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Subject: Re: Frettistic - Circular Motion
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On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 4:50:09 PM UTC-5, Gerry wrote:
> At least that's what 335 calls it. I think it's a good way to describe 
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> non-positional, ostensibly phrase-driven, left-hand structures that 
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> make use of frequent shifting.
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> [ If you don't give a shit, you should move on now. ]
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> Anyway 335 (I could use a name here), says this:
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> > "vertical" as in playing up and down the neck would probably have been 
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> > a more accurate word. but I don't think that totally captures it 
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> > either. There is a fluidity in shifting around the neck that I see in 
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> > both of those guys (Raney, Galbraith), that does appear as  an overall 
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> > "circular" motion and concept to me. The freedom they have in moving 
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> > "vertically" up and down the neck is part of what allows the lines to 
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> > breathe.
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> He then later cited "A Melodic Approach" by Fewell. I got the book and 
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> dimissed it as not addressing my topic. Instead, I found passing 
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> references (or so I thought) to triadic structures, handistically 
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> convenient in four areas of the neck. A good start. But I saw nothing 
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> more on the topic.
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> I was mistaken. It is apparently the fundamental approach over which 
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> much (most?) of the remaining material discusses. I've only read-down a 
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> quarter of it. I need to read the book in total before attempting a 
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> description.
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> It looks damn interesting: Not because of any specific lesson it's 
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> teaching, but because of the way it goes about doing the same things I 
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> do, but in a much more "handistic" way; A way I think (VERY) generally 
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> describes Raney and Galbraith's angle on shaping lines.
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> More later.
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> -- 
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> Music is the best means we have of digesting time. -- W. H. Auden

I think the book is fantastic and it has been a giant help to me. He also has another edition by harmonic approach as opposed to melodic. I haven't taken the time yet to study it as I have the first.

Luke