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Originally Posted by princeplanet
Everyone slurs. It’s an important aspect of jazz guitar phrasing.
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03-18-2024 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
Guitarists be like "i WaNt To SoUnD lIkE a HoRn!" (proceeds to pick every note)
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I've found descending slurs (legato) to be the most difficult to get the timing synchronisation correct.
I practice them with these type of 6 note descending lines.
I'm just picking once per bar. (Notated by the P.)
See below:
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I mean I don't think hammer ons and pull offs automatically sound horn like. Unless you have pretty monstrous control of your left hand, there are mechanical limitations that require somewhat arbitrary use of pick strokes that aren't going to match the deliberate way horn players can use slurs. Pull offs have a weird warbly sound that's unique to guitar. Strings of slurred notes tend to decay in a way that a horn wouldn't.
Also, you can get a huge variety of sounds out of picked notes. Picking doesn't have to have Paul Gilbert level attack and ferocity. Economy picking can sound very smooth and legato. Maybe even more legato, or at least uniform, because of the more consistent note timbre and volume.
Ultimately, a guitar is gonna sound like a guitar no matter what you do. Explore all the possibilities and find what mechanically and sonically does what you want. If that's all hammers and pull offs, or picking, or a mix of them, then do that.
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Yeah, I mean you don’t have to slur that much. That’s a separate approach. I don’t really play that way.
But incorporating slurs in lines in a way that’s informed by horn articulation is the most common approach among straightahead players and it has the trade off making things a bit easier on the left hand. It affects fingerings and so on though. Don’t try to play bebop in position; use your intuition and musical judgement…
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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