S7 W1 Hexatonic C Form
Lesson: https://youtu.be/eK_osVk4hUk PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17GzZ2Uht4Q1SWKrNO6NpSvDhpH3jjbrb/view?usp=share_link To adjust the speed of the video on a computer Settings-Playback Speed-Custom. Focus on accuracy. Play as legato and cleanly as you can. Try to keep as relaxed in your hands and shoulders as possible. Breathe normally. Look for root notes. Think ahead. ------------ The Guitar Daily Workout is a comprehensive system of technique studies designed to help intermediate guitarists master the essential scales, arpeggios, and exercises of the instrument. The Guitar Daily Workout will increase physical skills and will help a guitar student master the understanding of the guitar neck by having a daily exercise regimen that systematically teaches the most important exercises to learn the neck and develop agility, independence, strength, and accuracy. Each system is to be practiced for about 1/2 hour per day 5 days a week for 12 weeks. ------------- Welcome to System 7 of the Guitar Daily Workout! Congratulations on getting through the first 6 systems! You should now have a great deal of confidence, knowing your major scales, pentatonics, and arpeggios. As with all these systems, System 7 will push you into some brand-new territory, tackling new arpeggios, scales, and pentatonics. Your harmonic language will begin to expand, and hopefully, your musical vocabulary will as well. As always, it is important to remember that these are merely exercises designed to develop your ears, give you dexterity and muscle memory, and increase your physical capabilities. Also, though this is a systematic approach that covers most of the vital skills needed for guitar, there are many more excellent exercises to be practiced that are not contained in these volumes. The hard work will pay off if you can keep at it. These systems are not an end in and of themselves. As musicians, we need scale practice and exercises to develop hands, ears, and mind. However, these alone do NOT make a complete player. You need to learn how to apply these ideas in actual musical settings. Learning how to play these concepts in real-world situations is what makes a pro musician. So practicing over changes (common progressions), using backing tracks or loops, and jamming with friends to learn to apply these concepts are all vital. Ultimately, putting these concepts on stage, in the studio, or on videos is the goal. Work hard, know that it won’t come easy, and know that the more you learn, the more you’ll realize the little that you really know! Finger Gymnastics--The Creeping Crab For System 7, we will do a variation on the Crab exercise learned in System 5. However, it will be done with a twist. We will break it up by picking the individual notes rather than playing them together. For the first 4 weeks, you will do all alternate picking. In weeks 5-8, you’ll do alternate picking while ascending and reverse picking as you descend. Weeks 9-12 will be hybrid picking. This will train your right hand to be able to approach picking patterns with different techniques. 7th Arpeggios In System 7, we will begin a journey into 7th chords. These chords are essential for jazz playing and are useful for other styles as well. You will visit each chord form of the harmonized major scale--Major 7, minor 7, Dominant 7, and minor 7b5. Then you will put all of them together, moving up the neck through each of the CAGED forms of the 7th chords. Dominant Pentatonic The dominant pentatonic scale is a great scale for playing over dominant 7th chords. Just like the dominant 7th chord, it has a natural third; the minor 7th chord and minor pentatonic scale have a minor third. The C minor pentatonic would consist of the intervals R,m3,P4,P5,m7 (C,Eb,F,G,Bb). The dominant pentatonic would be R,M3,P4,P5,m7 (C,E,F,G,Bb). By simply raising the third, you define a different chord quality. Used by countless blues and jazz players, this simple scale can make your playing sound more sophisticated, and it gives interest to your solos by moving away from the normal minor pentatonic scale. Major Hexatonic Scale A hexatonic scale is simply a six-note scale, just as a pentatonic scale is a five-note scale. In a technical sense, any six-note scale is considered hexatonic. For these exercises, we will be practicing the major hexatonic scale, which can be seen as the major scale without the 7th. It is an extremely useful scale for improvising over major changes. The notes of a C major hexatonic scale would be C,D,E,F,G,A (R,M2,M3,P4,P5,M6). Minor Hexatonic Scale Like the major hexatonic, the minor hexatonic scale is an extremely useful six-note scale, particularly over minor progressions, of course! It consists of the tones R,M2,m3,P4,P5,m7 (for C, it would be C,D,Eb,F,G,Bb). This is a scale you’ve heard used commonly in soloing. Keep up the hard work! It will pay off!
Lesson: https://youtu.be/eK_osVk4hUk PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17GzZ2Uht4Q1SWKrNO6NpSvDhpH3jjbrb/view?usp=share_link To adjust the speed of the video on a computer Settings-Playback Speed-Custom. Focus on accuracy. Play as legato and cleanly as you can. Try to keep as relaxed in your hands and shoulders as possible. Breathe normally. Look for root notes. Think ahead. ------------ The Guitar Daily Workout is a comprehensive system of technique studies designed to help intermediate guitarists master the essential scales, arpeggios, and exercises of the instrument. The Guitar Daily Workout will increase physical skills and will help a guitar student master the understanding of the guitar neck by having a daily exercise regimen that systematically teaches the most important exercises to learn the neck and develop agility, independence, strength, and accuracy. Each system is to be practiced for about 1/2 hour per day 5 days a week for 12 weeks. ------------- Welcome to System 7 of the Guitar Daily Workout! Congratulations on getting through the first 6 systems! You should now have a great deal of confidence, knowing your major scales, pentatonics, and arpeggios. As with all these systems, System 7 will push you into some brand-new territory, tackling new arpeggios, scales, and pentatonics. Your harmonic language will begin to expand, and hopefully, your musical vocabulary will as well. As always, it is important to remember that these are merely exercises designed to develop your ears, give you dexterity and muscle memory, and increase your physical capabilities. Also, though this is a systematic approach that covers most of the vital skills needed for guitar, there are many more excellent exercises to be practiced that are not contained in these volumes. The hard work will pay off if you can keep at it. These systems are not an end in and of themselves. As musicians, we need scale practice and exercises to develop hands, ears, and mind. However, these alone do NOT make a complete player. You need to learn how to apply these ideas in actual musical settings. Learning how to play these concepts in real-world situations is what makes a pro musician. So practicing over changes (common progressions), using backing tracks or loops, and jamming with friends to learn to apply these concepts are all vital. Ultimately, putting these concepts on stage, in the studio, or on videos is the goal. Work hard, know that it won’t come easy, and know that the more you learn, the more you’ll realize the little that you really know! Finger Gymnastics--The Creeping Crab For System 7, we will do a variation on the Crab exercise learned in System 5. However, it will be done with a twist. We will break it up by picking the individual notes rather than playing them together. For the first 4 weeks, you will do all alternate picking. In weeks 5-8, you’ll do alternate picking while ascending and reverse picking as you descend. Weeks 9-12 will be hybrid picking. This will train your right hand to be able to approach picking patterns with different techniques. 7th Arpeggios In System 7, we will begin a journey into 7th chords. These chords are essential for jazz playing and are useful for other styles as well. You will visit each chord form of the harmonized major scale--Major 7, minor 7, Dominant 7, and minor 7b5. Then you will put all of them together, moving up the neck through each of the CAGED forms of the 7th chords. Dominant Pentatonic The dominant pentatonic scale is a great scale for playing over dominant 7th chords. Just like the dominant 7th chord, it has a natural third; the minor 7th chord and minor pentatonic scale have a minor third. The C minor pentatonic would consist of the intervals R,m3,P4,P5,m7 (C,Eb,F,G,Bb). The dominant pentatonic would be R,M3,P4,P5,m7 (C,E,F,G,Bb). By simply raising the third, you define a different chord quality. Used by countless blues and jazz players, this simple scale can make your playing sound more sophisticated, and it gives interest to your solos by moving away from the normal minor pentatonic scale. Major Hexatonic Scale A hexatonic scale is simply a six-note scale, just as a pentatonic scale is a five-note scale. In a technical sense, any six-note scale is considered hexatonic. For these exercises, we will be practicing the major hexatonic scale, which can be seen as the major scale without the 7th. It is an extremely useful scale for improvising over major changes. The notes of a C major hexatonic scale would be C,D,E,F,G,A (R,M2,M3,P4,P5,M6). Minor Hexatonic Scale Like the major hexatonic, the minor hexatonic scale is an extremely useful six-note scale, particularly over minor progressions, of course! It consists of the tones R,M2,m3,P4,P5,m7 (for C, it would be C,D,Eb,F,G,Bb). This is a scale you’ve heard used commonly in soloing. Keep up the hard work! It will pay off!