Franco Luambo Makiadi - Soukous Guitar Transcription - Liberté (Franco)
Channel: GuitOp81
Date: 2015-07-06

One of my favorites from le grand maitre et sorcier de la guitare, Franco.

I tried to capture the two or three identifiable guitar lines played by Franco, the bass line and some of the vocal harmonies. 
I couldn't isolate the second guitar well enough to catch the whole line, which I hear is something simple played around the basic chord shapes, but important nonetheless because of the way the lines from different guitars work together.

The song is in G major and they go all the time up and down the harmonization of the G major scale, in thirds, sixths and some octaves here and there.
There are tons of material on the internet about scales in thirds and sixths (double stops) and about the harmonization of the diatonic major scale, and there is also possibly one of the most boring video posted here by me where I try to show precisely that, starting from the C major scale. The video is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LJU7rWqR2w
Another video showing some examples of scales in thirds, sixths etc is this one here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtH0APqv3ww

In this video about Franco I added a few fretboard diagrams. Hope those help.

As a reference here is the version of liberté that I used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjfFDmSbclg
The whole album is well worth listening and the notes in the description of the video are interesting, especially in relation to the guitar work

The guitaresoukous.com website is temporarily offline and that is partly why I am putting a longer description here. I have to migrate it to a new host and I don't know when I will have time to do it. I hope soon.