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Tower of stone
Music Radar has a piece that dissects Rainbow’s Stargazer. It’ll be of particular interest to those of us who can tell their third mode of G Major from the B Phrygian Dominant scale.
What really catches the ear, however, is when Blackmore decides to go off-piste and start firing out notes outside of that scale.
He plays a run that chromatically climbs one fret at a time until its explosive peak, where he bends a whole tone up from the 17th fret of his high E – turning the minor seventh into a root.
This concept of using the ‘wrong’ notes after so many right ones is a musical device that Blackmore has employed many times as a tool to catch listeners off-guard. Another famous example is his solo in Deep Purple’s Highway Star.
Read more in Music Radar.
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