Kisses and Hugs
I heard Steve Morse play a lick at a gig once. It was really cool, so I stole it and turned it in to something new. Now I use it as if it's my own. I called it the X scale because it looks like an X when written down on paper. Of course, hearing guys like Steve play always made me wonder if they had been abducted by aliens and had their brains replaced by a higher functioning cranial mechanism.
Then it came to me. The voices came from everywhere, yet nowhere. "Loooook foooorrrr The O Scaaaaale......"
It was a cosmic message (if a bit confusing). Either the aliens were sending me kinetic love messages (X's and O's), or perhaps weirder still, I was supposed to play a sort of celestial/musical version of tic-tac-toe (where I am the X and They are the O). Then, maybe it was just a cool guitar idea and I need help.
Either way, Example 1 shows the X scale.
Example 2 shows an early O scale prototype. To be honest it looks more like a diamond than it does an O. But what the heck. It's a start. Great inventions are sometimes bad ones that have been dressed up.
Example 3 is an exercise I call "Kisses and Hugs." Give it a try, but leave the aluminum foil off your scalp. The celestial reception is better.
