• Learning Lead Guitar Patterns
• Blues Guitar Phrasing • Guitar Scales for Beginners
• Chord Progressions and Melody
• 20 min. Guitar Scale Workout
Covers ideas to create better melodies on the guitar. Includes harmonic patterns that support the melody. Compares both diatonic and non-diatonic, (non-diatonic chords will be covered using other scales or modes). Also explores repetitive meters. Recurring meter helps a listener better relate to the lead guitar patterns.
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This lesson takes a look at how guitarists can begin forming blues statements to use in building repeating themes. The lesson also covers how to answer those statements using blues ideas which will eventually form longer call and response phrases.
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The direction of this lesson places a focus upon fret-board awareness of scale names and types. The lesson plan introduces tonal center and naming note awareness. Octaves are related to simple major and minor shapes. Scales are put to use around short melodic examples.
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This lesson will test basic chords, experiment with chord substitutes and apply; extended, suspended and altered chords to find out how they can be used to generate new harmonies upon a melody line.
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A 20 min. workout with drills on; octaves, Major and Minor Scales (using in-position fingering patterns), and connecting Major and Minor patterns using a lateral scale approach.
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