THE GRISTLE REPORT
STROLL ON!
How to play the slide-infused “Soul Stroll”
GREETINGS! FOR THIS month’s column, I’d like to demonstrate the first section of the rhythm and slide guitar parts to the main section of my song “Soul Stroll,” which is included on my latest Koch-Marshall Trio album, From the Up’Nah.
This track started as a little slide jam, and I first depicts the opening progression, which consists of four chords played across two bars, two beats on each chord. This section of progression the tune is in is the Bmaj key 7 of - Gmaj B, and 7 - the A b m repeating 7 b 5 - E13. I perform this part fingerstyle, and in bar 1, I begin on the Bmaj7, with a low B root-note a “anticipation quick hammer ” in -on the from pickup C # on bar the , followed B string by ’s 2nd fret to D # (4th fret), quickly alluding to by Bmaj sounding 9, which a high resolves F # note to Bmaj on the 7, followed 1st string. I’m taking a chord-melody approach here, embellishing the chord with subtle single-note melodic phrases.
