Chords for Pierre Bensusan on Practicing Scales and His Right-Hand Techniques

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Do you still practice, I mean, like work on scales [A] and that sort of thing, or do you just
[Bb] play all the time?
Yeah, [N]
I like scales, you know.
I like scales. _ _
[C] _ [Gm] But _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [E] I don't stay [Ebm] in a scale too long, you know.
[G] I go from a [D] scale and then it starts to [G] _ _
[Am] become_
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_ [Bb] _ and then [Dm] it starts to _ be_
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[F] _ [Bb] _ [Am] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ [F] _
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_ _ _ _ _ That's also another [D] way to play the scale, _ [Bb] _ _ [Gb] _ [F] _
which [Db] I learned from Bill [C] Kiss, the [Eb] Kiss style,
the [F] melodic style, _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ which is to go to [Cm] look for the consecutive notes on [F] different [A] strings.
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_ [Am] _ _ [N] _ _ _ Right.
It's very effective.
Yeah.
What about [Fm]
right hand things?
_ [C] Well, then you have to work your right hand when you do that.
It's very obligatory.
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_ [C] I have _ _ a sort of flamenco classical technique on the right hand.
I use very often my thumb to anchor on the bass. _ _ _ _
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_ I use also the lute technique, _ [E] _
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_ _ [Am] _ _ but if I use [Ab] my thumb to play like this, [Ebm] then my thumb
is no longer available [F] to play the bass.
So I rather keep my thumb free [E] and _
_ [Em] _ _ [G] use_ _ _ _
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_ _ [Am] Did you ever [Eb] experiment, particularly early on, I guess, [A] with _ thumb picks and finger picks?
[Eb] Yes.
_ Yeah, I use [B] my thumb pick.
_ _ _ [Gb] Yes, and finger picks, no.
I don't [Eb] like finger picks.
The thumb pick, I've been using the thumb [Fm] pick for many years, _ but I [Bb] rather have my
thumb [F] free _ so that I can have different tones, with some flesh, with_
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[Em] I felt that when [A] I stopped using my thumb pick, my two [Eb] hands started to communicate [Ab] better together.
_ [E] That was another _ interesting _ [A] _ _
consequence [N] of that.
_ _ _ But the thumb pick is very good when you mute, [Dm] you know. _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ Now when I want to play with thumping my bass, I need a different _ [Ab] attitude with my right [Dm] hand.
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