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Hi AM-ers
I would like to share a Finger Excercise, which I play almost every day. It helps me memorize the notes all over the fretboard, sometimes I call out loud the notes when I play. It also helps me understanding the Music Theory about Scales, Key, Root Note etc…
When you play this exercise many times, you automatically will know how to play any scale.
For example : In this exercise you play “G Mixolydian”. When you want to play the scale “D Mixolydian” you simply use the finger pattern which starts in the exercise at the root note G (5th string position 10), but now you will start at the root note D (5th string position 5) and play the same pattern. In this case you are able to play all the notes in the scale without even knowing which notes belong in this scale.
🎸 Vincent 🎶
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Vincent,
A nice variation to this exercise is to play all keys in sequence, with the cycle of 4th’s, in one area on the fretboard. This forces you to see each major scale position in terms of where it’s root notes are within the pattern and relate it to a major chord shape. Each position could also be related to the major pentatonic scale within. That should ultimately help improvisation all over the neck.
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