This channel is supported by TrueFire. True Fire is an online library. Enough. You can get the True Fire all access pass for as cheap as they ever do it, the $99 thing. So, just jump and do that if you’re looking for the best price that you can get True Fire all access for. So, I was going to do a video on a specific Tom Quail legato exercise and then I was trying to find it and I found this lick, got distracted. So, I wanted to break down this Tom Quail lick. [Music] Tom, I think if there’s one player who’s done the most to sort of improve other people’s knowledge of the garter, I think it’s Tom Quail, to be honest. Like there’s a lot of pros out there that have gone to Tom Quail’s courses. If you get anything out of this, I would suggest going and checking out Tom Quail’s legato courses. I’ve never actually bought one, sorry, Tom, but I have learned a ton from breaking down for myself his promotion of his own legato courses. So, I’m sure there’s a bunch of great stuff in there. And as I say, I think he’s the preeminent sort of legato boy. Um, now, uh, for this video, I could just try and steam through the lick, uh, at break neck tempo to show that I could do it, or I could kind of break it down as we go. So, that was kind of what I thought cuz I’ve not fully learned it yet. I’ve just transcribed it and I’ll talk you through sort of each section. Hopefully, this is useful. The backing track I’ll put up. Uh, I don’t know whether I’ll ever get this up to speed in time to make this video properly. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. So that’s our first bar and we’re in sort of E flat major for this. We’re going from chord two to chord four to chord one. sort of like high and dry. I don’t know what Tom was thinking when he made it, but to me it sounds a little bit like that. Chord two to four to chord one uh at about 170 BPM uh if you count it double time. So 1 2 3 4 like that. Okay. So we anticipate the first bar. So, we’re coming down 8 six. And what you want to really do is take each [Music] bar and kind of incorporate all these little moves into your playing. I think there’s about eight bars in total. So we get 8 6 4 5 3 6 3 4 5 3 6 5 3 6 3 4 5 3. And you’ll notice that there’s a few little moves that Tom Cra has. This is why I think it’s so useful to break [Music] down. It’s basically, I think, how I would see that as naturally like it goes over the bar line. And uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah, and he would hybrid pick it. And I personally might not, but it’s got this [Music] really like a mix of chromatic stuff in there as well. So, be really mindful of the fingering. Keep it slow and steady steady. And at the end we get that 3 three. Okay. Okay. Okay. And then we start to [Music] ascend like [Music] that. Okay. [Music] And at that end part [Music] there, our hands are going to be doing something different to Tomms because he tunes in force. So, this is something that I noticed in his playing twice throughout this lick. This nice little setup. 35 76 7 8 86. We could do it here as [Music] well. We’ll come back to that. So, bar two. And then we start this qualistic thing. So we go 9 10 9 8 7 8 [Music] 6. So you [Music] get [Music] [Applause] So like that. One, [Music] two. It’s that part. And then 8 7 8 6 8 7 6 8 5 6 7 Back up to the six. 8 7 5 [Music] A. Take any of these bars. [Music] like that and loop them. Uh, okay. Then penultimate bar. 5 6 8 5 6 8 6 and then a bar on our index and get ready for the biggest stretch in the lick. 6 8 [Music] 11. So this whole [Music] bar and then those two bars [Music] [Applause] Right. [Music] [Applause] And then we get this really nice 8 10 12 10 8 12 8 10 12 13 11 13 like that. [Music] And now the cool thing about this sort of thing is even if you’re not playing it like super fast, I think it’s got such a cool [Music] [Applause] sound and so I can’t play it as fast and clean as Tom. But the point really is that whatever tempo that you’re [Music] doing that you can start to get this more smooth legato sort of thing under your belt. Let me take a picture of this so I can try and do it. And what I would do is then memorize this and ways that you could do that is to start to cover up a bar at a time. [Music] And even if you’re playing it like you know whatever tempo you’re playing it just gradually start to [Music] [Applause] [Music] feel. Yeah. [Applause] [Music] these like new pathways and legato pathways starting to, you know, creep into your consciousness. It’s kind of the idea. [Music] [Applause] I’ve now lost [Music] [Applause] it. It’s a long one. That’s what she said. Uh, she didn’t. Um, but um, split it up into bite-sized chunks. Yeah. Just take it slow. Take it steady. I’ll put the tab up on Patreon. As I say, go give Tom some love, but take just little bits of it as well and try and move that into other [Music] keys. Is an E flat, in C. Uh, in C, in A. [Music] really cool little lick. A [Music] flat. And with all of this stuff, the goal is to keep tension [Music] [Applause] low and relaxed kind of hand. [Music] That’s a lick that I’m not there with yet, but I’m going to try and get into my playing patron. I’ll put it at like half tempo, 75% tempo, and 100% tempo so you can practice along with it, as well as a backing track. But, um, that’s what I’m going to be practicing once I get some time. which is
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