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I would suggest using your finger to grab that note Rob as your thumb is pretty busy playing the steady bass on the bottom.
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I've just sat and watched quite a few of Toby's Youtube videos. I was wondering if he might be open to donating some of his brain tissue for a transplant into my head? Dunno if it would work but I've always been one for a shortcut. Just paid off my truck and freed up $350 a month in the budget. Gonna have to look over the catalog and get an order placed... since I'm betting he won't go for the brain transplant idea.
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HOW did you find my high school yearbook pic?!!!
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How is everyone coming along with the lessons? I'm planning on adding another video to this thread soon.
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Hi Toby
Still ticking along. Trying to match and match different licks from the different positions. This morning's challenge was finding the positions of the A chords in each shape so that I don't have to keep dropping back to the open strings. Do you have any tips on finding the IV and V shapes at each of the positions? |
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Still coming along pretty well. I've been pretty busy with work and stuff, but finding time to practice here and there. I'm finding that I'm starting to recognize some of these patterns and licks in music I listen to now and can copy them fairly quickly so that's pretty good. Kind of an impromptu ear training, really.
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Glad to hear that those patterns and licks are coming along!!
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At the risk of answering my own question: If I am playing in E using the G shape and end the lick on the third string 9th fret E I can then play the A7 lick using the A on the second string 10th fret as the root and using the D shape. (or potentially a C shape). Each root note is part of two shapes and the A is on the next string up from the E (on the same fret except for between strings 2 and 3 when the A is one fret up). The shapes can be identified by which string the root note is on so one I have found an A note I can find the shape at that point on the fret board. I feel like all the information is there but my brain is not quite fitting it together. |
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Now... staying in that 9th/10th position when you come up to the part where an A chord comes into play then use the closest one available to you. In that area it should be the C shape. Play that chord for perhaps a beat or two and then go back to playing some of the E licks in that same area. Next, repeat as above but instead of playing E licks when you get to the A chord mix it up a bit by playing some A licks that lay in that same area. Don't forget though to go back to playing an E chord when the change comes around. Try that same exercise in various areas of the neck. You're on the right track there amigo. By using root notes as your guide pretty soon you'll have the fingerboard down cold.
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I picked up a copy of Sept 2013 Acoustic Guitar Magazine as it has a section on blues soloing. The tips are on using a flat fifth (Blue note) to turn the minor pentatonic into the blues scale and using thirds to create double stops.
This weekends eureka moment is realising that the patterns overlap so it's easy to switch across from one to another. I've been working on using A chords further up the neck which is going great, Now my problem is that there is no bass B string. There is the B on the 6th string 7th fret but that's about it. How can I keep the flow going over the B chord sections while remaining higher up the fret board? |
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I have also been working my way through some of Toby's lessons. The E and A packs.
My question is not so much related to the actual lessons but more to do with playing style. When playing the monotonic bass style blues such as Kind Hearted Women, I often find myself doubling the bass. So playing an additional bass note on the &. I do this especially on the 4&. Is there any reason why I should try and avoid or reduce how much I do this. |
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There are a couple of things you can do. I'll use my thumb to play that B note on the 6th string. That leaves the rest of my fingers to play lead in the 7th position. You can get an awful lot of mileage that way as you thump that low B note under some nice lead lines. The alternative is not playing any bass note at all but rather doing some tasty double stops in the key of B during that duration of the B chord, or to play a few inversions of the B chord without a bass. Sometimes it's relieving to 'break the flow' of a constant bass. Hope that helped.
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