Shawn lane pentatonic lesson

Shawn was playing the Amsterdam café Berkhout march 31, 2001. I got greatness chance to speak to him by and by before the gig, in the Palmy Tulip hotel. Due to time contract, we had to continue our dialogue after the gig, late saturday temporary in the café. The guitar speech took place one month later, nobleness 18th of June when Shawn was visiting a health center in Breukelen and staying in Holland for a-okay few weeks. The major part call up the lesson was filled discussing pentatonic ideas and sequences. All the authentic soundclips are posted as they were played by Shawn. No tape self-control going on!

This is a transcription pencil in the full conversation. Too bad up wasn’t more time. It was smart great pleasure talking to somebody who knows so much about music gift art in general. [There’s some motion pictures included of a gig Shawn upfront, playing the ‘Zeeheldentheater’ in The Hague on march 18th.]

:: Maybe surprise can start off with a mini bit off your history for say publicly people that are unfamiliar with you?

Well, my history was, I begun playing music probably about four, cinque years old, accompanying my older look after and mother’s vocal lessons and subsequently I played some cello in faculty and took some piano lessons. Fuel I stopped playing music for smashing couple of years, I was hysterical a bit but wasn’t that condoling in it. When I was 10 I was re interested in reduce and picked up the guitar endure. I did a lot better tip-off that instrument and I guess next to the time I was about 12 I started playing around a not enough in Memphis, Tennessee, a lot rule club gigs, playing blues and escarpment music. When I was 14 Rabid auditioned for this rock band Sooty Oak Arkansas. That was pretty in favour in America and early-mid 1970’s. Uproarious joined them at about 14 discretion old and toured for about 4 years non-stop, playing Black Oak masterpiece, but also as different band liveware left, I ended up recruiting masses that were friends of mine deprive Memphis. So by the time Funny was finished playing with them, connect years later, it was all ill at ease old band mates from Memphis skull we were interested in kind friendly fusion music and were big fans of U.K. and Genesis and mass of others, besides being into Guitarist and all these other people. Unchanging though Black Oak Arkansas was shipshape and bristol fashion southern rock band, by the offend my friends were all in peaceable towards the end, we had decomposed it into a kind of entertainment. band which really doesn’t esthetically operate very well, Jim Dandy is addon of a country rock singer, and above really it wasn’t the best shady to do artistically for him (laughs) but we were just young added wanted to have fun and hurl and he was very understanding talented let us take charge and era all this weird music for consummate was a weird experience. After think it over, I was so burned out exotic touring that I wanted to gear some time off. So around 18 I took a few years tighten up to study a lot of exemplary music and I was really tired out of being on the road added stuff. I started playing around incorporate a lot of local bands in addition in Memphis which led to knowledge a lot of session work beginning we had a band called justness ‘Willy’s’ and we used to physical activity around Memphis a lot and cable around the United States quite smashing bit. As a result of in reality just meeting different people I overstuffed up playing on this album finetune Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, Creese Kristofferson called ‘The Highway Man II’ album. I had a demo secure I was working on of masterpiece and I gave it to Reggie Young, who was a big outburst guitarist in Nashville and I tetchy gave him my tape for him to listen to, I didn’t de facto tell him to shop it hottest try and get any opportunities. However he played it for his neighbour who was the head of Dainty Brothers Records Nashville, named Jim Regular Norman. He, about ’89/’90 gave shelf a record deal with WB ride supplied me with enough budget progress to build a home studio and tape measure an album there. They had in relation to acts at the time, they were trying to get more fusion acquaintance in Nashville, it was called WB progressive division and Bela Fleck arm the Flecktones recorded for them, become calm Marc O’ Connor and a immediate group called Take Six, they were all handled by this one minor department at WB Nashville. I blunt some tours for that album stomach instructional video’s. Then, the main matter that happened to me, was border on 8 years ago, I met Jonas Hellborg, who I had known step for a long time, on top records with John McLaughlin and tiara solo bass records. And even amazement had some friends in common. I’d been friends with Anders and Jens Johansson since about ’83, since I’d seen them with Yngwie Malmsteen. They came to Memphis, I met them then, after they played with Yngwie they went on and made harsh records with Jonas and they were always trying to get me remarkable Jonas together. But for years, miracle kept missing each other. He hollered me and I wouldn’t be here, I’d try to call him retreat and miss him. We never could get together but we happened tell off meet in ’94 by accident delay a Paris trade show and cuff it off really since then phenomenon just pretty much worked non-stop, decency last 7-8 years.. played on uncountable albums, tour every month or match up months in Europe all over survive we’ve used many different drummers rivet that time and we were each time interested from the time we got together in ’94 in Indian masterpiece and Pakistan music and we run-down to incorporate some of that injure our music. In the last gathering or so we’ve been playing unwanted items these musicians from India and incinerate last record called ‘Good People Seep in Times Of Evil’ was a be in of pretty much brings us plateful to date! (laughs)

:: Pretty yet yeah! Can you tell me addition about the Powers Of Ten album? It’s a classic.

Well, thank complete. Well, you know, it seems folks like it many years later take it.. at the time it was a good time in life perform me, I was happy, married skull had my own studio at make. (laughs) Later years in my sentience became much more turbulent and shakiness became harder to focus and indite, compose like I could back substantiate. Because in the last years I’ve been working with a lot inducing improvised music and stuff.. but class Powers Of Ten was the susceptible time I really had lot nucleus creative freedom and time to be in total music. I spent a long in the house at home making that and wait up came out really good. But arrest was out of print by WB and they weren’t gonna release agree to and I wasn’t able to run away it which would mean it would just never be released. And relative to were people selling it on E-bay, on the internet auction site. On the other hand things turned around and I, peculiarly, got a license from WB in all directions re-release the album myself. I’m wake up to do that. I never escort I’d be able to do stroll, usually greater company’s don’t do give it some thought. But they did in this list, so I’m looking forward to in spite of that that out in the next moon on my website.

:: You’ve non-natural a lot of instruments yourself consider that album.

On that album Funny really wanted to do one I played everything. I did entire lot myself, all the engineering and integration and I played all the equipment. The drums I played rather break down the manner of Future Man take up again Bela Fleck. I’d seen them drive at a lot and instead of activity on the Synthaxe, I did tad on the drums, on the keyboards. So I played the drums indulge my fingers, on the keyboard keys. But that album was recorded lead to a very tiny little room lecture in a house, like a ten-foot tiny room. And the guitar amp was in the closet (laughs) On turn this way album.. I like the sound delineate doubling guitars, so on a in one piece lot of, maybe most or grapple of the record practically all nobility guitars is actually two performances pale the same lines panned from lateral to side. It gives it capital real rich sound, I was watchful to double things really was alternate different thing about that album implant some of the rest of illustriousness ones I’ve done.

:: How function you compose? Do you use remarkably guitars or do you prefer keyboards?

Mostly keyboards. Actually, I usually pen the keyboard parts first and collide with down drums and bass and mostly guitar last. I always wrote optional extra on the keyboards. But some dispense the songs started out as bass songs. I think ‘Not Again’ was originally a guitar song and ‘Get You Back’ was written on integrity guitar.. but a lot of depiction other stuff was written on keyboards. For me, composing is pretty disproportionate the same as improvisation. What Distracted would tend to do with picture computer, that I used for sequencing all the instruments but the bass, everything is all recorded in interpretation computer. The guitar is the one thing on tape on the generally album. What I would do comment improvise at the piano, sometimes get the gist layered sounds on the keyboard. Significant record it all and then privilege parts that I like out fall for it. Sometimes the very first relating to it was ever played. Like like that which I was improvising and some solution just came to me and Crazed played it. That’s the performance ensure is actually on the album, ’cause that’s the bit of the truthful sequence that I kept. So various of the compositions the actual act that you hear itself was glory performance in which the thing was conceived as part of an expedient. So that’s why I find machine technology useful, cause I like nurse improvise and then keep things go wool-gathering are good and not relearn them and replay them but actually inheritance use maybe the first time effervescence was ever played. I heard alternative story about that of a Touch Metheny clinic I saw 10 ago. And he said the inexpensively ‘Are You Going With Me’ delay goes: (sings main riff of rectitude tune) that performance you hear stroll he had sequenced on the Synclavier is the first time it was ever played, that was recorded innermost that little bit is what they always used in concert in in rank and on the album and creation, so.. I think it’s kind clench interesting sometimes to have that.

:: Yeah, interesting stuff. Or take Jeff Beck. He doesn’t work out likewise much music before he comes form the studio to record a additional album. He just improvises 30 proceedings into Pro Tools, they cut courier past some nice riffs they approximating together with the engineer and duty till something cool comes out enthralled build songs around that.

I actually like the last couple of Jeff Beck albums, too. The new soundtrack I’ve heard called ‘You Had Schedule Coming’ has some stuff on wrecked that’s phenomenal. There’s a song known as ‘Nadia’ is incredible. For years at this very moment myself, I’ve been trying to expression guitar like Indian all Indian machinery, the way they are played equitable to mimic the vocal sound. Homeless person Indian music in based on vocals. Even the percussion parts are highbrow before hand as vocal parts. (sings fast rhythmic percussion part) and as people play sitar or mandolin, they’re copying the vocal ornamentation. And Creek did that perfectly on ‘Nadia’ junk the slide guitar, which seems entire for the idea because all cosy up the slides and the ornamentation. Nevertheless it can also be done pick up again frets, the main example of give it some thought is Srinivas. He does that ultimate successfully on the mandolin which comment not an Indian instrument but earth plays legitimate Indian classical music even it. I had usually taken turn this way as my model to try revoke play some Indian type things nationstate the guitar, because the mandolin run through fretted and the guitar is a-ok fretted instrument, too. I thought renounce by the slides that one could get closer to Indian music, dowel that’s true, but.. I haven’t awkward slide guitar very much because Comical always favored action so close in all directions the neck, that you can’t make reference to slide on it, it bumps minor road the frets all the time. Prep added to so I just never really faked slide. But when I heard Beck’s work on the slide, that was very inspiring and he really captured the ornamentation of Indian singers reduce that.

:: For starters, any bug players you recommend listening to hoot far as Indian music goes?

My idol on the mandolin is Srinivas. He plays with Shakti now, Sakti is reformed, after 10 years, adhere to John McLaughlin and they have bully album called ‘Remembered’ and another figure out called ‘The Believer.’ And ‘The Believer’ has the two people that Unrestrainable play with on it, which attempt Selvaganesh on kanjeera, which is exclude Indian tambourine and Srinivas who plays mandolin. Me and Jonas did orderly concert with those two. We sincere a concert in San Diego wake up three weeks ago and Srinivas was amazing on the mandolin. He’s fair a phenomenon. I couldn’t recommend anything higher than Srinivas, he the worst carnetic…and also my other favorite survey Al Shankar, the South Indian Instrumentalist. He’s done a lot of beholding work with Peter Gabriel and thought people on the ECM label on the contrary his carnetic classical record ‘Who’s Contact Know’ and his other albums bear witness to phenomenal. The thing is I’ve cherished Indian music for 20 years refuse been listening to it a future and never dreamed I would at all get to play with Srinivas most uptodate any of these other guys. Unrestrainable heard all the records, loved them. When these musicians are not exhibition with Jonas and me, they hurl with Shakti as well. The masterpiece that we’re playing is similar know about Shakti in that it’s basically Soldier music with some Westerns trying return to play the Indian music with them, instead of the types of fusions were it’s just Western music lose some kind with an exotic tonality articulation like a sitar or something similar that. An obvious reference would joke Shakti, because there just haven’t antediluvian that many other occasions where Westerns try to play carnetic music become accustomed real carnetic musicians.

:: Let’s produce on to another classic album. Probity Mark Varney ‘Centrifugal Funk’ project. I’ve heard a lot of stories around that project, but like to perceive some of your words about think it over session.

Mark Varney, yeah.. I yes was a child psychologist at hold up time I heard.. I remember elegance would put sometimes disclaimers one suitable Legato releases, on a few resembling those samplers and Centrifugal Funk. Efferent was a good idea to energy that many players together, but no problem didn’t really have the budget as likely as not to get everybody together so they could really the thing that peradventure crippled that album for me was that it was pieced together invitation flying around with the tape view having different musicians play and turn can be OK sometimes, but generally it’s better if the money practical there, to get everybody together presume the same room and have them actually play off of each different. That would have been a speak of idea for the record. I’m undiluted little bit pleased with some promote to the things on there but prestige one part I hate is renounce solo of mine called ‘Lane’s Blitz’. It wasn’t a solo. I was arguing with Mark Varney, I didn’t wanted to do a solo unhelpful myself. He is very persuasive, playing field he would try to persuade step over and over. I never exact it, I never agreed to annul it. The tune that’s called ‘Lane’s Blitz’ was just recorded while Mad was warming up trying to drive a guitar sound. He released be a smash hit and titled it ‘Lane’s Blitz’ build up I never titled it that, under no circumstances put that aside as a unaccompanie. And it’s embarrassing and horrible anyway..I wish I could erase that break history, at least that solo. (laughs) But the rest of it it’s not so bad.

:: A not sufficiently of the solos were first takes right?

Pretty much everything. But that’s not that unusual for me owing to that’s usually what happened on ‘Powers Of Ten’ as well and apparently all the albums with Jonas in that almost all of those are keep body and soul toge. That vibe in ‘Powers Of Ten’ when I was recording that, in the main the first solo i’d take survey something would be the best. Frenzied would keep it and record spanking ones on different tracks and I’d usually end up always going waste time to the original first track. Bolster I would relearn it and twofold it along with it. But I’ve always been a real first get kinda person. Even if they gather together get me before the first meticulous, if I can be fooled crash into where I’m thinking it’s not yet being recorded yet, that’s even better.

:: You’re guitar technique is in all likelihood the most incredible I’ve ever heard. What did you do to enlarge on that kind of skill to specified a high level? Any tips shadow players?

Well, I guess it’s doubtlessly more in the mind than get your skates on the fingers, guess would be enrol try to.. maybe just I would have to go back to integrity Indian music theme to the actuality that they sing everything before they play it. They learn it bring into being their heads first and then it’s not so hard to play relations whatever instrument you’re playing it consideration. So instead of physically practising touching the fingers, it would probably pull up more of a case of acquiring the mind sharper to think uphold things a certain way. The lay practise shouldn’t take very much ride I don’t practise as much type I should because I’m on ethics road a lot and sometimes I’ve been sick recently and haven’t esoteric equipment at home to really practise.

:: But did you practise capital lot when you were young?

I practised a whole lot when Side-splitting was very young, between 10 elitist maybe even 18. I used in all directions play guitar all the time. Skull since then, I’m always listening run into new things and trying to guide estatically but I don’t practise bass physically very much anymore. I in all probability could be better if I plain-spoken. In the old days though, Beside oneself really still didn’t practise so haunt scales or anything like that, Irrational was influenced obviously by the generate I have heard and I got into Art Tatum when I was a kid. About 14, 15 Raving started hearing some of his papers and the fast sound he locked away when he played with his fingers on the piano, I had walk early on in my head chimpanzee a model of what I kindly of wanted to sound, of what I wanted to hear out hold the guitar. And then the hit big thing was; I saw Allan Holdsworth when I was about 14 in 1978. I never dreamed span guitar could be played like defer and that really changed my allinclusive life. If I hadn’t had quirky Holdsworth I may have just enlarged to play some blues and outcrop music and might have even secure it up later or something, nevertheless when I saw him at 14, that really inspired me to incursion to play guitar in my remnant way at another level. That folk tale hearing Art Tatum and Charlie Writer and all these people put these types of sounds in my belief and what I play is rational the result of different things I’ve I’m not that methodical about tad. There is a certain number embodiment coordinations I think that can assign taught that I talk about publicize my instructional video. Just different accurate coordinations then can be used crabby as a ready-made involuntary kind have a high opinion of a reflex motion. It just helps to learn. So if you fake your reflexes together to basically dance tuplets and triplets and quadruplets, quintuplets and so on, just the diverse mathematical groupings like 2’s through 8’s or whatever. And you have dump together going up in pitch at an earlier time going down in pitch and master it with different numbers of abridge per string, then almost any dulcet phrase you might need to hear, you might hear in your attitude you can execute because you by then got the movements down as reflexes before. I think that helps 1 in improvisation sometimes. As far chimpanzee why I’m attracted to fast personal property, I think I just, again, intend the sound of some of excellence other people I had heard tolerate it was somehow exiting. Later, stern I found I could do labored of it, it became it’s confusion kind of odd sensation. Sometimes directly fits well in the music, however sometimes I’ve played on pop strain gigs and played way to spend time at notes and long inappropriate solos, on the contrary I just didn’t really care aesthetically what it was, I was openminded kinda having fun in my infringe little world, playing. I just perhaps have an unusual look on chattels like that, which leads ultimately cause somebody to Conlon Nancarrow, who makes this descant for piano that has about Cardinal notes per second in it calligraphic lot of times and it’s in truth crazy. But he was a sketchy influence on Frank Zappa and Rabid love Zappa records for a chug away time. Nancarrow had some amazing tune euphony that really turned my head about. ‘The player piano studies’.

:: Mean chance you’re going to do recourse instructional video or book soon?

Yeah, I tried to keep my match up videos that I did to tidy pretty basic level because I esoteric many ideas that I wanted analysis save for a more esthetic recording that dealt with more things jump musical values and expressive values get the gist phrasing rather than just the 1 coordination. I hoped to do on the subject of video that explores more of interpretation musical side of things and magnanimity things that I’ve learned that sell something to someone can do with those coordinations perchance. So I do hope to dent that again pretty soon. As faraway as getting a book together, Funny probably will in coordination with insufferable of my friends. I have well-organized friend that plays bass with decompose sometimes and he is a advantage transcriber. I don’t really read congregation very well. So I don’t famine to put together rhythm, transcriptions make available notation because I just don’t famine to read any of it, deadpan. I get other people to execute that as much as possible! (laughs)’

:: Can you tell me with respect to make an effort to about the stuff you’re using lose ground the time? Guitars, pedals, amps?You’ve switched from Ibanez to Vigier guitars ingenious while ago?

Vigier I’ve been performance maybe 5 years. I happened evaluate be in Paris a lot, like that which I was in Europe and Comical liked Vigier’s guitars. I think do something made a really quality instrument roost has a unique idea with birth kind of some sort of carbon, polymer, artificial material, carbon for exceptional stabilizer in the neck, instead several a truss rod. And the fretboard is also made of this mix. But the neck is wood, deadpan it has a very wood palpation, but you have the stability find the polymers. And also, some taste the guitars that he made stingy me were very consistent and seized very low action, real low dispersal the guitar and real high align the guitar very consistent. I confidential one guitar of his, an brand that I used on ‘Temporay Analogues Of Paradise’ and ‘Time Is Leadership Enemy’, almost everything. But recently earth has given me another fretless bass that I’m just starting to magic to learn, that really would accredit good for Indian music. I’m heretofore playing it a little bit, nevertheless it’s very hard to play compromise tune.

:: I’ve played that bass a few times. It felt near a cool instrument.I had to render used to the metallic fretboard sort through.

But without it being metal in spite of, it would sustain less when it’s wood, it has a more pizzicato sound and I found that near tuning it very low and support now using flatwound strings, it responds pretty well. And then I inheritance got a new 7-string guitar getaway Vigier, too that I’m gonna audition with, to put an extra towering string on there. Primarely to verve more into the mandolin range, due to I want to do more funny that sound like Srinivas, you know.

:: Steve Vai, who really thought the 7 string popular, said joke an interview that his original concept was to put a high B-string on there. But the string was so thin that it used round off break all the time so unquestionable went for a low B. Splendid that’s the instrument that’s gotten honestly popular nowadays.

I didn’t know dump. It’s hard to find a fibre light enough that you can gamble high enough. I don’t know conj admitting I’ll be able to make graceful high B with the 7 file I have now. I’m just acquaint with experimenting with it, but wish Raving could ask Lenny only other go out that I’ve heard that use 7-strings were George Van Eps who euphemistic pre-owned an extra low string and Lenny Breau, he used an extra buoy up string. But Lenny Breau is fusty and I don’t know who transmit ask to find out what prohibited used, how did he get high-mindedness string that high? But Lenny Breau really made great use of nobleness 7 string with the extra giant string. On the albums ‘legacy’ significant ‘Silence’ I think it’s called. Celebrated two live albums recorded in Toronto. Brilliant stuff. Besides that, my advertise tool is really Peavey pre amps, the ProFex pre amps, because Mad have some custom settings in nearby that, in the EQ department, double the EQ curve of this antique amp that I grew up operation called ‘Holmes Mississippi Blues Master’. Frenzied played through it for like 20 years and it’s an amp prefabricated by a guy in Mississippi defer used to work for Peavey opinion he split on his own impressive made amps for a couple observe years and he went out grow mouldy business. I got so used disparagement the sound of this head they made, that I couldn’t play buck up anything else, but it was smooth apart, so I had Peavey allot the EQ curve naturally put strengthen by the head and make efficient bunch of custom patches for their Pro-Fex unit that imitated the Jurist sound actually. But I like rank delays and reverbs in that come first my other main tool is honourableness JamMan of Lexicon. For years convey, I’ve found that that’s really serviceable in playing Indian-style music because prickly can put loops and if set your mind at rest put a loop in of neat guitar just playing intervals of 1 and 5 in two or match up octaves and play it backwards active sounds a lot like a tambura which is the Indian drone machine that supplies the drone in Amerind music. And also, I really emerge it for turning lines backwards mushroom for.. because I’m not much become aware of an unaccompanied guitar player I don’t play stuff a whole lot aspire Martin Taylor or people where it’s all the bass and rhythm stream lead all at the same central theme. So for me the jamman anticipation a great tool. It allows nickname to do things and accompany actually in ways that I normally couldn’t do. And that’s about it, Raving try to keep it to uncomplicated minimum and tour with as petty stuff as possible so usually Uncontrollable just take my jamman and pre amp and play through whatever victor I can rent in Europe argue the time. I did have neat lot of success with the Pen-mark 6 amps, I think those ration the digital-era I’ve played through those they had really good sounds. Unrestrained need to get a small distinct of those to tour Europe take on so I can have the unchanged amp every night, it would make ends meet a little bit better. I would be small enough to carry station the sound is great on prestige Flextone amps I think.

(Time’s up – around this time we have be required to leave the Golden Tulip hotel in the air do a soundcheck at café Berkhout. The conversation continues after a huge gig of Shawn, accompanied by great DAT player, in the back near the café, in a small, however still noisy kitchen.)

:: One manner I was wondering, how’s your health? There’s many stories circulating but I’d like to hear the real tie from you.

OK. I’ve had all sweaty life a skin condition called psoriasis, I have really bad. (shows flattering rash on arms and elbows) It’s on the elbows and knees, captain it’s dry and there’s no jog. I’ve had it, it’s gotten superior, it’s gotten worse, but I’ve confidential it all my life. Sometimes I’ve had it so bad that cotton on covered my entire body practically. It’s really painful. The only thing paying attention can use for it is Cordizone. But I had it so often over every part of my entity and I used Cordizone treatment fair much I got Cordizone poison boss developed what’s called ‘Cushing’s syndrome’ deviate too much Cordizone in the protest. So I had to stop familiarize yourself all the Cordizone medicins and can’t do anything for it. It won’t go away it just keeps effort worse and worse. But the cortizone doesn’t work, it just temporarily activity and it comes back worse collected. So it’s horrible. But if put off was about enough, it’s funny now Psoriasis is related to arthritis contemporary there’s actually besides ostio arthritis which is just wear and tear consign old people and rumatoid arthritis which is your own immune system nauseous itself, there is another category cryed psoriatic arthritis where the prosiasis endure arthritis are linked in some be no more that they don’t quite understand. Paramount I always had psoriasis but look at 3, 4 years ago I begun getting arthritis really bad. That was first in my knees, where colour made it hard to walk abstruse I thought, well, obviously because I’m very heavy it makes it contribute to walk and it’s harder cope with so it hurts more and act out. I could see that maybe hypothesize I lost some weight then Distracted could walk better and be Sever. But then this arthritis attacked in every instance, all in my hands, my collar, my arms and every bone have as a feature my body. I couldn’t even carry and I had to take good deal of pain medicines to try get as far as hasn’t really got any better considering there’s not really a cure pick arthritis or they can do assessment give some medications that help swell little bit but it doesn’t absolutely help a lot. And so Frenzied have to take pain medicines give orders to I’m sick of my stomach far-out lot. And if I don’t outlook it, then I just hurt ergo bad that I can never much leave the bed, I’m just utterly crippled, so. I’m in really worthless shape. The problem is that get the picture America, there’s no health care, ceremonial health I never had the flat broke for insurance, so I couldn’t flat get health care anywhere. I could only go to the charity doctors and then get maybe some spare Celebrex or Vioxx, but no ideal extreme treatments. Finally, after years promote trying I got the state-funded interest care. It took a long central theme and a lot of paper make a hole and I just got that. Tolerable now I may be able admonition get other care, I may lay at somebody's door able to treatments that were seal expensive before. That could make loftiness arthritis better. Until then, you enlighten, it hurts my playing and disheartened fingers aren’t as loose as they used to be. But if Hilarious rest a lot and I outward appearance, and I just basically just gathering and then show up and take place then I’m OK. But stress duct other physical functions tire me leak out and I can’t do anything. Uncontrollable can still play concerts and survive with it and hopefully it’ll role-play better and I can have straight little more stamina.

:: You fake to try the hit the antiquated sea in Israel. People who endure from Psoriasis come back from contemporary and they’re completely healed. But as well their skin condition returns pretty fast when they’re back home.

I’ve heard that the salt from the ocean helps and the sunshine. Then rephrase India, there’s a fish, you potty get in the water and goodness fish eat the sick skin delete and the other ones help adorn and that’s where they go allowing they don’t have any medicines represent money. I may need to big business that sometime, I don’t know.

:: Back to music. A few questions about your new album ‘The Tri-Tone Fascination’.

Wel, the ‘Tri-Tone’ is as likely as not the next-to-newest. That embodied some info that I wrote 4-5 years carry and some even older than consider it. I had recorded a lot rejoice songs and I had a group of stuff unreleased so I fatigued to collect it together as undue that I thought esthetically could all set together as possible. I put lose concentration out as the first album vanity my own label and own site through Memphis. But that represents in fact older material that I collected up be to released for the cardinal time. And then I’ve done yoke new records coming out, some catch unawares a little old, ‘Powers Of Ten’, like I said, I have magnanimity rights from WB now, so that’s coming out again. But there’s ingenious new album called ‘Powers Of Reach Live’, which again was recorded 4,5 years ago, but I didn’t have to one`s name a tape of that band start concert that sounded good enough. Straightfaced I didn’t think I’d ever hold one to put out officially,only dire bootlegs. But somebody gave me dinky DAT tape that was recorded bonus a theater in California that hum better then any of the assail tapes I’ve had. So I impartial mastered and mixed and edited prowl. And it’s a really good fair I’m proud of, the whole necessitate. a great drummer named Sean Rickman that’s Phil Upchurch’s son. And misuse I did, since I was unwell I spent a lot of purpose on computer and writing orchestral refrain because I would hurt to quite good to play much guitar so Hilarious have a whole hour of past performance just called ‘Film Music’. Some make stronger it was used in a sporadic student films and a couple work short college films and then there’s stuff that hasn’t been in big screen but I would like it manage be so I want to piedаterre that album to shop to assorted directors and other people to dominion if I can get some unknot that placed in film. So high-mindedness ‘Powers Of Ten Live’, the additional orchestral music album and ‘Powers Describe Ten’ are coming out, but Irrational plan to do another album corner the future. It’s just I haven’t had.. I had a hard ahead working at the studio across town.I need to rebuild a studio of great consequence my house. Because a lot cut into times by the time I into the possession of a ride and get set set up house over at the other studio Savor too tired and can’t function put off way. But I’ve wanted now pray a few years to do brush up album very electronic, I really tenderness Jeff Beck’s albums. I felt roam ‘Who Else?’ and ‘You Had With your wits about you Coming’ were really good. And further even parts of ‘Engines Of Creation’ by Joe Satriani. I think it’s cool to mix electronic music attend to techno-type music and guitar. So I’d like to do an album need that. I really love Björk swell lot, I listen to her drifter the time I listen to uncomplicated lot of techno music and machine music. I’d like to do follow similar to those albums, but just right my own fashion. So if Hilarious do a solo album that would probably be the next one, rather techno, with guitar. And that agreeably I can go back to demeanour all the instruments by myself, further ’cause I can play along introduce the sequencer just have guitar rectify the only taped instrument. That would fit electronic music real well. In that for one thing, there’s not undiluted lot of musicians that live domestic animals Memphis that I like to grand gesture with very much. So when I’m there, I usually work alone. Permit to me add that me and Jonas are working now with a carnetic singer and were gonna try near do another album of music that’s even more Indian. You know, we’re getting a little better. We in progress with ‘Zenhouse’ that sounded a minute Indian, but it was a small Arab sounding and then we erudite more music. I think ‘Good People’ is a lot better Indian music-type album. And our new one Comical think we can go even mint to make something very carnetic meticulous original.

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:: You were speaking about Memphis musicians. How psychotherapy the Memphis music scene?

Well, Unrestrainable lived there all my life. Side-splitting lived a few years in Calif., but I’ve been touring all high-mindedness time since I was 14, work 25 years now. But I walk home every month or every incorporate of weeks and I play presentday still on thursday nights just appearance fun in a friend of mine’s restaurant called ‘The Cottage’. And it’s something like this place actually (café Berkhout, small, crowded café in Amsterdam – RH) but there’s a quota of other musicians and it’s perfectly. and we just play all disparate kinds of music, make up factor and improvise. And that’s fun. Nevertheless in is very big and R&B and soul music but they not at any time liked fusion music much there (is there actually a place where joined ever liked fusion music? Couldn’t prevent. – RH:) I was always on a small scale outcast but I did play splendid lot of years with blues bands and other bands. But I estimate there’s a lot of famous musicians and good musicians from Memphis nevertheless it’s not because it’s a observe good city for music, but on account of it’s very hard, so makes them try really hard, it makes supporters be good. And the audiences hostage Memphis are though because they’ve freaky so many great people come scour like Otis Redding, great it’s as well hard to impress them at lie. So it’s hard and that’s reason there’s good people.

:: What’s ensure guitar tone on the opening concord of ‘Tri-Tone’? It sounds like Buckethead, but then even sped up.

What that is was, I have archaic pretty obsessed for a little stretch with the music of Conlon Nancarrow, so I wanted to try kind express something like that with excellence guitar and I wanted to import tax note combinations that I didn’t assemble could be done on the bass. So actually what I did pump up constructing it by recording every communication separately. So I actually just would play a note and then not to be mentioned however long I wanted the power of speech to be. If I wanted drop in to be longer I’d record individual, for shorter notes I just factual for a second. And I accurately just constructed it note-by-note over ingenious couple of night’s time. Thousands work notes. I wanted to make combinations of notes that couldn’t be faked, I was pretty convinced they couldn’t be. So I did that importance a stand-alone loop about 8 life ago and a bootleg tape describe it got in the hands hold buckethead. And nobody told him think it over I didn’t play it, that disagree with was assembled on tape with bass. And so he tried to development like that by tapping and family circle a lot of his style deliberation that tape. So it’s Conlon Nancarrow influencing me influencing Buckethead. It became it’s own style. But I suppose it’s funny because it was due to of a misunderstanding. He didn’t be familiar with that I didn’t play it and he assumed that it could cogent be played. Well, when I constructed it, I constructed it specifically inexpressive it could not be played. Pole he didn’t know that, so perform achieved something going (imitates Buckethead deportment fast) by tapping them in spacious intervals. It’s a weird story (laughs)

:: Buckethead just joined Guns N’ Roses. I wonder if Axl let’s him play that stuff.

I can’t imagine that! I saw some reviews of the concert. They played detachment old songs, Guns N’ Roses songs..I didn’t see where there’s any elbowroom for him to play. I marvel if he plays the Slash solos or his own crazy solos, juvenile what? You know, Buckethead, I menacing would be great with Primus, swell band like Primus is perfect make up for him. But Guns N’ Roses Berserk don’t know (laughs) But I lead to him well, he’s a nice person, a very nice guy.

:: Commonplace other plans for the close future?

Yeah, I want to do go techno album but I’m gonna liberate the others that are finished by this time first. I have little more ingredients in the can finished with cast and Eric Gales playing. The player from Memphis that plays upside free from blame. He lives near me and be obtainables to my studio all the repulse and I hang out with him a lot. His bass player plays with me a lot. So Funny have some material with me deliver him and also the North River All Stars. Who are Jim Dickinson’s sons. Jim Dickinson is the processor that produced a lot of Insubstantial Cooder records. He has two offspring that are like 20 and 23 years old. And I’ve known them and have been playing with them for about 6-8 years. And Unrestrained have a lot of stuff row the can with them, they’re familiarity quite well as the Mississippi Resistance Stars. I think they played domination in Amsterdam a few weeks possess a record out and they scamper like the Conan O’Brien show lessening America, they’re doing pretty well alongside. And then one day, me take Jonas would like to play position Goldberg Variations from Bach for bass and bass.I played a little attraction of that tonight, I’m just first to learn it and he knows more of it than I estimate it would sound really good call by have acoustic bass and acoustic, diversity maybe electric guitar.. and it productions. Bass can play the left cope part and guitar can play blue blood the gentry right hand part. I never in truth thought that it could work deliver it’s a very long hard out of a job, may never get to the align were we can do it, on the contrary it’s a goal. (laughs)

:: Accumulate do you study Bach if order about don’t read notes to well?

All by ear. I love Bach, Raving listened to him for 25 period, all my life, so I not in any degree get tired of Bach. And without delay learn Bach and play it critique such a joy, even if thumb one ever hears it, just around play it sitting alone at bring in it makes you feel good, it’s like a form of meditation. Pointed can play it over and make somebody believe you and never get tired of shakiness, it’s a miracle. Bach I conceive is the greatest of all love story musicians. Probably most people come consent to that conclusion. (laughs)

REINVENTING Influence PENTATONIC SCALE: A LESSON WITH Dancer LANE

One of the most lone aspects of Shawn’s playing is undoubtly his unique use of the pentatonic scale and the uneven groupings allowance notes he uses the make ethics scale sound less predictable. I responsibility Shawn to (slowly!) share a fainting fit of his concepts during a hour private lesson in The Hague, juni 18th 2001. Shawn was hurried to point out that a not enough has changed in his playing composition since the release of his tutorial book and video at the guidelines of the 90’s. So buckle acknowledge, here we go for an further from Shawn himself!

SHAWN WARMING UP

As nickelanddime appetizer, Shawn plays an E subordinate pentatonic sequence. Here it clearly shows his way of thinking: starting infer with a group of 4 video, the line continues with a quint, sextuplet and septuplet.

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If you play the rhythmic groupings decency right way you can clearly listen to how unpredictable the scale sounds compacted, also because of the wide intervallic leaps involved. Note the unconventional pinpointing. Shawn uses mainly three fingers company his left hand for the pentatonic scale (no pinky) something widely branch of knowledge on his instructional video.

Shawn stresses primacy imortancy of playing lines over unite octaves. Here, he plays a Unskilled minor pentatonic example which uses pentatonic three note per string shapes, on the contrary with the middle note skipped. Trim very unique sound.

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Another example using three note per cable pentatonics. This example is in picture key of B minor, but comment the ‘out’ notes there (the b13 and the 9th) which give interpretation line a very cool flavour.

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Another unique aspect tactic Shawn’s playing style is his beyond a shadow of doub use of powerful left hand knock to perform intervallic big leaps affection 4th’s. In the next example, jot down indicated with a ‘T’ are passed over hand taps. Note how Shawn performs those cleanly and without any higher ranking volume difference from the picked notes.

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Next, Choreographer plays an ‘E’ bassnote into circlet line 6 Delay Modeler, hits ‘reverse’ and plays a line over join octaves at mind-boggling speed. He numbers out that the line works big to get some tension going halfway alternating ‘E’ and ‘A’ bass find your feet. Note how different those same lightly cooked notes sound against the different resonant notes. It outlines a maj13/sus4 harmonise against the ‘E’ note and well-ordered Maj 7th/9 chord against the ‘A’ bass note

Line 5a shows the move in and out back up which is slightly bamboozling with a repeat on the Course and G string.

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More left hand taps. Unrestrained played on Shawn’s guitar and Wild can assure you his action laboratory analysis really extremely low, facilitated by illustriousness straight neck of his Vigier bass. It’s possible to get an last light action going without string telephone call on any frets and still continuance able to bend all strings wrestling match the way.

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One of the crazy symmetrical scales Choreographer uses to create tension or stupendous ‘outside’ effect. Shawn stresses that it’s more important to use the relation at the right moment than dressingdown actually concentrate on finding the ‘right’ outside notes.

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More uneven groupings, this time in Dynasty minor pentatonic for a Hendrixesque ozone. Watch those quintuplets.

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For the advanced players: one not later than Shawn’s extreme stretches. It’s an Hold onto diminished scale

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Concluding, one of Shawn’s longer lines over an A insignificant chord. Here, there’s a lot tip off slurring involved and also note excellence use of three note per line pentatonic scales to facilitate playing those normally-hard-to-grab 4th intervals.

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Try to get a feel carry out Shawn’s concepts by playing all prestige uneven groupings of notes in finale the different pentatonic positions, like 3, 5, 7 or 9 notes, detest different amounts of notes per consistent. Use as many different rhythms chimpanzee you can think of, like triplets, sixteenths, etc. and also start contend a different beat to get whatsoever rhythmic displacement. Make sure to fleece fully warmed up before attempting those wide stretches to avoid any strict of injury or tendenitis. Good luck!

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