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| Hear here the Looking Up chord solo exactly the way it is notated in the sheet music and guitar tablature (TAB). The Looking Up chord solo is the most basic building block--the three-chord rock of chord solos. From the key of C bar position at the 8th fret it oscillates to the 3rd fret position, because at both you can play all three I, IV, & V chords. The basic strategy is to play a new chord every two beats at the opposite position from which you are playing. With this base of two positions, in the key of C, you can improvise chord solos--just listen to the "top" note and use the chord position that uses that note (there is always an inversion custom tailored to your melodic needs, but it takes experience to build a library of licks).d |
MP3.com CD: Chording the Solo #1 -  buy it!
CD: Chording the Solo #1
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson |
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| Hear here the Fatefully chord solo exactly as notated in the sheet music. The chord solo attempts to rake the sands of time with a course puctuated with recurrent #5#9 transition chord that relentlessly leads toward the level ground, grinding down the dunes as fatefully as water to the sea. Try not, to force obstacles aside, but merely flow around them, undermining their foundation. Time is on the side of the devoted, since in the fullness of time the inevitability of change fatefully erodes all obstacles to dust.… |
MP3.com CD: Chording the Solo #2 - buy it!
CD: Chording the Solo #2
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the "More to Come" guitar lick exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. The guitar lick for More to Come plays off the mood swings between major and minor tones with a root-6th-b7th call, followed by a chromatic response that slides from the 7th up to the root. All 12 tones in the key are used in this 12 bar lick--don't miss a note! |
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| Hear here the "Sliding Sideways" chord solo as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. T |
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| Hear here the chord solo exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. T |
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| Hear here the "Waylay" chord solo as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. T |
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| Hear here the "Walking Tall" chord solo as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. T |
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| Hear here the "Harsh Desire" chord solo as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. T |
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| Hear here the Non Sequitur guitar lick exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. This jazzy lick, here bluesified, starts with powerful ninth chords, then punctuates with a forward rake that makes the ears prick upright. The 2/5 changes in the turnaround bring the blues home, but with a jazzy touch that makes this lick a keeper. The chords come fast and furious, exploiting all the nuances of the cycle of 5ths (3/6 2/5). µ |
MP3.com CD: Chording the Solo #3 - buy it!
CD: Chording the Solo #3
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the Hot Shot guitar lick exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. "Hot Shot." is a major blues lick within a call and response pattern. "Hot Shot" uses a slow blues changes (1-4-1-1-4-4-1-1-5-4-1-5), but rockets along at 120 bpm. The response uses a backward rake, that makes you sound like a Texas bluesman, and the turnaround uses a forward rake that makes you sophisticated like Chicago.t |
MP3.com CD: Chording the Solo #4 - buy it!
CD: Chording the Solo #4
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the Riht-On Time guitar lick exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. The Right-On Time lick starts with a slide followed by a double-stop, Texas style. The response is a backward rake followed by a three-note chord fill that slides downward into the root. Every classic blues technique is packed into these 12 bars--a MUS T for budding jammers.. |
MP3.com CD: Chording the Solo #5 - buy it!
CD: Chording the Solo #5
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the Long Way Down guitar lick exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. The Long Way Down lick punches a sliding chord then follows with a minor-to-major third slide at both the beginning and the end of the lick. The overall effect is of falling down, down, down, and hopefully--if the effect works on you--a Long Way Down. (3 |
MP3.com CD: Chording the Solo #6 - buy it!
CD: Chording the Solo #6
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Here here the walking rhythm guitar exactly as notated in the sheet music and guitar tablature (TAB). The guitarist simultaneously plays a walking bass line puncuated by chords--making you sound like you are playing guitar and bass at the same time!! |
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| Hear here the "Hot Shot" walking rhythm guitar exactly the way it is notated in the sheet music and guitar tablature (TAB). The guitarist simultaneouxsly plays a walking bass line puncuated by chords--making you sound like you are playing guitar and bass at the same time!îî |
MP3.com CD: Walking the Rhythm #4 - buy it!
CD: Walking the Rhythm #1
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the Looking Up walking rhythm guitar exactly the way it is notated in the sheet music and guitar tablature (TAB). The guitarist simultaneouxsly plays a walking bass line puncuated by chords--making you sound like you are playing guitar and bass at the same time!î |
MP3.com CD: Walking the Rhythm #1 - buy it!
CD: Walking the Rhythm #1
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| as notated in the sheet music and guitar tablature (TAB). The guitarist simultaneouxsly plays a walking bass line puncuated by chords--making you sound like you are playing guitar and bass at the same time!îî |
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| Hear here the walking rhythm guitar part exactly the way it is notated in the sheet music and guitar tablature (TAB). The guitarist simultaneously plays a walking bass line puncuated by chords--making you sound like you are playing guitar and bass at the same time!e |
MP3.com CD: Walking the Rhythm #2 - buy it!
CD: Walking the Rhythm #2
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the walking rhythm guitar part exactly the way it is notated in the sheet music and guitar tablature (TAB). The guitarist simultaneously plays a walking bass line puncuated by chords--making you sound like you are playing guitar and bass at the same time!e |
MP3.com CD: Walking the Rhythm #5 - buy it!
CD: Walking the Rhythm #2
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the Non Sequitur rhythm guitar part exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. This jazzy lick, here bluesified, exploits all the nuances of the cycle of 5ths (3/6 2/5). |
MP3.com CD: Walking the Rhythm #3 - buy it!
CD: Walking the Rhythm #3
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the "Waylay" rhythm guitar part exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. The guitarist simultaneously plays a walking bass line puncuated by chords--making you sound like you are playing guitar and bass at the same time!! |
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| Hear here the "Long Way Down" rhythm guitar part exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. The guitarist simultaneously plays a walking bass line puncuated by chords--making you sound like you are playing guitar and bass at the same time!d |
MP3.com CD: Walking the Rhythm #6 - buy it!
CD: Walking the Rhythm #3
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the "More to Come" rhythm guitar part exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. The guitarist simultaneously plays a walking bass line puncuated by chords--making you sound like you are playing guitar and bass at the same tim e!dd |
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| Hear here the "Waylay" rhythm guitar part exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. The guitarist simultaneously plays a walking bass line puncuated by chords--making you sound like you are playing guitar and bass at the same time!! |
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| Hear here the "Harsh Desire" rhythm guitar part exactly as notated in the sheet music inside the CD booklet. The guitarist simultaneously plays a walking bass line puncuated by chords--making you sound like you are playing guitar and bass at the same time! |
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| Never Give Up, no matter what they say the odds are. If they
accept only 1-out-of-100, then just make sure you're the 1.
How? By never giving up, persevere, hang on tight, don't let
go, don't let up, Never Give Up. |
CD: Stand Back by Robert Colin Johnson
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Sassy never asks why, never wonders, always has an answer--any answer will do. Feedback talk, back talk, back-out, -up, -around, back to the ground, give it back you sassy young thing you. |
CD: Stand Back
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: Music composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Floating away, further and further we go--away and finally gone. All the tension of the day floats away, further and further away. Every regret, mishap, mistake, ill fortune finally floats away, away, further and further down the receding tunnel of time until again we can find peace. |
CD: Stand Back
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: Music composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Keep the Faith, don't give up now or ever--that's the creed of this relentless melody. Triplets--dividing a beat by 3 instead of 4--keep the faith flowing steadily as the melody soars amid a throbbing rhythm that barely tethers the near-gail force. No matter what life throws at you, Keep the Faith and every obstacle will be vanquished by mother nature's own winds of change. |
CD: Stand Back
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: Music composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Moving ever Upward Spirals the never ending fountain of life and change. Follow the fleeting shadows, upward toward the light, the truth, the never ending cycle of Upward Spirals. |
CD: Stand Back
Label: JazzGuitarist.Org
Credits: Music composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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