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    Mike Stern Licks

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    1) The document provides 10 licks by guitarist Mike Stern to demonstrate his unique phrasing techniques, including chromaticisms, passing tones, triads, and arpeggio embellishments. 2) The licks are presented over different chord progressions in C minor, utilizing scales like C Dorian, C melodic minor, and Eb melodic minor. 3) Techniques shown include arpeggio embellishments, triad sequences, tremolo chords, and chromatic motifs to add tension. Analysis of passing tones is encouraged to understand Stern's approach.

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    Mike Stern Licks

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    1) The document provides 10 licks by guitarist Mike Stern to demonstrate his unique phrasing techniques, including chromaticisms, passing tones, triads, and arpeggio embellishments. 2) The licks are presented over different chord progressions in C minor, utilizing scales like C Dorian, C melodic minor, and Eb melodic minor. 3) Techniques shown include arpeggio embellishments, triad sequences, tremolo chords, and chromatic motifs to add tension. Analysis of passing tones is encouraged to understand Stern's approach.

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    1) The document provides 10 licks by guitarist Mike Stern to demonstrate his unique phrasing techniques, including chromaticisms, passing tones, triads, and arpeggio embellishments. 2) The licks are presented over different chord progressions in C minor, utilizing scales like C Dorian, C melodic minor, and Eb melodic minor. 3) Techniques shown include arpeggio embellishments, triad sequences, tremolo chords, and chromatic motifs to add tension. Analysis of passing tones is encouraged to understand Stern's approach.

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    Mike Stern Licks

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    Matteo Ruggiero
    1) The document provides 10 licks by guitarist Mike Stern to demonstrate his unique phrasing techniques, including chromaticisms, passing tones, triads, and arpeggio embellishments. 2) The licks are presented over different chord progressions in C minor, utilizing scales like C Dorian, C melodic minor, and Eb melodic minor. 3) Techniques shown include arpeggio embellishments, triad sequences, tremolo chords, and chromatic motifs to add tension. Analysis of passing tones is encouraged to understand Stern's approach.

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    The document discusses 10 guitar licks by Mike Stern and analyzes the scales, techniques, and phrasing he uses including Dorian mode, melodic minor scales, chromaticisms, triads, and arpeggio embellishments.

    The document discusses the use of C Dorian scale, C melodic minor scale, Eb melodic minor scale, Ab Lydian Dominant scale, Ab Mixolydian #4 scale, G altered scale, and passing tones in Mike Stern's playing over different chords.

    The document explains that Mike Stern uses arpeggio embellishment technique where he encloses each note of a chord arpeggio with two other notes - one step above and one step below. An example is given using the Cm7 arpeggio.

    Here are 10 Mike Stern signature licks, selected to better understand his unique phrasing, the scales

    and techniques involved like chromaticisms/passing tones, triads, arpeggio embellishments and so
    on.
    As always it's also a great opportunity to enrich your own knowledge : just borrow the ideas you
    like and use/adapt them in your own playing.

    Hope you enjoy!


    Steph

    The Backing Track

    II: Cm7 I % I % I % I Ab7#11 I % I % I G7alt :II

    The Scales

    Over the Cm7 Chord

    Cm Pentatonic/Blues Scale
    C Dorian Scale/Mode

    C Melodic Minor

    Over the Ab7#11 Chord

    Eb melodic minor scale / Ab Lydian Dominant / Ab Mixolydian #4

    Over the G7 altered Chord

    G altered /Ab melodic minor scale


    Lick #1

    Over the Cm7 chord we start with a Dorian based line - of course you have noticed the ending with
    the pentatonic scale ! There's just a passing tone added in the second bar - actually the blue note/#4

    Lick #2

    In the first part (red zone) we could see how Mike uses the arpeggio embellishment technique with
    the Cm7 arpeggio. The idea is to enclose each notes from Cm7 arpeggio with two other notes : first
    one is one step above and second one, one step below. Check out the following example for more
    about the technique.
    The second part starts with EbMaj7 arpeggio followed by a chromatic schema targeting the D note :
    F/E/Eb/F/D
    The third bar ends the lick with the C melodic minor scale. This one works great in combination
    with the Dorian mode, just one note differs between the two scale (Bb/B).
    Arpeggio Embellishments

    First we've got the Cm7 arpeggio, so far so good. Secondly we add a chromatic from below and
    then a diatonic note from above. We could also play the opposite as seen in lick#2 :
    diatonic/chromatic. As you can see, this technique adds lot of outside notes and tensions in the
    phrasing!

    Of course you could use the idea other 7th, maj7 … chords : try with the Ebmaj7 arpeggio over the
    Cm7 chord !

    Lick #3

    Another chromatic schema (in red) starting on the beat and targeting the 13b/Ab note. Over m7
    chords Mike often blends various modes and so different colors : so he could put the emphasis on
    the Maj7, like in the last part of this lick, or on the flat 6/13 … this means being able to use the C
    Aeolian/Dorian mode and also the C Melodic/Harmonic minor scale over the Cm7 chord.
    Lick #4

    Example 4 attemps to demonstrate the 'tremolo' chord technique. We keep a pedal tone on the
    higher note and then we add and move different chord voicings .

    Lick #5

    Another very musical technique is the use of Triads and especially this kind of sequences.
    More info about this in the following example.
    Triads / Arpeggios

    Here are all the diatonic triads from the C Dorian scale.
    Each triad follows the same schema : 5 / 3 / 1 / 5.

    Lick #6

    Over the Ab7#11 chord we gonna use the Eb melodic minor scale, it's also callled the Lydian
    Dominant mode or the Mixolydian #4 mode. Basicaly we could see it as a mixolydian mode with a
    sharp four.
    It's a tricky lick and the main difficulty is to visualize the scale and all the passing tones and anlyse
    how these extra notes are added over the scale. In red, all the passing tones.
    Over the G7 the lick ends with the C harmonic minor scale ( V7alt to Im7 in Cminor)
    Lick #7

    Still the Eb melodic minor scale over the Ab7#11 chord and this time we gonna use the Altered
    scale over the G7 chord, this means the Ab melodic minor scale.

    Lick #8

    Another tricky lick where Mike blends and adds on the fly the 7/Maj7, b13/13.
    Underlined in red, a common technique to push up the tension in your line. Here Mike uses a simple
    3 notes motif & he moves it chromatically along the neck.
    Lick #9

    Lot of chromaticisms & passing tones here. Again, visualize the scale and visualize and analyse all
    these added notes. How these extra notes are placed against the beat : on the down or upbeat ?

    Lick #10

    Same chromatic idea as seen in lick#3, played elsewhere on the neck.


    The lick ends with a sequence around the D major triad.
    Over a minor 7 chord we could play a major triad up a whole tone : this means playing some
    interresting enrichments, 9th, #4 and 13th.

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