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Elf Riffs #2 with Carl Roa - Adding Fusion to the Blues

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Uploaded by on Dec 16, 2009

Guitar World and Carl Roa bring you "Elf Riffs," a guitar lesson series from the Magic Elf guitarist.

Lesson #2, Adding Fusion to the Blues, helps you learn some cool fusion riffs to spice up your blues playing. Including chromatic passing tones and how to incorporate the Lydian Dominant Scale over 7th chords.

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  • Groovin', man!  Very nice!

  • He is pretty damn good!

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  • I really like his manner...he is quite humble and soft spoken, not to mention that he is quite a musician.

  • @weaponx29

    Fusion is basically playing penatonic but outside the box. Obviously they are choice notes but jazz in a nutshell is playing notes that mostly work against a chord, creating dissonance and tension. Combine that with pentatonic runs and bends over a blues progression and you get something around fusion.

  • cool i'm the 10,000th viewer!!!

  • He'll end up with tennis elbow picking like that haha, seems to work though

  • @5tartawar because in c minor the notes are C D Eb F G Ab Bb C

    and the g minor seven arpeggio has G Bb D F and the A at the end of the arpeggio can be used to cause tension even if it is not in the c minor scale. it is not diatonic but hey there are no rules cause jazz=freedom. peace

  • why does the g minor 7 arp work over a c minor?

  • @weaponx29 blues is often based off the penatonic minor (sometimes major) scale. fusion, usually short for "jazz fusion" is jazz or funk ideas mixed mostly with that of metal or rock.

  • what's the difference between blues and fusion? haha..how to play fusion?? \m/

  • Great lesson Carl. I've been working on some of this stuff and it is inspiring.

    Mike

  • @prsdiezel No, he has a large head :)

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