Hi there,
So the next step in your quest to be an improv god is note skipping through your scales.
Note skipping is where you play your first note of the scale, skip to the 3rd, come back to the 2nd note, skip to the 4th, come back to the 3rd and so on.
It’s a truly excellent way to learn your scales as you really have to know your shapes well to be able to do this effectively. It also allows you to further randomize your shapes, providing you with more ideas for coming up with riffs and melodies.
Here’s the 1st shape of the A minor pentatonic using this exercise. (both ascending and descending)
Here’s the 1st shape of the A major scale using this exercise. (both ascending and descending). This is also known as going up and down in 3rd’s
Remember you can get perform this exercise with all 5 shapes of the minor/ major pentatonic and all 7 shapes of the Major/ Natural Minor scales, plus any other scales you learn.
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Many thanks for reading
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
James
David
March 20, 2014 at 2:06 am
The second exercise is tricky at first.
jsmusicschool
March 21, 2014 at 12:17 pm
Yes it is a little! Once you get used to it, it’s seriously good for absorbing the shapes and then using in riffs and solos
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