This week I’ve taken inspiration from a Steve Lukather lick in the outro solo on ‘Rosanna’ and carried it on to form a longer line. In most of these lessons, I’ll demonstrate how an idea can be expanded; in this case I’m moving a 6-note pattern around the different modes of the major scale.

Here’s the tab for first example, which I’m playing over an Am7 in the video.

And the diagram of the scale shape:

The second example, which I’m playing over a Cmaj9 in the video.