BEAUTY AND SADNESS

1,862 views · Published 8 August 2011 · 4:19 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Ken Middleton · 2011 · Music

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美しさと悲しみ (Beauty and Sadness) is the name I have given to this improvisation which uses the Japanese hirajoshi scale. To make it easier to play chords with this scale, I have detuned the 4th string by a full step to F.

I am playing my Pete Howlett Custom Tenor.

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