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Lynyrd Skynyrd rocking out at the Big State Festival in College Station, Texas, October 13, 2007.
Double Stops
A Double Stop is where you either play two notes at the same time or two notes closely together; the two notes are on different strings, not the same string. This is often done combined with sliding from one position to the next:
This next audio example uses the following patterns slid to various positions. Think of these as two note power chords, only inverted so that the Root note is on the right:
***Note: You may have to click "Play" twice on some systems.***
This is a special type of Double-Stop. The two notes being played at the same time are the same note, only one is an octave higher than the other. There will be a string in-between the two that are being played that will have to be muted. Made famous by Jimi Hendrix, the two notes being played simultaneously will have the following pattern which is moved to various positions:
The Pentatonic Scale only has 5 tones instead of 7. Its basic Number Pattern is as follows:
In the above Pentatonic Scale Number Pattern graphic, the 1's are the Root notes.
If all the 1's are "E" notes, then you are playing an E-Pentatonic scale
If all the 1's are "A" notes, then you are playing an A-Pentatonic scale
If all the 1's are "G" notes, then you are playing a G-Pentatonic scale
etc.
The Pentatonic number pattern translates into 5 "Box Patterns" which stack on top of one another as follows
Note how the Pentatonic patterns in the above graphic overlap - the bottom notes of one pattern are the top notes of the next pattern.
As with the Church Modes, the Pentatonic Scale has a pattern which continuously repeats; I call this the "Extended Cycle of Pentatonic Patterns." Observe how all of the Pentatonic Scale Box Patterns fit somewhere into the following Extended Cycle if you make the adjustment of shifting up one fret higher in tone when you land on the "B" string:
A "Trill" is where you play two notes sequentially, repeatedly; the two notes are on the same string, not different strings. The Trill is usually played fast; this can be done either one-handed using hammer-ons and pull-offs, two-handed using finger-tapping, or two-handed using the side of your pick or some other object. Typically each pair of notes is Trilled 2, 3, or 4 times (for a total of 4, 6, or 8 notes played) at each tone position.
Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath exemplifies the one-handed Trill technique utilizing the technique all over the fretboard, primarily in the context of Pentatonic scales; he is not, however, a Pentatonic purist - he will also occasionally Trill vertically adjacent notes (ie, notes that are next to each other on the same string) from a Church Mode scale or even Trill Chromatic Scale notes.
Tony Iommi, who is a left-handed guitar player, lost the tips of his left hand index and ring fingers in a work-related accident early in his career. To compensate, he started using prosthetic fingertips which I believe is how he is able to achieve very fast Trills single-handed rather than using two-handed techniques. In this next graphic, you Trill each pair of red and green notes that are on the same string:
The 5 Pentatonic Patterns are actually derived from the Church Mode Patterns by leaving out all the Church Mode 4 and 7 notes as shown below. What this means is that you can go from playing Pentatonic scales to playing Church Mode scales simply by including the "extra" notes or you can go from playing Church Mode scales to Pentatonic scales by excluding the "extra" notes:
A "Neighbor Tone" is the tone one fret lower in tone than the reference tone. For a Neighbor Tone enhancement of an Arpeggio, you would trill every note of the Arpeggio with the note one fret lower in tone. In this next graphic, the main Arpeggio pattern is the green dots. What you would do is trill each green note with the red note one fret lower in tone:
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