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[Ivan Milenkovic]

To all GMCers! Let's practice together on video chats!


I'm starting this topic for my future video chat program. Video chats are being held every Sunday 16.00 GMT time (11.00 EST, 12.00 EDT)

During these chats we will have topics that will be reserved for the first hour (or 30 mins) of the chat. In the second hour will be dedicated to practice with backing tracks! I will make up a small course designed to help you achieve more precise playing, get yourself familiar with:

1. Pentatonic scale
2. Blues scale/blues improvising
3. Diatonic scale
4. Chords,
5. Arpeggios
6. Improvising in general

For November, we have one important thing to work on, and that is Pentatonic scale. Our first stop towards better playing. I will provide you with backing track day before the chat, and all the necessary material. Stay tuned!

Here's the plan for this part of the course:

- Session 1: Pentatonic scale, boxes 4 & 5, connecting them with slides (Sunday 26th of November)
- Session 2: Pentatonic scale, boxes 1 & 2, connecting them with slides (Sunday 3rd of December)
- Session 3: Pentatonic scale, box 3, and connecting all positions with slides (Sunday 10th of December)

After pentatonic scale, we will move to blues improvising course, that can be found on the separate topic.

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This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Dec 10 2011, 09:26 AM

[Ivan Milenkovic]

Today we have a first practicing video chat, and the goal is to get ourselves familiar with pentatonic scale notes. This is the most important thing, the thing that people are usually neglecting when practicing this pattern. Usually we learn the pattern, but names of the notes somehow go unnoticed.

Let's fix this with some fun exercises that go up & down the pentatonic scale, and see how we can do various exercises on top of this scale, and still stay in context of a harmonic background. We will play along side with the backings, and start from low tempos, so be sure to hop in!

The overall pattern that we will work on is this one, most of you know it as A minor pentatonic scale, although by the end of the chat, I think most of you will have another opinion about it



We will go step by step, using the CAGED format, splitting this scale into five positions on the neck for easier learning:



Here are all 5 backing tracks that you can use for this course. What we will do over backing tracks is this:

1. Play the backing
2. Use the pentatonic pattern
3. Find the root note of a chord within this pattern (i.e. over C major chord, find C notes within the pattern)
4. Play pattern up & down, while making a stop on each root note
5. Increase speed gradually, always making sure you remember these roots and where they are, specially C and A notes!
6. Apply same method for sliding connection licks during the course


C major
http://soundcloud.com/ivanmilenkovicmusic/c

D minor
http://soundcloud.com/ivanmilenkovicmusic/Dm

E minor
http://soundcloud.com/ivanmilenkovicmusic/Em

F major
http://soundcloud.com/ivanmilenkovicmusic/f

G major
http://soundcloud.com/ivanmilenkovicmusic/c

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Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Dec 14 2011, 01:07 PM