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Welcome to The Guitar Daily Workout System 12!
In the Guitar Daily Workout, the first 4 Systems provided the foundational skills that most guitarists need to be professional-level musicians: scales, arpeggios, and techniques that form the core of a guitarist’s understanding and vocabulary.
Systems 5-8 developed intermediate skills with more sophisticated scales, arpeggios, and approaches; moving the student from solid foundational techniques to a true mastery of the guitar neck.
In Systems 9-12, we will explore advanced concepts-less commonly used scales and patterns-ones often found in jazz, fusion, and more complex musical styles.
Most guitarists could have a great career just by having mastery of the concepts in the first 8 systems. Many guitarists have been very successful not even knowing all of that information. With Systems 9-12, however, you will develop skills that will allow you to understand and play more complicated music.
We will cover Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor, and their Harmonized Arpeggios, as well as the Diminished scale, Whole-Tone scale, the Coltrane Pentatonic, and Barry Harris’ 6th Diminished scale. We will also delve into single-string playing and octave playing.
Keep at it and work hard and you should find a whole new world of musical vocabulary opening up to you.
As with all of these systems, application is key. However, these exercises should give you muscle memory, dexterity, ears, and understanding of the scales and arpeggios that will allow you to access music with very sophisticated musical vocabularies.
System 12
Finger Gymnastics-Legato
Legato playing is simply sounding notes without picking them. There are several ways of doing this. The most common is hammering on or pulling off from another note. So, for instance, one way that many legato players approach a 3-on-a-string scale is by picking the first note and hammering on or pulling off the next two notes; or picking the first 2 notes, and either hammering on or pulling off the 3rd note. Guitar ace Jason Becker often does that. But there are other legato players who are able to sound every note independently without using hammer-ons or pull-offs. Allan Holdsworth, Tom Quayle, and Josh Meader can all improv without using their right hand much at all. This allows them to play figures at speeds that would be simply impossible using traditional picking techniques alone.
This exercise will help you to develop legato technique. You will only pick the first note of each pattern. So, in this exercise, you will only pick the underlined notes-12131413, 2324, 3432. Try to keep it in perfect time, and try to keep all notes even in their attack. Don’t allow the picked note to sound out more than the other notes. After each sequence, you’ll ascend chromatically up to the octave, then switch string sets and descend. You’ll do this for all strings.
Arpeggios
In System 12, we will play through all of the chords of the harmonized Melodic Minor scale. The Melodic Minor scale consists of the tones R, M2, m3, P4, P5, M6 and M7. You can think of it as a major scale with a lowered third, though most players prefer to see it as a natural minor scale with a raised 6th and 7th.
The chord qualities of harmonized scale are minor/Major 7, minor 7, Major 7#5, dominant 7, dominant 7, minor 7b5, and minor7b5. 5, M7) which you commonly hear in movie soundtracks.
6th Diminished Scale
Barry Harris is a widely known proponent of this scale and its usage. It is also known as the bebop scale.
This scale has a chromatic passing tone between the 5th and 6th scale degrees. This has many interesting implications and applications. One is that the chord tones sound on the downbeats. A second application is that because of the added m6, you can create harmonized scale using diminished chords between each iteration of the major or minor chord.
Whole Tone Scale
The Whole Tone scale is a 6 note scale formed by ascending in Major 2nds. There are, thus, only 2 whole tone scales, C and C#. The harmonized scale consists of all Augmented chords and all of the notes of the scale are contained in the first 2 triads.
9 окт 2024
