2 cool Hoey-licks

[EricV]

Hi guys,

just found two pretty cool Gary Hoey-licks in one of my folders.
They´re both good exercises too. Both of them are from Gary´s arrangement of the old Focus-classic "Hocus Pocus".
Nr. 1 is a nice dim-arpeggio which occurs towards the end of his solo. It requires some stretching...

http://www.ericvandenberg.com/ibreathe/hoey1.jpg

And this one is a neat picking-exercise... triads on two adjacent strings. The underlying chords are indicated too...

http://www.ericvandenberg.com/ibreathe/hoey2.jpg

Have fun with those, and if you have a chance to, listen to some of Gary´s music... it rocks.
Eric

[Guni]

Cool Eric

re 1) very interesting and nicely shows the minor third structure of dim chords ..... aaaaa oh damn I only got 21 frets on my Strat :p

re 2) very nice arpeggio run - great exercise to be practiced in different keys and on other 2 string combinations (hint hint)

Guni

[EricV]

Hey Guni...

well then I guess I gotta see whether I still have the licks I came up with when I still used that 29fret-Washburn :) j/k

Seriously, it might work once you transpose it down at least 3 frets. The stretch will get harder, but it´ll work anyway.
Of course one can´t play the original solo without that 23 fret, but hey, that should be enough of a reason to come up with some cool licks to replace this one :)

For everyone who´s interested in Hoey´s music... the site is www.hoey.net (http://www.hoey.net) , and you can check out his discography there...
The debut is pretty cool, "Animal Instinct" ( feat. "Hocus Pocus" ) is an awesome instrumental record with lots of different styles, "Endless Summer II OST" shows Gary´s talent to play surf rock ( a la Dick Dale.. Dick guests on one song ), "Bug Alley" is pretty diverse all, "Money" has a bunch of cool grooves and great playing ( plus a killer-version of Pink Floyd´s "Money" ).
I recommend all of them. If I´d have to narrow it down to one or two, I´d say get "Animal Instinct" and "Endless Summer II"... the latter will really put you onto a beach once you close your eyes.

Oh, and the "Ho Ho Hoey" series is awesome too. On three CDs ( plus one "Best of Ho-Ho-Hoey" ), Gary plays all the popular christmas songs ( the classics a la "First Noel", "White Christmas" etc. ), each one in a different style, from Nu Rock to Rockabilly, Latin to Fusion... I love those CDs too, and every year in December, those CDs are on heavy rotation in my CD-player...
:)

So, go check it out !
Warm regards
Eric

[szulc]

It is difficult to execute those dim7 runs on a strat. you could resort to tapping. I think that everyone should recoginze the min7 patterns since they are subsets of the Minor Pentatonic.
I think Hoey has a great Musical Sense of humour.
Fath tried and Hoey tried but No-one can better Jan Akkerman

[The Bash]

I really like those.
The second ones a very cool idea to take across any two adjacent string sets in any given key.
I did that with the Moore lick in your Lesson lesson and practiced the arp shapes up and down whatever scale and after couple weeks I noticed myself doing that kinna thing subconsciously when I was improvising. Where I guess is where the practicing ends and the real music begins.

[EricV]

Exxxactly :)

Glad you got something out of it. John Petrucci is another dude who uses those diatonic arps quite a bit... you can also hear them in the legendary "Sultans Of Swing"-Solo etc...

Eric