This entry was posted on 12/28/2007 11:14 PM and is filed under Guitar Lessons.
This lesson is just about building your Minor scales and getting them under your fingers. In the next few lessons we will be getting more in depth with the scale, but for now we just want to know all five patterns.
I mention it in the video, but you want to start and end these scales on the lowest root...that is the way that I have them written in the notation below. This trains our ear to hear the "minor" aspect of the scale...what you might start noticing is that each of these scale patterns will look like some of the major scale patterns that we have learned in past lessons. That is because the minor scale is derived from the major scale...we will discuss "Relative Majors" and "Relative Minors" in the next few lessons. This is not completely new material if you know your major scales already...just a new way to look at it!
6/2/2008 8:34 AM
Pete wrote:
Hey Mark. I taught myself how to play and love your lessons (although I spend little time with them, cause i have so little time) anyway, when you show a scale, there are certain notes that you leave circled but not filled in or blackened. What does that mean as far as playing the note. Thanks Pete Dr Git on BaM Reply to this
6/2/2008 8:54 AM
Mark Wein wrote:
I'm glad you like the lessons!
The open circle on the scale diagram is the "Root" or starting point of the scale. Do you know how to play movable chord shapes like power chords and barre chords? If so you can use the root in the scale pattern the same way you would use the root in one of the chord shapes! Just move the pattern up or down the neck until the open circle or "root" is on the note that you would like to use as your key...
