I am admittedly not super-familiar with Joe, though I generally know how he plays, and that he has some mixed escape capabilities. Which is why I thought this was kinda neat - check out how he plays this pentatonic run that I have cued up. At a quick glance it all seems picked, and he starts on a downstroke, but if that were the case, it would lean more into USX than DSX… however, he makes it nearly all DSX by throwing in a hammer-on for the second note.
I have to wonder if this was strategically worked out at one point, or if it’s entirely subconscious.
