Traditional Country-Folk style using Chet Atkins / Merle Travis style hybrid picking.

We are finally at the advanced part of this solo with Marcus Lavendell. Most of the techniques here are not really that difficult, but they should be played very fast which makes it a bit more tricky.

Welcome to the second, and intermediate part of this three-level-solo with Marcus Lavendell! Instead of playing faster we are going to focus on more techniques. We're still in the key of E-minor and the scales we use are still minor & pentatonic blues scale, same as in the first part.

Marcus Lavendell welcomes you to a three-level-lesson/solo (beginner, intermediate & advanced). The scales we use in this solo is e-minor, harmonic minor and pentatonic blues scale.

Using common notes between two chords belonging to different scales to allow a smooth passing between them when improvising in the blues and dorian modes.

There are two kinds of approximation and they are both chromatic, the approach above and the approach below the note that is considered the melody.

My thought process when targeting the "right notes" in a fusion context.

Bluesy solo in the style of SRV

Besides being a mighty composition - this lesson also deals with some neat riffs that use triplets/6-tuplets, some sweeping and economy picking.