ALEX SILL Video Masterclass Pt3
This month we are looking at another tastefully crafted piece of playing, courtesy of fusion wizard Alex Sill. For his solo on Digging Deep, Alex favours a combination of sophisticated phrasing, clever note choices and a modern sounding, overdriven tone which makes this one an essential, if challenging, study piece.
Jason’s ballad clocks in at a sedate 80bpm with an E Major key signature. For clarity and ease of use we have labelled the sections with rehearsal marks. Section A provides us with emotive movement between E Major and A Minor. Alex navigates these two chords with the E Major scale (E-F#-G#-A-B-C#-D#) and A Dorian (A-B-C-D-E-F#-G). The focal two notes that Alex targets when outlining the change from E Major to A Minor is G# (the Major 3rd of E Major) which moves a
