Worship Guitar Workshop

Session 2

Intermediate Session

1. Lead Guitar Concepts:

a. Scales, Intervals and Arpeggios

b. Creativity

2. New Way to Learn Chords: (Chord Mining)

3. Jazz Chord Secret

4. Q&A

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F Major 7 Tapped Arpeggio (note the string skipping)

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Learn Your Foundations!

Scales, intervals, arpeggios and chords

under the umbrellas of music theory and technique

“Apply creativity, mix and stir!”

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G major diatonic all over fretboard

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SCALES IN 6 FRET SYSTEM

G major diatonic position 3

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SCALES IN 6 FRET SYSTEM

G major diatonic position 5

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Etc….

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Pentatonic Scales

A Minor/C Major Pentatonic Scale

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Pentatonic Scales

A Minor/C Major Pentatonic Scale (5th position)

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Yada yada yada and etc., etc., etc….

Find all of these scale shapes at www.gregjonesmusic.com/scalesindex.htm

or www.google.com...

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Tips to make practicing your scales fun.

Always ask “What if I did X to this scale (interval, arpeggio, chord, etc…)?

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1. Be creative with rhythm

2. Explore subsets of scales

3. Apply different techniques

4. Be creative with note order, play scale sequences and patterns

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Example of creative exercises:

Practicing to a drum loop, number the notes of a scale and play sequences.

Throw in spontaneous & creative rhythms to make it more interesting.

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Scale Patterns:

1234, 2345, 3456, 4566…

123, 234, 345, 456…

13, 24, 35, 46…

1 3 5 7 9 11…

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Visit http://www.zentao.com/guitar/patt

erns/ for more pattern ideas

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4 notes/string diatonics

Today Is The Day Lick

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3 notes/string pentatonics

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Arpeggios

C major (A shape) G major (E shape)

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Arpeggios

E major (C shape) E minor (C shape)

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Arpeggios

D minor (A shape)

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Etc….

I suggest targeting the following arpeggios:

Major

Minor

Diminished

Dominant 7ths

Major 7ths

Diminished 7ths

Minor 7th (Major 6ths)

Try http://www.12bar.de/scale_generator.php

Lead Guitar

Intervals

Lincoln Brewster’s stacked 5ths in solo of Today Is The Day

Rhythm Guitar

Chord Mining

A fresh way to learn chords through exploration

(“Mining”).

Rhythm Guitar

Chord Mining

1. Learn/play the C major scale on the 2nd string:

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Chord Mining

2. Learn/play the C major scale on the 4th string:

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Chord Mining

3. Put the two together yields inverted 3rd intervals (aka 6ths):

Rhythm Guitar

Chord Mining

4. Add bass notes from the C major scale (C bass notes shown here):

Rhythm Guitar

Chord Mining

Chords derived:

Rhythm Guitar

Chord Mining

5. Add bass notes from the C major scale (D bass notes shown here):

Rhythm Guitar

Chord Mining

Chords derived:

Lead Guitar

Etc….

Rhythm Guitar

Chord Mining

In Action:

Shout to The Lord

Chord Mining

Shout to The Lord

Rhythm Guitar

Shout to the Lord

Color Chords

Rhythm Guitar

Jazz Chord Secret

Stacked 4ths (Quartal Voicings)

Q&A

Open forum for Questions