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Here’s a great little lesson on the acoustic guitar. Emphasizes finger picking technique:
Would you like to know how to improve your chord changes? Of course you would! Is there some secret formula or magic trick that will make your fingers quicker? No… but there are some “muscle memory” exercises you can do to strengthen them. This will make a big difference in your playing.
Yesterday I gave one of my students a series of simple chord progressions to practice. As he was playing through them I noticed that he could transition easily from the C chord to the Em chord, but he had difficulty moving from Em back to C. That’s because it’s easier for the hand to close than open, and moving from Em to C requires that your stretch and open your hand. The problem he was having also affected his timing so that he was unable to keep a steady 4/4 rhythm.
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A specific scale is defined by its intervallic formula. In other words, it is not necessarily the specific notes, but the pattern of intervals that defines a specific scale. And it’s also this same pattern of intervals that gives the scale its characteristic feel or tonality. By altering the intervallic scale formula, we change the type of scale being played. We can change the key of the scale by starting the intervallic formula on a different note.
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I am a karate instructor and I have been for many years. (I’m a third degree black belt). And one thing I’ve found over many years of teaching students is that they seem to progress very quickly initially by exactly following or parroting your every move. That is how they learn initially—just simply mimic someone who has done it before.
Scales are simply collections of notes arranged in a specific order—just as the alphabet is simply a collection of letters arranged in a specific order. We often think of scales as practice devices. The stereotypical image of the beginning piano student is that of the little boy or girl sitting captive and forlorn at the piano bench—plinking away at their scales as their joyful friends play outside in the background. And, in fact scales are practice devices—very useful and effective practice devices. But scales are more—much more than just practice tools as we shall see in this article.
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“I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.”
Author, Anonymous
Have you ever complained because your picking hand just didn’t work right? Or you just couldn’t find the right pick? The .60 was too thick but the .50 was too flimsy and what you really needed was a .57 – but who makes that? And it’s just too hard to do string-skipping or alternate picking or flutter picking, or the sun was in your eyes, dog ate your homework… or… or… or…
Well, we’ve all run out of excuses. Watch this video. Then… get to work. Get the right tools, the right knowledge and practice, practice, PRATICE. The rest is JUST EXCUSES.
Nice job Marc!!!
DON’T LET LACK OF KNOWLEDGE BE YOUR FLIMSY EXCUSE…
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Face it. You have to play your scales. We all do. Everything we play on the guitar comes out of our scales—just as everything we write comes out of the Roman alphabet. So (and this is no big revelation) soloing or improvisation is simply a matter of disassembling our scales into smaller chunks and reassembling them in an order and a style that creates the mood or effect we wish to hear.
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Once again, this type of playing comes from intimate knowledge of the fretboard and your scales.
Want to play like this? You have to know your scales!!!
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The name “pentatonic” comes from a couple of Greek words: “penta” – a prefix meaning five and “tonic” – which makes reference to a tone. Thus a pentatonic scale is a scale consisting of only five notes. This is opposed to the full diatonic scales which contain all seven tones of the musical alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F, and G). The pentatonic minor scale is a very popular scale and is heavily used in blues, classic rock, heavy rock, jazz and other popular genres.
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