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merci merci merci you know sometimes you feel like you're
licks all sound alike you know you play the same O Lakes all the time just gets
kinda boring
one way to bust outta that that that
box is to take everything down iraq TIV
you know I bet the FR if you thought about it
and counted how many notes you play on the low strings as opposed to the high
strings that its
is tilted way in the High Street direction that's normal the guitars bill
to be assertive a tener instrument and in fact there was an instrument
popular for a minute in the thirties and forties called the tenor guitar
it's kind of a bridge between the banjo and guitar have four strings on it
and just dispense with the bottom too because the soloist would just play on
the high strings and and be done with it but
here we got all six of them so might as well make you some so honored
talk today about how to translate your vocabulary from where you normally play
on the upper strings down into the lower octave
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are side by and another couple stringed instrument for nothing so
here's the idea I am you know you got your licks I got my legs everybody's got
their works on a playlist
okay typical blues lick displayed about a thousand times a day
somewhere in the world I
if I played in that position it sounds
pretty much the same all the time there's nothing wrong with it is just
it just has this ordinary kinda quality but
if I can transfer that link to other places on the neck
easily I had not only can I
move into a another rock given create a different effect
but also I start to gain control of the neck and I find that
I'm no longer trapped in one position say what my good looks are here in
when I over here I don't have any good looks I can start to find those
licks everywhere and it's really down to sir how you are
how you analyze you're playing now if you did
don't study the instrument and you just play by feeling by year
then you tend to try to learn freezes by shape in other words this the certain
finger at a certain threatened produces a certain sound
true but if you get inside the nose a little bit and see how the notes relate
to each other in relative terms how they relate to the key
I you can learn a lot and will help speed up this process above transposing
now the idea is this I just played this weekend
and I feel alone in my fingers very familiar but if I think about it what is
it
well on the guitar and music in general we
we tendered our allies freezes
are all types harmonic freezes melodic phrases
by the relationship to the major scale so if I play the major scale mickey very
do and I take that look that I just played and just think about it for a
second
and say compared to the major scale what are those notes well turns out
minor third major third them
ticked
active so that's or the a
the phone number if you will love that phrase
now if that fits in the major scale in that position
then if I can play a major skill somewhere else on the neck
well I'm pretty darn sure I can fit that look in there too so let's try down here
where I would rarely
think to play perhaps some
I
now remembering the number of that phrase minor third term
minor burn major third mmm
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Boobear and I'm here well there it is
yeah down an octave so school now
if I want to restrict myself to just the los trees are really bring out that
that baritone quality I how else can i play it
hmm mmm minors and majors arm
here it is again: from
where else can I played a major schism mmm
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from here for ways to play that late
in a in a in a few seconds now course I practiced this before
I'm not gonna lie to you and I've learned my patterns and I know how to
play major skills all over the neck
but the idea is that once I I figured out how to turn the phrases
into numbers according to their relative position in the scale
I found that I can move things around a lot more easily
and then course using my year I can start to play familiar phrases
and then pretty well figure I'm out in different octaves
without as much trial and error you know
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dumb the now to play some of those phrases in different positions you have
to be a little ingenious
because you don't have the same kinda geometry in every area the neck so
where you might ban in one spot you slide it out but you get the idea
and by doing that you start to realize that your phrases
are transportable they can be played anywhere on the neck in your vocabulary
your style can exist anywhere
gives you a lot more freedom now since we're concentrating on this low into the
net think
I what I want to do is is I wanna
play exclusively on the low end
because it's something that I rarely do and I rarely hear other people do
and if I do it and do it successfully
is going to add some personality to my place a little different and if I'm
plane
guitar blues band all night long you know you know what I have somewhere to
go
will not be playing the same works all the time so you get the idea
very simple idea but the application takes a little time domina take it outta
here with a solo
over that show for the day played on nothing but the low strings
and illustrate what I'm talking about alright hope you had fun with this one
and what's going on out here me
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