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#94 - This Exercise SOLVED My Biggest Theory Frustration!
🕑 Added 2020-06-26 13:01:01 +0000 UTCIt's finally time for another in-depth lesson! This time we work on your chosen topic of improvisation once more :) I remember how frustrating it was for me to find my way across the fretboard in the beginning, this approach really helped me with that.
This exercise is really powerful when it comes to understanding arpeggios and improvising/playing solos over riffs and chords. I prepared an easy practical example and the exercise will allow you to understand how to form big and interesting shapes without studying any diagrams.
You start with the basic triad arpeggio, add the seventh in level 2, and then extend the arpeggio to the next octave in level 3! As soon as you are familiar with this concept, you will be able to extend it all across the neck.
Don't forget to download your files for this lesson, hope you have a lot of fun with this!
Comments
Nehru
thank you brineth for nice lesson
Andrei Cristof
5h later im still amazed by how good this exercise is. I thought doing these 4note arpeggios is extremely hard and its actually so simple, if you think in terms of intervals. Im also changing the octaves and playing through the whole minor scale actually and saying the notes. Im just really happy rn
Andrei Cristof
Man this exercise was amazing. Sometimes you think you know some concepts in theory , but you REALLY understand them when you actually practice them. When you said that we must also think about the chords in the minor scale, and to do that we just "add 3rd and 5th", I ended up finding the chords for the entire minor scale in B-flat on strings E A D. And every such triad i was finding, i was like "omg this is precisely what Bernth was playing also". All one needs is the discipline to REALLY pay attention to the video because every video here is absolute golden. But I was just skimming the videos, but when I really focus on what its saying, and I pause and I follow the instructions, thats when it really clicks.
Bernd Brodträger
That connection between major/minor scales is very helpful, that is correct :) A minor and C major essentially share the same notes (different starting points if you will), so the chords on the scale degrees are also the same! That way the diminished chord just moves to the second scale degree in the minor scale :)
Raf Aarts
So , if you have the major scale T T ST T T T ST T you have M m m M M m Dim , the minor scale starts at the 6th , the 7th is dim so therefore the 2nd of the minor scale is that same dim ! correct
Bruce Hatcher
Man this lesson was perfect for me. Thank you very much.
Bernd Brodträger
Great question Raf! When we build the chords on each scale degree, we are adding the third and fifth to the scale notes - but we are only allowed to use the notes of the scale/key we are composing in! So for the second scale degree in natural minor, we get a diminished chord (minor third and flattened/diminished fifth). We check out working with keys for composition in this lesson in case you didn't see it yet: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64-why-your-how-34636903 And this page is very helpful for seeing the chords in each major/minor key: https://www.guitar-chords.org.uk/chords-key-b-flat-minor.html
Raf Aarts
Why is the second chord diminished ? Thx Raf
