Τρίτη 22 Οκτωβρίου 2013

Basic scale

What is a scale?
Scale is a sequence of notes that makes you feel a certain feeling. e.g. Major have a happier feeling and minor a sadden. All balands have been made in minor scale. Slash, Gary Moore, Metallica, Iron maiden is examples that use almost minor scale.

Lets learn the A minor (e.g gary moore uses A minor at "still got the blues"). The notes of A minor is all natural, without flat and without sharps. We start always in root and end in root:
A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A
Here is in fretboard (the first A is in fret five first string):
The first A start in fret five in fatter string.
There is not science and there is not rule what exactly to play and how.
Play licks. Starting and ending in the root note (the A) plus vibrato and hammer-on 
with this backing track:

Lets learn how you can be exercised in A minor
Put the metronome and a backing track, and play 2 or 4 notes in each beat
play the sequence
A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A and reapiting in the next octave and back again.
Here it is in all the fretboard
use Alternative picking and start and end always in root note(A)