How can we evoke a smooth, lyrical, singing “voice” from our fretted, plucked instrument? It’s all in the phrasing! Using some familiar tunes, you’ll get to explore what phrasing means: how it affects the style of a tune, how to intuitively determine where to “breathe”, how to avoid the “pick-up hiccup”, and how to create both smooth phrases and “breaths” in your playing.
How can we evoke a smooth, lyrical, singing “voice” from our fretted, plucked instrument? It’s all in the phrasing! Using some familiar tunes, you’ll get to explore what phrasing means: how it affects the style of a tune, how to intuitively determine where to “breathe”, how to avoid the “pick-up hiccup”, and how to create both smooth phrases and “breaths” in your playing.