Beauty lesson. The drone really helps me “feel” the key, find those notes that add tension etc . Going be practicing with this technique a ton. Thanks!
Glad you liked it Travis. Yup, the drone is such a great tool. It makes practice feel fulfilling, seriously like a meditation. I always feel refreshed after practicing that way. It’s kind of crazy.
@@alexgraf8417 Sup Alex!!! Again, thank you for your videos. I have played for a little more than twenty years or so however, have only considered myself “playing” the guitar. I recently had an intrinsically driven force to LEARN the guitar and stumbled on your videos. When you emphasized how phrases are ideas and suggestions… it made complete artistic sense to me and is exactly what I’m looking for but, never knew it. I have always loved the sound of bluegrass and appreciate how it can work so well outside or inside the box so to speak. I hope this helps answer your question. I apologize the 3am comment, don’t want to seem weird. I work at a Fire Department and was just up. Again. Thank you.
This is such a great lesson I’m doing this with g pentatonic at the min I may as well fill up the other note s learn it together.. I like the way you practice the drone is a great idea it does create a meditative state which is great .. thanks Alex .. Brian Ireland 🇮🇪0h sorry wat drone u use thanks Brian
Hey Brian! Glad you found it helpful. Sometimes I think guitar players get stuck in one or two pentatonic/scale “box” locations. This should help break you out of that. Yup the drone is a great tool and makes it feel less like work. I just RU-vid searched “g drone” and picked the first one on RU-vid. Cheers.
Great question. If you have CAGED system chords down then you should be able to find the root note of those chords. It would be a matter of starting your major scale from those root notes. Caged chords are made up of root, third, fifth (not always in that order though). So another way would be to know those relationships-starting from the root. Note names for g major are G (root), B (third), D (fifth). I like to teach caged in conjunction with a major scale all across the fretboard so that they are linked together. Kinda hard to explain fully here but maybe that helped clarify a little?
I mean I was alternate picking at the beginning of the video. Haha. Tbh sometimes when I’m in teaching mode and playing suuuper slow the alternate picking doesn’t always fully engage. I am a big fan of alternate picking so I’d recommend practicing that way.
@@alexgraf8417 well, honestly. As and old rock and roller who played alternate or hybrid picking my whole life, I recently decided to commit to learning a whole new genre of guitar. I had always had an affection for bluegrass so flatpicking was the natural choice. However, maybe it was bad info but early on, I was told to switch to mostly downstrokes, that's what the pros do. It's been hard so I have asking around if alternate picking is still okay with flatpicking
