Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Guitar legend Steve Morse demonstrates his burning take on the blues, in an Artist Lick taken from the Dixie Dregs’ ‘Rock & Roll Park’ from their 1981 album Unsung Heroes. Make sure to catch the delayed half step bend on the 1st string 12th fret at the very end.
Here Steve shows us how to play the signature melody from Deep Purple’s ‘Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming’ off of their 1996 album Purpendicular, and explains the harp harmonic technique he uses to play it:
SM: "The technique that I use is with second finger and thumb, and then I stop the string with my first finger. Put your finger over the fret wire – not in the middle between the fret wires, like you would if you were fretting. Actually touch it right over the fret wire and lift at the same time you pick.
The second time I’m fretting it in Gm, and you’re hearing it an octave higher. Since I’m fretting it in Gm, I’ve gone up a fourth, and playing the harmonic seven frets up gives me an octave and a fifth above that. So the fourth and fifth gives you an octave, and then the octave – so you’re two octaves up. If you miss a note [while sounding the harmonic seven frets above it] you’re going to get a wrong note – instead of hearing a D, you’re going to hear a G, so it’s going to be weird. So choose your time carefully to use that."
TABS available here: guitarmessenger.com/steve-morse-masterclass
Guitar legend Steve Morse demonstrates his burning take on the blues, in an Artist Lick taken from the Dixie Dregs’ ‘Rock & Roll Park’ from their 1981 album Unsung Heroes. Make sure to catch the delayed half step bend on the 1st string 12th fret at the very end.
Here Steve shows us how to play the signature melody from Deep Purple’s ‘Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming’ off of their 1996 album Purpendicular, and explains the harp harmonic technique he uses to play it:
SM: "The technique that I use is with second finger and thumb, and then I stop the string with my first finger. Put your finger over the fret wire – not in the middle between the fret wires, like you would if you were fretting. Actually touch it right over the fret wire and lift at the same time you pick.
The second time I’m fretting it in Gm, and you’re hearing it an octave higher. Since I’m fretting it in Gm, I’ve gone up a fourth, and playing the harmonic seven frets up gives me an octave and a fifth above that. So the fourth and fifth gives you an octave, and then the octave – so you’re two octaves up. If you miss a note [while sounding the harmonic seven frets above it] you’re going to get a wrong note – instead of hearing a D, you’re going to hear a G, so it’s going to be weird. So choose your time carefully to use that."
