Veg Greydon Peg Analysis

The solo of ‘Peg’ begins at 1:46, where the guitarist uses double stops bent with vibrato, which gives an almost Hawaiian timbre. The use of distortion throughout the piece is not a timbre typical of Jazz music, which outlines the genre as ‘Fusion’. The use of double stops, finger taps, slides and bends emphasize this genre, by outlining ‘rock’ timbres, not typical of jazz. An interesting timbre can be found at both 2.00 and 2.03, where the use of chromatic, open-string licks using pull-offs can be heard. As the sheet shows, Graydon plays the G mixolydian scale in Bars 7 and 9. We see this through his use of A#, which is the flattened 3rd.

In bar 7, Graydon also uses ornamentation to decorate his melodic line. The use of turns in