Build up techniques

[Jkendrick]

I'm not sure anyone is still paying attention to this thread, but I came up with a build up lick for a solo I am working on and it reminded me of this thread. The build up doesn't utilize any scale really, just an easy finger pattern. This is something metal-ish guys like Eddie Van Halen and Slash seem to do a lot. This ties back to what was discussed earlier that you don't really need to be doing anything that has a strict theoretical explanation so long as you resolve. The resolution lick is based off a Jimmy Herring lick from his band Frogwings. It's a bebop-ish Dorian lick, which kinda reminded me of the Dorian stuff Lephty wa doing in his video.

Here is a quick video. It's still rough as I just came up with it and haven't gotten it totally wired. Plus I'm playing it on an acoustic!

https://youtu.be/tiKfahLrVdA

Here is the tab for it too. (Note the tab is in G Dorian and in the video I played it in A Dorian):

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E |----------------------------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------------------------|
G |--------------------------------------------3--5----|
D |--------------------3--5-----------3--5--6----------|
A |-----------3--5--6--------3--5--6-------------------|
E |--3--5--6-------------------------------------------|


--------------------------------------------3--5----|
--------------------3--5-----------3--5--6----------|
-----------3--5--6--------3--5--6-------------------|
--3--5--6-------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
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--6-----3-----8b----------8--6-----8--6-------------|
--------------------------------8--------8-----7----|
--------------------------------------------6-------|
----------------------------------------------------|
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-----6--5-------------------------------------------|----------||
--8--------6-----6-----6--6L------------------------|--6-------||
--------------7-----7-------------------------------|----------||
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[No Nice Guy]

I've actually been thinking about buildups a lot lately.  One of my favourites actually comes from a somewhat unusual soruce...

http://dai.ly/x2mjbrz

If you skip to about 5:40 a chase starts with some very nice music adding to the suspense build up.  I've been trying to figure out what, musically, they did there.

[Jkendrick]

You know that's Rossini's Barber of Seville, right?

[No Nice Guy]

You know that's Rossini's Barber of Seville, right?

I mean, yeah I just figured that Warner Bros added a twist to it themselves - I've tried looking up the music for the Barber of Seville and I don't see what exactly it is that causes the build up.  It just doesn't click, you know?