Keith Whalen: whalenators tritone fascinations

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Tritone Examples
When I first delved into Slonimsky's Thesaurus I was particularly absorbed by the work that was done in the dividing of octaves and in tritone progressions. Nevertheless, the examples were not well-suited for the guitar and I began to explore the possibility of creating symmetrical passages that were conducive to my style of play. I posted a video of my findings on YouTube and erroneously called it Tritone Slonimsky Stuff. And although the licks are all based on the principle element of the first chapter of the book, the material that I came up with has little to do with replicating any specific examples found within it.

My mission was to create as many bizarre examples as possible and have them all move up and down the neck in tritones, or, an augmented 4th/diminished 5th. I've created even more examples since then, the options you have are almost boundless, but for the sake of concision I've tabbed only the examples that are to be found in my video. I'll explain each of the 15 examples individually.
http://whalenatorsblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/tritone-examples.html

Messing around in photobooth and imovie on my new mac. The clips are backwards because apparently photobooth only takes flipped movies. Or maybe I'm playing in switch!

So there's an Alkan Op. 30 excerpt, a few arpeggios, an excerpt from an etude I'm writing for quick leaps, a lick dealing with the Dorian #4 mode, two diminished licks with widening and shortening intervals and two wide tritone licks.

Keith Whalen - A Few Licks (test)

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