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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from "Waylay" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson. The Waylay melody mimicks its namesake by lulling listeners with a sing-song melody transposed for IV and V chords, then ambushing them by switching to a straight-ahead walking rhythm. The 24-bar lead stretches the technique, by lulling the listener with long slides in the first 12-bars, then filling in the slides with quick runs during the last 12-bars.. |
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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from "Harsh Desire" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson. T he Harsh Desire lick forward rakes to a high root followed by a minor-to-major hammer on the way to low root. The turnaround turn it all around by echoing the beginning bars using chords instead of single notes. The lead uses repetition to set the listeners up to expect double-stops, then substitutes unusual bends that make their heads pop up.. |
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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from "Jib Jive" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson. The Jib Jive lead plays off the bluesy major-minor interplay between the 6th and the b7th, and echoes it with a 2nd to b3rd lick. The "swing" time plus this major-minor interplay, makes this jazz-blues lead a jive that is no jib. |
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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from "More to Come" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson. This lead starts with major-blues lick sliding up from the minor third to the major third, then transposes the motif up for the 4th and 5th. |
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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from "Long Way Down" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson. This lead starts with a downward minor blues run, but played in the relative minor fretboard position, transforming it into a major blues lick. The second part of the lead returns to bar position, but integrated major-blues slurs that echo the earlier downward run.t |
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CD: Soaring the Solo #6
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson |
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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from "Walking Tall" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson. The Walking Tall lick combines numerous double-stop calls with single-string responses sprinkled with hammer-ons and bends.. |
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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from "Sliding Sideways" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson. The guitar licks from Sliding Sideways plays off the chromatic runs between the 6th-b7th slide of the IV chord being just a 1/2-step below the b3rd-3rd slide of the I chord. Then when you expect the trend to continue with the 6th-b7th slide for the V chord, it switches to a chromatic descent during jazzy ii-V changes, topped off by 12-fret overtones against Dorian-mode open-string runs. |
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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from "Right-On Time" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson. This lead starts with a long minor run downward, then follow with some stealth slides and a classic blues finish. T |
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CD: Soaring the Solo #4
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson |
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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from "Hot Shot" by Robert Colin Johnson. The blue shuffle lead begins slow by sliding from the minor-to-major third slur and transposing for the IV and V chords. Then it breaks loose in minor mode with high double stops that ring-in the quick runs to finale.o |
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CD: Soaring the Solo #3
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson |
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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from "Non Sequitur" by Robert Colin Johnson. This jazz lick, bluesified here, 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. |
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CD: Soaring the Solo #2
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from
"Fatefully". The sands of time flow relentlessly 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 fullnes s of time the
inevitability of change fatefully erodes all obstacles to dust.
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CD: Soaring the Solo #2
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the single-string guitar solos from the song "Looking Up" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson. Looking Up bends the melody up from the minor third to the major third, involuntarily propelling listeners into an uplifted mood--the magic of the univers al language of music. An example of the "major", as opposed to "minor", blues sound, a trademark of mainline bluesmen such as B.B. King. p |
MP3.com CD: Soaring the Solo #1 - buy it!
CD: Soaring the Solo #1
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson |
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| The Jib Jive lick is dominated by long chord slides. Bars
four, six, eight and ten consiste of two chords each half the
measure and sliding toward the next chord. The "swing"
time plus sliding chords complete a jazz-blues made
sophisticated with VI7#9/ii7/V7#5 changes.e |
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| In the world of emotion, swirling round and round at play,
there is never a slackening of purpose--take no prisoners
of the heart. The harshness of the want, the longing
unabated, accumulates in the heart until it breaks. |
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| The 12-bar Waylay melody mimicks its namesake by lulling listeners with a sing-song melody transposed for IV and V chords, then ambushing them by switching to a straight-ahead walking rhythm. The 24-bar lead stretches the technique, by lulling the listener with long slides in the first 12-bars, then filling in the slides with quick runs during the last 12-bars. |
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| Woe begone. Don't meet it head-on, but slide sideways on
past. Keep an eye out, watch out for the edge! Make it on
by, before you straighten out. You can ov ercome anything
by sliding sideways, just as water edges around an
obstacle on its way down-hill. |
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| Hear here the whole song "More to Come" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson.. |
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| Hear here the whole song "Right-On Time" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson. |
MP3.com CD: Soaring the Solo #5 - buy it!
CD: Soaring the Solo #5
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson |
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| Hear here the whole song "Non Sequitur" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson, as performed on his "Right-On Time" CD. |
MP3.com CD: Soaring the Solo #3 - buy it!
CD: Soaring the Solo #3
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the whole song "Long Way Down" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson. |
MP3.com CD: Soaring the Solo #6 - buy it!
CD: Soaring the Solo #6
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson |
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| Hear here the whole song "Hot Shot" by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson, as performed on his "Right-On Time" CD. "Make a Hot Shot. Try your best, nothing less. Take dead
aim, hold your breath, and squeeze it off slow. You can't
miss, and even if you do, you did your best! Nothing less
gives more than trying your best, so make a Hot Shot and
good luck to you!"-rcjn |
MP3.com CD: Soaring the Solo #4 - buy it!
CD: Soaring the Solo #4
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the whole song "Fatefully" by Robert Colin Johnson, as performed on his "Right-On Time" CD.u |
MP3.com CD: Soaring the Solo #2 - buy it!
CD: Soaring the Solo #2
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Looking Up bends the melody up from the minor third to
the major third, involuntarily propelling you into an uplifted
mood--the magic of a universal language. An example of the
"major", as opposed to "minor", blues sound, a trademark of
mainline bluesmen such as B.B. King. |
MP3.com CD: Soaring the Solo #1 - buy it!
CD: Soaring the Solo #1
Label: RockGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin mp3.com/Johnson |
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