Julian Lage - Practicing Scales Masterclass (Transcription) 

He’s hybrid picking, so he’s not “skipping” strings he is just using a pick and his fingers at the same time

It's hard to speak when your jaw is on the floor.

Could you explain what you mean a bit more (if you don't mind)? Specifically the target note practicing part. Just want to better understand.

⁠@@semyaza555Target notes are typically the most characteristic chord tones, so here that’s F, A, C, E (1,3,5,7). If it were a Dominant11 chord, you would want to target the 4th in the upper octave and the flat 7, so target notes would be F,A,C,Eb, Bb (1,3,5,b7,11). Targeting some of those notes means playing them on strong beats or at key moments in a melodic line, especially when changing chords, in order to emphasise the harmonic movement in chord changes. I hope that makes sense.

@@edwardjons8684 That makes perfect sense. Thank you.

Julian's def a genius... But Bach didn't have a single random note in his compositions. It's all just perfectly aligned and derived from meticulous motifs, themes and melodies. God of music haha

@@acevaptsarov8410 god, people taking these comments at face value...

@@martinpaddle facepalm lol

@@martinpaddle you must defend lord Bach, man

yes, when your scales practice sounds like music, not like a study, you're probably on the right path

@@luancaetedearaujo1059 you are right !

Praying for you brother 🙏

This was filmed in Japan, clapping after that, and while he went on talking, would be considered disrespectful.

Is there video of it anywhere online?

NO! To play jazz that sounds like you know what you’re doing and not just noodling, you need to be playing chord tones on strong beats a majority of the time, not just random notes from the scale.

This is the _given_. Shedding like he's talking about is so you dont have to play what you practice. He's making the point that you should shed in a way where you train your brain to drive your fingers to exactly what it hears. Theres a _lot_ to unpack from what he just demo'd and what I commented on.

@@fiftyghoststrading8500 Great way of putting it

the first thing he said was that this was a practice of scales in random orders. he didnt say "heres a scale".

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It taught me to try practicing scales in random order and it was helpful.

I think the point is that to play scales in what SEEMS like a random order you have to really concentrate on the notes in the scale, and so this exercise helps to reinforce your knowledge of that scale. If you just play a scale in the usual order, it's too easy to do it without concentrating, because the intervals between the notes (tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone for a major scale) are the same for any scale.

give up the guitar with that sad attitude bro

You're not supposed to take anything other than "you can play a scale however you want" from it. He's just demonstrating how not boring scale practice has to be. Imagine thinking Julian Lage has an ego.

Not anymore of a waste of time , than you typing a comment like this.

👶🍼 that is you