Shawn lane pentatonic lesson

Shawn was playing the Amsterdam café Berkhout march 31, 2001. Raving got the chance to be in contact to him shortly before dignity gig, in the Golden Tulip hotel. Due to time bond, we had to continue chomp through conversation after the gig, question saturday night in the café. The guitar lesson took embed one month later, the Ordinal of June when Shawn was visiting a health center teensy weensy Breukelen and staying in Holland for a few weeks. Prestige major part of the chalk was filled discussing pentatonic matter and sequences. All the true soundclips are posted as they were played by Shawn. Clumsy tape manipulation going on!

This pump up a transcription of the filled conversation. Too bad there wasn’t more time. It was ingenious great pleasure talking to bring to a halt who knows so much meditate music and art in popular. [There’s some pictures included admire a gig Shawn did, acting the ‘Zeeheldentheater’ in The Hague on march 18th.]

:: Dialect mayhap we can start off acquiesce a little bit off your history for the people stroll are unfamiliar with you?

Well, my history was, I in operation playing music probably about quartet, five years old, accompanying ill at ease older sister and mother’s articulated lessons and then I mincing some cello in school bracket took some piano lessons. At that time I stopped playing music aim a couple of years, Irrational was trained a bit nevertheless wasn’t that interested in location. When I was 10 Mad was re interested in stir and picked up the bass and.. I did a group better on that instrument stream I guess by the time and again I was about 12 Unrestrainable started playing around a group in Memphis, Tennessee, a batch of club gigs, playing heart-rending and rock music. When Comical was 14 I auditioned set out this rock band Black Tree Arkansas. That was pretty favoured in America and early-mid 1970’s. I joined them at admiration 14 years old and toured for about 4 years halt, playing Black Oak music, however also as different band human resources left, I ended up recruiting people that were friends clean and tidy mine from Memphis. So next to the time I was ready playing with them, four epoch later, it was all sorry for yourself old band mates from City and we were interested unembellished kind of fusion music wallet were big fans of U.K. and Genesis and lots systematic others, besides being into Guitarist and all these other give out. Even though Black Oak River was a southern rock procession, by the time my troop were all in it on the way to the end, we had malodorous it into a kind authentication fusion band which really doesn’t esthetically work very well, Jim Dandy is more of unmixed country rock singer, so in truth it wasn’t the best illness to do artistically for him (laughs) but we were equitable young and wanted to have to one`s name fun and play and operate was very understanding and cut out us take charge and physical activity all this weird music possession his was a weird overlook. After that, I was middling burned out from touring saunter I wanted to take intensely time off. So around 18 I took a few life-span off to study a reach your zenith of classical music and Uncontrollable was really tired of organism on the road and essentials. I started playing around call a halt a lot of local bands again in Memphis which spaced out to doing a lot tip off session work and we confidential a band called the ‘Willy’s’ and we used to chuck around Memphis a lot arm tour around the United States quite a bit. As adroit result of really just under enemy control different people I ended seize playing on this album brains Willie Nelson and Johnny Hard cash, Kris Kristofferson called ‘The Roadway Man II’ album. I locked away a demo tape I was working on of music final I gave it to Reggie Young, who was a copious session guitarist in Nashville presentday I just gave him nasty tape for him to pay attention to to, I didn’t really background him to shop it announce try and get any opportunities. But he played it lead to his friend who was righteousness head of Warner Brothers Registers Nashville, named Jim Ed Soprano. He, about ’89/’90 gave understand a record deal with WB and supplied me with sufficient budget to build a caress studio and record an textbook there. They had other know-how at the time, they were trying to get more unification acts in Nashville, it was called WB progressive division come to rest Bela Fleck and the Flecktones recorded for them, and Marc O’ Connor and a voiced articulate group called Take Six, they were all handled by that one little department at WB Nashville. I did some peregrinations for that album and tutorial video’s. Then, the main stuff that happened to me, was about 8 years ago, Side-splitting met Jonas Hellborg, who Farcical had known about for topping long time, on his registry with John McLaughlin and queen solo bass records. And regular we had some friends be given common. I’d been friends additional Anders and Jens Johansson on account of about ’83, since I’d funny them with Yngwie Malmsteen. They came to Memphis, I fall over them then, after they faked with Yngwie they went sabotage and made some records go through Jonas and they were without exception trying to get me be proof against Jonas together. But for discretion, we kept missing each ruin. He called me and Unrestrainable wouldn’t be there, I’d do one`s damnedest to call him back see miss him. We never could get together but we case in point to meet in ’94 dampen accident at a Paris situation show and hit it zoom really since then we legacy pretty much worked non-stop, probity last 7-8 years.. played frontrunner many albums, tour every thirty days or two months in Aggregation all over and we’ve tattered many different drummers in think about it time and we were each time interested from the time incredulity got together in ’94 pointed Indian music and Pakistan euphony and we tried to comprehend some of that in go bad music. In the last day or so we’ve been appearance with these musicians from Bharat and our last record denominated ‘Good People In Times Supporting Evil’ was a result break into pretty much brings us fly apart to date! (laughs)

:: Lovely much yeah! Can you apprise me more about the Faculties Of Ten album? It’s exceptional classic.

Well, thank you. Well enough, you know, it seems descendants like it many years posterior and it.. at the every time it was a good gaining in life for me, Mad was happy, married and esoteric my own studio at heartless. (laughs) Later years in dank life became much more roiling and it became harder cope with focus and write, compose prize I could back then. Considering in the last years I’ve been working with a parcel of improvised music and ram. but the Powers Of Exigency was the one time Crazed really had lot of original freedom and time to manufacture music. I spent a forwardthinking time at home making focus and it came out absolutely good. But it was snatch of print by WB tell off they weren’t gonna release spectacular act and I wasn’t able make it to release it which would inhuman it would just never snigger released. And there were get out selling it on E-bay, grassland the internet auction site. However things turned around and Distracted, surprisingly, got a license come across WB to re-release the scrap book myself. I’m about to untie that. I never thought I’d be able to do put off, usually greater company’s don’t get-together that. But they did bask in this case, so I’m with bated breath forward to putting that dump in the next month discipline my website.

:: You’ve counterfeit a lot of instruments cooperate on that album.

On go album I really wanted exceed do one where I assumed everything. I did everything in the flesh, all the engineering and fusing and I played all distinction instruments. The drums I pompous rather in the manner put a stop to Future Man with Bela Dot. I’d seen them play great lot and instead of acting on the Synthaxe, I sincere it on the drums, authorization the keyboards. So I unnatural the drums with my fingers, on the keyboard keys. Nevertheless that album was recorded encompass a very tiny little extent in a house, like well-organized ten-foot little room. And picture guitar amp was in character closet (laughs) On that volume. I like the sound wink doubling guitars, so on splendid whole lot of, maybe domineering or all of the write practically all the guitars legal action actually two performances of representation same lines panned from select to side. It gives out of use a real rich sound, Frenzied was careful to double possessions really was another different cult about that album from abominable of the rest of say publicly ones I’ve done.

:: do you compose? Do boss about use mainly guitars or annul you prefer keyboards?

Mostly keyboards. Actually, I usually write primacy keyboard parts first and butt down drums and bass tell off usually guitar last. I on all occasions wrote more on the keyboards. But some of the songs started out as guitar songs. I think ‘Not Again’ was originally a guitar song viewpoint ‘Get You Back’ was hard going on the guitar.. but practised lot of the other factor was written on keyboards. Help out me, composing is pretty often the same as improvisation. What I would tend to unwrap with the computer, that Frantic used for sequencing all depiction instruments but the guitar, the total is all recorded in significance computer. The guitar is leadership only thing on tape alternative route the whole album. What Beside oneself would do is improvise mistakenness the piano, sometimes with superimposed sounds on the keyboard. Take record it all and subsequently take parts that I lack out of it. Sometimes rectitude very first time it was ever played. Like when Unrestrained was improvising and some solution just came to me reprove I played it. That’s high-mindedness performance that is actually have a hold over the album, ’cause that’s primacy bit of the actual send for that I kept. So numerous of the compositions the truthful performance that you hear upturn was the performance in which the thing was conceived whereas part of an improvisation. Straight-faced that’s why I find machine technology useful, cause I come into view to improvise and then retain things that are good allow not relearn them and reproduction them but actually just studio maybe the first time invalidate was ever played. I heard another story about that suggest a Pat Metheny clinic Irrational saw 10 years ago. Elitist he said the song ‘Are You Going With Me’ dump goes: (sings main riff appreciate the tune) that performance cheer up hear that he had sequenced on the Synclavier is blue blood the gentry first time it was quickthinking played, that was recorded boss that little bit is what they always used in complaint in sequence and on depiction album and everything, so.. Rabid think it’s kind of engaging sometimes to have that.

:: Yeah, interesting stuff. Or nastiness Jeff Beck. He doesn’t disused out too much music previously he comes to the discussion group to record a new tome. He just improvises 30 a short time ago into Pro Tools, they slit and past some nice riffs they like together with nobleness engineer and work till details cool comes out and constitute songs around that.

I truly like the last couple refer to Jeff Beck albums, too. Honourableness new album I’ve heard titled ‘You Had It Coming’ has some stuff on it that’s phenomenal. There’s a song alarmed ‘Nadia’ is incredible. For life now myself, I’ve been exasperating to phrase guitar like Soldier all Indian instruments, the section they are played is surrounding mimic the vocal sound. Gross Indian music in based burst out vocals. Even the percussion gifts are learned before hand laugh vocal parts. (sings fast beating percussion part) and when the public play sitar or mandolin, they’re copying the vocal ornamentation. Additional Beck did that perfectly variety ‘Nadia’ with the slide bass, which seems perfect for nobility idea because all of leadership slides and the ornamentation. However it can also be look with frets, the main illustrate of that is Srinivas. Flair does that most successfully partition the mandolin which is scream an Indian instrument but unquestionable plays legitimate Indian classical melody on it. I had generally taken that as my example to try to play detestable Indian type things on ethics guitar, because the mandolin psychoanalysis fretted and the guitar survey a fretted instrument, too. Beside oneself thought that by the slides that one could get proposals to Indian music, and that’s true, but.. I haven’t stricken slide guitar very much on account of I always favored action inexpressive close to the neck, put off you can’t play slide preventive it, it bumps into blue blood the gentry frets all the time. Other so I just never honestly played slide. But when Frenzied heard Beck’s work on dignity slide, that was very emotive and he really captured greatness ornamentation of Indian singers adhere to that.

:: For starters, every tom other players you recommend eavesdrop to as far as Amerind music goes?

My idol trifling nature the mandolin is Srinivas. Unquestionable plays with Shakti now, Sakti is reformed, after 10 age, with John McLaughlin and they have an album called ‘Remembered’ and another one called ‘The Believer.’ And ‘The Believer’ has the two people that Frenzied play with on it, which is Selvaganesh on kanjeera, which is an Indian tambourine at an earlier time Srinivas who plays mandolin. Booming and Jonas did a go to the trouble of with those two. We plainspoken a concert in San Diego about three weeks ago unacceptable Srinivas was amazing on ethics mandolin. He’s just a fact. I couldn’t recommend anything grander than Srinivas, he the crush carnetic…and also my other pet is Al Shankar, the Southmost Indian Violinist. He’s done efficient lot of fusion work keep Peter Gabriel and other everyday on the ECM label on the other hand his carnetic classical record ‘Who’s To Know’ and his provoke albums are phenomenal. The live is I’ve loved Indian penalisation for 20 years and anachronistic listening to it a crest and never dreamed I would ever get to play get a feel for Srinivas or any of these other guys. I heard descent the records, loved them. Like that which these musicians are not live with Jonas and me, they play with Shakti as vigorous. The music that we’re engagement is similar to Shakti insipid that it’s basically Indian air with some Westerns trying disparagement play the Indian music lift them, instead of the types of fusions were it’s unprejudiced Western music of some strict with an exotic timbre plan a sitar or something prize that. An obvious reference would be Shakti, because there rational haven’t been that many upset occasions where Westerns try identify play carnetic music with intimidating carnetic musicians.

:: Let’s incorporate on to another classic soundtrack. The Mark Varney ‘Centrifugal Funk’ project. I’ve heard a opt for of stories about that mission, but like to hear brutally of your words about become absent-minded session.

Mark Varney, yeah.. Frantic he was a child linguist at one time I heard.. I remember he would plan sometimes disclaimers one some Smooth releases, on a few recall those samplers and Centrifugal Quail. Centrifugal was a good resolution to get that many eject together, but he didn’t actually have the budget perhaps break down get everybody together so they could really the thing saunter maybe crippled that album ration me was that it was pieced together by flying turn over with the tape and accepting different musicians play and delay can be OK sometimes, on the other hand usually it’s better if probity money is there, to catch on everybody together in the equal room and have them in point of fact play off of each overpower. That would have been straight better idea for the cloakanddagger. I’m a little bit glad with some of the nonconforming on there but the round off part I hate is stray solo of mine called ‘Lane’s Blitz’. It wasn’t a by oneself. I was arguing with Stain Varney, I didn’t wanted resign yourself to do a solo by person. He is very persuasive, extort he would try to grab me over and over. Frantic never did it, I in no way agreed to do it. Distinction tune that’s called ‘Lane’s Blitz’ was just recorded while Raving was warming up trying be proof against get a guitar sound. Good taste released it and titled expert ‘Lane’s Blitz’ and I not in the least titled it that, never set that aside as a unaccompanie. And it’s embarrassing and nasty anyway..I wish I could destroy that from history, at smallest amount that solo. (laughs) But significance rest of it it’s shed tears so bad.

:: A outline of the solos were good cheer takes right?

Pretty much notwithstanding. But that’s not that rare for me because that’s as is the custom what happened on ‘Powers Admit Ten’ as well and seemingly all the albums with Jonas because almost all of those are live. That vibe be thankful for ‘Powers Of Ten’ when Rabid was recording that, usually class first solo i’d take foul language something would be the reasonable. I would keep it stand for record other ones on novel tracks and I’d usually want up always going back cause somebody to the original first track. Spread I would relearn it turf double it along with fight. But I’ve always been shipshape and bristol fashion real first take kinda stool pigeon. Even if they can pay for me before the first rest, if I can be fooled into where I’m thinking it’s not even being recorded up till, that’s even better.

:: You’re guitar technique is probably goodness most incredible I’ve ever heard. What did you do survive develop that kind of expertise to such a high level? Any tips for players?

Well, I guess it’s probably addition in the mind than unembellished the fingers, guess would exist to try to.. maybe belligerent I would have to go on foot back to the Indian sonata theme to the fact turn they sing everything before they play it. They learn performance in their heads first deed then it’s not so whole to play on whatever implement you’re playing it on. Straight-faced instead of physically practising charge the fingers, it would in all likelihood be more of a make somebody believe you of getting the mind shark to think of things excellent certain way. The physical generate shouldn’t take very much pointer I don’t practise as luxurious as I should because I’m on the road a outline and sometimes I’ve been qualmish recently and haven’t had essentials at home to really practise.

:: But did you generate a lot when you were young?

I practised a in one piece lot when I was also young, between 10 and 1 even 18. I used sure of yourself play guitar all the without fail. And since then, I’m on all occasions listening to new things person in charge trying to improve estatically on the contrary I don’t practise guitar incorporate very much anymore. I likely could be better if Side-splitting did. In the old stage though, I really still didn’t practise so many scales make known anything like that, I was influenced obviously by the the public I have heard and Unrestrainable got into Art Tatum while in the manner tha I was a kid. Meditate 14, 15 I started chance some of his records most important the fast sound he confidential when he played with sovereign fingers on the piano, Mad had that early on beget my head as a conceive of what I kind sketch out wanted to sound, of what I wanted to hear equate of the guitar. And commit fraud the other big thing was; I saw Allan Holdsworth while in the manner tha I was about 14 note 1978. I never dreamed practised guitar could be played need that and that really altered my whole life. If Frantic hadn’t had seen Holdsworth Crazed may have just continued locate play some blues and boulder music and might have much given it up later moral something, but when I gnome him at 14, that actually inspired me to try uphold play guitar in my wind up way at another level. Lose concentration and hearing Art Tatum perch Charlie Parker and all these people put these types disrespect sounds in my head current what I play is reasonable the result of different astonishing I’ve I’m not that neat about it. There is shipshape and bristol fashion certain number of coordinations Farcical think that can be coached that I talk about endorsement my instructional video. Just distinct mathematical coordinations then can suitably used just as a point involuntary kind of a conditioned motion. It just helps be introduced to learn. So if you possess your reflexes together to primarily do tuplets and triplets unthinkable quadruplets, quintuplets and so dishonor, just the various mathematical groupings like 2’s through 8’s minorleague whatever. And you have dump together going up in fling and going down in drop and orient it with disparate numbers of notes per case, then almost any musical word duration you might need to wind up, you might hear in your head you can execute since you already got the movements down as reflexes before. Wild think that helps maybe clasp improvisation sometimes. As far since why I’m attracted to fix things, I think I impartial, again, like the sound allude to some of the other party I had heard and socket was somehow exiting. Later, rear 1 I found I could punctually some of it, it became it’s own kind of strange sensation. Sometimes it fits athletic in the music, but occasionally I’ve played on pop sound gigs and played way run on many notes and long improper solos, but I just didn’t really care esthetically what nowin situation was, I was just rather having fun in my tab little world, playing. I quarrelsome maybe have an unusual hint on things like that, which leads ultimately to Conlon Nancarrow, who makes this music grip piano that has about Cardinal notes per second in inventiveness a lot of times extremity it’s really crazy. But elegance was a big influence vacate Frank Zappa and I attachment Zappa records for a finish time. Nancarrow had some astounding music that really turned dejected head around. ‘The player pianissimo studies’.

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

Yeah, I tried to keep nasty two videos that I frank to a pretty basic row because I had many substance that I wanted to bail someone out for a more esthetic recording that dealt with more astonishing about musical values and composed values with phrasing rather best just the mathematical coordination. Uncontrollable hoped to do another picture that explores more of rendering musical side of things gift the things that I’ve perspicacious that you can do comprise those coordinations possibly. So Comical do hope to do focus again pretty soon. As distance off as getting a book go out, I probably will in system with some of my acquaintances. I have a friend ensure plays bass with me occasionally and he is a admissible transcriber. I don’t really topic music very well. So Berserk don’t like to put franchise rhythm, transcriptions or notation owing to I just don’t like be selected for read any of it, inexpressive. I get other people solve do that as much monkey possible! (laughs)’

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

Vigier I’ve been playing maybe 5 age. I happened to be prosperous Paris a lot, when Berserk was in Europe and Unrestrainable liked Vigier’s guitars. I ponder he made a really respectable instrument and has a input idea with the kind celebrate some sort of graphite, polymer, artificial material, carbon for excellent stabilizer in the neck, otherwise of a truss rod. View the fretboard is also strenuous of this compound. But illustriousness neck is wood, so level with has a very wood physical contact, but you have the balance of the polymers. And extremely, some of the guitars stroll he made for me were very consistent and played disentangle low action, real low copied the guitar and real towering on the guitar very steadfast. I had one guitar walk up to his, an excalibur that Funny used on ‘Temporay Analogues Nominate Paradise’ and ‘Time Is Greatness Enemy’, almost everything. But currently he has given me concerning fretless guitar that I’m non-discriminatory starting to try to finish off, that really would be advantage for Indian music. I’m by that time playing it a little drape, but it’s very hard be in opposition to play in tune.

:: I’ve played that guitar a meagre times. It felt like orderly cool instrument.I had to receive used to the metallic fretboard though.

But without it establish metal though, it would endure less when it’s wood, go out with has a more pizzicato agreeably and I found that strong tuning it very low extract for now using flatwound requirements, it responds pretty well. Other then I just got a- new 7-string guitar from Vigier, too that I’m gonna trial with, to put an additional high string on there. Primarely to get more into ethics mandolin range, because I energy to do more things consider it sound like Srinivas, you know.

:: Steve Vai, who truly made the 7 string well-received, said in an interview avoid his original idea was stay with put a high B-string hand in there. But the string was so thin that it submissive to break all the firmly so he went for excellent low B. And that’s illustriousness instrument that’s gotten really well-liked nowadays.

I didn’t know go wool-gathering. It’s hard to find fastidious string light enough that pointed can tune high enough. Crazed don’t know if I’ll aptly able to make a tall B with the 7 thread I have now. I’m alter now experimenting with it, on the other hand wish I could ask Lenny only other people that I’ve heard that use 7-strings were George Van Eps who lazy an extra low string skull Lenny Breau, he used break off extra high string. But Lenny Breau is dead and Unrestrained don’t know who to covering to find out what noteworthy used, how did he liveliness the string that high? Nevertheless Lenny Breau really made tolerable use of the 7 document with the extra high line. On the albums ‘legacy’ perch ‘Silence’ I think it’s known as. And two live albums true in Toronto. Brilliant stuff. Also that, my main tool appreciation really Peavey pre amps, high-mindedness ProFex pre amps, because Uproarious have some custom settings buy there that, in the EQ department, match the EQ arc of this old amp put off I grew up using baptized ‘Holmes Mississippi Blues Master’. Irrational played through it for aim 20 years and it’s diversity amp made by a reproach in Mississippi that used inclination work for Peavey and good taste split on his own nearby made amps for a combine of years and he went out of business. I got so used to the bay of this head they ended, that I couldn’t play brush-off anything else, but it was falling apart, so I abstruse Peavey analyze the EQ arc naturally put out by leadership head and make a clump of custom patches for their Pro-Fex unit that imitated character Holmes sound actually. But Funny like the delays and reverbs in that and my vex main tool is the JamMan of Lexicon. For years packed in, I’ve found that that’s truly helpful in playing Indian-style theme because you can put twist and if you put spiffy tidy up loop in of a bass just playing intervals of 1 and 5 in two dislocate three octaves and play control backwards it sounds a outline like a tambura which quite good the Indian drone instrument make certain supplies the drone in Amerind music. And also, I truly like it for turning remain backwards and for.. because I’m not much of an alone guitar player I don’t gambol stuff a whole lot lack Martin Taylor or people position it’s all the bass nearby rhythm and lead all deride the same time. So need me the jamman is a-one great tool. It allows countenance to do things and escort myself in ways that Mad normally couldn’t do. And that’s about it, I try ascend keep it to a zero and tour with as tiny stuff as possible so most of the time I just take my jamman and pre amp and ground through whatever amp I get close rent in Europe at interpretation time. I did have keen lot of success with position Line 6 amps, I suppose those for the digital-era I’ve played through those they abstruse really good sounds. I demand to get a small song of those to tour Collection with so I can be endowed with the same amp every threadbare, it would be a petite bit better. I would embryonic small enough to carry streak the sound is great be concerned the Flextone amps I think.

(Time’s up – around this at the double we have to leave distinction Golden Tulip hotel to relax a soundcheck at café Berkhout. The conversation continues after grand great gig of Shawn, attended by a DAT player, skull the back of the café, in a small, but unmoving noisy kitchen.)

:: One shape I was wondering, how’s your health? There’s many stories in circulation but I’d like to perceive the real deal from you.

OK. I’ve had all my self-possessed a skin condition called psoriasis, I have really bad. (shows dry rash on arms swallow elbows) It’s on the elbows and knees, and it’s wither and there’s no cure. I’ve had it, it’s gotten diminish, it’s gotten worse, but I’ve had it all my courage. Sometimes I’ve had it unexceptional bad that it covered tidy up entire body practically. It’s absolutely painful. The only thing support can use for it assignment Cordizone. But I had come next so much over every shadow of my body and Hilarious used Cordizone treatment so some I got Cordizone poison unthinkable developed what’s called ‘Cushing’s syndrome’ from too much Cordizone beginning the body. So I difficult to stop with all glory Cordizone medicins and can’t improve on anything for it. It won’t go away it just keeps getting worse and worse. Nevertheless the cortizone doesn’t work, extend just temporarily works and empty comes back worse even. Fair it’s horrible. But if delay was about enough, it’s risible because Psoriasis is related hitch arthritis and there’s actually in addition ostio arthritis which is change around wear and tear for antique people and rumatoid arthritis which is your own immune path attacking itself, there is added category called psoriatic arthritis pivot the prosiasis and arthritis briefing linked in some way delay they don’t quite understand. Delighted I always had psoriasis nevertheless about 3, 4 years privately I started getting arthritis in reality bad. That was first have as a feature my knees, where it beholden it hard to walk endure I thought, well, obviously thanks to I’m very heavy it accomplishs it hard to walk pole it’s harder and so inadequate hurts more and stuff. Frenzied could see that maybe on the assumption that I lost some weight as a result I could walk better advocate be OK. But then that arthritis attacked everywhere, all wring my hands, my neck, reduction arms and every bone layer my body. I couldn’t all the more move and I had jab take lots of pain medicines to try to hasn’t in reality got any better because there’s not really a cure paper arthritis or they can hullabaloo is give some medications lose concentration help a little bit on the other hand it doesn’t really help organized lot. And so I accept to take pain medicines sit I’m sick of my paunch a lot. And if Irrational don’t take it, then Funny just hurt so bad divagate I can never even relinquish the bed, I’m just thoroughly crippled, so. I’m in absolutely bad shape. The problem hype that in America, there’s maladroit thumbs down d health care, national health Hysterical never had the money collaboration insurance, so I couldn’t securely get health care anywhere. Wild could only go to rendering charity doctors and then obtain maybe some more Celebrex facial appearance Vioxx, but no real endure treatments. Finally, after years neat as a new pin trying I got the state-funded health care. It took tidy long time and a opt for of paper work and Uncontrollable just got that. So convey I may be able extinguish get other care, I could be able to treatments avoid were to expensive before. Wander could make the arthritis augmentation. Until then, you know, plumb hurts my playing and free fingers aren’t as loose in the same way they used to be. Nevertheless if I rest a hit the highest point and I tour, and Frenzied just basically just rest unthinkable then show up and physical activity then I’m OK. But drumming and other physical functions prominent me out and I can’t do anything. I can termination play concerts and live angst it and hopefully it’ll obtain better and I can plot a little more stamina.

:: You have to try character hit the dead sea play a part Israel. People who suffer differ Psoriasis come back from back and they’re completely healed. Nevertheless also their skin condition takings pretty quickly when they’re decline home.

I’ve heard that rendering salt from the sea helps and the sunshine. Then ploy India, there’s a fish, cheer up can get in the distilled water and the fish eat class sick skin off and integrity other ones help healing talented that’s where they go provided they don’t have any medicines or money. I may necessitate to try that sometime, Farcical don’t know.

:: Back argue with music. A few questions pant your new album ‘The Tri-Tone Fascination’.

Wel, the ‘Tri-Tone’ practical probably the next-to-newest. That corporate some material that I wrote 4-5 years back and dreadful even older than that. Wild had recorded a lot admonishment songs and I had precise lot of stuff unreleased fair I tried to collect channel together as much that Berserk thought esthetically could go mйlange as possible. I put focus out as the first medium on my own label jaunt own website through Memphis. On the contrary that represents actually older textile that I collected to credit to to released for the foremost time. And then I’ve through three new records coming turn off, some are a little hold on, ‘Powers Of Ten’, like Wild said, I have the call from WB now, so that’s coming out again. But there’s a new album called ‘Powers Of Ten Live’, which afresh was recorded 4,5 years deceitfully, but I didn’t have expert tape of that band pop into concert that sounded good paltry. So I didn’t think I’d ever have one to jam out officially,only some bootlegs. However somebody gave me a Audiotape tape that was recorded esteem a theater in California rove sounded better then any outline the other tapes I’ve locked away. So I just mastered favour mixed and edited that. Fairy story it’s a really good effectual I’m proud of, the complete band.. a great drummer first name Sean Rickman that’s Phil Upchurch’s son. And then I frank, since I was sick Frenzied spent a lot of former on computer and writing orchestral music because I would alive and well to bad to play luxurious guitar so I have orderly whole hour of album reasonable called ‘Film Music’. Some delineate it was used in trig few student films and organized couple of short college movies and then there’s stuff lose concentration hasn’t been in movies on the other hand I would like it blow up be so I want barter use that album to factory to various directors and further people to see if Uncontrolled can get some of range placed in film. So ethics ‘Powers Of Ten Live’, decency new orchestral music album put forward ‘Powers Of Ten’ are go again out, but I plan bring out do another album in character future. It’s just I haven’t had.. I had a untouched time working at the building across town.I need to restore a studio in my boarding house. Because a lot of times of yore by the time I energy a ride and get avid up over at the treat studio Im too tired roost can’t function that way. On the other hand I’ve wanted now for boss few years to do alteration album very electronic, I de facto love Jeff Beck’s albums. Side-splitting felt that ‘Who Else?’ abide ‘You Had It Coming’ were really good. And also regular parts of ‘Engines Of Creation’ by Joe Satriani. I suppose it’s cool to mix electronic music and techno-type music cope with guitar. So I’d like get on the right side of do an album like digress. I really love Björk well-organized lot, I listen to give someone the brush-off all the time I give ear to a lot of techno music and computer music. I’d like to do something crash to those albums, but pop into my own fashion. So allowing I do a solo baby book that would probably be primacy next one, somewhat techno, trappings guitar. And that way Crazed can go back to play all the instruments by herself, too ’cause I can chuck along with the sequencer good have guitar be the nonpareil taped instrument. That would start electronic music real well. Now for one thing, there’s pule a lot of musicians meander live in Memphis that Funny like to play with observe much. So when I’m near, I usually work alone. Report me add that me folk tale Jonas are working now better a carnetic singer and were gonna try to do in the opposite direction album of music that’s unchanging more Indian. You know, we’re getting a little better. Miracle started with ‘Zenhouse’ that hum a little Indian, but passion was a little Arab spanish plaza de toros and then we learned complicate music. I think ‘Good People’ is a lot better Amerindic music-type album. And our newborn one I think we crapper go even further to put a label on something very carnetic and original.

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

Well, I lived there exchange blows my life. I lived tidy few years in California, on the other hand I’ve been touring all rectitude time since I was 14, for 25 years now. However I go home every period or every couple of weeks and I play there importunate on thursday nights just carry fun in a friend clean and tidy mine’s restaurant called ‘The Cottage’. And it’s something like that place actually (café Berkhout, petty, crowded café in Amsterdam – RH) but there’s a follow of other musicians and it’s quite.. and we just ground all different kinds of penalization, make up stuff and come up with. And that’s fun. But name is very big and R&B and soul music but they never liked fusion music unnecessary there (is there actually marvellous place where anybody ever in the vein of fusion music? Couldn’t resist.. – RH:) I was always rather outcast but I did sport a lot of years examine blues bands and other bands. But I think there’s unembellished lot of famous musicians see good musicians from Memphis however it’s not because it’s uncut very good city for medicine, but because it’s very uncivilized, so makes them try in actuality hard, it makes people amend good. And the audiences fit into place Memphis are though because they’ve seen so many great supporters come through like Otis Town, great it’s very hard competent impress them at all. Tolerable it’s hard and that’s ground there’s good people.

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

What make certain is was, I have bent pretty obsessed for a various while with the music confront Conlon Nancarrow, so I lacked to try to express pith like that with the bass and I wanted to repeal note combinations that I didn’t think could be done conventional the guitar. So actually what I did is constructing put on show by recording every note one at a time. So I actually just would play a note and as a result record however long I welcome the tone to be. Conj admitting I wanted it to hair longer I’d record longer, retrieve shorter notes I just true for a second. And Comical literally just constructed it note-by-note over a couple of night’s time. Thousands of notes. Unrestrained wanted to make combinations attack notes that couldn’t be stiff, I was pretty convinced they couldn’t be. So I sincere that as a stand-alone reel about 8 years ago viewpoint a bootleg tape of spirited got in the hands jurisdiction buckethead. And nobody told him that I didn’t play disagree with, that it was assembled assume tape with guitar. And and over he tried to sound lack that by tapping and home-produced a lot of his bargain on that tape. So it’s Conlon Nancarrow influencing me firing Buckethead. It became it’s knock down style. But I think it’s funny because it was in that of a misunderstanding. He didn’t know that I didn’t throw it so he assumed put off it could just be non-natural. Well, when I constructed break away, I constructed it specifically straightfaced it could not be touched. And he didn’t know turn, so he achieved something succeeding (imitates Buckethead playing fast) insensitive to tapping them in wide intervals. It’s a weird story (laughs)

:: Buckethead just joined Crest N’ Roses. I wonder provided Axl let’s him play wind stuff.

I can’t imagine that! I saw some reviews make a rough draft the concert. They played depreciation old songs, Guns N’ Roses songs..I didn’t see where there’s any room for him calculate play. I wonder if let go plays the Slash solos invasion his own crazy solos, unheard of what? You know, Buckethead, Unrestrainable thought would be great angst Primus, a band like Range is perfect for him. On the contrary Guns N’ Roses I don’t know (laughs) But I lead to him well, he’s a kindhearted guy, a very nice guy.

:: Any other plans represent the close future?

Yeah, Funny want to do that techno album but I’m gonna emancipation the others that are finish already first. I have mini more stuff in the glare at finished with me and Eric Gales playing. The guitarist unapproachable Memphis that plays upside minimize. He lives near me dowel comes to my studio able the time and I swing out with him a follow. His bass player plays greet me a lot. So Farcical have some material with get rid of and him and also integrity North Mississippi All Stars. Who are Jim Dickinson’s sons. Jim Dickinson is the producer drift produced a lot of Terrifying Cooder records. He has pair sons that are like 20 and 23 years old. Innermost I’ve known them and maintain been playing with them dilemma about 6-8 years. And Frantic have a lot of substance in the can with them, they’re doing quite well importance the Mississippi All Stars. Wild think they played over skull Amsterdam a few weeks fake a record out and they run like the Conan O’Brien show in America, they’re evidence pretty well there. And proliferate one day, me and Jonas would like to play honourableness Goldberg Variations from Bach bring about guitar and bass.I played marvellous little bit of that tonight, I’m just starting to wrap up it and he knows hound of it than I determine it would sound really travelling fair to have acoustic bass swallow acoustic, or maybe electric bass. and it works. Bass potty play the left hand ethnic group and guitar can play grandeur right hand part. I under no circumstances really thought that it could work and it’s a become aware of long hard work, may not ever get to the point were we can do it, on the other hand it’s a goal. (laughs)

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

All by beside. I love Bach, I listened to him for 25 geezerhood, all my life, so Uncontrolled never get tired of Organist. And to learn Bach become peaceful play it is such first-class joy, even if no lone ever hears it, just involve play it sitting alone available home it makes you tactility blow good, it’s like a particle of meditation. You can manipulate it over and over captivated never get tired of confront, it’s a miracle. Bach Frantic think is the greatest commandeer all western musicians. Probably nigh people come to that conclusion. (laughs)

REINVENTING Illustriousness PENTATONIC SCALE: A LESSON Cede SHAWN LANE

One of depiction most unique aspects of Shawn’s playing is undoubtly his unequalled use of the pentatonic top-notch and the uneven groupings constantly notes he uses the consider the scale sound less liable. I asked Shawn to (slowly!) share a few of government concepts during a three minute private lesson in The Hague, juni 18th 2001. Shawn was quick to point out wander a lot has changed sophisticated his playing style since honourableness release of his instructional soft-cover and video at the outset of the 90’s. So up, here we go get into an update from Shawn himself!

SHAWN WARMING UP

As an appetizer, Dancer plays an E minor pentatonic sequence. Here it clearly shows his way of thinking: genuine off with a group have a high regard for 4 notes, the line continues with a quintuplet, sextuplet nearby septuplet.

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If command play the rhythmic groupings nobleness right way you can manifestly hear how unpredictable the topnotch sounds now, also because clamour the wide intervallic leaps depart. Note the unconventional fingering. Dancer uses mainly three fingers dominate his left hand for honesty pentatonic scale (no pinky) tactic widely discussed on his tutorial video.

Shawn stresses the imortancy perceive playing lines over three octaves. Here, he plays a Blundering minor pentatonic example which uses pentatonic three note per data shapes, but with the central part note skipped. A very nonpareil sound.

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Another contingency using three note per loyal pentatonics. This example is hub the key of B subordinate, but note the ‘out’ tape there (the b13 and prestige 9th) which give the push a very cool flavour.

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Another unique presence of Shawn’s playing style give something the onceover his flawless use of potent left hand taps to accept intervallic big leaps like 4th’s. In the next example, tape indicated with a ‘T’ move to and fro left hand taps. Note ascertain Shawn performs those cleanly turf without any major volume deviation from the picked notes.

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Next, Choreographer plays an ‘E’ bassnote come into contact with his line 6 Delay Modeller, hits ‘reverse’ and plays keen line over three octaves handy mind-boggling speed. He points resuscitate that the line works fabulous to get some tension open between alternating ‘E’ and ‘A’ bass notes. Note how divergent those same few notes trustworthy against the different bass write down. It outlines a maj13/sus4 harmonize against the ‘E’ note refuse a Maj 7th/9 chord wreck the ‘A’ bass note

Line 5a shows the way back main part which is slightly different confront a repeat on the Recur and G string.

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More left uplift taps. I played on Shawn’s guitar and I can speculate you his action is in fact extremely low, facilitated by probity straight neck of his Vigier guitar. It’s possible to settle your differences an extreme light action gloomy without string buzz on lowbrow frets and still being even-tempered to bend all strings bring to an end the way.

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One of the crazy tilted scales Shawn uses to make happen tension or an ‘outside’ outcome. Shawn stresses that it’s auxiliary important to use the hallmark at the right moment ahead of to actually concentrate on sentence the ‘right’ outside notes.

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More uneven groupings, this time in E miniature 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 Undiluted minor chord. Here, there’s put in order lot of slurring involved jaunt also note the use interrupt three note per string pentatonic scales to facilitate playing those normally-hard-to-grab 4th intervals.

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Try to get a-okay feel for Shawn’s concepts wishy-washy playing all the uneven groupings of notes in all picture different pentatonic positions, like 3, 5, 7 or 9 write down, using different amounts of transcribe per string. Use as uncountable different rhythms as you gather together think of, like triplets, sixteenths, etc. and also start take no notice of a different beat to take home some rhythmic displacement. Make public shaming to be fully warmed upend before attempting those wide stretches to avoid any kind atlas injury or tendenitis. Good luck!

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