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Posted by: dreadlocks Mar 5 2014, 01:54 PM

Hello again friendly community

In my opinion intervals played in harmony (two notes at a time) can realy spice things up and keep your improvising fresh!

And that's why i want to have some of them under my fingers! i am a great beliver of the "do it by yourself"
method and i was playing along to chord vamps and chord progression but i just cant get them to fit!
no matter what genre im playing!

I tried to stick with the root and the chord notes outlining a special degree in a speacial chord or just hitting some random ones and slinding from chord to chord in a progression but other than a few country/blues licks that use the mix of minor and major thired i got nothing

Maybe you guys have some new ideas for me or even better some theory guidelines to follow to build some licks of my own :3

Thanks in advance!
Dreads

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Mar 5 2014, 02:10 PM

Hi mate! There are many different things that you could work to add more ideas into your vocabulary. Learning some chord melody stuff, triads and some more advanced stuff like quartal harmony could give you ideas to add double string melodies into your playing. This concepts are more used in fusion and jazz, so those are the styles that you should explore in our archive.

Here I share some that I think will help you:


http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/lessonseries/Intervals/
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Triads_Comping/
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Quartal-Harmony-The-Dorian-Mode/
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Quartal-Harmony-Dorian-Solo/

Posted by: Darius Wave Mar 5 2014, 03:15 PM

The topic You started is very wide but I think You have a really good starting point - experiments with the notes from the chords. Your request is impossible to be answered in one post. Maybe just a few tips of where to start.

1. Ask Yourself a question what kind of skills You want to get at this particular moment. Notes matched to the scales or getting some fusion taste with outsides?

Second can't be done without the first one.

Maybe some raw recordings of Your experiments would lead us to better feedback?

Posted by: dreadlocks Mar 5 2014, 04:42 PM

Thank you guys! Quartal harmony is new to me so that must be good
I'll go borrow a camera and start working on those recordings

Thanks again

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Mar 5 2014, 04:55 PM

I covered Quartal harmony in some of my Vchats and I must say that it's very nice what you can get with it. This is another lesson based on quartal harmony:

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/dorian-quartal-harmony-stacked-4ths/

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 6 2014, 11:00 AM

Hey mate Great advices from the guys and a shameless plug from me http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Intervals-Etude/

Try this one to get yourself acquainted with the idea of going up the major scale using pretty much every important interval in sequences

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Mar 6 2014, 01:23 PM

As Cosmin talked about interval in sequences, I also remembered this great vid that has been shared before at the forum:

Posted by: Darius Wave Mar 7 2014, 01:47 PM

This video main screen seems to create pretty scary feel about what's gonna happen in the video What a psychodelic look of that player ))

Posted by: Monica Gheorghevici Mar 7 2014, 03:19 PM

Hahaha...... his look don't reminds you about Kaa from Jungle Book? Start at 1:35

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 7 2014, 06:37 PM

Trussssst in meeeee, jusssssst in meeee

I found the PDF for the video

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=50707

Posted by: dreadlocks Mar 9 2014, 10:14 AM

no one told you not to judge people by thier appearance ? :3 this video is awesome! thank you Gab for that.. realy got me thinking straight, and i can practice it on Cosmin's lesson

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 10 2014, 08:40 AM

And you can share the results If you'd like I am curious to see what you will come up with.

Posted by: Darius Wave Mar 10 2014, 09:58 AM

No worries mate That was not serious Just couldn't help it...had to say it

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Mar 10 2014, 10:32 AM

hahaha it's true, but it a very useful video!

Posted by: Darius Wave Mar 12 2014, 02:36 PM

I'm far away from judging about how people look Sometimes I just can't stop myself from a comment...but never in a bad way

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 13 2014, 09:28 AM

Not judging instinctively is the HARDEST thing I've ever come across so far in the battle with myself..

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Mar 13 2014, 01:47 PM

It's definitely difficult. First step is probably to accept that one judges other people, but also to accept that they can be different from your initial judgement. Once you've experienced that enough, you probably learn to not judge.

I used to be thinking: "people with mental health issues just need to pull themselves together and get going". From my own personal experiences now though, that's not how it always works. So through that I have become much more open in accepting that some people may not have the power to say...get out of bed, go shopping for dinner and what not. I have those days at times. Not so much in the summer/spring time though. But before I encountered things like that and other issues myself, I've changed my mindset a bit.

That was probably a bit of a side step from the topic. But yeah, don't judge a book by its cover...or at least know that the book can be different from your first opinion.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 14 2014, 09:28 AM

Well said mate, I agree with your statement Now, have you tried this interval training? I am sure that you can make a great finger independence video based on intervals Hope I sparked something there

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Mar 14 2014, 11:54 AM

I have actually thought about a video like that

I also remember seeing something similar in Guthrie Govan's Creative Guitar book. I think anyway! It's been a while since I've looked at it.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 15 2014, 11:12 AM

That's exactly what inspired me to create the lesson That book is pure gold, I tell you!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Mar 15 2014, 02:35 PM

It's the bible.