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Melodic Minor Deep Dive (Guided Practice)
Here is the Guided Practice to our Melodic Minor Deep Dive. Go slow with this one and try to hear how the scale relates to the Chord.
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Melodic Minor Deep Dive Guided Practice.pdf
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Harmonic Minor Deep Dive (Guided Practice)
Here’s the guided practice for last week's harmonic minor deep dive. Hope this helps you understand the scale from a fun new perspective!
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Harmonic Minor Deep Dive Guided Practice.pdf
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PDF to go along with Guided Practice - Harmonic Minor Deep Dive
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Natural Minor Deep Dive (Guided Practice)
Here is a guided practice based on last week's Natural Minor Deep Dive lesson. Be sure to print out the PDF so that you can follow along with the video without having to split your screen. After this you should have a pretty good grasp of the minor scale.
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Natural Minor Deep Dive Guided Practice.pdf
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to go along with the Natural Minor Deep Dive Guided Practice lesson
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Whiskey Before Breakfast (Guided Practice)
Here’s the guided practice for Whiskey before Breakfast! After this you should be totally comfortable with this tune!
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Whiskey Before Breakfast (Deep Dive).pdf
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Major Bluegrass Scale in the Circle of Fourths
Here’s a guided practice to help our fingers become familiar with what I call the bluegrass scale. I think getting scales under your fingers creates the muscle memory that you need to grab the right notes when improvising.
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Major Bluegrass Scale through the Circle of Fourths.pdf
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Dominant Lick Examples through the circle of 4ths with exercises
Here’s a lesson on the Dominant Chords and the pictures we can build around them. We use our familiar progression to help us see how we can create lines using the chord pictures through the Cycle of 4ths. Hope you like this one!
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Melodic Breakdown Dom Cycle of 4ths.pdf
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Goes along with the lesson "Dominant Lick Examples through the circle of 4ths with exercises"
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Arpeggio - Exercise 1
Here’s a guided practice that takes us through the arpeggios within the key. Be sure to have the PDF readily available so you can follow along!
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C Major Scale - Low G - Exercise 1
Here we have a guided practice for the C major Scale using a Low G. Having the lower string increases the instruments range and can throw people off that aren’t used to that sound. I’ve decided to do this in separate videos for Low and High G to avoid that confusion. Hope this helps!
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C Major Scale Exercise 1 Low G.pdf
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C Major Scale - Low G - Exercise 2
This week's guided practice takes us through a segmented version of exercise 1. Like that one, we go through all the shapes, but this time moving 4 notes at a time. Hope this helps with your dexterity!
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C Major Scale Exercise 2 Low G.pdf
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C Major Scale - High G - Exercise 1
Here’s a guided practice that walks us through the C major scale pictures. Getting this one under your fingers opens the door to muscle memory for future scale use and manipulation.
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C Major Scale Exercise 1 guided practice.pdf
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C Major Scale - High G - Exercise 2
Here’s the second exercise as a guided practice that walks us through the C major scale pictures. Getting this one under your fingers opens the door to muscle memory for future scale use and manipulation.
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C Major Scale Exercise 2 guided practice.pdf
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Circle of Fourths Mixo Blues Scale (Guided Practice)
This week's lesson is a guided practice on the Blues Scale and the Mixolydian (Fifth degree) through the cycle of Fourths.
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Scale Shapes - the C to A Connection (Guided Practice)
Here’s a “guided practice” for the connection between the C-A scale “pictures”. You want to take notes on this one. You can either tab it out or use notation or any other means to help you remember the exercise. Once you have your notes, you can go through the practice section with me at your own...