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John Lacey
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Who was the author the Picker’s page?
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Post by Fish »

Hi Doug,

Thanks again for your help finding this quote. I remember dragging the words over to my computer many years ago, but I never thought I would need to cite its source in a book. Nice save!

In the book, we are footnoting you and your Google drive address as the current source of this information, unless you object.

all the best,

Steve
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Budy Quote for Fish

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I believe this is what you're looking for. I clipped this from either Ernie Renn's site, or the Forum. I think it's from the Forum given the format:

Posted by Buddy Emmons on 12 Apr 1998 at 2:56 pm
In Reply to ? for Buddy. Playing outside by John Lacey
John, Up to the time I heard Pat Martino I was playing more or less "the tuning," which sounds very much like your reference to pentatonic, etc. I could play inside as you say with speed and ease but never with what I thought sounded like an intelligent approach to solos. For some strange reason Pat's scales seemed to open the door for me to a world that was already there and I didn't know it. His substitution of the G five minor seventh chord for C seventh solos was a scale I had played before but never associated it with a minor. Now I use the Bb major 7th (5th fret, strings 1 through 9) and C9th position (10th fret, pedal 5 pattern) for both Gm7 and C7th solos. Of course this is probably the tip of the iceburg for what you were inquiring about, but it is a good start on key substitutions. It allows you to sound like you've learned something new when all you've done is played an old pattern in a new location.
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Post by Roger Rettig »

What a can of worms! That 'Ask Buddy' clip is almost certainly where I remember seeing the reference to Metheny. I had never seen that page that Doug so diligently researched.

Much appreciation for everybody's efforts!
Roger Rettig - Emmons D10
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Post by Ernie Renn »

Fish;

You probably should've asked me first... :mrgreen:
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