Nihilist1 Guitar Mentoring Options

[Alex Feather]

Hello! I am very happy you have decided to join my mentoring program!
You are right if you can play jazz you can play anything! And I will tell you all the secrets and tricks!
I have a few questions before we will start!
-What are your goals?
-What is your weakness?
-What is your strongest point?
-Your favorite guitar players?

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[Nihilist1]

I will have to play over the progression quite a bit for it to start making sense. My biggest problem is that I cannot really think of ways to connect the scales. Do you have some licks or tips for me to create my own licks?


Below, I am going to try and use your technique to analyze the chord progression that you gave me as homework:

Over Ami7 chord:
A Minor Pentatonic, D Minor Pentatonic,

Over D7 Chord:
D Major Pentatonic, C Major Pentatonic,

Over GMaj7 Chord:
G Major Pentatonic,

I am about to fall asleep, haha. I will update this Late tonight or early tomorrow since I am a night owl.

If any of these are incorrect so far, please let me know.

Thanks, Alex!

-Nihil

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This post has been edited by Nihilist1: Mar 26 2012, 01:17 PM

[Alex Feather]

I will have to play over the progression quite a bit for it to start making sense. My biggest problem is that I cannot really think of ways to connect the scales. Do you have some licks or tips for me to create my own licks?


Below, I am going to try and use your technique to analyze the chord progression that you gave me as homework:

Over Ami7 chord:
A Minor Pentatonic, D Minor Pentatonic,

Over D7 Chord:
D Major Pentatonic, C Major Pentatonic,

Over GMaj7 Chord:
G Major Pentatonic,

I am about to fall asleep, haha. I will update this Late tonight or early tomorrow since I am a night owl.

If any of these are incorrect so far, please let me know.

Thanks, Alex!

-Nihil

I know it's not easy but I know you can do it!!!
Good job on analyzing chords and making pentatonic choices!
A few suggestions!
b]Over Ami7 chord:[/b]
I would not suggest D minor pentatonic because after you will have a D7 chord so you need to have F# in it
My choice will be A minor, B minor pentatonics

Over D7 Chord:
You have made a good choice I would probably do the same!

Over GMaj7 Chord:
I would use combination in between D major and G major

How to create your own licks!

It is pretty easy and you can be as creative as you want!

We have Emi7 - A7 - D maj7 chord progression for the backing track
Say I chose:

B minor and E minor pentatonic over E mi7
B minor and A minor pentatonic over A7
E minor A major pentatonic over D maj7
Now all you have to do is combine those three and create some licks!
Here is an example combing B minor and E minor pentatonics:

E |-----------------------------------------7----------|
B |-----------------------------------10-------8-------|
G |-----------------7-----------------------------9----|
D |-----------------------9-----7----------------------|
A |-----------7--8-------------------------------------|
E |--7-----10------------------------------------------|


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--10----------8-----------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------7-----------9-----------------------7-----------------
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------9-------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------10----------7-----------------------------------7L
------------------------------------------------------10----------7-------------


---------------------------------------------------------|----||
---------------------------------------------------------|----||
---------------------------------------------------------|----||
---------------------------------------------------------|----||
----------------------7L----------------------7----------|----||
---------------------------------------------------------|----||

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[Nihilist1]

I know it's not easy but I know you can do it!!!
Good job on analyzing chords and making pentatonic choices!
A few suggestions!
b]Over Ami7 chord:[/b]
I would not suggest D minor pentatonic because after you will have a D7 chord so you need to have F# in it
My choice will be A minor, B minor pentatonics

Over D7 Chord:
You have made a good choice I would probably do the same!

Over GMaj7 Chord:
I would use combination in between D major and G major

How to create your own licks!

It is pretty easy and you can be as creative as you want!

We have Emi7 - A7 - D maj7 chord progression for the backing track
Say I chose:

B minor and E minor pentatonic over E mi7
B minor and A minor pentatonic over A7
E minor A major pentatonic over D maj7
Now all you have to do is combine those three and create some licks!
Here is an example combing B minor and E minor pentatonics:

E |-----------------------------------------7----------|
B |-----------------------------------10-------8-------|
G |-----------------7-----------------------------9----|
D |-----------------------9-----7----------------------|
A |-----------7--8-------------------------------------|
E |--7-----10------------------------------------------|


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--10----------8-----------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------7-----------9-----------------------7-----------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------9-------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------10----------7-----------------------------------7L
------------------------------------------------------10----------7-------------


---------------------------------------------------------|----||
---------------------------------------------------------|----||
---------------------------------------------------------|----||
---------------------------------------------------------|----||
----------------------7L----------------------7----------|----||
---------------------------------------------------------|----||

Guitar Pro file:
 Licks.gp5 ( 1.7K ) Number of downloads: 147

Let me know if you have any questions!

For the Ami7 chord, I noticed that you chose the B minor Pentatonic. May I ask why? I might have formulated my scales incorrectly, but I did not notice a III or VII chord tone in that particular minor Pentatonic.

Thanks!

-Nihil

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[Alex Feather]

For the Ami7 chord, I noticed that you chose the B minor Pentatonic. May I ask why? I might have formulated my scales incorrectly, but I did not notice a III or VII chord tone in that particular minor Pentatonic.

Thanks!

-Nihil

There is no Ami7 chord it's A7
A minor pentatonic ove A7 chord will give me sound of chord tones plus I will have minor third or #9 (C natural)
B minor pentatonic will give me root and V which are the chord tones as well they are not the main one but still chord tones plus I will have 9 what I was thinking is about my next chord
I have Dmaj7
D-F#-A-C#
So if I am gonna keep playing Bmi pentatonic over both A7 and Dmaj7
I will get I-III-V of Dmaj 7


That's why I chose it
I hope that make sence if not let me know and I will explain it in more details!

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[Nihilist1]

There is no Ami7 chord it's A7
A minor pentatonic ove A7 chord will give me sound of chord tones plus I will have minor third or #9 (C natural)
B minor pentatonic will give me root and V which are the chord tones as well they are not the main one but still chord tones plus I will have 9 what I was thinking is about my next chord
I have Dmaj7
D-F#-A-C#
So if I am gonna keep playing Bmi pentatonic over both A7 and Dmaj7
I will get I-III-V of Dmaj 7


That's why I chose it
I hope that make sence if not let me know and I will explain it in more details!

It does, but there was an Ami7 in the chords you wanted me to analyse. I noticed that you chose a B minor Pentatonic and I thought that was strange.

Another thing I want you to do is analyze this chord progression using my technique

A mi7 - D7 - Gmaj7
Find the pentatonics that will create chord tones sound!
I know it might sound confusing but this technique will change the way you are thinking as soon as you will get it!
Let me know if you have any questions!

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[Alex Feather]

It does, but there was an Ami7 in the chords you wanted me to analyse. I noticed that you chose a B minor Pentatonic and I thought that was strange.

Well in this case when you are analyzing this chord progression
Ami7
A-C-E-G
D7
D-F#-A-C
Gmaj7
G-B-D-F#

Now let's look at B minor pentatonic:


In A minor 7 we have
A and E
In D7 we have
D-F#-A
In G major 7 we have
B-D-F#

That's why I made this choice because if you will stay in Bmi through the whole progression you will get almost all the chord tones
When I am looking at a chord progression I am analyzing all the chords and trying to see what will come next that's why B minor pentatonic was one of my choices!
I hope that helps

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[Nihilist1]

Well in this case when you are analyzing this chord progression
Ami7
A-C-E-G
D7
D-F#-A-C
Gmaj7
G-B-D-F#

Now let's look at B minor pentatonic:


In A minor 7 we have
A and E
In D7 we have
D-F#-A
In G major 7 we have
B-D-F#

That's why I made this choice because if you will stay in Bmi through the whole progression you will get almost all the chord tones
When I am looking at a chord progression I am analyzing all the chords and trying to see what will come next that's why B minor pentatonic was one of my choices!
I hope that helps

That is definitely the answer I was looking for! I will work on improvising both progressions this week, and then I will get back to this thread.

Thanks, Alex!

-Nihil

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[Alex Feather]

That is definitely the answer I was looking for! I will work on improvising both progressions this week, and then I will get back to this thread.

Thanks, Alex!

-Nihil

Perfect! I am glad I could help!
I know sometimes it might be a little confusing at first but very soon you will understand this conception and it will change the way you think when improvising!!!
Let me know if I can help with anything else!
Looking forward to hear your recording!!!

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