
Matt300ZXT
Well-known member
I'm already quite impressed. Though I've been playing for close to 30 years and learned and forgotten TONS of licks, riffs, solos, etc, I never really paid too much attention to theory. I did it and music appreciation classes back in high school in like 1998 but that's all long gone. However, I've already had 2 pretty useful revelations in just watching a handful of videos from it today. Adding chromaticism to just a basic pentatonic scale for a little extra flavor in basic blues sounding licks and more importantly, the formula for building any mode out of 3 note per string patterns. I already knew how to build modes from the major scale, and have known that for years, but the very little I intentionally played with them, I just used the same fingering pattern and started/ended on different notes. Fine for building very simple licks if I had wanted, but not easy to play since not all parts were 3 notes per string. He showed the basic patterns for starting each mode, then how to add them together in a particular sequence to build 3 note per string mode runs.
I'm already quite excited with just what I've learned today and now I have some new stuff to add to practice sessions to increase my knowledge and tricks to draw from when I want to jam over something.
I'm already quite excited with just what I've learned today and now I have some new stuff to add to practice sessions to increase my knowledge and tricks to draw from when I want to jam over something.