar has it's advantages hamonically.

For example, all the half step chord chord approaches above and
below are simple whereas for the piano you have to work on them.

reed

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