Ruben Diaz celebrating John McLaughlin’s birthday…

[rubendiaz]

Today its John McLaughlin’s birthday and I would like to celebrate it by shearing with you a couple of lessons on his music, 2 pieces that are very much linked to Paco and to a whole generation of lovers of jazz-fusion and guitar players.

I)

Lotus Feet by John McLaughlin

This composition is a fantastic melody with just two chords
Em and C

The arpeggio & melody theme explanation is here

http://www.rdiaz.org/rdvideo114.html

and the sound track to practice improvisation,(for example we can use G major scale (which is G Ionian mode and played over the chord Em becomes E Aeolian and over C major chord becomes C Lydian, so it works nicely G major scale for both chords, you just try and will see…)

http://www.rdiaz.org/rdvideo115.html

and



II)

“El David”
http://www.rdiaz.org/rdvideo82.html


Be creative and have fun!


Happy birthday John!



Ruben Diaz
http://www.rdiaz.org/rdfoto16.html

http://www.rdiaz.org/rdfoto15.html