Virtual Star Guitar Lesson 16
Hello students. How is that alternate picking going? Are you able to play at tempo? If not, keep practicing until you can play without missing a note.
For todays lesson, we are going to continue with variations on our G Maj scale. The tablature for the last example in Lesson 15 looked like this. We referred to this as “thirds” because we are playing a pattern where we start with the first note and then play the third note instead of the second note. This pattern continues for every note in the scale.
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Here is the audio track of what it sounds like.
Audio Example C16_1:
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What we are going to do now is to play it backwards. We will start with the highest note and work our way down to the lowest note. The tablature looks like this:
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Take a listen to the audio example, play through it a couple of times, and then give it a try along with me. Here is what it should sound like.
Audio Example C16_2:
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Go ahead and give it a try by yourself.
Audio Example C16_3:
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Are you ready to put the whole thing together? We will start out low and play up to the highest note and then we will play back down to the lowest note. Here is the tab:
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Play through the tab a couple of times and then give it a try along with me.
Audio Example C16_4:
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Ready to give it a try by yourself? Here you go.
Audio Example C16_5:
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Ok. Great. That is starting to come together. In our next lesson, we are going to use this scale pattern of thirds in some solo examples. Make sure you are ready before moving on to the next lesson.
Continue on to Lesson 17…
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