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SpeedwagonTa sworth Saal id the Carvil ed an inne Se Pre back of th through th ere aa Sea Peer m the Carvj fr winks Dear Guitarone: heard about alo of differen pick iques, such as alternate picking ing. sweep picking, economy and circle picking, How many there, and which one do you amend! , 15 Thompson Dear Ks Aid from fingerpicking and hybrid Hh uses both pick and fin we named just about all of the ar picking styles. There are at most ate a spin-of, ot at least the ones you've mentioned, fer example, remolo picking is an acce) ersion of alternate picking, and sweep picking Is related to cross picking As w your question, which picking tech sigue we at GuifarOne recommend, the sso" is—all of them! But i you're inter feted in which one is che most Important, fesalterate picking, and heres why, Most music is subdivided into eighth fe 2h note rhythms. I is imperative to Seer the meter In your picking hand, and fe constant “dovwn-up-downilp” motion picking helps you to do just No matter how syncopated the keeps you in syne (la the groove i. They say seeing Is belie look at an example measure of Fig. 1s a Iith- omatic exercise played along using altemate picking. Ifyou ay it in any picking order sdenen-) These instructions sometimes have a temporal parameter as well For example, yout may be indieated to playa two-ica sure passage gradually louder via a crescendo symbol (=), Or perhaps ull be lnstructed to play & pass dually softer, in which ease you'l see either a decrescendo symbol (-) ar dim. which stands for dieninuendo, Another common symbol found in four song wanseriptions and lessons is 4a, often followed hy foeo a bit later i the measure of section. The symbol 8. indicates chat the musie should be pl ‘one octave higher than the notation cetes. I's .common tool beeause reading ledger lines ean be quite difficult in cer tain arrangements. The loco symbol tells the player when to return eo the oct ‘whieh the music is actually written. There are far roo many symbols (ois here, so fora complete reference guide 1 these and other musical symbols, check ‘out the Pocket Music Ditionary fo I compete Errata pickups Pas po eeneeeetene et Fert eee ed eee stetnens Cee edChild's Play Fes no secret that the travel ‘music eamival known as Ozzfe has a predominantly young metal audience, so why not let a young metal aficionado help determine the lineup of bands’ Well, [ guess if you're the It year-old son of 2zy and Sharon Osbourne, tcould happen. With a litte bit of help from Jack Osbourne, this years Ozete lineup looks to be a formidable ‘one. Sharing the main stage with (Ozzy when this year’ tour Kicks offon july 2in West Palm Beach, Fia, will be metal powerhouse Pantera, voodoo rockers Godsmack, evil diseo mavens Cowboys of Oz: Panter willbe pat ofthis year's Ozzest, Statle-X, Tommy Lee Methods ‘of Mayhem, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age, and RO.D. Jack's influence was even more evident in setting the Tineup for the tour's second tage. This year's offerings include headliner Ministry and supporting acts Kitie, TapRoot, Primer 55, Shuvel, Pitchshifter Disturbed, Crazy Town, The Deadlights, Slaves on Dope and Pumpjack While we'e on the subject, i jou havent done so alread) fans of Qurfest and. Black Sabbath should check out the Nativity in Black 2 cibute album featuring Sabbath clas sies performed by Slayer, Pantera, Godsmack, Static-X System of a Down, an Megadeth, to name a few. The dlise even includes rapper Busta Rhymes, who teamed with the Ozzman himself for an all-new take on “Iron Man,” and had this to say regarding the music impact of ack Sabbath; “The nance, ust the whole en the music is the effect that More Warped Music Orzest isnt the only travel ing musie circus this year. On June 24, in Phoenix, the Warped Tour enters its sith year as Americas longestrun ning festival tour, featurin Green Day in their fest US. out n han two years. Also on th Long Beach Dub Allstars, NOFX, and The Mighty Mighty Hosstones, out the site We're Not in Kansas Anymore TE Peace ighy Mighty Bosstones: ting 2 varped impression The original Kansas lineup bback together and set to rele The disc is titled Som. album, Polarity, from jazz git for jazz guitar lovers. MM our yourself a snifter while you kick back and enjoy the inspiring new fiants Jimmy Bruno and Joe Beck. 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Let There Be Light Fans of the sonically adven. tucous and absurd listen up: King Crimson is back with thee latest release, ConsiruKetion of Light Featuring a leaner, mean er, raw sound, the disc features the. inimitable songeraft_of Adrian Belew (vocals and guitar) ‘and Robert Pripp (guia, com: bined with the sonie machina: tions of Trey Gunn (stick) and Pat Masteloto (drums), Chock full ofthe odd time signatures, polyrhythms, and weind noises we've come to expect from these © Instruments), also from Cherry Lane. If youre a jazzer, this is a must-have reference of 1,001 melodic gems played ‘over dozens ofthe most impor. tant progressions heard in jazz. 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Also hitting the pop stages this year will be one of GuitarOne’s “Best in the US (March 2000) finalists, Joy Basu, Joy reports that he recently recorded a live Disney Concert Special with babe-a licious pop sensation Jessica Simpson 0 be aired in June and! will be making select tele Vision and radio spot appear ances as well With his new gig in tw, it looks as though Joy's emerging as quite the “ladies guitarist.” having toured last Year with CoCo Lee, and snag ging the 1999 Blockbuster Music Awards gig with Jennifer Lopes. ‘New Tab Books ‘trom Cherry Lane Sevendust—Home Brian Setzer Orchestra Brian Setzer Orchestra New Tab Books trom ‘Warner Bros, ream Theater Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes from a Memory Kiss—Kiss Gultar Anthology ‘Mixed Folio—Divas of Rock Guitar ‘Mixed Folio—Coltc Guitar Roy Orbison—Roy Orbison Guitar Songbook Books from Hal Leonard Corporation and Cherry Lane Music Company are available from Music Dispatch (800-637- 2852:.wnt musi spatch.com) Warner Bros. books are aval. able from Note Service Muse at 1-800-628-1528, — MM10 Great Riffs from the Early Years: 1974-1977 cllowing @ successful reunion tour in 1996 and the Psycho Circus tour in 1998, Kiss has hit the hardyock road once again for their farewell tour in the year 2000. More than a quarter century since forming in New York, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss ‘are still rocking in all their painted glory, Time has been good to their high-camp theatrics and “punchvinthe-ear” power rock. Still looking fit and buff in their Instantly recognizable scifi costumes and loonie makeup, Kiss is bringing their ‘original brand of glamorous arena rock to a new generation of young fans, along With their parents, who pumped their fists in the air in the '70s. ‘And that's @ good thing, because under all the flash, fire, and blood smal der tough, stripped-down licks and hooks cranked out by “star” rhythm guitarist. Stanley and lead “space man’ Frehley. Though not regularly cited as influences by contemporary rockers, it would be safe to say that acts as disparate as Bon Jovi and Rob Zombie have given Kiss more than a casual listen. Without ques- tion, they have been true to the sound, spirt, and outrageous image of rock ‘n' roll, and have earned their right to party every day! | ane aay rom Kiss, 1974 thet debut eight in he mid Df the sensitive singer! son 974. Though they were certain eatly on, their roaring sound and blunt "sex and rock ‘n’ roll” lyrics qualified them for anything but the John Denver Hall of Fame Coming from the local New York music scene and the remnants of Stanley and Simmons previous band, Wicked Leste, Kis inf ences were Alice Cooper, the New York Doll and Hlack Sabbath. Paul Stanley explained the chote bands name: “I liked it because it familiar word. 1 knew that no mat fane knew what a kiss was, an the able 10 remember our name bec ‘iss is considered to be their fi album, successfully capturing Aggressive nature of thei Black Diamond” Fig ed on Alien 1975 and A chord iff barre with . four-measure ph WENV pr ° note lick in meas re ; :£4 “Black Diamond] fe ek = 12 HEHEHE Fig. 2 “Cold Gin") appealing melody before locking into the F thor in measure 3. The rapid change trom GtoCin measure 4isa staple of rock guitar, and was a favorite of such guitar icons as Keith Richards Jimi Hendrix From Kiss, 1974 ae *Ace” of guitars himself penned this pact to the pleasures of alcohol. Like sev tral other "kiss Klassies” from the landmark ‘debut outing, wasalso deemed worthy for the monumental Alive! ld Gin’ [Fig 2, inthe “Kiss Key” ofA employs the open A string underneath a Serle of AS and GS chords and a st-inver- Sion D ad. ehley often added an open | Siting a a pedal tone to fatten up his intro rife} Due tothe placing ofthe AS on strings {and 3, the open A sting an octave below the root makes fora powerful effec, the GB/A to DIA, accesed by maintaining theD (ih et, string and simply lower ingthe root note of Gone half step down t0 Fa where it becomes the Sed of D- major. Complementing the repeating modulation isthe ss fom G3/A to AS In measures 2 and | Iso of merit is the ofbeat phrasing hwoughoutespecialy in measures 1 and 5 where G3/A and DIA are struck on the an” of beats 2,3, and 4 From Kiss, 1974 ‘One ofthe essential hits in the Kiss cata Jog of crunching killer riffs is “Deuce” [Fig 3) I's in the same Key as “Black Diamond, js based on almost the same progression, fand was also performed on Alle! However, the forms are shifted up an octave into chugging htm and contain tasty. syncopated embellishments. Like someone once said, if you change thin around too much, i ist rock "roll any tmoce The trick so find many ways of play ingthe same thing In measures 1 and 3, a boogie pattern with 5s and 6ths splayed, probably high fr (and fouder) than any bluesman ever thought of doing. On the “and” of beat 4 an Furpl stop at fet 10 played as antcipa- tion ofthe chord change in measure2. Here the A Grd of F) shammered on, followed by the exact same pattern for G at fet 12. On beat 4,a"Hendrs-type”pull-offis executed, resolving tothe 3rd (8) at fret 4. Measure 3 fsa virtual repeat of measure 1, while mes: sure 4 reprises the F hammeron lick from From Kiss, 1974 apt title for tis pulsing barmburner, Fivehouse” (Fig. 4) Is yet another crowd te from the band’s nial offering that Iso appears on Alive! Working the same round as "Cold Gin." the open A |°F tis or fA pen gs Low in jor. es2 sing and “the ‘chord with the open A pedal tone is the basis for a longer and more involved intro that goes on to include lose-voiced G and Deiads. The eight-measure intro is basicaly wo four-measure phrases. Measures 1 and 5 contain one of the hippest and most melodie passages in the "Kiss Katalog.” as the harmony moves AS-AB-Amaj9)-AB, “Measures 2 and 6 alternate AS and AB wie: fngs In measures 3 and 7, Dand G rads at fet 7 altemate with the Rngering form used for G and C in "Black Diamond.” The use fulness ofthis I-IV chordal lek cannot be ‘overemphasized, as it makes fast move- ‘ment practical and sounds killer. Measure 4 rivets the musical tension by repeating AS with driving eighth notes minus the open A string “Measure ends wth the second-biggest ‘open poser chord on the guitar (open ES ‘being the champ), A5, gloriously sustaining Joud and long. “Parasite” From Hotter Than Hell, 1974 ‘Kiss teetered quickly back into the stu- dio on thelr platform heels fllowing their ‘commercially stagnant fist album in 1874 Antsticaly, Hower Than Hell was a less than-breathtaking sophomore effort, with its urban sludge mix—though hardcore fans may fel otherwise. One ofthe stand four eus, however, was “Parasite” Fig.) This tune jumps with a ripping two: ‘measure into, It consists of a chromatic ascending bas lick of F-F3-G performed in ‘several variations, Observe that all of the notes are I6ths except forthe Gon beat 4 of ‘measure 1. As simple as this if, the syn copations must be played as precisely as ‘machine gun 10 give it life. Try to play downstrokes and upstrokes, keeping the pattern altemating in I6ths, even on the ‘sts, which should be completely muted. Be sure to include and sound the two ‘muted 16th notes on the and” of beat 4 in ‘measure 1, as they add ance textural touch to this fast passage. Although the concept and intent are totally different, this type of strumming, where your hand is constant ‘moving down and up in 16th notes, s quite similar to funk. “Rock and Roll All Nite” From Dressed to Kill and Alivel, 1975 Paul, Gene, Ace, and Peter were dazzling and shocking arena audiences in 1975 when Dresed 10 Kill was released and became thee est studio album to hit the ‘Top 40, Produced by the legendary Edie Kramer of Jimi Hendrix fame, it had sharp ex production values and showeased Ace to better advantage. Following in the same year was the gargantuan Alive whieh pro polled Kiss from an underground curiosity {oa full-fledged cultural phenomenon. The album, which was also commandeered by “JULY 2000 « The Magazne You Can Pay 274 cute Kramer, is revered as one ofthe {"in-concert” rock roll recordings Tive version of “Rock and Roll All ig, 6) vated into the Top 20 and up theparty hearty" philosophy not but of the majority of rock faley’s “Rock Around the Yet another key-of A he essential L(A), IV (D).V make an exteme- er Kiss involv TV lick from “Black Diamond" and bane irchouse” in measures 1 and 2 be Hee : ring open A chord, See | js “ da te 9 a ae base D and E chords ae implied with do ble stops in 3rds, and A and Fuse the I-IV lic in reverse, culminating in resolution t0 the big open A chord. The significant shifts in register contribute tothe exciting dynam: ‘Gtr 2 (Paul) complements Gtr 1 with a huge six-sring Gsus2/D chord at fret 10 in measure 1. In measure 2, the chord moves tuptoan equa isDbaree chord The resolution to A is then accomplished with a slick AS chord con the and” of beat 4 of m bination of two guitar parts is positively Symphonic and makes “Rock and Roll All Nite” stan as the defining moment in the Kiss Keonicles From Dressed to Kill, 1975 though its used here | as a passing tone 28 GuitarOne JulyNonetheless, the emphasis onthe +th (, wit brat, ives this rune a bluesy reso nance not often found in *Kissdom.” “God of Thunder” From Destroyer, 1976 oe to be sas nat cpag lise os and in eect ndepee tied ad money ons py rsd ee pile on ea | get hve ne sons ee be fen oad op Beran aaa hed Og ey Nein abe ebona inet Sea, arene eat teader ea ci race ei Sar caine toa tr ce tears tow queasy tal | ee one lure Tne eae wee tegen Eo ae coset a See cas aot oaks Tt esmectecoe ra at sataaesae tate oor “Shock Me” From Love Gun, 1977 In 1977, Kiss was declared the most popular band in the United States, and the Kiss Army fan club numbered in the mil: llons. With Ede Kramer sil manning the helm, the “Kiss Kraft” sailed abead to #4 on the charts with Love Gun, largely on the surengeh of the tile tack, “Christine Sixteen,” and “Shock Me "Shock Me" (Pig. 9} featured the lead. ‘vocals of Ace Frehley, appeared on alive land went on to beeome a concert favorit. The rill features a stock IV-I pattern of DDIACA in measuses 1 and 2, and G/A-DIA in measure 3, es prety standard fare inthe key ofA except forthe con! hal-tep bends of Ff to G on the low F string in measures | 24nd the open D string gowting under- heath tall Again, W's the small detals that ‘make forthe memorable rf “Rocket Ride” From Alive ll, 1977 1 Les Paul guitars were weapons, Ace Frehley would be a charter member ofthe NHA. Big and balls, bis sound is de lethal thunder that rock fans crave. "Rocket Ride provided the evidenee for these claims fweo—as a release on boul lve In 1977 and Frehley’ sole disc Lve+ Fin 1988 “The elght-measure intro (0 four-mes. sure phrases) of "Rocket Ride” [Fg 10) is ‘composed mainly of te E (rood, D 7th). [sir (Sth), and A (ath) notes with the DDe/Fs (major 70h) and A&/Bs (Sth) notes as passing tones at the 5th position. It also inchudes the open, low E szing in counter point. This technique was a part of the {tural language of heaty mctal bands in the smut ple with whieh Kiss always hada tangential zelaionship. 190 GuitarOne JULY 2000+ vn