Making any kind of instruction fun to watch can be a challenge.
One man, Shredmaster Scott, has been doing an excellent job of putting together some fun to watch lessons on tearing it up on the fretboard. Check out his YouTube channel here: ​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKrtDT9Y4YN2rZqWg0pYPyg Here's the latest video I just watched, where I was informed you can't pick fast when using a beer mug. Who knew?!
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This lesson compliments the Gallop Exercises Lesson well.
The gallop rhythm emphasized the down beat. You had one 8th note followed by two 16th notes.
The reverse gallop emphasizes the up beat. You will have two 16th notes and one 8th note.
The following are four exercises, progressing in difficulty, to help you improve your reverse gallop rhythms.
This video demonstrates those exercises:
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It's not easy learning new things. Whether it's a new instrument, new song, new solo, new scale, you name it - the first time you try it tends to be a challenge.
Why?
BECAUSE IT'S NEW!!!!!!!
We all have neural pathways that get better and stronger the more we practice something. At first, those pathways suck. They're weak! They need to be made stronger and stronger just like building a stronger bench.
It takes time.
It takes some patience. It takes practice practice practice PRACTICE HOURS OF PRACTICE PRACTICE, DAMMIT!!!!
STOP getting down on yourself just because you can't play something perfectly, or easily right away. If you have NEVER done something before it's unrealistic to expect yourself to be able to do this new thing right away.
As of this entry, I've been playing almost 20 years. I STILL come across things that kick my brain's ass because certain finger patterns or note choices are very foreign to me. That's fine. That's normal. And, if you plan on progressing as a musician as long as you can, it will happen to you too. OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN! Now, learning new songs or solos, etc. may actually come very easy to you sometimes. Why? Because you have already played/learned enough similar material to where this new piece of music isn't really all that different in terms of motor skills and muscle memory. So, if you're one of those people who say things like, "but it shouldn't be this hard!", STOP IT!!!
You are setting unrealistic expectations for yourself. If something is hard then you simply have not performed that task enough times.
PERIOD
Now, here's a video to demonstrate this idea even further :)
This lesson supplements the 3 Note Per String Scale Shape Madness one.
The person who requested the 3 NPS lesson followed up with more details for further examples. That's what this lesson is about! The first group of examples demonstrates going from C Ionian into B Harmonic minor, and then finishes up with E Melodic minor. To transition from scale to scale in this first example, I used a note that is in adjacent scales. In other words, the last note I used in the C Ionian phrase is also a note in the B Harmonic minor scale. The last note I used in the B Harmonic minor scale is also a note used in E Melodic minor.
The next example uses the same transition idea of shared notes.
The last example of combining Ionian, Harmonic minor, and Melodic minor uses finger tapping.
All three scales contain the notes for an E minor chord - E, G, and B. An E minor triad will be tapped/arpeggiated as the start and transition for each scale.
The next three riffs demonstrate going from B Phrygian into F# Locrian. These examples are in the key of G/Em. Because the tonal center focuses on B, and then F#, different mode sounds can be heard even though you are playing in just one key.
This example could use some explaining on how to approach playing it.
No distortion!!! It will NOT sound good unless it's clean. You will be holding down a B minor chord shape for the first half of the example, and then an F# diminished chord shape for the second half of the example. You'll be tapping notes near each chord shape to do something I like to call "chord tapping". Watch the video posted at the end of this lesson to see a demonstration of how it's done.
The rest of the riffs/examples demonstrate climbing multiple octaves for all seven modes in the key of G.
The following video demonstrates all the riffs/examples for this lesson.
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