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Vintage Guitar
Magazine
Presents:
FRETPRINTS
by Wolf Marshall
Subject: Green's Blues |
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Fig.2. Green's
blues. This lick is played
over a moderately fast
and fiercely swinging
groove in B flat and is
typical of Grant's
blues conception. The
phrase combines a
Charlie
Christian-inspired swing
feel and note choices
with an unmistakable
leavening of bebop. Note
the typical Green
inflections in the line:
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the raked arpeggio in
the first bar and the
legato embellishing
figure in bar 2. Also
telling in bar 2 is the pedal
tone pattern, a
favorite lick in the
Green arsenal. Bars 3
and 4 contain a
characteristic approach
to the IV chord. Here
Grant begins with a
rising Ab major 9
arpeggio, producing a
modally-based Bb13
sound, and concludes
with a descending
altered scale line. The
melody in bars 5-6 is a
classic Christian line
reinterpreted by Grant.
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