Blues Lead Guitar: Linking Positions #17of20 (Guitar Lesson BL-027) How to play
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0:05 - 0:13This lesson today is about how to change between your different positions of the Pentatonic Scale.
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0:13 - 0:17So, it still works for the Blues Scale, and I might introduce a Blue Note, or two.
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0:17 - 0:21But mainly I want to talk about just
the bare Minor Pentatonic Scales. -
0:21 - 0:24Because if you can change between them, then adding in that Blue Note,
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0:24 - 0:29or adding in the other Dorian notes, which we're gonna come to in the following lessons,
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0:29 - 0:31makes a lot more sense.
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0:31 - 0:34So let's get our heads around the Pentatonic first.
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0:34 - 0:36So there's a number of different
approaches that you can use. -
0:36 - 0:40And the first one I want to talk
about is sliding between notes. -
0:40 - 0:45Now of course, before you get into this you need to know all five positions pretty well.
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0:45 - 0:48Or, if you're
just moving between two positions, -
0:48 - 0:51like say, position 1 and position 2, you need to know those positions really well.
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0:51 - 0:55So, let's have a little talk about sliding.
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0:55 - 0:57Now, of course sliding can
be done with any finger, -
0:57 - 1:01on any string, from any
1 note of a position, -
1:01 - 1:04to any other
note of any other position. -
1:04 - 1:06So it's a pretty versatile technique.
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1:06 - 1:10Now, just using my first finger, you can get,
there's quite a few really, -
1:10 - 1:12really cool little tricks you can do.
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1:12 - 1:14So, for example, if you were in position 1,
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1:14 - 1:18starting in Position 1, and you want to get somewhere further up the neck,
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1:18 - 1:22it's OK to slide the whole length of
the neck if you want. -
1:22 - 1:26So, if I play in Position 1, and the
slide I'm going to do -
1:26 - 1:29is from 1st finger, in the 5th
fret of the 3rd string, -
1:29 - 1:34gonna slide all the way up to the 12th
fret of the 3rd string, -
1:34 - 1:37so then I would be up in Position 4. So
I might go like ah, -
1:37 - 1:42♪
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1:42 - 1:47So I slid, or I went, and then 1st finger,
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1:47 - 1:50♪
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1:50 - 1:53straight up into another lick in Position 4.
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1:53 - 1:58So you can see that it's, as long as you know where you're going,
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1:58 - 2:02it's actually no trouble to get there.
But there's a little trick -
2:02 - 2:07that I want to share with you. Which is always look to the fret that you're going to.
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2:07 - 2:10Don't try and watch your finger as it slides up, or you'll invariably miss the note,
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2:10 - 2:13that you're trying to hit. So the idea would be,
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2:13 - 2:17while I'm down here I'm looking at that note, if
I'm looking at the guitar. -
2:17 - 2:21And then when I know I'm gonna slide up to the 12th fret, I'm looking at the 12th fret,
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2:23 - 2:25and I can watch my finger get to
it, and then stop it. -
2:25 - 2:31Rather than trying to watch, watch it go up. Because it's really hard to judge then,
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2:31 - 2:33when you're finger gets to the right fret.
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2:33 - 2:36So that's the first thing. Always look at the fret that you're going to.
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2:36 - 2:40Don't watch your finger as it slides. Now, that was one example,
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2:40 - 2:44to take us from Position 1 all
the way to Position 4. -
2:44 - 2:49But it can go any which way, and it's, quite a fun thing is sliding up and back down again,
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2:49 - 2:53and then up and back down again,
to different notes each time. -
2:53 - 2:57So I might go, using a similar kind of approach, I might go from the 5th fret,
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2:59 - 3:02slide up to the 9th fret, then
back to the 7th fret, -
3:03 - 3:06then up to the
12th, back to the 9th, -
3:08 - 3:15up to the 14th, 12th, 17th.
You end up with this. -
3:15 - 3:16Quite a nice little -
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3:16 - 3:20♪
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3:20 - 3:23And I've only actually had to pick that note once. But you could pick it lots of times.
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3:23 - 3:29♪
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3:29 - 3:31Doesn't really matter. You can pick 'em
as often as you like. -
3:31 - 3:35Or you can just slide around without
having to pick each time. -
3:35 - 3:39So this is a really, really useful little trick, and of course it works on any string.
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3:39 - 3:43You could be on the 1st string
and go 3 to 8, -
3:43 - 3:52to 5 to 10, to 8 to 12, and have - that'd be a
pretty cool lick as well. -
3:52 - 3:55There's infinite number of combinations
far too many to go through, -
3:55 - 3:58unless I was gonna do a whole DVD about all of these different slides,
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3:58 - 4:02and that of course was just, so far, using just your first finger,
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4:02 - 4:06but of course you could slide with another finger, like say your 3rd finger would be a good one.
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4:06 - 4:08If you're in Position 1,
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4:08 - 4:14and you finish there with your 3rd
finger on the 8th fret, -
4:14 - 4:19like you were gonna do a bend, you could just then slide that up 2 frets,
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4:22 - 4:28and now you're in Position 2. Then you might use that same finger to slide up to 13th,
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4:28 - 4:31♪
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4:31 - 4:34and I used my 2nd finger
on the 12th fret there, -
4:34 - 4:39and then why not move/slide it up
another 2 frets to 15, -
4:41 - 4:45and that way I just crossed, let my finger lay
over onto the 1st string, -
4:47 - 4:48the 7th fret.
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4:48 - 4:55♪
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4:55 - 4:59It's infinite, combinations of these things that you can try.
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4:59 - 5:03So, using slides is the first really, really
good way to do it. -
5:03 - 5:05It's something that you
should definitely be experimenting with. -
5:05 - 5:09Now as well as slides you
can also do direct shifts. -
5:09 - 5:13Now what I mean by that is, you might remember back from one of our earlier lessons,
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5:13 - 5:16we did in the position shifting, one of the licks
I gave you was this, -
5:16 - 5:22♪
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5:22 - 5:24now, you can do that any direction,
you could start in 1, -
5:24 - 5:27♪
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5:27 - 5:28and move back to 5, and then up to 2,
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5:28 - 5:32♪
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5:32 - 5:34now if you want to move that one up again,
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5:34 - 5:38you have to go 13, ah sorry, 12, 10,
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5:38 - 5:4313, 10, because of the shape of the notes.
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5:43 - 5:47The next one would have
to be 15, 12, 15,13 -
5:47 - 5:49♪
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5:49 - 5:51and then we're back at the
octave of the first one. -
5:51 - 5:54♪
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5:54 - 6:01Now, for that kind of thing, the thing that you want to use is a complete neck fingerboard diagram,
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6:01 - 6:04which has got all of the notes
of the scale on it. -
6:04 - 6:06So you can start to extract say,
one of my favourite ones, -
6:06 - 6:10is to look at two strings, say,
usually the thinnest two strings, -
6:10 - 6:14if you look at all of the notes in Am Pentatonic,
on strings 1 and 2, -
6:14 - 6:17and look at different ways you
can try and combine them. -
6:17 - 6:20There are, again,
there's lots of different choices. -
6:20 - 6:23It's up to you to try and figure out what way you might want to do it.
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6:23 - 6:29The little trick of looking for notes that are on the same fret but on different strings is a good one,
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6:29 - 6:35because in Am Pentatonic
you can have 3rd fret, -
6:35 - 6:435th fret, 8th fret, 10th fret,
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6:43 - 6:47the next one you can't because
it'd be 13 and 12. -
6:47 - 6:51But then
we're back to it again. -
6:51 - 6:55And there's all sorts of little...
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6:55 - 6:58Straight away I've writ a real cool
lick and it's really simple. -
6:58 - 7:04♪
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7:04 - 7:07And we've travelled all
the way from Position 5, -
7:07 - 7:09Up into position
1, up into position 2. -
7:09 - 7:14So that's also a really, really, really ace trick that you can kinda play about with.
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7:14 - 7:18Now another... all these tricks,-
What am I a magician? -
7:18 - 7:26Another trick that you can use, is to do the, again it was a concept I talked about in an earlier video,
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7:26 - 7:31which is looking at the same note on different strings. The lick I gave you before was this,
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7:31 - 7:38going from A, 5th fret thinnest string, to
A 10th fret 2nd string. -
7:38 - 7:42Well, why not
go from there to say, -
7:42 - 7:46D, ah, C on
the 8th fret thinnest string, -
7:46 - 7:51to C, 13th
fret on the 2nd string. -
7:51 - 7:52So there we've got,
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7:55 - 7:57then D maybe,
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7:57 - 7:59E,
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7:59 - 8:05♪
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8:05 - 8:07and now you can
see we've shifted quite far, -
8:07 - 8:10we've gone from down here, to right
up the dusty end again. -
8:10 - 8:15So it's a really, this kind of trick of using the
same note in different places, -
8:15 - 8:18is also a really, really
good way to get about. -
8:18 - 8:22But it doesn't just have to be on the 1st
string to the 2nd string, -
8:22 - 8:24it could be on the
2nd string and 3rd string, you could, -
8:24 - 8:30♪
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8:30 - 8:33Doesn't really matter. Just
experiment yourself a little bit, -
8:33 - 8:36Find the same note, see if you can find a way to slide to it, generally,
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8:36 - 8:40if you were gonna do that lick, the 1st note would be played with your 1st finger,
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8:41 - 8:45and the next note would be
slid with your 3rd finger. -
8:45 - 8:52♪
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8:52 - 8:53There's a whole
heap of different ideas here. -
8:53 - 8:59But that's kind of the most basic of those concepts that you might like to try out.
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8:59 - 9:02So, that's
plenty of talking from me, -
9:02 - 9:05now it's time for
plenty of playing from you. -
9:05 - 9:09Because, you can only play yourself into
a new way of thinking. -
9:09 - 9:11You can't think yourself to
a new way of playing. -
9:11 - 9:15A great quote from an old friend
of mine called John Thezorakis. -
9:15 - 9:17John, if you're out there hello.
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9:17 - 9:23So, it's really important that you realize that you can only play your way into these new ideas.
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9:23 - 9:24Don't just think about it.
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9:24 - 9:27A lot of people spend too much
time thinking about playing guitar, -
9:27 - 9:29and not enough playing guitar.
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9:29 - 9:32So have a good
play with those different ideas. -
9:32 - 9:33When you feel cool with that,
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9:33 - 9:39we're ready to explore out this interesting
thing called the Dorian mode. -
9:39 - 9:41A nice big Greek name for you.
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9:41 - 9:44So, I'll see
you for that sometime soon.
- Title:
- Blues Lead Guitar: Linking Positions #17of20 (Guitar Lesson BL-027) How to play
- Description:
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Justin's Completely Free, Blues Lead Guitar Lesson BL-027. Lesson 17.
In this guitar lesson you will learn about linking scale positions together.
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