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Anybody have any riffs or runs to teach me.
« on: July 05, 2004, 10:01:51 AM »
If you have any riffs or runs that you know please give them to me.
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« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2004, 02:18:18 PM »
If you know your chords, play the chord tones. Play a half step above or below the chord tones, then the chord tones.  Add chromatics into and away from chord tones. Add whole steps before and after the chromatics. Traditional gospel uses a lot of pentatonic scales and fragments of the pentatonic.  Finally add blues scales that flat the third, fifth, and/or the seventh of the chord, or home key scale.  Generally the more bluesy the better sounding the riff and'or run.
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Anybody have any riffs or runs to teach me.
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2004, 09:54:16 AM »
I need more than that I mean notes and chords wise :wink:  :wink:

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Anybody have any riffs or runs to teach me.
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2004, 06:43:07 PM »
Can you explain that a little more for me bug.  Like can you give an example.  Here's what I have.  I made a run for preaching chords about a month or two ago.  And after your post I looked up blues scales and saw my run.  I put together more and here it is:


Key---------Scale-------------------Preaching run
B-----------   B,D,E,E#,F#,A---------F#,A,B,D,E,E#,B
C-----------C,Eb,F,F#,G,Bb--------G,Bb,C,Eb,F,F#,C
Db----------Db,Fb,Gb,G,Ab,Cb----   Ab,Cb,Db,Fb,Gb,G,Db
D-----------D,F,G,G#,A,C----------A,C,D,F,G,G#,D
Eb----------Eb,Gb,Ab,A,Bb,Db-----Bb,Db,Eb,Gb,Ab,A,Eb
Bb----------Bb,Db,Eb,E,F,Ab-------Bb,Db,Eb,E,F,Ab
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