Hi, how you doing? Justin here
Welcome to IM-158
which is "Just Use Sound To Improve Now",
the last of the foundation series.
So really by the end of this one
I want you to be able to transcribe songs on your own
if you haven't been already
Now in 5-A which is the chord progressions
we're now mixing up open chords and bar chords.
Now they do sound pretty different.
It just takes a bit of practice
to get used to really hearing which one is which.
Now the best thing you can do is play the same chord,
as an open chord, and as a bar chord,
and listen to the difference.
Because, I've just
- this is actually the second take of this -
and I can't think of the words to describe the difference.
So, here's a G open chord (plays)
and here's a G bar chord (plays)
Here's the open chord
and here's the bar chord
Now, the closest I can get
is that the open chords sound open
which is really helpful, isn't it? "Yeah, thanks Justin !
I kind of wouldn't have figured that one out !"
Their strings seem to have a bit more of a twang,
a bit more of a shimmer,
for the open chords than they do for bar chords.
And like I said, the only way really
is for you to play them.
a D chord, here's a D (plays)
here's a D bar chord (plays)
Open (plays)
Bar (plays)
There's a difference there. It's kind of subtle,
but for me it's obvious as well !
I can straight away hear : "Oh yeah, that's a bar chord !"
And the open chords have got their own kind of
flavor or character or whatever to them.
So it's something that I want you to learn :
to listen out for.
And like I said, the only way to do it
is for you to play the same chord
open, and then as a bar chord,
and see if you can start to hear the difference.
If you got a jam buddy, it's a great thing
to spend a bit of time working on.
Get your mate to play a chord
and you have to tell if it's a bar chord
or if it's an open chord.
It does just take a bit of practice.
Now in 5-B we've got now a 12 bar solo
for you to work out.
It's based on the A minor pentatonic,
but to make it a bit more, in inverted commas, 'real world'
I've added a few notes in there that don't belong to the scale.
So now you really have to listen for what the note is.
It makes it a little bit more challenging,
but I know you can do it.
It really is just about keeping your ear opened
and making sure that when you pause after the note
cause remember that's what you hopefully have been doing
and you're gonna do it this time.
After you hear the note, you hit pause,
you play the note
and you make sure you find the right one.
You can no longer rely on. Oh it's gonna be
one of those notes in the scale
because I'm deliberately putting in some extra note there for you.
Hopefully, you'll just find it challenging
and, by the end of this, I really hope that
you'll start trying to transcribe some songs,
all on your own, some solos.
You know, don't pick real hard ones.
Pick some nice, easy ones.
Easy ones where it's not too fast,
the notes are obvious and clear
and not hidden by other riffs or complicated rhythm parts, you know.
There are plenty around of this,
plenty of suggestions if you go to the transcribing part of my website.
And there will be a little transcribing course for you as well
which will be a lot more real life examples.
Now in 5-C, it's the same really as 4-C,
the same things we've got going on.
We've got the block of four 16th notes, 8th notes
8th note rest,
quarter notes and quarter note rest.
I've just mixed them up in a little bit harder fashion
for you to work out.
Hopefully again, if you've been doing your proper work,
your proper homework on the previous exercises,
you shouldn't find it too difficult but a little bit challenging.
So, get in there download that work sheet,
download the mp3 files and get yourself transcribing.
See you for another lesson sometime very soon.
In fact it's just your practice routine
and consolidation to go.