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- What's going on guys.
This is the technique of the week.
My name's Gina,
and I'm really happy that you tuned in.
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Today I thought it'd be cool to talk
about some scale sequences
and some different, patterns that you can start adding
into your playing.
When I say a scale sequence.
All i mean is the order in which you're gonna play the notes
of a scale.
And I know that that sounds really vague
and confusing out of context,
but it's really not too crazy
once we start breaking it down
and have a cool example of one
of my favorite scale sequences that I like to practice.
So we'll get into that.
I think that this stuff is really good,
whether you're a total beginner
or whether you've been playing for a while
and you just need some new stuff to think
about new stuff, to throw into your toolbox
of guitar stuff.
Knowing these different scale sequences is gonna help
with your ear.
It's gonna help your ear recognize
some harmonic intervals.
It's gonna help with your phrasing
when you're improvising or like writing a solo.
Even if you're writing like vocal part
or something like that,
it's just like really good to know this stuff,
to add some intention to your playing
so that you don't feel like,
you know all these like shred patterns
or blues patterns or whatever.
You know it's just gonna give you some tools
to be able to throw more of your own,
expression into your playing, whether again,
you're improvising or, or writing something.
So let's check it out.
For this example, I wanna to use G major.
So if you don't know the G major scale,
let's just play through it real quick.
I'm just gonna play through one,
octave of the G major scale.
Here we go.
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So this is how I like to play the G major scale.
This is something my guitar teacher showed me really early
on when I was taking lessons.
And this is how I still play it.
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I just took the same exact scale,
but I flipped it into a different voicing
where I have these kind of repeated patterns
on each string.
So every two strings has this repeated pattern
and that makes going through it feel really fluid.
And it just feels like really satisfying
to play through it in this way.
For me personally.
So all I'm doing here is I'm going three, five,
seven on the E.
And I'm on the A string
I'm gonna go three, five, seven again.
And then on D I'm gonna do four, five, seven,
and then four or five seven again on the G string.
And then on the B I'm gonna go five, seven, eight,
and then five, seven, eight again on E.
So I have these like cool repeated patterns here.
So when I wanna to go through it.
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It just feels really fun and kinda of satisfying to just,
to have those motions repeat themselves.
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You can just keep on going you can keep working it up
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You know so that's just a really nice way
to play a major scale.
So let's do a sequence real quick.
let's take the scale and play it in thirds.
So let me play that real quick for you.
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I just think it sounds really fluid.
It's got a nice motion to it,
and it sounds really musical.
You know I don't feel like I'm sitting here
just playing through a scale shape,
you know it feels a little more just applicable.
So if you wanted to do just like a pattern,
that's a little more straightforward.
Something else that I really like to do
is just take this same pattern here that we're doing
the same scale.
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And let's just play through that, like,
where we repeat each string twice.
So it's gonna make like a six note pattern.
So we're gonna go one, two, three, one, two, three
on each string.
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That one's really fun too.
And I'll just alternate picking through that.
So I'm gonna start on a down pick.
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This is important to point out because at the end
of this six note phrase, when I'm coming back up,
I'm gonna be starting my next string on a down,
and that's gonna be really helpful in helping me,
accent this phrase.
So it really has that feeling of like,
You know what I'm saying
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So this is just an example of working
through some scale sequences, some patterns.
This is a whole world of stuff to get into
when you're practicing.
Hopefully we can do some more lessons on this
in the future,
but for now I hope that this was helpful
and that you can throw this into your playing.
All right, thank you guys so much
and hopefully we'll see you soon.
Take care.
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