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acoustic meet your ext tutor: eee de nal track on Lee Ritenour’s 1989 album Color Riris this month's transcription - a pseudo-classial piece cenlted “Enude. The album features 2 rnixture of the fasion, jazz and latin styles thal aze pat of the Familiar Ritenour sound. Lee originally made his name in the 70s a8 au ace “Tis take" session guitarist. He has recorded many solo albums, as well as numerous collaborations. So get those nylons out and les get on with the lesson! performance notes ‘The opening section a fee ime Introduetion to the piece and Features the guitar and contra bass (e-string bass guitar played on the original by the equally impressive Anthony Jackson), There Is no liek track, and when it came to doing the backing tracks, Andy Frost and myself bad to just feel these opening bars until the click started in bar 12. The bar numbers ae therefor reference only ane do not actualy reMeet the passing of a particular umber of beats. Prom bar 12 the piece 's played a tempo" which literally means “to cime: The harmony is basically D major and some parallel modes fe D Mixolydian, D Aeolian), The progressions are made up primatily of chords of these keys over a D bass note. The most difficult ‘aspect of this pee fs the 16th note pushes. Be ‘ateul of the timing of these ~ they appear for ‘ccaimple im bars 12 and 14, The second theme from bar 26 has the same fel and includes some nice chord substitutions (check out the titone Substitution om the last beat of har 28). From bar 34 to bar 39 there isa fst tiple! 16th-note passage. The right hand uses the pater p Im. ‘The thumb, p, plays the melody on the G, D and A strings against dhe triples on the top two strings. AU bar 42 i's back tothe repeat sign at bar 10 and trong to endl (don't forges to take the secoud time ending). The backing tracks Tearue bass, drums and a litde 805 sya, tritone substitution These are most commonly associated with dominant (ie 7 chords). By replacing a 7 cord ‘with one whose root isa tritone fle three tones) tomy, you can add extra colour (o your chord progression. In this case the Bb is a subsite for fn E7 chord (which would normally be used to move tothe following A chor]. sf eric’s ted gear Forth WA cig funy Rares incl ut Tne Ste nes ced ng Beeman te ese Der, Mor mpararayry gels rey eval Srarine Marre Jargon buster mick rack A ‘ik played oso nine (reap Redon Shan) t feep erent REMEMBER crm A Se ots fl 1968 Fito Habs Kase (fetal Asminstered nthe Uc by Horna Srobers Ure “Etude, Written by Lee see ubsto (Free tims) leap | september 1999 | sulear techniques | 55 56) guitar techniques | september 1999

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