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Hi, How are you doing?

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Justin here again,[br]for part 3 of your Major Scale study.

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All of this information[br]can be found on my website,

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which is: www.justinguitar.com

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So you might want to go[br]and check that out

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and print out the PDF file

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because it might[br]make the lesson a little easier.

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Okay so what I am going to discuss with you now

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is how to break out[br]from your major scales,

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instead of them sounding really scalular,

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to make them sound[br]a bit more like music.

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You know the expression[br]"you are what you eat",

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it's the same with scales.

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If you practice scales a lot,[br]when it comes to improvising,

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you will tend to play scales a lot.

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It's really important that,[br]as soon as you can,

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you break out [br]of playing the scales up and down

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and put them into[br]some melodic patters,

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like what I am going to show you now.

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So, what I am going to show you is

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this little five-stage routine

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that I used to use a lot,[br]still use a bit

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for breaking out of scales.

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The first step is just being able[br]to play your scale up and down.

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Then you go to being able[br]to play the scale up and down,

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changing direction at random.

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Then you go to playing random notes[br]from within the scale,

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but being really, really careful

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that you only play notes[br]that are in the scale. OK?

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Then you go into doing a thing[br]called "playing thirds".

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Now, for those of you who know,

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chords are built up of an interval[br]called a third.

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It's kind of like playing:

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One, two, three.

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So, playing one note,[br]missing a note,

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and then playing another note.

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Then going back to the one you missed etc.

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This is called "playing thirds".

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It's a very melodic way of playing.

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This is a very good exercise,[br]get into playing your scales in thirds.

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Lastly, we are going to do[br]"four in a line",

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which is playing four notes of a scale.

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Then starting on[br]the second degree of the scale.

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And the third.

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Fourth.

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Etc.

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OK, so, now we are[br]going to go to a close-up

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of my left hand here, Chet.

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Hopefully, they will get to see[br]exactly what I'm doing,

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if they are not following the tab already.[br]But you are, aren't you?

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OK, here we go.

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We are going to now explore

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the five different techniques

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that you can use for playing your scales.

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So, the first one - [br]straight up and down.

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We are just using position one[br]for this whole little lesson.

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Of course, you should take this[br]through all five positions.

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Once you get to each position,

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remembering that you are not[br]going to go on to the next position

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until you have mastered the last.

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So, here we are in position one,[br]playing first of all

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straight up and down.

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Keep doing that for say, like a minute.

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Then you would move into part two,

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which is playing the scale up and down

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but changing direction at random.

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But you are not skipping notes yet,[br]you are still just playing the scale.

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Etc. There is no pattern to it,

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you are just really changing direction[br]when you feel like it.

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OK.

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The next step would be to play even,

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and try and do it[br]really consistently evenly,

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just playing random notes from the scale.

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So you might go...

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Etc.

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Don't do it too fast,[br]make sure that you can play it -

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just get to the notes.

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Make sure you don't hit any notes[br]that aren't part of the scale.

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OK.

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After you have got that,[br]you would move on to doing thirds.

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This is really important[br]that you check out the tab for this

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and make sure you do it right.

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Start on the first note,[br]which is the root note.

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You miss one note and play the next one.

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Then you go back to the one you missed.

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Miss a note, play the next.

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Back to the one you missed.

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Miss a note, play the next.

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Back to the one you missed.

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Etc.

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All the way up the scale.

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Watch that E because you have got to do[br]two with the same finger.

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It's a bit awkward.

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And back down, you just missed one.

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Get the next,[br]go back to the one you missed.

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It's not that hard.

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OK. Once you have got your thirds sorted,

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then you would move on to this one[br]called "four in a line".

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Start on the first note of the scale

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and play up four notes.

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Then start on the second note of the scale[br]and play up four notes.

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Then on the third note of the scale.

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Fourth note of the scale.

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Fifth.

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Sixth.

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Once you get to the top we go -

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down four to start[br]on the second highest note.

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Again, always starting and finishing[br]on the root note

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for those patterns of thirds and fourths.

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So, I would suggest you go through[br]all of those patterns.

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When you have got through all of those,

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you will probably find[br]that when you go to improvise,

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you will play a lot less scales[br]and a lot more nice melodic patterns.

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OK. See you!