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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