This stuff is useless unless you can address some harmonic and melodic problems with it. I guess it’s a chicken and egg situation. Is our melody formed by a technique or is our technique formed by our melody? Who knows? I explore these issues in the ‘Picking’ section in the Classroom.

More about voice leading. This time with the groovy bossa nova and with the ideas transferred to octaves. Let me know what you think. I do like talking about this sort of stuff…