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MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons HYBRID VEHICLE, PART 1 Andy Timmons shares some of the inner workings of “On Your Way Sweet Soul,” which is a tune he wrote and recorded for Theme from a Perfect World. The song is based on a relatively simple melodic riff that he performs with hybrid picking, a technique wherein flatpicking is combined with fingerpicking.

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00:00Hey everybody, Andy Timmons here and welcome back to Melodic Muse, my column for Guitar World.

00:22Today we're going to look at my tune, On Your Way, Sweet Soul, from the Theme from a Perfect

00:26World CD by the Andy Timmons band, and it's a pretty simple melodic tune, and what I was

00:31recognizing in the way I played the melody, it wasn't just all pick, I'm using pick and

00:36fingers, sometimes called hybrid picking, so we're going to delve into how I play this

00:42melody and see what the beauty can be with hybrid picking.

00:56As we get into playing this verse of On Your Way, Sweet Soul, first we do need to know

01:22the chord, progressional chords, it's all E major, it's very simple, an E major 7, to

01:29another C sharp minor 9, and then an A major, with a bit of a sharp 11 sound, so the melodic

01:44content that I'll be employing is all pretty much E major pentatonic with a little bit of

01:49just E major scale.

01:52In this bit of the solo now, again we're talking about the use of the pick, but also the use

01:56of the fingers.

01:57And so, obviously with the pick or the plexum you're getting a very specific sound, but

02:03there's a lot of variance you can get with dynamics.

02:08How light, how hard.

02:12Some pick car minor.

02:15Well the same thing goes when you also use the flesh, the finger.

02:21So when I'm doing any kind of hybrid picking type thing, I am basically using my pick and

02:28then using my middle finger.

02:35So maybe just come up first with a quick scale.

02:41Where I'm picking the first on the G string.

02:48Just to get comfortable.

02:50But listen to some of the overtone.

02:52You can get by just using the flesh and just how I'm kind of picking up underneath it.

02:59Of course look no further than Mark Knopfler and Jeff Beck for great examples of guys that

03:04used, with Jeff later in his career of course exclusively, you know, almost exclusively using

03:09his fingers and then Mark Knopfler as well.

03:14So this first phrase, I was thinking about that E major position here.

03:23Now I'm using the pick on the G string to pick the note B.

03:31And then bending up from the F sharp to the G sharp.

03:37And it's just giving that note a real dynamic pop.

03:40I'm kind of slapping.

03:43Not quite slapping like a bass.

03:46Just picking up underneath it and kind of snapping the string.

03:52A lot of harmonic if I hit it just right.

04:03And there again, now I rise up to a different position.

04:09Up to that 11th fret on the G string, bending up a whole step to that G sharp.

04:15It's a real sweet note over that E major.

04:18It's the third of the chord.

04:21And then.

04:22And that phrase there is interesting because I'm going back down to the other position,

04:34bending up.

04:35And then there's a little, it's a hammer then a note out of nowhere.

04:42Pull off.

04:43Then I'm just hammering the note E on the G string.

04:48And then pulling it up to C sharp because they're on the C sharp chord now.

04:55And then hammering and bending again.

04:56So a lot of information without any right hand.

05:02And then going down to the note B on the G string.

05:08And using the middle index finger again, instead of using the pick.

05:15I wanted to get that flesh on there.

05:21And that.

05:22So we're on the A major now.

05:31So I'm leaning.

05:36All that melody is heading down to getting to that C sharp.

05:40Cause I'm always going to be at some point of that bar hitting that third of that chord.

05:47And this note, that's that sharp 11.

05:54So it's just really nice melodic content, but also, you know, starting with that middle finger.

06:06This is all pick.

06:13And then a little hybrid.

06:16It's E major pentatonic.

06:19So just a pick, hammer, then the middle finger.

06:25And then a nice little resolution there.

06:28Up here in this position.

06:30Seventh fret.

06:32So with my middle finger, I've got the pinky on the note E on that ninth fret.

06:37And then the G sharp A.

06:40Using the pick on the right hand and just using my index finger.

06:55Another little hybrid.

07:02So as you can see, when you're playing simple melodic phrases, it's really handy to have

07:13a really wide palette of tones available to make each note as special as you can.

07:19Because a lot of times it's going to be a note that sits there and breathes the bit.

07:23So by having a pick and the different sound of the flesh, you can really, really broaden

07:28that palette.

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