[Guitar Slim II]

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

I'm no bluegrass player (I think grassers are the only one who use this terminology), but from what I understand of the term, you basically set up some kind of motif, and then repeat the pattern, but starting from each subsequent note in the scale...

So say you took G major-- GABCDEF#

And you played GABC

Then you'd follow ABCD, BCDE, etc...

A more complex idea would be playing in thirds...

So GBDF#, ACEG, BDF#A, etc.

Or some combination...

GBDG, ACEA, BDF#B, etc.

Obviously, you could do this descendng as well...

AKA "coils"?