John Coltrane - Sheets of Sound

[brwnhornet59]

the sheets of sound approach just means playing relentless sequences of arpeggios and scalar licks at high speeds, usually with wider intervals and incorporating the whole register. someone mentioned holdsworth before, he fits the description perfectly and its no coincidence that he modeled his whole approach on horn playing and was a huge fan of trane. shawn lane is another guy who fits the bill, he was even mad enough to try pick everything instead of using legato

Shawn did a damn good job of it as well, (picking every note when he wanted to). Two awesome players.

[fumblefingers]

the sheets of sound approach just means playing relentless sequences of arpeggios and scalar licks at high speeds, usually with wider intervals and incorporating the whole register. someone mentioned holdsworth before, he fits the description perfectly and its no coincidence that he modeled his whole approach on horn playing and was a huge fan of trane. shawn lane is another guy who fits the bill, he was even mad enough to try pick everything instead of using legato

do you mean ligado? (i.e. hammer-ons and pull-offs)

[FatJeff]

AFAIK the term is "legato", at least that's how it's used in classical guitar. Never heard of it spelled "ligado".

Legato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[randalljazz]

two different terms:

legato, italian "tied together", general musical term for smoothly connected notes.

ligado, spanish, also means literally "tied together", but is used more specifically to refer to slur technique on guitar, i.e., hammer-on and pull-off.