| For those of you guitar players, I have some examples how to develop your skill in playing guitars. Let's forget about chords progression for a moment, let's focus on the techniques to build up your stamina for your left and right hands. These following exercise concentrate in the right-hand for alternate-picking as well as the left-hand for playing the scales. By practicing these exercises your fingers and brain will be trained and gradually you will be able to play them in the fast tempo.
TUTORIALS
Example 01
Here's an example playing scale in A (major scale). By playing an A major scale (1 octave) with metronome (85 bpm) and also playing the different notes (in this case playing in quarter and eighth notes) you will gradually develop your skill playing on time. This is a good way of practicing. Just playing in lower tempo first. Don't push yourself too hard to reach fast tempo. Take your time for a while.
(Posted: Wednesday, May 09th 2007)
Example 02
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opefully you have finished the first exercise. Here's the second example to develop your accuracy in playing. I give an example playing in A major scale (2 octaves) using 32th notes. You will find it difficult to play quit a lot notes in a bar. I believe with practicing this exercise every day you will find it easy.
(Posted: Thursday, May 10th 2007)
Example 03
In this particular tutorial, I will share to you how to develop your skill in playing solo using extended modes. The notes that you play as a solo along the chords progression have to be in the same track as the chords progression. For instance: when the chords progression goes (C-Am-F-G) you can play a solo by taking some of the C major scale or A Minor scale notes along those chords. But, what if the chords progression changes into (C7-F7-C7-G7)? Yes, C major and A minor scales don't fit anymore to the chords progression.We can use the extended scale to overcome this problem. Below, I give an examples of using extended scale: Mixolydian scale in dealing with 7th chords progression.
Mixolydian Scale
The Mixolydian mode is a musical mode or diatonic scale. It has the same series of tones and semitones as the major scale, except the fifth (dominant) note is taken as the tonic or starting (beginning) pitch of the scale. It may also be considered a major scale with the leading tone moved down by a semitone.
The order of tones and semitones in a Mixolydian scale is TTSTTST (T = tone; S = semitone), while the major scale is TTSTTTS. The key signature varies accordingly (it will be the same as that of the major key a fifth below).
- The G Mixolydian mode (Based on C major - on a piano it is all the white keys from one G to the next. GABCDEFG)
- The C Mixolydian mode (Based on F major. CDEFGAB♭C)
- The D Mixolydian mode (Based on G major. DEF♯GABCD)
- The E Mixolydian mode (Based on A major. EF♯G♯ABC♯DE
(Posted: August 13th, 2007)
reference: wikipedia
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