Members SirPluckalot Posted July 6, 2005 Members Posted July 6, 2005 Well I've been playing for 7 years or so. All of this time I've spent trying to hear everything. Never really sat down and tryed to learn anything. Now I'm at the point in my life where I can hear a good sound when I play it. But it has only been in the past three days that I've actually sat down and tryed to study something. The only thing I've figured out is that I can play a pentatonic scale pretty damd good. The other thing I just figured out is if I have a blues chord progression of B E F# I can go to that key on the 6th string and play a pentatonic scale in any of those three positions at any time and make it sound good. So what else can I do now with a simple chord progression like that? PLEASE MAKE IT REAL DUMB FOR ME BECAuSE I AM SLOW!!!! I want to know what kinds of chords I play with that and what other scales or whatnot I can do. Please don't get into all that techno babble because I'm stupid. People go to school to learn all the crazy Gmaj#7min8halfstepdown9th's stuff. Myself all I want to do is get something dumbed down for me so I can take my own steps to get that babble down myself. PLEASE HELP I'M absolutly desperate here. I just wanna know how to jam over different chords using variations of chords and scales. Thanks
Members raggety Posted July 6, 2005 Members Posted July 6, 2005 A C D etc. are the notes.1 4 1 etc. suggested fingeringA Pentatonic minor Pattern 1 (A C D E G) A C D E G A C D E G A C 1 4 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 4 1 4-------------------------------5--8----------------------------------------5--8----------------------------------------5--7----------------------------------------5--7----------------------------------------5--7----------------------------------------5--8---------------------------------------------(also starts at 17th fret)A Pentatonic minor Pattern 2 (C D E G A) C D E G A C D E G A C D 2 4 1 4 1 4 1 3 2 4 2 4-----------------------------------8--10--------------------------------------8--10---------------------------------------7--9---------------------------------------7--10--------------------------------------7--10--------------------------------------8--10--------------------------------------------(also starts at 20th fret)A Pentatonic minor Pattern 3 (D E G A C) D E G A C D E G A C D E 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 4 1 4 1 3----------------------------------------10--12------------------------------------10--13-------------------------------------9--12-------------------------------------10--12------------------------------------10--12------------------------------------10--12-------------------------------------------A Pentatonic minor Pattern 4 (E G A C D) E G A C D E G A C D E G 1 4 1 4 1 3 1 3 2 4 1 4-----------------------------------------12--15------------------------------------13--15------------------------------------12--14------------------------------------12--14------------------------------------12--15------------------------------------12--15-------------------------------------------A Pentatonic minor Pattern 5 (G A C D E) G A C D E G A C D E G A 2 4 1 4 1 4 1 4 2 4 2 4-----------------------------------------15--17------------------------------------15--17------------------------------------14--17------------------------------------14--17------------------------------------15--17------------------------------------15--17-------------------------------------------(also starts at 3rd fret)Do a tape of yourself playing the chords - A minor - E minor - D minor, for a couple of minutes in length and just play those scales shown above over it.try to get them to follow one after the other and you will see how they link up.If you don't already know this? the NUMBERS shown below mean the FRET to play. so you would star on the THICKEST STRING and play the note at the FIFTH fret with your index finger, then you will play the note at the EIGHT FRET with your little fingerthen so on up the scale until you get to the thinnest string, then play it backwards all the way down again-------------------------------5--8---------------thinnest string-------------------------5--8----------------------------------------5--7----------------------------------------5--7----------------------------------------5--7----------------------------------------5--8---------------------------------------------thickest string
Members adamsj Posted July 7, 2005 Members Posted July 7, 2005 Free scale lessons: http://216.147.38.203/AdamSJ/lessons.html
Members cashno Posted July 9, 2005 Members Posted July 9, 2005 play through the chords and the notes surounding them instead of thinking pentatonic. That way you can play over the chord positions all over the neck and because your not thinking scales, it will open up new ways for you to string the notes together. Works for me.
Members adamsj Posted July 9, 2005 Members Posted July 9, 2005 What cashno said is a good idea. Learning a little bit about arpeggios helps with this, the idea being that if you know the notes that make up an A major chord, and can play them as an arpeggio, then use those notes as the main landing points in your solo, with a few "passing tones" (non arpeggio notes) thrown in, you'll really start to sound more melodic. Whether you're into their music or not, the Ventures are a great example of this kind of work, because many of their solos and melodies are built this way -- using a lot of arpeggio notes as the main notes in the solo/melody.
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