Slow Blues in the Style of Jeff Beck - Michael Casswell
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The Picking and Vibrato section is where we are taken through some of Jeff Becks techniques the first of which is to not use a pick. Flick your pick away with great force being careful to not injure nearby innocents. Michael proceeds to show us the many tones we can get using our fingers instead of a plectrum. He also uses the whammy bar. He uses the thumb and first finger to get some really fast licks in and advises us to practice the 'ole chicken pickin' technique which is very similar to what Jeff himself uses. Then he adds the 2nd finger to the thumb and forefinger and shows us the benefits of this 3 pronged technique common to rockabilly which is another one of Jeff's influences. Finger vibrato can be used 3 different ways to sound like Jeff Beck and the whammy bar tremelo arm can do the same thing. Additionally Jeff has a floating tremelo arm so you can bounce off the whole block with the heel of your strumming hand too. There is more.

The Jam Track Breakdown and Scales is very similar to Jeff's tune Brush with the Blues and Michael calls it Flush with the Flooze. Ha Ha ! Vive la floozette. That's a song from 1999's Who Else release by who else? Jeff Beck.

Good thing we have this backing track which is brilliant and owes a lot to Willie Dixon. It would be also really nice to have the equipment to try to get as close as one can to these electrically modified guitar enunciations. Fact is you should learn the bass to the backing track which is just bass and drums. The bass after all is playing the same bass notes VS guitar chords as you harmonically. Both instruments fret boards are the same note wise. Learning the bass line is a great way to suss out your one - four - five root note positions on the guitar. Michael shows us some nice way to resolve these 4 note chords using the bass notes in conjunction with higher notes in the rest of the backing track. He makes it looks simple but remember he has a very wet sound. Great sustain and recognizable tone!

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