Kristofer Dahl17th July 2008Thanks Nick - I personally find these shapes really useful to get away from the standard three-note-per-string stuff!
To all shredders - learn to play these ones at the speed of light and you will be more original as these kind of patterns are a lot harder to get up to tempo with!
Alex8717th July 2008Nice lesson Nick
Joe Kataldo17th July 2008Cool What I'm practicing Right now on melodic minor
Bogdan Radovic17th July 2008Very useful guide!! Good stuff Nick!
Gerardo Siere17th July 2008Nice pattern! Good lesson!
Gabriel Leopardi17th July 2008Cool! I will learn this and then I'll try to play it at the speed of light...
Nick32517th July 2008Useful lesson Nick
Ivan Milenkovic17th July 2008Very nice patterns, to get away form standard exercises. And with some theory applied, they can really mean a difference in improvising. Great job Nick
Pablo Vazquez17th July 2008Very nice lesson!!
Caelumamittendum17th July 2008Nice lesson! Very nice patterns!
Hisham Al-Sanea17th July 2008very useful lesson Nick.
Sergio Dorado17th July 2008Nice concept!
Muris Varajic18th July 2008Nice triads Nick,always helpful!
Lian Gerbino18th July 2008cool nick!!!
Trond Vold18th July 2008Great lesson
Dejan Farkas18th July 2008Nice
Juan M. Valero18th July 2008great lesson and interesting patterns
IceBurner18th July 2008this is very nice..and it helps unlocking thing in my mind!
Thanks
Danilo Capezzuto18th July 2008Nice! Useful! Nick of course!
bham19th July 2008dude, this is TOTALLY f'n kickass. keep it up man, looking forward to see the rest of this series
Nick Kellie18th August 2008thanks chaps! and BHAM - glad you enjoyed it mate!
Daniel Realpe14th May 2010excellent lesson!
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Hi folks!
Welcome to the first in a series called "Unlocking your scales". This series is designed to create an awareness of the various permutations a scale can have, and, also to give you something to add to your scale practice vocabulary. As improvisers, it's very important to find new ways to approach scales and learning licks is one way. Another is to find different ways to sequence the notes in a scale.
Today we are looking at how we can derive many triads from our "A" Dorian scale. As you can hear, it sounds a little less predictable and more intriguing to the ear than just running up and down the scale.
I have added no extra notes to the scale. All these triads are locked inside you scale waiting to be discovered! There are so many permutations of the scale and its really important as an improviser to delve into some of them.
The process you take to make a triad would be to take a starting note. In this case "A", play it. Skip a note, play, skip a note, play... This gives us R 3 5. And from A we get R b3 5. Making an A minor triad.vWe then repeat the same process starting on the second note of the scale, "B". We get a B minor triad. Then the same from the 3rd note etc. etc.
Well I really hope this triggers some interest and be sure to apply these to your improvisations.
Take care!
Nick
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