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Hello all! This week I'm taking a look at the weird and wonderful whole tone scale. There's some theory, some famous examples from Monk, Fripp and Debussy, and I discuss how you might actually use it in your playing. 

Here's the link: https://youtu.be/IF1uIu6q_o8

I've written out everything I talk about in the video in the music/tab below. (Apologies to any music theorists who are shocked by a few mis-spellings in the standard notation. I couldn't figure out a way to fix this in Guitar Pro which is very tab-centric.)

Let me know if you enjoy this kind of thing and in the future I can occasionally do some videos along similar lines.

Speak next week,

Adrian

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Iain G

Dorian

Chris Kueny

Well I know nothing about this, although I guess I've heard it without knowing. Will play around with it!

Ralph Blair

Of the next 100 things I could've guessed you'd talk about this was 101. Really enjoyed this, massive fan of both Monk and Debussy, a great review. Always felt I should like King Crimson more than I could get myself to, given the talent level, and the joy I'd gotten from Fripp's guitar solo in Baby's on Fire, but there it is. He's still got the chops as evidenced by the recent lockdown video linked below. If you like Debussy, I highly recommend Walter Gieseking's versions of the piano works on EMI. Thanks again for this lesson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgelFVZBj_w

Chris Kueny

That Fripp video was pretty hilarious. (Also I never actually knew who played the solo on Baby's on Fire. I just went on an Eno jag recently after not listening to any for a long time, and I was shocked at how fresh Here Come the Warm Jets still sounds. And that solo in BoF is absolutely exhilarating.

Fin

Thanks Adrian. This will keep me busy for a while. Lesson on diminished scale?

Ian Cowan

Metronomes practice their timing using Robert Fripp.... great lesson, but man how I wish I had never started this.

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, that would be a natural follow up to this lesson, I think. I'll try and make that happen later in the year.

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, it's an interesting sound and worth knowing a bit about. For most players there are probably more important and useful things to be working on though.

anyonecanplayguitar

Haha the Fripp lockdown vid is brilliant. I'm going to have to post that on the lesson page for my video on my site. I actually feel the same when it comes to King Crimson and a lot of prog. The musicianship, inventiveness and sheer craziness of a lot of the music is incredible, but it's not something I'm naturally that drawn to, or something that I listen to that much.

anyonecanplayguitar

And the Diamond Head album is brilliant. I have it on vinyl. There certainly might be a possible lesson there.

Mik Shawyer

Just joined this Patreon, least I could do after watching your YouTube vids, excellent stuff and as someone who’s not picked up my guitar for far too long just the push I needed, if you struggle with King Crimson because of “prog” may I recommend “Discipline” as less prog more amazing, I’m sure you’ll already know it but just in case 😉

anyonecanplayguitar

Hi Mik, good to have you on here - thanks so much for the support. Yes, I listened to Discipline quite a lot when I was younger - no denying that one is a great record, no matter what your views on prog! When I'm in the mood for it I do enjoy some prog. At it's best it can be incredible, it just loses me when it lapses into muso self-indulgence!

Mik Shawyer

I know exactly what you mean 😉