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The A Minor pentatonic groupings of three exercise is a sequence that takes the pentatonic scale in groupings of three notes from every note in the scale. This type of scale sequence is used in thousands of guitar solos and is something that every guitar player would want be comfortable with.
The Idea is that we play three notes from every note in the scale. A C D, C D E, D E G, E G A. This exercise moves though all five patterns of the scale across the whole neck.
Begin playing pattern seven started on third fret using the note grouping patterns. Then move to the fifth fret playing pattern one. Pattern three from the eighth fret, pattern four on the tenth fret, and pattern five on the twelfth fret. Next work your way back though the patterns back down to the third fret.
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A Minor Pentatonic Scales
https://www.practicetheguitar.com/videos/scales/a-minor-pentatonic/
A Blues Scales
https://www.practicetheguitar.com/videos/scales/5-patterns-of-the-a-blues-scale/
C Major Scales
https://www.practicetheguitar.com/videos/scales/c-major-scales/
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Lead Guitar Theory Practice Playing The Dorian Mode Anywhere On The Guitar Truly Understand Modes
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One of the biggest hurdles many guitarists face early in their development is being able to connect chords, scales and arpeggios in their playing without having to jump all over the fretboard between shapes. Always having a scale under your fingers for every chord shape you use is a great way to learn the fretboard, providing you with soloing material at the same time. This exercise will help get you into not only a little theory of how modes work, but also having seven dorian scale patterns with seven minor seventh chords on the 6th and the 5th strings in one general area on the neck. This will be an amazing tool to help you learn the many aspects of using the dorian scale, and improve your soloing. Join https://www.practicetheguitar.com/ and become a member to practice with tons of video lessons at multiple tempos, with full tablature and notation, and backing tracks to practice with.
One of the biggest hurdles many guitarists face early in their development is being able to connect chords, scales and arpeggios in their playing without having to jump all over the fretboard between shapes. Always having a scale under your fingers for every chord shape you use is a great way to learn the fretboard, providing you with soloing material at the same time.
This exercise will help get you into not only a little theory of how modes work, but also having seven dorian scale patterns with seven minor seventh chords on the 6th and the 5th strings in one general area on the neck. This will be an amazing tool to help you learn the many aspects of using the dorian scale, and improve your soloing. CLICK HERE FOR THE PAGE TO THIS LESSON.
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A target tone, as its name implies, is a melodic destination point that harmonically coincides with a particular chord. These are the notes you’ll cadence you’re phrases on. Players that are new to soloing, regardless of the style, have a tendency to play more notes than needed. I believe this is due to the fact that new players often don’t know the notes they are playing, or how they relate to the chords they’re playing over. In this exercise we will practice how to land phrases on the root note using C minor pentatonic scales in each position of the scale.
There is a series of notes that are being worked around each C note in each position here. Learn each set of licks with the videos and tablature, and then use the backing tracks to practice your own soloing ideas. One thing that we guitar players tend to do is play too many notes in just the root pattern on the pentatonic scale. This is an awesome way to help you break out of just playing in that one pattern, as well as to help you get a better understanding of where the root notes fall in all the other patterns as well.
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The melodic minor scale has the same notes as the major scale except that the 3rd degree is lowered by one semitone, creating a major scale with a flattened 3rd degree. Thus, C Melodic minor scale is represented by the following notation: 1, 2, ♭3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Another way to look at the melodic minor scale is the same notes as the natural minor scale except that the 6th and the 7th degree is raised by one semitone.
The melodic minor scale has the same notes as the major scale except that the 3rd degree is lowered by one semitone, creating a major scale with a flattened 3rd degree. Thus, C Melodic minor scale is represented by the following notation: 1, 2, ♭3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Another way to look at the melodic minor scale is the same notes as the natural minor scale except that the 6th and the 7th degree is raised by one semitone.
This lesson shows the seven patterns beginning on the the first fret, sixth string. And then, covering the entire neck. I am playing though all the patterns using Hammer-ons and Pull-offs in each pattern. You can also playing along with the videos using alternate picking, and then add the legato in later as you get more comfortable. The pdf shows all the scale patterns, the notation and tablature. CLICK HERE FOR THE PAGE TO THIS LESSON.
One of the biggest hurdles many guitarists face early in their development is being able to connect chords, scales and arpeggios in their playing without having to jump all over the fretboard between shapes.
Always having a scale under your fingers for every chord shape you use is a great way to learn the fretboard, providing you with soloing material at the same time. This exercise will help get you into this way of thinking with seven diatonic chords on both the 6th and 5th strings, as well as the seven scale shapes that fall under each chord. This will be an amazing tool to help you learn many aspects of the guitar, and improve your soloing.
C Major Scale
C D E F G A B C
Seven chords in the key of C
Cmaj7 Dm7 Em7 Fmaj7 G7 Am7 Bm7b5
This lesson pack includes 15 essential double stop licks that uses not only the mixolydian, major, and minor pentatonic scales to make awesome blues rock phrases. The packs starts with easier licks that gradually increase in difficulty. Video examples for each lick fast and slow, Backing Track, tablature and notation pdf, scale charts for all of these scales, and a GUITAR PRO FILE INCLUDED! These licks are setup to give you many of the different approaches used to make awesome double stops, using all four scale types, minor pentatonic, major pentatonic, the blues, and the mixolydian scale. This approach will help you learn how to find the distinctions between each scale type and how they can be used together over a A7 chord. The backing track I made is all just A7 as well, that way you can practice this without having to worry about chord changes and really get the sound and the feel of this type of playing in your ears and under your hands. There is also two backing tracks, one at 100bpm, and a slower tempo of 80bpm. Practicing scales, licks and phrases this way is really great for building your speed, accuracy, and overall technique. Use the backing track to learn, and apply the different scale types. If you need work learning the patterns, you can work each scale with quarter, eighth, triplets, sixteenths, and sixteenth note triplets. Then do the same with each lick example, practice the licks back to back as you get better at them. For the final step start mixing the licks in with your phrases and ideas to maximize how much you take away from this lesson pack!
