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This is the way I do it - John McLaughlin's instructional DVD released in 2004
This excellent DVD set came with links to transcriptions and tabs of the examples and demos.
Unfortunately, the transcriptions are poor (raw from a guitar-to-MIDI stream apparently) and the supplied tablatures bearing little relation to how John actually plays things.
I've re-done all the exercises and some demos, adding the fingering John uses on the DVD.
Not including audio as it would be quite rude to publish such copyrighted material, but you own this DVD set, right? If not, search "john mclaughlin this is the way i do it dvd" and follow the breadcrumbs.
AUG2025 NOTE:
Going through and updating these, filling in ones I didn't do before, adding tabs, finding some mistakes to correct, undoubtedly creating new ones. This is a long and tedious process so bear with me. I've added the original demo pdfs from the DVD set - no tabs or fingering, arguably less accurate than mine.
Chapter 1- Ex 1 - Modes of the Major Scale pdf
Chapter 1 - Ex 2 - Intervals of the Major Scale pdf
Chapter 1 - Easy Demo (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 1 - Advanced Demo (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 2 - Mode exercises of the Major Scale pdf
Chapter 2 - Easy Demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 2 - Advanced Demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 3 - More exercises of Major modes pdf
Chapter 3 - Easy Demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 3 - Advanced Demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 4 - Scale tone chords pdf
Chapter 4 - Triads pdf
Chapter 4 - Easy Demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 4 - Advanced Demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 5 - Diminished (aka Symmetric), and Exercises pdf
Chapter 5 - Scale tone chords pdf
Chapter 5 - Demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 6 - Chromatic exercises pdf
Chapter 6 - Easy demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 6 - Advanced demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 7 - Harmonic Minor - scales and modes pdf
Chapter 7 - Harmonic Minor - exercises pdf
Chapter 7 - Easy demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 7 - Advanced demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 8 - Melodic Minor exercises pdf
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Chapter 8 - Easy demo (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 8 - Advanced demo (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 9 - Melodic Minor over ii-V-I pdf
Chapter 9 - Demo pdf (ORIG pdf )
Chapter 12 - Demo (ORIG pdf )
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