Frank Gambale

Frank Gambale (* December 22, 1958) is an Australian fusionguitarist, born in Canberra.

Biography

Frank Gambale came up playing in Chick Corea's Elektric Band. The band

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was playing fusion jazz music.

Related Topics:
Fusion - Jazz

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He is a pioneer at sweep picking technique. His is very

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different from what other guitarists used.

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It involves playing not only arpeggios, but scales

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and phrases too. Using this techinque you must expand the scales or phrases

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you are using to fit with this techinque. It is based in a sequence of even

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and odd number of notes per strings, in order to reduce the needed movements

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of the right (picking) hand.

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Frank Gambale has also played in Vital Information with Steve Smith.

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