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Korey Thank you so much for explaining this to me. Most of the videos on here make it seem so hard to understand or they don’t want you to really know how they play it. I think this will help me a lot.
Glorious tone, Korey!! That guitar is beautiful. I'm smitten with that binding on that three-tone burst. Love the riffs. And that you are reminding us of the Cycle of 4ths. Very nice reference.
Do you get to a level of familiarity that you see the 1 3 and 5 of the next chord in different positions as your playing over the current chord? Your other lessons combined with hours of practice are greatly improving my awareness of patterns on the neck, but I'm not there yet with seeing ahead before going into chord change. Thanks as always!
Yes, and it does happen eventually! Even having a daily practice of spelling chords on your drive to work can help. It only helps if you master the material, and when I was learning this stuff I had to go super slow. Extremely slow. Like spending an entire day thinking about the D major scale and just saying it over and over and over again. And then moving to another one the next day. Eventually, it gets into your mind and combined with ear training and knowledge of the neck puts everything together! The best part is it only takes a couple of minutes a day of dedicated practice for these types of structures. A lot of intermediate guitar players don’t do this work because they think it’s going to take hours and hours and it doesn’t.
Hey Corey, great lesson love it for some reason I’m not able to save this to a place where I save some files like I save some things to a file called guitar session, so is that a set up in your end? Thank you.
I get that sentiment, and I feel you. But also remember that it was the jumping off point of many of our favorite artists. Jimmy page, Eric Clapton, Ritchie Blackmore, Jimi Hendrix, most of the 70s classic rock bands, many jazz fusion artists like Mike Stern, and John Schofield, started off playing blues. It’s a simple way to introduce players to an improvised way of playing music which leads to so many other things. Even Kirk from Metallica started off playing simple blues licks. The band Black Sabbath started off as a blues band called Earth, and Fleetwood Mac was originally a hard-core blues band. I spent most of my professional career playing country, pop, jazz, and R&B. And I never would’ve gotten the chops or proficiency to do that if I didn’t play blues well. I guess I’m not speaking of a traditional type of blues that most people find so boring, I’m more thinking of the more modern approach like players like Larry Carlton and Robben Ford have used thousands of recordings of all of our favorite artists in the 70s and 80s.
My school teacher always said that an intelligent mind is never bored. My guitar teacher always said there is no music so bad that you can't learn something from it.
