Showing posts with label vinnie moore. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

vinnie moore lick

I love Vinnie Moore. This comes from a tune of his called "Pieces of a Picture" from his great 1988 album Time Odyssey. It occurs at 2:48 in the tune.

I transcribed this lick because:
1. it's cool,
2. it makes a great exercise,
3. the ending I consider a signature Vinnie lick.

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Some notes:

He plays it over F#minor, but it would work over anything from the key of A major. Of course you can transpose it to wherever...

It really is around a quarter = 132, so getting it up to tempo may (or may not) be challenging for you.

There's a little bit of rhythmic displacement: the motive that starts with the triplet sixteenths followed by 4 sixteenths begins the first time on the and of the beat then it begins on the downbeat...unity and diversity...