What Are You Currently Working On? Options

[Gabriel Leopardi]

Hello guys! This thread is to invite everybody connected (those who usually participate of the forum and also the new ones or those who are a bit shy) to tell me what you are working on right and also to give you some help if it's needed.

We can use this thread, my personal board and also GMC Chat to work on the things that are locking you.

so the question is:

What are you currently working on?

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[Gabriel Leopardi]

I have also being trying to learn all the notes on the fretboard and have not seen this way before but i really like it and going to put it into practice Thanks Gabriel

Great mate! also check out the Satriani's exercise that I shared earlier on this thread. It's an effective and entertained exercise.

Another thing that helped me a lot to understand the fret board has been to learn the triads and connect them with scale patterns. This workout can be very useful for understanding the fret board but also to become a better improviser and arranger. Just give a look at this lesson and you'll see what I mean.

https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/aeolia...ed-with-triads/

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[liveOASISforever]

Great mate! also check out the Satriani's exercise that I shared earlier on this thread. It's an effective and entertained exercise.

Another thing that helped me a lot to understand the fret board has been to learn the triads and connect them with scale patterns. This workout can be very useful for understanding the fret board but also to become a better improviser and arranger. Just give a look at this lesson and you'll see what I mean.

https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/aeolia...ed-with-triads/

Thats a great exercise.A have started practicing that with the metronome

That is a very good theory lesson.I checked out the Professors lesson on how to build triads. I knew how to build Major and Minor.I learned form the Professors lesson how to also build Diminished and Augmented Triads. Before reading this lesson I never even knew what Diminished or Augmented meant.

Understanding the fretboard really does open up countless possibilities

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[Cosmin Lupu]

Thats a great exercise.A have started practicing that with the metronome

That is a very good theory lesson.I checked out the Professors lesson on how to build triads. I knew how to build Major and Minor.I learned form the Professors lesson how to also build Diminished and Augmented Triads. Before reading this lesson I never even knew what Diminished or Augmented meant.

Understanding the fretboard really does open up countless possibilities

Hey mate If you are into learning and understanding things about triads, please take a look over these lessons as well:

https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Triads..._Series_Part_1/
https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Triads..._Series_Part_2/
https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Triads..._Series_Part_3/

They will show you how triads are built and what happens when you mix the order of the notes in each chord - the concept of using voicings Please take a look and let me know what you think - these are pretty much applications of the Professor's theory board regarding triads, so I think it would be great to tackle a 'hands on' exercise

Finally playing a little again after over a week. Just finished practicing for an hour and got in an hour last night too. I hope to be up to 2 hours by the weekend - then taking a week off from work and planning on doing some projects around the house instead of going on vacation - so, if I don't accidentally run myself through with a shovel, I hope to be back up to speed by next week so I can spend lost time disturbing my neighbors - I'm itching to get loud.

Hehe! Mate, I can totally feel your urge to play and that's a good thing, but make sure to watch out for the hands You only get two of them

I always watch out when pumping iron and having to use large weights, so that my wrists and fingers will stay safe and my head as well

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This post has been edited by Cosmin Lupu: Jun 25 2014, 06:44 AM

[liveOASISforever]

Hey mate If you are into learning and understanding things about triads, please take a look over these lessons as well:

https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Triads..._Series_Part_1/
https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Triads..._Series_Part_2/
https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Triads..._Series_Part_3/

They will show you how triads are built and what happens when you mix the order of the notes in each chord - the concept of using voicings Please take a look and let me know what you think - these are pretty much applications of the Professor's theory board regarding triads, so I think it would be great to tackle a 'hands on' exercise



Hehe! Mate, I can totally feel your urge to play and that's a good thing, but make sure to watch out for the hands You only get two of them

I always watch out when pumping iron and having to use large weights, so that my wrists and fingers will stay safe and my head as well

Hi Cosmin

Great lessons. I love learning more about theory

I have one question. I hope it doesn't sound stupid

The third lesson a B diminished chord is being played and the lesson is being played in C Major

C major doesn't contain any flats or sharps and a Diminished Triad = R b3 b5

So the notes of the B Dim chord being played are B F and D

How does the notes tie in with the formula

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[Cosmin Lupu]

Hi Cosmin

Great lessons. I love learning more about theory

I have one question. I hope it doesn't sound stupid

The third lesson a B diminished chord is being played and the lesson is being played in C Major

C major doesn't contain any flats or sharps and a Diminished Triad = R b3 b5

So the notes of the B Dim chord being played are B F and D

How does the notes tie in with the formula

Hey bro - the question is not stupid at all - it is a very good one!

Now, the formula is 1 b3 b5 - that means that the intervals are flattened with a half step not that the notes are flat!

If we would have 1 3 5 - a major chord, having B as a root note - that is a B major chord - we would have B D# F#, right?

But because the diminished formula dictates that we should lower the 3rd and 5th steps with a half step - the 'b' in front of each step, we get:

B D F

These notes belong to the C major scale, so it's all ok

The main rules that you need to keep in mind whenever you are harmonizing a natural major scale and it's modes:

- you can only have minor, major or diminished chords
- the notes making up the chords have to be a part of the scale/mode you are harmonizing

Let me know if this makes sense to ya, man

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[liveOASISforever]

Hey bro - the question is not stupid at all - it is a very good one!

Now, the formula is 1 b3 b5 - that means that the intervals are flattened with a half step not that the notes are flat!

If we would have 1 3 5 - a major chord, having B as a root note - that is a B major chord - we would have B D# F#, right?

But because the diminished formula dictates that we should lower the 3rd and 5th steps with a half step - the 'b' in front of each step, we get:

B D F

These notes belong to the C major scale, so it's all ok

The main rules that you need to keep in mind whenever you are harmonizing a natural major scale and it's modes:

- you can only have minor, major or diminished chords
- the notes making up the chords have to be a part of the scale/mode you are harmonizing

Let me know if this makes sense to ya, man

Ah I see Cosmin. Makes perfect sense. I thought the note was getting flattened not the interval

Thanks very much mate

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[Cosmin Lupu]

Ah I see Cosmin. Makes perfect sense. I thought the note was getting flattened not the interval

Thanks very much mate

Hehehe! I knew that's what was on your mind Do you think you could harmonize the E major scale for instance, with the newly acquired knowledge?

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[liveOASISforever]

Hehehe! I knew that's what was on your mind Do you think you could harmonize the E major scale for instance, with the newly acquired knowledge?

Here goes Cosmin

Major scale 2212221 E major scale = E F# G# A B C# D#
F# G# A B C# D# E
G# A B C# D# E F
A B C# D# E F# G#
B C# D# E F# G# A
C# D# E F# G# A B
D# E F# G# A B C#

Triad Formula 1 3 5
E G# B = E major
F A C# =F# minor
G# B D# =G# minor
A C# E =A Major
B D# F# =B Major
D# F# A =D# minor

So these Triads Harmonize the E Major scale

Am I on the right path

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This post has been edited by liveOASISforever: Jun 26 2014, 02:13 PM