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Now, you might say well, suppose I'm not in first position,
or what other positions can we play scales in?
And so, I'm actually going to play you a G chromatic scale, again.
And then this one, I'm going to do in third position.
The way a guitar is laid out, the way the notes are laid out on the fret board,
it allows you to be able to play the same things in different positions.
So now I'm going to play a G chromatic scale, and I'm going to do it in
third position, and in order to do that, I'm going to have to stretch and slide.
This might be a little harder, so try this after you feel
really comfortable playing the G chromatic scale in first position.
So this one, in third position, is going to have momentary stretches and
then slides, on the ascending portion, and then it's going to
have momentary stretches and slides on the descending portion.
The ascending portion, we're going to do slides with our first finger,
stretches and slides with our first finger.
On the descending, we're going to do stretches and
slides with our fourth finger, or pinky.
Now, for now, I'm just going to demonstrate this, and
then we're going to switch our metronome back on and play it at a faster tempo.
So some of the same notes that occured in first position,
are going to also be here in our third position.
So, here we start off with a G.
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G sharp.
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We have an A sharp here.
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Now we're going to, to get a B.
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We're going to stretch, and then we slide.
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To get the C. [MUSIC]
C sharp.
D.
D sharp.
Stretch to E.
Slide to F.
F sharp.
G.
G sharp.
Stretch to A.
Slide to A sharp.
B.
C.
C sharp.
D, we don't need to slide and stretch for that.
D sharp [SOUND], E [SOUND], F [SOUND].
Stretch to F sharp [SOUND].
Slide to G [SOUND].
And that G is two octaves higher than the G on which we started [SOUND].
Now we're going to do the descending portion of the scale [SOUND].
We start with G.
We're going to stretch to G flat.
Slide to F.
E.
E flat.
D.
D flat.
We don't need to stretch for that.
C.
B, b flat.
Stretch to A.
Slide to A flat.
G, g flat.
F, stretch to E.
Slide to E flat.
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D, D flat, C, stretch to B.
Slide to B flat, A, A flat.
And we're back at G.
Which, again, is two octaves lower than the G on which we started.
So now I'm going to play a G chromatic again,
in third position using alternate picking.
So now you can practice along with me.
I'm going to switch my metronome on to 60 really nice slow speed.
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Again, start off really slowly and smoothly and try and
sustain the notes for as long as possible.
We're going for a real legato sound, smooth and connected.
[SOUND] And slowly build up, incrementally.
Each day you practice you warm up with this in the morning.
Each day you practice you're going to find that you're going to be able to inch
the metronome up just a little bit each day.
So you're playing it at a.
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It's great as a warm up exercise, and it will help you with your facility.
Pay special attention to your left hand, try and
make sure there's no tension that happens and practice your alternate picking.
Now, that fingering that I played that didn't have any open strings,
that's what we call a movable fingering.
And that simply means that that same shape, or that same pattern,
is something that we can move to a different place on the guitar.
For example, if I were to take that same shape that we played for
the G chromatic, where we had stretches and slides like that,
and I were to move it up here to where this starting note is now an A.
This is an A on the fifth fret on the sixth string.
And now I'm going to play an A chromatic scale starting on the sixth string
fifth fret.
And I'm take it all the way two octaves higher.
I'm going to end on the first string same fret.
So here we go, this is an A.
I'm going to play it slowly at first so you can play along.
So I'm going to start off with A.
I'm going to use alternate picking.
A, A sharp, B,
C, C sharp, D,
D sharp, E, F.
F sharp, G, G sharp,
A, A sharp, B, C,
C sharp, D, D sharp, E,
F, F sharp, G, G sharp,
A, now descending.
A, A flat, G, G flat,
F, E, E flat, D,
D flat, C, B,
B flat, A A flat.
G.
G flat.
F.
E.
E flat.
D.
D flat.
C.
B.
B flat.
And now we're back at A,
which is two octaves lower than the A on which we started on the sixth string.
So I'm going to play it again, this time now with a metronome.
You can play along.
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One, two, three, four.
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So that was an A chromatic scale, and that one was played in fifth position.
That demonstrates how you can easily move shapes, fingerings, and
patterns to different places and achieve the same results musically.
We did the G chromatic.
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And then we did a A chromatic using the same fingering.
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We should've practiced these with a metronome and try and
warm up everyday using this scale.