Hello Cherries! Playing the root note is not only a safe thing to do while improvising it also acts as a musical "home base," grounding your solo, providing clarity, and highlighting the chord changes for the listener 🧐 It's also great to understand what happens to that note as the chord changes. Say your playing a blues in G. You play a G note "Root." When it goes to the 4 chord C, that G note is now the 5th of C. So it's a solid note to lay on. The next chord D, the G is a 4th of D. Not the best note to lay on. You can move it down a half step to F# making it a 3rd, or up a whole step to A making it a 5th 🤨 Doing this in any style of music is important. It allows you to really narrow in on the notes of the chords and their relationship to one another. It all starts with the root note 😊 In this video I'll show you a great way to phrase your solo's starting on the root. Then we'll play different intervals off the root note and see how those intervals change over different chords. Enjoy the video and have a great weekend Everybody 🎸
Identifying The Triads Within Each Major Pentatonic Shape
Hello Cherries! Have you ever tried to find the Triads within the Pentatonic Shapes 🤨 Triads are groups of three notes (root, third, and fifth) 🧐 By identifying these triads, you can create more melodic and harmonic lines. In this ⬇️ NEW VIDEO ⬇️ I go through all 5 Major Pentatonic Positions, 1 string set at a time. Within these positions were going to play the Major Pentatonic Scale and find the triad within the string set. I offer a FREE PDF of all the graphs that I created for this video. This exercise opens up the fretboard for improvement better than anything I know 🎸 Enjoy the video and have a great weekend everybody 😊
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