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(playing "Triangles" guitar lick)

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Hi how you doin'

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Justin here

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this lesson we're doing today

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is called triangles

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it's a pretty weird little lick, this one

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it's a bit, kind of atonal

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which means, it doesn't really have a key

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only it does

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I'm going to show it to you 
in the key of A

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but the idea of it is atonal

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and the reason it's called triangles

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a funny kind of long story,

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for a friend of mine who had taken
far too much acid

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and really cooked his brain

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he really couldn't function properly

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and it's pretty kind of sad really

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it's not like, you know,

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look at my cool friend whose taken
too much acid,

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you know he spends a lot of time in
hospital

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but we still get to jam now and then

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and he did this lick once,

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that really just blew me out
we were just kinda jamming

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I can't remember what exactly, think it 
was funk,

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and he played this lick (plays guitar)

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and I was like, "Man! what was that lick?
that was really cool!"

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and he said, "man, I'm just playing
the triangles"

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and I went, "what do you mean?"

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and he showed me!

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and it was, he made up

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little triangle shapes on the guitar neck

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and he was playing them

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now, it shouldn't really work

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cause it's not musical is it,
playing triangles on your guitar neck

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but, sometimes 
weird stuff like that does work

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a lot of Van Halen stuff funny enough,

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he's not doing the triangles thing right,

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but a lot of times, what he plays
are patterns

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so it's not like, strictly sticking
to the scale

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he's just playing a particular,
you know, lick or whatever

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a group of frets that he likes the look of

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that he can play quick
and the playing it real fast

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and it sounds cool! None of us go,

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"Woah that 4th note there, that wasn't
in the scale"

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that doesn't happen, does it?

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so, part of the reason I'm showing you

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this lick is to get you used to that idea

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that you don't always have to be using

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the proper notes and the proper scale

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it's just sometimes stuff sounds cool

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and thats okay

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you know it's cool if things sound good

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and they don't stick to the rules
sometimes, you know?

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so, okay plenty enough talking from me

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let's get to a close-up
and have a look at some triangles

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(playing "Triangles" guitar lick)

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okay, here it is a bit slower

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(guitar playing)

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Now, the triangle (plays guitar) is here

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it's made up if we kind of play 
dot to dot on the guitar

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we have the 5th fret,
on the thinnest string (e string)

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the 7th fret on the thinnest string 
(e string)

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and the 6th fret on the 2nd string
(B string)

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(playing the guitar note by note)

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if we kind of joined up those dots

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if you like, we'd have a little triangle
(plays lick)

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and that's exactly what you play
in this lick, so (plays note)

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5th fret, (plays note) 
7th fret, (plays note)

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6th fret on the next string over

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(plays note)
and then back to the note, you started on

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(plays lick on the guitar)

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that's it, that's the 16th notes
one beat group

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(plays lick on guitar)

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(while still playing lick)
down, up, down, up, picking

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then you move exactly the same thing

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towards the sky, one string

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so we're starting now

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with the 1st finger on the 5th fret
of the 2nd string

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(plays lick on the guitar)

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then we move the whole shape
up one fret

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so now we're starting with
the 1st finger in the 6th fret

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of the 2nd string 
(plays lick on the guitar)

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then we move it toward the sky one string

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so now, 1st finger is in the 6th fret
of the 3rd string

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(plays guitar lick)

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and we move it up one fret

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(plays guitar lick)

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towards the sky one
(plays guitar lick)

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and that's, were just finishing on there

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we're starting and finishing on the A
cause it kind of gives it some

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sense of tonality, you know?

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so it sounds like it's, you know,

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based around the A

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(plays "Triangles" guitar lick)

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one more time

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(plays "Triangles" guitar lick)

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okay, now I'm gonna take it right out

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(demonstrates "Triangles" guitar lick 
with backing music)

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well, I'm pretty sure

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you are gonna have a lot of fun
exploring this little triangle idea

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maybe you could try to make up circles
or squares

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and see where that gets you

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it's kind of a big deal this, really

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what I'm kind of touching on here

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which is the idea of atonality

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of not being restricted to 
a particular scale

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or a particular sound or an arpeggio

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or anything like that,

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it's just what sounds good

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and that's really important because

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that's really what music
boils down to

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it's not about scales and 
arpeggios and stuff

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it's about what sounds good
because we listen to music

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we don't look at it, we don't

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well, we can analyze it

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but we don't have to.

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it's just really about what sounds good

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so try, you know, and explore that
a little bit

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see if you can try, sometimes

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notes that you think are the wrong notes

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cause sometimes they might be a good note

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big deal, big concept

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something I'm gonna talk about

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more in complete lessons

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not really in a little lick lesson
am I gonna try to explore that one

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that would be a huge can of worms

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to tip out all over this video

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so, I'm not gonna go there anymore

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then I have already

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hope you enjoyed that, have fun with it

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and I'll see you for another lick
or lesson very soon

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take care of yourselves

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bye bye