Honeysuckle Rose Practice Loop
March 3, 2021
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Here is a loop of Gm7 to C7 of the first part of the song, Honeysuckle Rose.
Some suggested scales and arpeggio's to try would be
- Gm Pentatonic
- G Dorian
- C Mixolydian
- Em Blues Pentatonic with no 5th (E G A Bb D)
- The petantonic scale played like this, gives it an E Locrian Mode vibe)
- F Major / D Minor Petantonic
Using some outside notes too like Eb work nicely but avoid F#.
Also try playing modal licks using a mode scale structure and try playing it as if you were playing a two note per string pentatonic scale for some interesting melodic lines. The idea is not have access to the entire scale for improvising and selecting a few notes from the scales that bring out the modes flavour. This almost gives you a two note per string pentatonic vibe to try and be a little more melodic with ones soloing rather than just heading up and down a scale at speed and sounding like everyone else
- E Locrian Two Note Per string
- E F A C D
- E G A C D
- C Mixolydian (2n / string)
- C D F G Bb
- C D F G A
- C D E G Bb
Note that you dont have to play these two note varieties on two strings but if you try to limit the use to two strings, it gives a less scale like feel and more of an arpeggio flavour. Don't forget to try your outside notes as well
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