GUITAR
Performance Clinic
with Jerry Belsak, Philip High, & David McLean
David M. McLean
David - a composer, performer, engineer, and author who teaches guitar in Richmond at Currier's Music World and in Lexington at Hurst Music - comes from a heavy-rock and dark, southern blues background. He is particularly fascinated by percussion concepts, symmetrical harmony, and magical, entrancing sounds. The first example is for "dirty" electric guitar (an effect achieved by overdriving the amp or by using a distortion effect pedal) and is a good example of both double-stop bends and the use of rhythmic variation in phrasing.
The second example is for "clean" (non-distorted) electric guitar and makes extensive use of 2-hand hammering (sounding the notes by hammer-like fretting, without plucking the strings). Note both the tapped and picked harmonics at the end.
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For more information on David, visit his web-site http://www.skinnydevil.com
Lesson written by David M. McLean, 05-2003
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