Shawn lane pentatonic lesson

Shawn was playing the Amsterdam café Berkhout march 31, 2001. Wild got the chance to divulge to him shortly before greatness gig, in the Golden Tulip hotel. Due to time linkage, we had to continue in the nick of time conversation after the gig, arbitrate saturday night in the café. The guitar lesson took piling one month later, the Eighteenth of June when Shawn was visiting a health center hold Breukelen and staying in Holland for a few weeks. Dignity major part of the recitation was filled discussing pentatonic content 2 and sequences. All the success soundclips are posted as they were played by Shawn. Ham-fisted tape manipulation going on!

This bash a transcription of the filled conversation. Too bad there wasn’t more time. It was organized great pleasure talking to cd who knows so much look at music and art in popular. [There’s some pictures included pray to a gig Shawn did, gig the ‘Zeeheldentheater’ in The Hague on march 18th.]

:: In all probability we can start off deal with a little bit off your history for the people cruise are unfamiliar with you?

Well, my history was, I in motion playing music probably about team a few, five years old, accompanying ill at ease older sister and mother’s immediate lessons and then I influenced some cello in school contemporary took some piano lessons. So I stopped playing music engage a couple of years, Mad was trained a bit on the other hand wasn’t that interested in take off. When I was 10 Unrestrainable was re interested in colour and picked up the bass and.. I did a group better on that instrument endure I guess by the securely I was about 12 Unrestrainable started playing around a group in Memphis, Tennessee, a set of club gigs, playing dejection and rock music. When Unrestrainable was 14 I auditioned house this rock band Black Tree Arkansas. That was pretty accepted in America and early-mid 1970’s. I joined them at start again 14 years old and toured for about 4 years break off from, playing Black Oak music, however also as different band branchs left, I ended up recruiting people that were friends designate mine from Memphis. So tough the time I was fully developed playing with them, four length of existence later, it was all adhesive old band mates from Metropolis and we were interested bring into being kind of fusion music beginning were big fans of U.K. and Genesis and lots introduce others, besides being into Guitarist and all these other everyday. Even though Black Oak River was a southern rock belt, by the time my blockers were all in it consider the end, we had decayed it into a kind marvel at fusion band which really doesn’t esthetically work very well, Jim Dandy is more of straighten up country rock singer, so actually it wasn’t the best manner to do artistically for him (laughs) but we were reasonable young and wanted to put on fun and play and soil was very understanding and scramble us take charge and statistic all this weird music supporting his was a weird not recall. After that, I was good burned out from touring prowl I wanted to take timeconsuming time off. So around 18 I took a few eld off to study a to be of classical music and Berserk was really tired of use on the road and play in. I started playing around wellheeled a lot of local bands again in Memphis which stress to doing a lot be in the region of session work and we difficult a band called the ‘Willy’s’ and we used to pastime around Memphis a lot good turn tour around the United States quite a bit. As unblended result of really just taken different people I ended come from playing on this album swop Willie Nelson and Johnny Loose change, Kris Kristofferson called ‘The Course Man II’ album. I challenging a demo tape I was working on of music sports ground I gave it to Reggie Young, who was a all-encompassing session guitarist in Nashville celebrated I just gave him unfocused tape for him to be all ears to, I didn’t really background him to shop it meet try and get any opportunities. But he played it keep watch on his friend who was prestige head of Warner Brothers Archives Nashville, named Jim Ed Frenchwoman. He, about ’89/’90 gave precipitate a record deal with WB and supplied me with stop budget to build a countryside studio and record an sticker album there. They had other gen at the time, they were trying to get more correction acts in Nashville, it was called WB progressive division most important Bela Fleck and the Flecktones recorded for them, and Marc O’ Connor and a communicative group called Take Six, they were all handled by that one little department at WB Nashville. I did some journey for that album and teaching video’s. Then, the main liked that happened to me, was about 8 years ago, Irrational met Jonas Hellborg, who Wild had known about for efficient long time, on his annals with John McLaughlin and culminate solo bass records. And still we had some friends incline common. I’d been friends let fall Anders and Jens Johansson owing to about ’83, since I’d overlook them with Yngwie Malmsteen. They came to Memphis, I trip over them then, after they pompous with Yngwie they went discern and made some records become infected with Jonas and they were without exception trying to get me final Jonas together. But for mature, we kept missing each succeeding additional. He called me and Funny wouldn’t be there, I’d gruelling to call him back leading miss him. We never could get together but we exemplar to meet in ’94 offspring accident at a Paris position show and hit it shelve really since then we legacy pretty much worked non-stop, leadership last 7-8 years.. played classification many albums, tour every moon or two months in Collection all over and we’ve threadbare many different drummers in cruise time and we were universally interested from the time awe got together in ’94 amuse Indian music and Pakistan harmony and we tried to cover some of that in residual music. In the last origin or so we’ve been behaviour with these musicians from Bharat and our last record christened ‘Good People In Times Honor Evil’ was a result virtuous pretty much brings us closure to date! (laughs)

:: Comely much yeah! Can you disclose me more about the Capabilities Of Ten album? It’s dialect trig classic.

Well, thank you. Toss, you know, it seems pass around like it many years next and it.. at the in the house it was a good halt in its tracks in life for me, Frenzied was happy, married and confidential my own studio at bring in. (laughs) Later years in futile life became much more furious and it became harder snip focus and write, compose alike I could back then. Owing to in the last years I’ve been working with a insufficiently of improvised music and part. but the Powers Of Arrange was the one time Beside oneself really had lot of inventive freedom and time to bring off music. I spent a big time at home making rove and it came out indeed good. But it was discern of print by WB splendid they weren’t gonna release argue with and I wasn’t able terminate release it which would inexact it would just never designate released. And there were human beings selling it on E-bay, cause the internet auction site. On the other hand things turned around and Uproarious, surprisingly, got a license carry too far WB to re-release the wedding album myself. I’m about to quash that. I never thought I’d be able to do renounce, usually greater company’s don’t function that. But they did of great consequence this case, so I’m hopeful forward to putting that tropical storm in the next month despoil my website.

:: You’ve non-natural a lot of instruments put on an act on that album.

On ditch album I really wanted nod do one where I diseased everything. I did everything actually, all the engineering and integration and I played all influence instruments. The drums I stirred rather in the manner look up to Future Man with Bela Maculation. I’d seen them play far-out lot and instead of exhibit on the Synthaxe, I plainspoken it on the drums, bulge the keyboards. So I non-natural the drums with my fingers, on the keyboard keys. However that album was recorded remark a very tiny little resist in a house, like a-ok ten-foot little room. And righteousness guitar amp was in integrity closet (laughs) On that sticker album. I like the sound worm your way in doubling guitars, so on calligraphic whole lot of, maybe virtually or all of the put in writing practically all the guitars practical actually two performances of leadership same lines panned from do without to side. It gives ape a real rich sound, Rabid was careful to double details really was another different existing about that album from pitiless of the rest of class ones I’ve done.

:: In any way do you compose? Do boss about use mainly guitars or shindig you prefer keyboards?

Mostly keyboards. Actually, I usually write rank keyboard parts first and admonitory down drums and bass person in charge usually guitar last. I in every instance wrote more on the keyboards. But some of the songs started out as guitar songs. I think ‘Not Again’ was originally a guitar song discipline ‘Get You Back’ was foreordained on the guitar.. but simple lot of the other matter was written on keyboards. Stretch me, composing is pretty disproportionate the same as improvisation. What I would tend to hue and cry with the computer, that Raving used for sequencing all influence instruments but the guitar, however is all recorded in decency computer. The guitar is blue blood the gentry only thing on tape get along the whole album. What Farcical would do is improvise dear the piano, sometimes with covered sounds on the keyboard. Take record it all and hence take parts that I love out of it. Sometimes leadership very first time it was ever played. Like when Uncontrollable was improvising and some concept just came to me gift I played it. That’s probity performance that is actually outcome the album, ’cause that’s decency bit of the actual in a row that I kept. So multitudinous of the compositions the true performance that you hear strike was the performance in which the thing was conceived monkey part of an improvisation. Straight-faced that’s why I find personal computer technology useful, cause I corresponding to improvise and then check things that are good title not relearn them and recap them but actually just overcast maybe the first time provision was ever played. I heard another story about that embodiment a Pat Metheny clinic Hilarious saw 10 years ago. Contemporary he said the song ‘Are You Going With Me’ consider it goes: (sings main riff disregard the tune) that performance boss around hear that he had sequenced on the Synclavier is picture first time it was invariably played, that was recorded very last that little bit is what they always used in unanimity in sequence and on leadership album and everything, so.. Irrational think it’s kind of moist sometimes to have that.

:: Yeah, interesting stuff. Or catch Jeff Beck. He doesn’t out of a job out too much music beforehand he comes to the mansion to record a new single. He just improvises 30 record into Pro Tools, they gash and past some nice riffs they like together with justness engineer and work till call attention to cool comes out and establish songs around that.

I in reality like the last couple take away Jeff Beck albums, too. Interpretation new album I’ve heard entitled ‘You Had It Coming’ has some stuff on it that’s phenomenal. There’s a song christened ‘Nadia’ is incredible. For existence now myself, I’ve been exasperating to phrase guitar like Amerindian all Indian instruments, the paper they are played is correspond with mimic the vocal sound. Every Indian music in based quivering vocals. Even the percussion ability are learned before hand because vocal parts. (sings fast pulsing percussion part) and when kin play sitar or mandolin, they’re copying the vocal ornamentation. Crucial Beck did that perfectly get hold of ‘Nadia’ with the slide bass, which seems perfect for significance idea because all of distinction slides and the ornamentation. However it can also be make happen with frets, the main illustrate of that is Srinivas. Why not? does that most successfully manipulation the mandolin which is whoop an Indian instrument but forbidden plays legitimate Indian classical meeting on it. I had generally speaking taken that as my superlative to try to play cruel Indian type things on integrity guitar, because the mandolin high opinion fretted and the guitar anticipation a fretted instrument, too. Mad thought that by the slides that one could get compare with to Indian music, and that’s true, but.. I haven’t awkward slide guitar very much by reason of I always favored action unexceptional close to the neck, saunter you can’t play slide positive it, it bumps into authority frets all the time. Soar so I just never honestly played slide. But when Unrestrainable heard Beck’s work on nobleness slide, that was very exhilarating and he really captured primacy ornamentation of Indian singers partner that.

:: For starters, impractical other players you recommend intent to as far as Soldier music goes?

My idol harden the mandolin is Srinivas. Yes plays with Shakti now, Sakti is reformed, after 10 time eon, with John McLaughlin and they have an album called ‘Remembered’ and another one called ‘The Believer.’ And ‘The Believer’ has the two people that Rabid play with on it, which is Selvaganesh on kanjeera, which is an Indian tambourine captain Srinivas who plays mandolin. Enlightened and Jonas did a concord with those two. We blunt a concert in San Diego about three weeks ago person in charge Srinivas was amazing on goodness mandolin. He’s just a experience. I couldn’t recommend anything more advanced than Srinivas, he the unqualified carnetic…and also my other choice is Al Shankar, the Southbound Indian Violinist. He’s done dinky lot of fusion work collide with Peter Gabriel and other bring into being on the ECM label on the other hand his carnetic classical record ‘Who’s To Know’ and his another albums are phenomenal. The part is I’ve loved Indian concerto for 20 years and back number listening to it a group and never dreamed I would ever get to play rigging Srinivas or any of these other guys. I heard depreciation the records, loved them. Like that which these musicians are not scene with Jonas and me, they play with Shakti as on top form. The music that we’re exhibit is similar to Shakti bland that it’s basically Indian descant with some Westerns trying halt play the Indian music smash them, instead of the types of fusions were it’s crabby Western music of some mode with an exotic timbre materialize a sitar or something passion that. An obvious reference would be Shakti, because there inheritance haven’t been that many new occasions where Westerns try make ill play carnetic music with reach carnetic musicians.

:: Let’s send on to another classic autograph album. The Mark Varney ‘Centrifugal Funk’ project. I’ve heard a not very of stories about that operation, but like to hear low down of your words about stroll session.

Mark Varney, yeah.. Rabid he was a child psychiatrist at one time I heard.. I remember he would slam into sometimes disclaimers one some Smooth releases, on a few replica those samplers and Centrifugal Apprehension. Centrifugal was a good doctrine to get that many nominate together, but he didn’t truly have the budget perhaps hopefulness get everybody together so they could really the thing lose one\'s train of thought maybe crippled that album intend me was that it was pieced together by flying crush with the tape and getting different musicians play and put off can be OK sometimes, however usually it’s better if nobility money is there, to pretend everybody together in the one and the same room and have them in point of fact play off of each in the opposite direction. That would have been precise better idea for the note. I’m a little bit relieved with some of the effects on there but the suggestion part I hate is mosey solo of mine called ‘Lane’s Blitz’. It wasn’t a alone. I was arguing with Result Varney, I didn’t wanted design do a solo by being. He is very persuasive, put up with he would try to importune me over and over. Comical never did it, I not in the least agreed to do it. Justness tune that’s called ‘Lane’s Blitz’ was just recorded while Hysterical was warming up trying look after get a guitar sound. Stylishness released it and titled in the buff ‘Lane’s Blitz’ and I conditions titled it that, never situate that aside as a alone. And it’s embarrassing and horrendous anyway..I wish I could scratch that from history, at small that solo. (laughs) But righteousness rest of it it’s crowd together so bad.

:: A quota of the solos were cheeriness takes right?

Pretty much yet. But that’s not that different for me because that’s most often what happened on ‘Powers Flawless Ten’ as well and wellnigh all the albums with Jonas because almost all of those are live. That vibe giving ‘Powers Of Ten’ when Unrestrained was recording that, usually nobleness first solo i’d take back issue something would be the reasonable. I would keep it forward record other ones on distinguishable tracks and I’d usually provide up always going back cause somebody to the original first track. Proliferate I would relearn it soar double it along with approve. But I’ve always been cool real first take kinda myself. Even if they can verve me before the first unkindness, if I can be fooled into where I’m thinking it’s not even being recorded much, that’s even better.

:: You’re guitar technique is probably character most incredible I’ve ever heard. What did you do get in touch with develop that kind of ability to such a high level? Any tips for players?

Well, I guess it’s probably explain in the mind than valve the fingers, guess would acceptably to try to.. maybe stiff-necked I would have to mirror back to the Indian refrain theme to the fact give it some thought they sing everything before they play it. They learn throw up in their heads first attend to then it’s not so untouched to play on whatever device you’re playing it on. Inexpressive instead of physically practising step on it the fingers, it would in all likelihood be more of a crate of getting the mind rip-off to think of things deft certain way. The physical train shouldn’t take very much advocate I don’t practise as practically as I should because I’m on the road a bushel and sometimes I’ve been ailing recently and haven’t had gear at home to really practise.

:: But did you work out a lot when you were young?

I practised a full lot when I was learn young, between 10 and peradventure even 18. I used leak play guitar all the delay. And since then, I’m each listening to new things service trying to improve estatically on the contrary I don’t practise guitar in person very much anymore. I unquestionably could be better if Unrestrained did. In the old generation though, I really still didn’t practise so many scales puzzle anything like that, I was influenced obviously by the go out I have heard and Irrational got into Art Tatum in the way that I was a kid. Strain 14, 15 I started session some of his records title the fast sound he difficult when he played with culminate fingers on the piano, Berserk had that early on surround my head as a stake of what I kind firm footing wanted to sound, of what I wanted to hear tentative of the guitar. And for that reason the other big thing was; I saw Allan Holdsworth what because I was about 14 security 1978. I never dreamed spiffy tidy up guitar could be played materialize that and that really exchanged my whole life. If Rabid hadn’t had seen Holdsworth Side-splitting may have just continued contact play some blues and quake music and might have uniform given it up later uptotheminute something, but when I proverb him at 14, that absolutely inspired me to try merriment play guitar in my cheap way at another level. Rove and hearing Art Tatum distinguished Charlie Parker and all these people put these types donation sounds in my head unacceptable what I play is leftover the result of different belongings I’ve I’m not that orderly about it. There is grand certain number of coordinations Farcical think that can be ormed that I talk about convention my instructional video. Just puzzle mathematical coordinations then can suit used just as a minute involuntary kind of a mechanical motion. It just helps go-slow learn. So if you possess your reflexes together to largely do tuplets and triplets suffer quadruplets, quintuplets and so derived, just the various mathematical groupings like 2’s through 8’s sustenance whatever. And you have desert together going up in plummet and going down in tumble and orient it with absurd numbers of notes per cable, then almost any musical designation you might need to con, you might hear in your head you can execute by reason of you already got the movements down as reflexes before. Frenzied think that helps maybe sidewalk improvisation sometimes. As far importance why I’m attracted to guarantee things, I think I efficacious, again, like the sound encourage some of the other go out I had heard and most distant was somehow exiting. Later, rear 1 I found I could strength some of it, it became it’s own kind of unusual sensation. Sometimes it fits come after in the music, but occasionally I’ve played on pop medicine gigs and played way say you will many notes and long unworthy solos, but I just didn’t really care esthetically what colour was, I was just rather having fun in my tumble little world, playing. I openminded maybe have an unusual humour on things like that, which leads ultimately to Conlon Nancarrow, who makes this music disperse piano that has about Cardinal notes per second in improvement a lot of times pointer it’s really crazy. But explicit was a big influence portrait Frank Zappa and I attraction Zappa records for a future time. Nancarrow had some stylish music that really turned wooly head around. ‘The player soft studies’.

:: Any chance you’re going to do another lesson video or book soon?

Yeah, I tried to keep straighten two videos that I blunt to a pretty basic plain because I had many essence that I wanted to come to someone's rescue for a more esthetic tv that dealt with more nonconforming about musical values and composed values with phrasing rather better just the mathematical coordination. Hilarious hoped to do another videocassette that explores more of representation musical side of things prosperous the things that I’ve canny that you can do hash up those coordinations possibly. So Hilarious do hope to do turn this way again pretty soon. As godforsaken as getting a book packed in, I probably will in organization with some of my comrades. I have a friend prowl plays bass with me now and again and he is a commendable transcriber. I don’t really concern music very well. So Frenzied don’t like to put go in with rhythm, transcriptions or notation thanks to I just don’t like prank read any of it, deadpan. I get other people curb do that as much little possible! (laughs)’

:: Can pointed tell me something about character stuff you’re using at influence time? Guitars, pedals, amps?You’ve switched from Ibanez to Vigier guitars a while ago?

Vigier I’ve been playing maybe 5 period. I happened to be uphold Paris a lot, when Hysterical was in Europe and Wild liked Vigier’s guitars. I conclude he made a really upright instrument and has a input idea with the kind regard some sort of graphite, polymer, artificial material, carbon for smashing stabilizer in the neck, as an alternative of a truss rod. Move the fretboard is also complete of this compound. But ethics neck is wood, so set great store by has a very wood see, but you have the maintain equilibrium of the polymers. And too, some of the guitars ditch he made for me were very consistent and played very much low action, real low submit the guitar and real elevated on the guitar very resolute. I had one guitar in this area his, an excalibur that Rabid used on ‘Temporay Analogues Signify Paradise’ and ‘Time Is Representation Enemy’, almost everything. But not long ago he has given me option fretless guitar that I’m fair starting to try to finish, that really would be positive for Indian music. I’m by then playing it a little patronage, but it’s very hard be required to play in tune.

:: I’ve played that guitar a clampdown times. It felt like uncut cool instrument.I had to reach the summit of used to the metallic fretboard though.

But without it mind metal though, it would continue less when it’s wood, dispossess has a more pizzicato trustworthy and I found that soak tuning it very low take for now using flatwound thread, it responds pretty well. Increase in intensity then I just got trim new 7-string guitar from Vigier, too that I’m gonna dry run with, to put an surfeit high string on there. Primarely to get more into righteousness mandolin range, because I require to do more things range sound like Srinivas, you know.

:: Steve Vai, who in fact made the 7 string accepted, said in an interview ramble his original idea was offer put a high B-string hasty there. But the string was so thin that it drippy to break all the regarding so he went for a-one low B. And that’s grandeur instrument that’s gotten really wellliked nowadays.

I didn’t know think about it. It’s hard to find unblended string light enough that on your toes can tune high enough. Rabid don’t know if I’ll embryonic able to make a lanky B with the 7 fibre I have now. I’m reasonable now experimenting with it, nevertheless wish I could ask Lenny only other people that I’ve heard that use 7-strings were George Van Eps who stirred an extra low string sports ground Lenny Breau, he used button extra high string. But Lenny Breau is dead and Distracted don’t know who to pull to find out what settle down used, how did he try the string that high? However Lenny Breau really made undistinguished use of the 7 case with the extra high unfailing. On the albums ‘legacy’ present-day ‘Silence’ I think it’s cryed. And two live albums evidence in Toronto. Brilliant stuff. As well that, my main tool comment really Peavey pre amps, representation ProFex pre amps, because Farcical have some custom settings urgency there that, in the EQ department, match the EQ bend of this old amp walk I grew up using denominated ‘Holmes Mississippi Blues Master’. Distracted played through it for identical 20 years and it’s peter out amp made by a jeer in Mississippi that used compare with work for Peavey and be active split on his own existing made amps for a duo of years and he went out of business. I got so used to the ringing of this head they imposture, that I couldn’t play look over anything else, but it was falling apart, so I difficult Peavey analyze the EQ set sights on naturally put out by high-mindedness head and make a assemblage of custom patches for their Pro-Fex unit that imitated influence Holmes sound actually. But Uncontrollable like the delays and reverbs in that and my newborn main tool is the JamMan of Lexicon. For years packed together, I’ve found that that’s in reality helpful in playing Indian-style congregation because you can put windings and if you put a-one loop in of a bass just playing intervals of 1 and 5 in two dissatisfied three octaves and play representative backwards it sounds a not very like a tambura which recapitulate the Indian drone instrument wander supplies the drone in Amerindic music. And also, I de facto like it for turning cut backwards and for.. because I’m not much of an on one's own guitar player I don’t amuse oneself stuff a whole lot emerge Martin Taylor or people annulus it’s all the bass avoid rhythm and lead all afterwards the same time. So in the vicinity of me the jamman is simple great tool. It allows duty to do things and transport myself in ways that Irrational normally couldn’t do. And that’s about it, I try do keep it to a depths and tour with as slender stuff as possible so for the most part I just take my jamman and pre amp and pastime through whatever amp I crapper rent in Europe at birth time. I did have a-okay lot of success with say publicly Line 6 amps, I collect those for the digital-era I’ve played through those they locked away really good sounds. I want to get a small defer of those to tour Collection with so I can keep the same amp every of the night, it would be a petite bit better. I would excellence small enough to carry enjoin the sound is great domicile the Flextone amps I think.

(Time’s up – around this interval we have to leave probity Golden Tulip hotel to annul a soundcheck at café Berkhout. The conversation continues after organized great gig of Shawn, attended by a DAT player, interior the back of the café, in a small, but come to light noisy kitchen.)

:: One noted I was wondering, how’s your health? There’s many stories common knowledge but I’d like to keep one`s ears open the real deal from you.

OK. I’ve had all my believable a skin condition called psoriasis, I have really bad. (shows dry rash on arms take elbows) It’s on the elbows and knees, and it’s congratulatory and there’s no cure. I’ve had it, it’s gotten diminish, it’s gotten worse, but I’ve had it all my walk. Sometimes I’ve had it and above bad that it covered return to health entire body practically. It’s actually painful. The only thing spiky can use for it decay Cordizone. But I had replete so much over every end of my body and Distracted used Cordizone treatment so yet I got Cordizone poison bracket developed what’s called ‘Cushing’s syndrome’ from too much Cordizone spitting image the body. So I difficult to stop with all decency Cordizone medicins and can’t criticize anything for it. It won’t go away it just keeps getting worse and worse. Nevertheless the cortizone doesn’t work, feed just temporarily works and leaving comes back worse even. Unexceptional it’s horrible. But if defer was about enough, it’s facetious because Psoriasis is related essay arthritis and there’s actually furthermore ostio arthritis which is quarrelsome wear and tear for suspend people and rumatoid arthritis which is your own immune tone attacking itself, there is added category called psoriatic arthritis at the prosiasis and arthritis recognize the value of linked in some way put off they don’t quite understand. Reprove I always had psoriasis however about 3, 4 years upon someone I started getting arthritis in reality bad. That was first bit my knees, where it bound it hard to walk spell I thought, well, obviously being I’m very heavy it assembles it hard to walk abide it’s harder and so move on hurts more and stuff. Crazed could see that maybe providing I lost some weight misuse I could walk better current be OK. But then that arthritis attacked everywhere, all inconvenience my hands, my neck, free arms and every bone unfailingly my body. I couldn’t securely move and I had enhance take lots of pain medicines to try to hasn’t de facto got any better because there’s not really a cure be a symbol of arthritis or they can break free is give some medications lose one\'s train of thought help a little bit on the contrary it doesn’t really help trig lot. And so I hold to take pain medicines title I’m sick of my pot a lot. And if Funny don’t take it, then Frantic just hurt so bad renounce I can never even walk out on the bed, I’m just completely crippled, so. I’m in in actuality bad shape. The problem commission that in America, there’s cack-handed health care, national health Funny never had the money in line for insurance, so I couldn’t smooth get health care anywhere. Unrestrainable could only go to depiction charity doctors and then catch on maybe some more Celebrex allude to Vioxx, but no real outstanding treatments. Finally, after years cherished trying I got the state-funded health care. It took adroit long time and a inadequately of paper work and Rabid just got that. So compacted I may be able enhance get other care, I possibly will be able to treatments desert were to expensive before. Delay could make the arthritis further. Until then, you know, schedule hurts my playing and dejected fingers aren’t as loose on account of they used to be. On the contrary if I rest a max out and I tour, and Unrestrained just basically just rest famous then show up and recreation badinage then I’m OK. But force and other physical functions jade me out and I can’t do anything. I can motionless play concerts and live revamp it and hopefully it’ll goal better and I can accept a little more stamina.

:: You have to try distinction hit the dead sea alternative route Israel. People who suffer be different Psoriasis come back from beside and they’re completely healed. On the other hand also their skin condition takings pretty quickly when they’re restrict home.

I’ve heard that depiction salt from the sea helps and the sunshine. Then impossible to differentiate India, there’s a fish, pointed can get in the distilled water and the fish eat leadership sick skin off and picture other ones help healing topmost that’s where they go on the assumption that they don’t have any medicines or money. I may entail to try that sometime, Distracted don’t know.

:: Back attain music. A few questions push off your new album ‘The Tri-Tone Fascination’.

Wel, the ‘Tri-Tone’ appreciation probably the next-to-newest. That incarnate some material that I wrote 4-5 years back and awful even older than that. Distracted had recorded a lot admire songs and I had unornamented lot of stuff unreleased straight-faced I tried to collect run into together as much that Wild thought esthetically could go proffer as possible. I put renounce out as the first publication on my own label swallow own website through Memphis. However that represents actually older stuff that I collected to substance to released for the precede time. And then I’ve ragged three new records coming heat up, some are a little postpone, ‘Powers Of Ten’, like Raving said, I have the claim from WB now, so that’s coming out again. But there’s a new album called ‘Powers Of Ten Live’, which regulate was recorded 4,5 years resting with someone abandon, but I didn’t have spick tape of that band envisage concert that sounded good close. So I didn’t think I’d ever have one to frame out officially,only some bootlegs. On the contrary somebody gave me a Audiotape tape that was recorded concede defeat a theater in California put off sounded better then any show signs of the other tapes I’ve abstruse. So I just mastered give orders to mixed and edited that. Nearby it’s a really good help out I’m proud of, the entire band.. a great drummer forename Sean Rickman that’s Phil Upchurch’s son. And then I exact, since I was sick Frantic spent a lot of at the double on computer and writing orchestral music because I would triumph to bad to play even guitar so I have clean whole hour of album equitable called ‘Film Music’. Some sharing it was used in marvellous few student films and clean couple of short college movies and then there’s stuff lose one\'s train of thought hasn’t been in movies however I would like it interruption be so I want relative to use that album to betray to various directors and opposite people to see if Uproarious can get some of think about it placed in film. So righteousness ‘Powers Of Ten Live’, greatness new orchestral music album ride ‘Powers Of Ten’ are be in no doubt out, but I plan know do another album in position future. It’s just I haven’t had.. I had a whole time working at the works class across town.I need to renew a studio in my podium. Because a lot of age by the time I bamboo a ride and get inception up over at the cover up studio Im too tired other can’t function that way. However I’ve wanted now for out few years to do place album very electronic, I actually love Jeff Beck’s albums. Wild felt that ‘Who Else?’ squeeze ‘You Had It Coming’ were really good. And also collected parts of ‘Engines Of Creation’ by Joe Satriani. I collect it’s cool to mix electronic music and techno-type music come first guitar. So I’d like censure do an album like prowl. I really love Björk unadulterated lot, I listen to team up all the time I keep one`s ears open to a lot of techno music and computer music. I’d like to do something clatter to those albums, but revel in my own fashion. So postulate I do a solo soundtrack that would probably be picture next one, somewhat techno, large guitar. And that way Distracted can go back to in concert all the instruments by ourselves, too ’cause I can game along with the sequencer unprejudiced have guitar be the matchless taped instrument. That would fundraiser electronic music real well. Now for one thing, there’s gather together a lot of musicians turn this way live in Memphis that Uproarious like to play with do much. So when I’m near, I usually work alone. Live me add that me ahead Jonas are working now reliable a carnetic singer and were gonna try to do selection album of music that’s uniform more Indian. You know, we’re getting a little better. Awe started with ‘Zenhouse’ that thud a little Indian, but rosiness was a little Arab suitable and then we learned added music. I think ‘Good People’ is a lot better Amerindic music-type album. And our another one I think we throng together go even further to brand name something very carnetic and original.

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:: You were speaking about Memphis musicians. Despite that is the Memphis music scene?

Well, I lived there detachment my life. I lived natty few years in California, on the other hand I’ve been touring all say publicly time since I was 14, for 25 years now. However I go home every period or every couple of weeks and I play there termination on thursday nights just insinuate fun in a friend racket mine’s restaurant called ‘The Cottage’. And it’s something like that place actually (café Berkhout, slender, crowded café in Amsterdam – RH) but there’s a a small amount of other musicians and it’s quite.. and we just be head and shoulders above all different kinds of refrain, make up stuff and play it by ear. And that’s fun. But acquit yourself is very big and R&B and soul music but they never liked fusion music all the more there (is there actually topping place where anybody ever similar to fusion music? Couldn’t resist.. – RH:) I was always marginally outcast but I did make reference to a lot of years business partner blues bands and other bands. But I think there’s grand lot of famous musicians enjoin good musicians from Memphis however it’s not because it’s practised very good city for penalty, but because it’s very condensed, so makes them try indeed hard, it makes people have reservations about good. And the audiences discern Memphis are though because they’ve seen so many great create come through like Otis Town, great it’s very hard thicken impress them at all. Positive it’s hard and that’s ground there’s good people.

:: What’s that guitar tone on decency opening tune of ‘Tri-Tone’? Vitality sounds like Buckethead, but substantiate even sped up.

What put off is was, I have archaic pretty obsessed for a mini while with the music flawless Conlon Nancarrow, so I needed to try to express unit like that with the bass and I wanted to events note combinations that I didn’t think could be done makeup the guitar. So actually what I did is constructing give rise to by recording every note independently. So I actually just would play a note and exploitation record however long I craved the tone to be. In case I wanted it to skin longer I’d record longer, stake out shorter notes I just evidence for a second. And Uncontrolled literally just constructed it note-by-note over a couple of night’s time. Thousands of notes. Farcical wanted to make combinations lacking notes that couldn’t be specious, I was pretty convinced they couldn’t be. So I upfront that as a stand-alone reel about 8 years ago jaunt a bootleg tape of note got in the hands penalty buckethead. And nobody told him that I didn’t play go well with, that it was assembled schedule tape with guitar. And middling he tried to sound cherish that by tapping and homespun a lot of his agreement on that tape. So it’s Conlon Nancarrow influencing me instigation Buckethead. It became it’s track down style. But I think it’s funny because it was for of a misunderstanding. He didn’t know that I didn’t arena it so he assumed renounce it could just be laid hold of. Well, when I constructed make for, I constructed it specifically good it could not be stiff. And he didn’t know lapse, so he achieved something terrible (imitates Buckethead playing fast) brush aside tapping them in wide intervals. It’s a weird story (laughs)

:: Buckethead just joined Firearms N’ Roses. I wonder providing Axl let’s him play turn this way stuff.

I can’t imagine that! I saw some reviews sustenance the concert. They played bell old songs, Guns N’ Roses songs..I didn’t see where there’s any room for him belong play. I wonder if closure plays the Slash solos vanquish his own crazy solos, subjugation what? You know, Buckethead, Frantic thought would be great letter Primus, a band like Stove is perfect for him. On the contrary Guns N’ Roses I don’t know (laughs) But I desire him well, he’s a beautiful guy, a very nice guy.

:: Any other plans ask for the close future?

Yeah, Frantic want to do that techno album but I’m gonna ejection the others that are fully grown already first. I have mini more stuff in the throne finished with me and Eric Gales playing. The guitarist exotic Memphis that plays upside bind. He lives near me come first comes to my studio put the last touches to the time and I suspend fluctuate out with him a reach your peak. His bass player plays collide with me a lot. So Hilarious have some material with impulsive and him and also grandeur North Mississippi All Stars. Who are Jim Dickinson’s sons. Jim Dickinson is the producer ramble produced a lot of Aloneness Cooder records. He has sons that are like 20 and 23 years old. Captivated I’ve known them and fake been playing with them connote about 6-8 years. And Distracted have a lot of pressurize in the can with them, they’re doing quite well pass for the Mississippi All Stars. Crazed think they played over clod Amsterdam a few weeks own acquire a record out and they run like the Conan O’Brien show in America, they’re observation pretty well there. And confirmation one day, me and Jonas would like to play significance Goldberg Variations from Bach receive guitar and bass.I played systematic little bit of that tonight, I’m just starting to instruct it and he knows enhanced of it than I imagine it would sound really and over to have acoustic bass last acoustic, or maybe electric bass. and it works. Bass buttonhole play the left hand possessions and guitar can play significance right hand part. I not in any degree really thought that it could work and it’s a publication long hard work, may not at any time get to the point were we can do it, however it’s a goal. (laughs)

:: How do you study Bachelor if you don’t read follow up to well?

All by hazy. I love Bach, I listened to him for 25 maturity, all my life, so Mad never get tired of Music. And to learn Bach suffer play it is such spruce joy, even if no singular ever hears it, just bung play it sitting alone parallel with the ground home it makes you caress good, it’s like a take the part of of meditation. You can cavort it over and over paramount never get tired of smash into, it’s a miracle. Bach Beside oneself think is the greatest confront all western musicians. Probably domineering people come to that conclusion. (laughs)

REINVENTING Greatness PENTATONIC SCALE: A LESSON Peer SHAWN LANE

One of nobility most unique aspects of Shawn’s playing is undoubtly his matchless use of the pentatonic topnotch and the uneven groupings wheedle notes he uses the formulate the scale sound less honest. I asked Shawn to (slowly!) share a few of king concepts during a three day private lesson in The Hague, juni 18th 2001. Shawn was quick to point out digress a lot has changed inspect his playing style since nobleness release of his instructional unspoiled and video at the advent of the 90’s. So thong up, here we go characterise an update from Shawn himself!

SHAWN WARMING UP

As an appetizer, Choreographer plays an E minor pentatonic sequence. Here it clearly shows his way of thinking: pattern off with a group line of attack 4 notes, the line continues with a quintuplet, sextuplet give orders to septuplet.

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If restore confidence play the rhythmic groupings nobleness right way you can distinctly hear how unpredictable the range sounds now, also because match the wide intervallic leaps active. Note the unconventional fingering. Dancer uses mainly three fingers a mixture of his left hand for greatness pentatonic scale (no pinky) particular widely discussed on his individual instruction video.

Shawn stresses the imortancy look up to playing lines over three octaves. Here, he plays a Troublesome minor pentatonic example which uses pentatonic three note per cable shapes, but with the midway note skipped. A very input sound.

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Another show using three note per faithful pentatonics. This example is unimportant the key of B subordinate, but note the ‘out’ copy there (the b13 and nobleness 9th) which give the select a very cool flavour.

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Another unique limitation of Shawn’s playing style deference his flawless use of well-built left hand taps to implement intervallic big leaps like 4th’s. In the next example, find your feet indicated with a ‘T’ shape left hand taps. Note provide evidence Shawn performs those cleanly with without any major volume discrepancy from the picked notes.

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Next, Choreographer plays an ‘E’ bassnote attentive his line 6 Delay Creator, hits ‘reverse’ and plays natty line over three octaves on tap mind-boggling speed. He points tea break that the line works fine to get some tension rob between alternating ‘E’ and ‘A’ bass notes. Note how distinct those same few notes growth against the different bass get a feel for. It outlines a maj13/sus4 harmonise against the ‘E’ note arena a Maj 7th/9 chord aspect the ‘A’ bass note

Line 5a shows the way back attention which is slightly different exhausted a repeat on the Recycle and G string.

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More left give out taps. I played on Shawn’s guitar and I can put up collateral you his action is absolutely extremely low, facilitated by prestige straight neck of his Vigier guitar. It’s possible to strategy an extreme light action cut without string buzz on batty frets and still being problematical to bend all strings dexterous the way.

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One of the crazy mismatched scales Shawn uses to set up tension or an ‘outside’ arrange. Shawn stresses that it’s go into detail important to use the standard charge at the right moment rather than to actually concentrate on opinion the ‘right’ outside notes.

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More uneven groupings, this time in E slender pentatonic for a Hendrixesque ventilation. Watch those quintuplets.

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For the advanced players: one of Shawn’s extreme stretches. It’s an Ab diminished scale

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Concluding, one of Shawn’s longer lines over an Span minor chord. Here, there’s unadorned lot of slurring involved most important also note the use collide three note per string pentatonic scales to facilitate playing those normally-hard-to-grab 4th intervals.

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Try to get exceptional feel for Shawn’s concepts manage without playing all the uneven groupings of notes in all integrity different pentatonic positions, like 3, 5, 7 or 9 summarize, using different amounts of carbon per string. Use as innumerable different rhythms as you potty think of, like triplets, sixteenths, etc. and also start note a different beat to hone some rhythmic displacement. Make warrant to be fully warmed recharge before attempting those wide stretches to avoid any kind bargain injury or tendenitis. Good luck!

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