WEBVTT 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:12.071 Hi, How are you doing? 00:00:12.097 --> 00:00:15.657 Justin here again, for part 3 of your Major Scale study. 00:00:16.817 --> 00:00:19.301 All of this information can be found on my website, 00:00:19.301 --> 00:00:22.545 which is: www.justinguitar.com 00:00:22.565 --> 00:00:24.528 So you might want to go and check that out 00:00:24.548 --> 00:00:25.911 and print out the PDF file 00:00:25.911 --> 00:00:28.261 because it might make the lesson a little easier. 00:00:29.271 --> 00:00:31.211 Okay so what I am going to discuss with you now 00:00:31.211 --> 00:00:33.623 is how to break out from your major scales, 00:00:33.641 --> 00:00:35.791 instead of them sounding really scalular, 00:00:35.819 --> 00:00:38.118 to make them sound a bit more like music. 00:00:38.569 --> 00:00:41.495 You know the expression "you are what you eat", 00:00:41.495 --> 00:00:43.140 it's the same with scales. 00:00:43.150 --> 00:00:45.619 If you practice scales a lot, when it comes to improvising, 00:00:45.619 --> 00:00:47.322 you will tend to play scales a lot. 00:00:47.337 --> 00:00:49.547 It's really important that, as soon as you can, 00:00:49.547 --> 00:00:51.918 you break out of playing the scales up and down 00:00:51.918 --> 00:00:54.098 and put them into some melodic patters, 00:00:54.098 --> 00:00:56.219 like what I am going to show you now. 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:58.032 So, what I am going to show you is 00:00:58.032 --> 00:01:00.167 this little five-stage routine 00:01:00.167 --> 00:01:02.367 that I used to use a lot, still use a bit 00:01:02.367 --> 00:01:04.891 for breaking out of scales. 00:01:04.904 --> 00:01:08.257 The first step is just being able to play your scale up and down. 00:01:09.011 --> 00:01:11.802 Then you go to being able to play the scale up and down, 00:01:11.802 --> 00:01:13.535 changing direction at random. 00:01:14.498 --> 00:01:17.496 Then you go to playing random notes from within the scale, 00:01:17.496 --> 00:01:19.445 but being really, really careful 00:01:19.445 --> 00:01:22.328 that you only play notes that are in the scale. OK? 00:01:22.350 --> 00:01:25.258 Then you go into doing a thing called "playing thirds". 00:01:25.731 --> 00:01:27.212 Now, for those of you who know, 00:01:27.212 --> 00:01:29.694 chords are built up of an interval called a third. 00:01:29.694 --> 00:01:31.047 It's kind of like playing: 00:01:31.047 --> 00:01:33.173 One, two, three. 00:01:33.173 --> 00:01:35.341 So, playing one note, missing a note, 00:01:35.354 --> 00:01:36.963 and then playing another note. 00:01:38.044 --> 00:01:41.219 Then going back to the one you missed etc. 00:01:41.237 --> 00:01:43.059 This is called "playing thirds". 00:01:43.059 --> 00:01:44.769 It's a very melodic way of playing. 00:01:44.769 --> 00:01:48.990 This is a very good exercise, get into playing your scales in thirds. 00:01:48.999 --> 00:01:51.549 Lastly, we are going to do "four in a line", 00:01:51.549 --> 00:01:53.888 which is playing four notes of a scale. 00:01:55.317 --> 00:01:57.720 Then starting on the second degree of the scale. 00:01:58.255 --> 00:01:59.566 And the third. 00:01:59.579 --> 00:02:01.049 Fourth. 00:02:01.978 --> 00:02:03.281 Etc. 00:02:03.281 --> 00:02:05.454 OK, so, now we are going to go to a close-up 00:02:05.454 --> 00:02:07.796 of my left hand here, Chet. 00:02:07.796 --> 00:02:10.549 Hopefully, they will get to see exactly what I'm doing, 00:02:10.549 --> 00:02:14.699 if they are not following the tab already. But you are, aren't you? 00:02:16.592 --> 00:02:18.231 OK, here we go. 00:02:18.231 --> 00:02:19.565 We are going to now explore 00:02:19.565 --> 00:02:21.381 the five different techniques 00:02:21.381 --> 00:02:23.575 that you can use for playing your scales. 00:02:23.575 --> 00:02:26.164 So, the first one - straight up and down. 00:02:26.164 --> 00:02:30.080 We are just using position one for this whole little lesson. 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:33.148 Of course, you should take this through all five positions. 00:02:33.148 --> 00:02:34.877 Once you get to each position, 00:02:34.877 --> 00:02:37.905 remembering that you are not going to go on to the next position 00:02:37.905 --> 00:02:39.828 until you have mastered the last. 00:02:39.828 --> 00:02:42.438 So, here we are in position one, playing first of all 00:02:42.438 --> 00:02:44.117 straight up and down. 00:02:53.837 --> 00:02:57.327 Keep doing that for say, like a minute. 00:02:57.327 --> 00:02:59.048 Then you would move into part two, 00:02:59.048 --> 00:03:00.949 which is playing the scale up and down 00:03:00.949 --> 00:03:03.046 but changing direction at random. 00:03:03.046 --> 00:03:06.555 But you are not skipping notes yet, you are still just playing the scale. 00:03:24.487 --> 00:03:26.719 Etc. There is no pattern to it, 00:03:26.728 --> 00:03:29.830 you are just really changing direction when you feel like it. 00:03:29.830 --> 00:03:30.632 OK. 00:03:30.632 --> 00:03:32.785 The next step would be to play even, 00:03:32.785 --> 00:03:34.980 and try and do it really consistently evenly, 00:03:34.980 --> 00:03:37.446 just playing random notes from the scale. 00:03:37.459 --> 00:03:38.774 So you might go... 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:55.562 Etc. 00:03:55.562 --> 00:03:58.101 Don't do it too fast, make sure that you can play it - 00:03:58.101 --> 00:03:59.189 just get to the notes. 00:03:59.189 --> 00:04:02.559 Make sure you don't hit any notes that aren't part of the scale. 00:04:02.584 --> 00:04:03.510 OK. 00:04:03.510 --> 00:04:06.302 After you have got that, you would move on to doing thirds. 00:04:06.302 --> 00:04:09.176 This is really important that you check out the tab for this 00:04:09.176 --> 00:04:11.109 and make sure you do it right. 00:04:11.109 --> 00:04:13.923 Start on the first note, which is the root note. 00:04:13.923 --> 00:04:16.044 You miss one note and play the next one. 00:04:16.060 --> 00:04:18.293 Then you go back to the one you missed. 00:04:19.056 --> 00:04:20.683 Miss a note, play the next. 00:04:21.258 --> 00:04:22.791 Back to the one you missed. 00:04:23.148 --> 00:04:24.740 Miss a note, play the next. 00:04:25.249 --> 00:04:26.667 Back to the one you missed. 00:04:27.774 --> 00:04:28.887 Etc. 00:04:29.342 --> 00:04:30.583 All the way up the scale. 00:04:34.422 --> 00:04:37.500 Watch that E because you have got to do two with the same finger. 00:04:37.500 --> 00:04:38.697 It's a bit awkward. 00:04:40.743 --> 00:04:42.604 And back down, you just missed one. 00:04:42.604 --> 00:04:44.880 Get the next, go back to the one you missed. 00:04:50.559 --> 00:04:51.849 It's not that hard. 00:05:04.368 --> 00:05:06.521 OK. Once you have got your thirds sorted, 00:05:06.521 --> 00:05:09.390 then you would move on to this one called "four in a line". 00:05:10.205 --> 00:05:12.024 Start on the first note of the scale 00:05:12.826 --> 00:05:14.461 and play up four notes. 00:05:16.760 --> 00:05:20.175 Then start on the second note of the scale and play up four notes. 00:05:21.562 --> 00:05:23.572 Then on the third note of the scale. 00:05:24.893 --> 00:05:26.544 Fourth note of the scale. 00:05:27.164 --> 00:05:28.252 Fifth. 00:05:28.252 --> 00:05:29.464 Sixth. 00:05:37.364 --> 00:05:39.052 Once you get to the top we go - 00:05:40.364 --> 00:05:42.606 down four to start on the second highest note. 00:05:53.274 --> 00:05:55.784 Again, always starting and finishing on the root note 00:05:55.784 --> 00:05:57.830 for those patterns of thirds and fourths. 00:05:57.830 --> 00:06:01.430 So, I would suggest you go through all of those patterns. 00:06:02.143 --> 00:06:04.075 When you have got through all of those, 00:06:04.075 --> 00:06:06.592 you will probably find that when you go to improvise, 00:06:06.592 --> 00:06:10.969 you will play a lot less scales and a lot more nice melodic patterns. 00:06:11.878 --> 00:06:13.558 OK. See you!