How to improvise, what scales to use, where to get ideas? I will be talking you through my mental and theoretical approach to improvisation which will include thematic development and interval stacking.
We will work with triads but first we´ll talk about the major pentatonic scale. The idea is to practice the five different pentatonic boxes, and learn to play the melody and improve using the major pentatonic scale using all the neck.
Focus on chordal playing and the main challenge with this one is the large chord stretches - not for the faint hearted folks! Many modern fusion players such as Allan Holdsworth utilize chords which have pianistic like qualities.
Carlos Carrillo here and this is my first lesson. I recorded a clean solo where we will work on aspects like rhythm, scale uses, and different techniques as legato, alternate picking, Vibrato, Slides harmonics and arpeggios in A.
Explore the unlimited potential of chord building! In this simple piece, we'll take the basic chords of the track and add to them a few extra notes to make then sound deeper and more melodic.
When I started to write this lesson I found that I didn't like the sound of the pick attack. So... I recorded the lesson without the pick. My right index finger does the work: with the fingernail I play the downstrokes and with the fingertip I play the upstrokes.
It's based on the D dorian scale and it has an Irish background sound, but I think the lead itself has more of an ethnic sound. Hope you will like it! I think it's a lot more simple than many electric solos out there, but you need to devlope a different touch on this one so it will sound good.
Can someone show me a jazz scale?". There is no easy answer to get the jazz sound - but here in important ingredient for sure: Playing arpeggio based runs is an effective way of escaping a typical scalar sound.