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People always say;. "Oh, you use wide interval leaps" and stuff like that. Well, I do in some ways, but then again, I don’t use any more wide interval leaps than somebody like Scott or Frank Gambale. The only reason I did it with stretches was for a sonic purpose - it was the only way I could get that note to sound that way Like, if I had to play [plays an ascending figure beginning on. the B string’s fourteenth fret; repeating the C# on the first string on the way up], then I’d have to repeat that note, and it wouldn’t sound the same, or the limitations of my hand wouldn’t allow me to do that, because I’m not a good guitar player.
People always say;. "Oh, you use wide interval leaps" and stuff like that. Well, I do in some ways, but then again, I don’t use any more wide interval leaps than somebody like Scott or Frank Gambale. The only reason I did it with stretches was for a sonic purpose - it was the only way I could get that note to sound that way Like, if I had to play [plays an ascending figure beginning on. the B string’s fourteenth fret; repeating the C# on the first string on the way up], then I’d have to repeat that note, and it wouldn’t sound the same, or the limitations of my hand wouldn’t allow me to do that, because I’m not a good guitar player.


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