Descent 2

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The earliest British blues-rock musicians were tireless innovators. Their pioneering experiments in combining traditional blues, rock `n' roll and ethnic music led to many unique amalgams. Today's classic blues-rock lick is a case in point. During the first wave of the British Invasion countless players began to incorporate the East Indian influence into their blues and rock settings. Our lick for September 8 contains one of the most recognizable elements of this type of fusion. The single-note legato descent in measure two is an obvious nod to the slurred articulations of the Indian sitar. This sort of linear phrase is almost always played as a diatonic...