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Pick’s Transcription Workshop: John McLaughlin’s Incredible Line on Mr. D.C.
This tune is a dedication to the band’s amazing drummer Dennis Chambers. This tune is from the 1997 CD by John McLaughlin called “The Heart of Things”. It features a close friend and amazing bass player Matthew Garrison along with Jim Beard on keys, and Gary Thomas on tenor sax. The band plays the melody line in unison and the play it FAST! If you think the recorded version is fast, the live You Tube clip is played even FASTER!
The line at letter {A} is 16 bars long and is more or less centered around the D Symmetric Diminished Scale with a lot of chromatics thrown in for good measure. The D Symmetric Diminished Scale looks like this:
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