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#219 - STOP Practicing Scales! (Patreon)

Published:
2022-04-08 14:30:01
Imported:
2022-05

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Let's talk about practicing scales today! Did you know that most players approach this topic in the wrong way? I did so as well, so I want to show you a modal exercise concept that will unlock tons of amazing scales without having to actually learn them with confusing diagrams!

Here are all your practice files for this video (video play-alongs, tabs, guitar pro files, backing tracks): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ztT9_OdKggHaD7QIubDORTFTIQgxOlh9?usp=sharing

My main goal with this video and workout package is to show you how you can use the modes of any scale (meaning scale positions you actually already know by internalizing the original scale) to create much more interesting music and solos!

By the way, here's a Dropbox folder in case Google Drive doesn't work for you: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2lz85pgwcszaikw/AAAM5HqzliK8RdH6VEUeNf3ya?dl=0

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STOP Practicing Scales!

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Comments

Anonymous

this is so good, but could we also get the fretboard images in the downloadable lesson aswell?

Anonymous

Thought I really started grasping on all of the guitar theory part, but after this video I sounds Martian to me once again.. :/ Or just maybe I've grabbed on something too advanced for now..

Anonymous

Yooo veeery cool, Bernth! I have been practicing 3nps hepta scales (just minor and major), so I can't wait to practice these and work on connecting them with what I have been doing... I may need your help tho so might put something up on our VIP group on FB about it... Thanks so much 🙏🎸🤟

Anonymous

What chord progression would I play these modes over I have trouble playing harmonic minor over chords I don’t know what to play my chords never fit

Anonymous
>>81545767

I hear a backing track, but I do not know where to start or when to change scale shape/ mode through the chord changes. I can hear it in my nead, but freeze once I get to the fretboard, if you get my drift.

Anonymous

Thank you for another great lesson! I have always been reluctant to try to memorize so many different shapes. With this excercise and concept I can now play more intuitively and I am not ”caged” anymore.

bernth
>>81545767

That will be featured in next week's in-depth theory course, can't wait to share it :)

Anonymous
>>81545767

brilliant bernth i cant wait you make my playing great mate , miss the random german word

Anonymous

hi Bernth ! Super noob question here : this means that if I move the first pattern from the fifth to the third fret I will get the G Harmonic minor scale and so on (1st fret F harmonic minor, 7th fret B Harmonic minor, etc) ? This would mean that if I have a base that has, say, two bars in A and then 2 bars in B I can make a solo on it using the first pattern in the first two bars and then using the same pattern two frets up on the 7th fret, right ?

Anonymous

Hey everyone! I've been a part of this awesome community for a while now and about to start tackling some of the 30 day courses. Not sure of the best place to ask so I figured on a more recent video would be ok. What would you all recommend as a good first course for someone whos getting back into guitar after a several years break and wanting to start from what you'd consider the ground up? I was kind of leaning towards the new guitar theory course since it covers a lot of basics/fundamentals. Thanks!

bernth
>>81621327

Hey Rain, I'd personally start with one of the alternate picking courses since it's the technique I use the most often :) The hand synchronization course is great for that, the alternate picking masterclass as well! Hope that helps

bernth
>>81618928

Hey Marco, yes the root is the center of the scale and you can move it this way if you think in scale boxes. There's a theory course coming this week that will help out a lot with questions like this I think :)

Anonymous

Hi Bernth.. thanks for the video! :) i have a question please,, how could i continue the rest of the fretboard without memorizing the next pattern and the next pattern from Ionian to Dorian to Phrygian etc… so if i want to play Am scale i play on 5th fret Am scale box (Aeolian) up next to B Locrian then C Ionian etc.. that’s how i cover the whole fretboard! But if i play all modes as shown here, from root note A how can i approach the rest of the fretboard that way using this method? Sorry if i sound stupid! 🤘🏼

Anonymous

In other words, if you can post a video using same “concept” but covering all fretboard. Thanks

bernth
>>81711330

Hey Nader, the meaning of this is seeing each position as an individual scale - of course, you can spread them across the neck very easily because the next shape on the neck for each mode is the following shape of the next mode :) If this is unclear, I'm happy to do a follow-up video in case the community votes for it! Thanks

Anonymous

Thanks Bernth.. oh okay! Yea that’s clear. Do you have any previous video showing for example if i want to play a specific single mode throughout the whole fretboard? So in case I’m playing in Am key i can jump from one mode to another to cover the whole fretboard, normal approach we all learned, however if i want for example the Phrygian mode/feel in my whole solo using the whole fretboard how would we do it? Thanks

bernth
>>81741996

I'd suggest just changing the characteristic scale degree of the natural minor scale you already know in case of Phrygian - it's just one note you have to adjust: https://www.patreon.com/posts/106-this-is-how-39916834 Hope that helps :)

Anonymous
>>81741996

I want to know the same and switching to different keys and keep the same mode

Anonymous

@Eric Yeaa exactly.. i think that’s the point of the modes, to keep the same feel all over the fretboard. I think we can all switch from one mode to the next playing in the same key, which is basically same notes repeating. But same mode/feel all over the fretboard is challenging

Anonymous

Hi there, great video! Very helpful. I'm curious if there are any additional modes from other types of scales

Anonymous

I will forever be eternally grateful I have found this Patreon channel. Out of all the guitarists/teachers I've found online, you are by far the easiest to understand and thorough in your style of explaining. Not only do we get theory, but you also go out of your way to explain the technical side down to the minute details. Especially explaining Bad practicing habits, as opposed to good practicing habits from the perspective of an accomplished musician. Which has been so lacking in all the places I;ve looked. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I've been looking for that for so long. Nothing has compared to this!