Ritchie Blackmore's style
Stanjo
Rainbow recently and I've noticed that he has a favorite minor mode of some
kind. You can feel it in almost any song.
Do you know which mode this is?
Stanislav
Lon Smith
minor pentatonic a lot, aeolian minor, melodic minor harmonic minor, blues
scale, major pentatonic a combination of major and minor pentatonic. In
Smoke on the Water for example He uses C pentatonic minor and then a G
pentatonic minor in an almost parallel aspect.
"Stanjo" <s_t_a_n_j_o@m_a_i_l_a_n_d_n_e_w_s.com> wrote in message
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Stanjo
seems fairly easy (in Bm scale), but the bends are a pain in the ass. I
somehow worked the three repeated bends, but there is a series of 5 bends in
the beginning of the solo that give me hard time.
Any ideas how exactly to play this, or just keep on trying ?
Stanjo
"John Smith" <Jo...@Smith.com> wrote in message
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> Frankly I dont think he really plays in any really different modes.
> Its fairly standard to me. The key to his style seems to be his really
> hard, tight picking style. He sounds like hes picking notes under
> 10,000 punds of pressure , literally squeezing the notes out. And his
> strange preference for that era of playing hard rock with a relatively
> light distortion on the leads , mainly getting his ferocious style
> from his highly aggressive picking attack m articulating each note
> incredibly forcefully. And his really minimalistic , punchy rhythm
> which are often just a few notes , fifths , lower strings played once
> again really tightly , very few full chords if at all. And his pull
> offs, hammer ons where he trills the notes , rolls them constantly and
> his wicked use of vibrato , which he repeats very quickly instead of
> of the more longer duration that Hendrix would use it - sort of a WAH
> un WAH un WAH , long duration which Hendrix would use instead of a
> WRRRRRRRRR as Blackmore would very quickly and wickedly pump the
> temolo.
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brit_am
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According to Blackmore, he never listens to rock. He claims that almost all
his influences are from Bach and other classical composers. You can believe
as much of this as you wish.
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DDuperre
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Mark Seery
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> According to Blackmore, he never listens to rock
Hmmm. In a radio interview some years ago, he openly admitted that the
chorus riff in Speed king was lifted from Hendrix's Stone free. This
somewhat blows his claim away. Admittedly, he no longer plays rock at
present, preferring to do the baroque trip on his lute.
MS
brit_am
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LOL I have no doubt. I read a number of years ago that he said that he
based that riff on something by Bach. He's a bit of a mysterious man. He
also claims to have been a very popular session player around London in the
mid 60s. But those who were popular session players, such as Jimmy Page etc
say that they never heard of him when they were doing it.
Mickey Finn
He was on VH1 last night doing commentary about the bands which are
considered the top 100 "hard rock" bands. Maybe he should have
mentioned that he doesn't listen to any of them before tossing in his
2 cents.
Timo
example between blues scale and minor pentatonic? I have always thought
there are the same.
Any pointer to URL's etc are greatly appreciated.
Timo
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brit_am
John Smith <Jo...@Smith.com> wrote in message
> hostile then. So maybe thats just his way of showing disdain for the
> rock world - when in actual fact he did listen to rock. You know the
> pre-Malmsteen , Malmsteen.
I've always thought that Purple, Rainbow and Blackmore were brilliant, but
indeed though out the years he has been rock's most arrogant guitarists.
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> A lot of people credit Deep Purple and Blackmore for incorporating the
> real elementary beginnings of classical influences in flat out hard
> rock in a dynamic , non wimpy, organic way. I think BURN is a good
> example.
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> Ive also read some quotes where he says he hated jazz , and only liked
> classical. Theres a clip of him playing "Lazy" the bluesy rock piece
> he is famous for in a "jazzy" way so obviously his claim that he hated
> jazz seems kind of off too. Unfortunately that clip is pretty lame as
> far as jazz goes, he should play it straight . Lazy is a great rock
> piece, his attempt to "jazz it up" sounds really bad.
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GRUMPWHEAT
for learning the scales. Here is the A Minor pentatonic: A C D E G
(penta means 5). Here is the A minor blues scale: A C D D# E G
Lon Smith
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Monty
times, our attitude when we play is what sets us apart from each other.....
Richie B. is one of my favorites too....... If any of you every want a
truly good "Best of" album/CD, get "The Very Best of Rainbow". Outstanding
CD!
Mike
Duperre
American tours? Ritchie. Rainbow live with Cozy Powell, Jimmy Bain, Tony
(is it tony?) Carey, and Ronnie James Dio is a smoker too.
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