How to play guitar, explained in 20 minutes, part 2
In this second video in the series we shall see how to actually apply this.
The tune Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix use the chord progression:
Em – G – Am – Em – Bm – Am – C – G – F – C – D.
By applying a pentatonic scale to each of these chords you will sound much better than if you just play Em pentatonic over the entire progression.
Guru also talks about extra notes you can ad, such as b5 for the minor pentatonic, this would create the Blues Scale. And also, the maj7th which combined with the b5 gives you the Conspirian scale.
For a full explanation of this concept you need to read the guitar conspiracy, to learn how to do this yourself you need to practice all the scales.
Spytunes have taken care of this for you as well by structuring a complete practice routine with all exercises available as video demonstrations and as TAB notation.
The next part of this series will explain how you can by taking this concept ones step further, build all the modes on the guitar.
How to play guitar, explained in 20 minutes, part 1
This first video in a series of 4 explain how all open position chords: the E, A, D, G and C can be turned into barred chords. Now referring to them as shapes; E shape, A shape, D shape etc. Similar phenomenon happens in minor; Em – Em shape, Am – Am shape.
Some of you may say; this is the CAGED system, and yes, to an extent it is.
The CAGED system says: you can build your barred chords and scales from the open position chords, but it doesn’t go very in depth of how you actually do it. SpyTunes takes it all the way, so read on!
Turn the chords into pentatonic scales
Once you can play your open position chords (minor and major) as barred chords, the next step is to make them pentatonic scales.
For the next step in this video series we shall see how you can actually use this system by thinking chord shapes, and then applying each pentatonic scale over each chord.
The song used in part 2 in this how to play guitar series is 'Little Wing', by Jimi Hendrix.