I hadn’t yet discovered the joy of screaming guitars back in the '80s/'90s. I know everyone learned Fight Fire with Fire! I could use some suggestions for other iconic tunes with some good single-escape runs on one string. Thanks:)
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I would guess Thunderstruck by AC/DC and Miserlou by Dick Dale?
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Highway Star, Wasted Years
BTW escape is irrelevant on single-string lines, so none of them will be more applicable to one escape over another.
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Yeah, this. You might be better served by looking for two-string USX runs - maybe take the Yngwie 6s pattern or some variation thereof, and just go back and forth between two strings? I’ve tended to try this pattern with either major or aeolean/regular minor scales, just because I tend to play that kind of stuff a lot more than the harmonic minor territory Yngwie writes in.
I hope to. But at this point the conventional wisdom seems to be for me to get synced up on one string first. (Although I’m so-far finding one-string runs to be scarcer than I would have assumed. Even the bundles here on CTC are pretty much all multi-string.)
There’s a cool one 6 seconds into When Doves Cry, that you could adapt and/or loop to your preferences.
- B: --0–0--0–7--0–0--10–0--0–5--6–7
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The melody from Black Star at about 1:17 is tons of fun:
You can also pull the single-string bit out and adapt it to any scale, ascending or descending.
- High E: --14–17–15–14-\-12–15–14–12-\-11–14–12–11–12–
Reversing it is useful too. (Edit: the slash indicates where to change positions.)
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The Vai sevens are also cool for descending scales:
- –15–13–12–13–15–13–12-\-13–12–10–12–13–12–10-\-12–10–8--10–12–10–8--
I usually reverse it for ascending scales, but it sounds good either way.
Yeah, those are the kind of things I need. Could always just create my own random patterns, but I’d prefer ‘real’ licks at this point. Thanks!
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Ah, gotcha. In that case, I wouldn’t think of it as ‘single-escape’ since if you’re staying on a single string, yu really don’t need to think about an escape, and then just find ANY series of notes on a single string that you can loop. Any of the “chunks” that get presented in some of those multi-string licks are great - the Yngwie 6s pattern, for example, can be played up and down a single string and is a good way to build coordination. Likewise with the Gilbert 6s a la Technical Difficulties - play that three note motif as a single string lick and just loop it, ascending and descending. Or make up your own patterns, anything you think sounds cool that you could use musically. 