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| Well stew, what i think i would like from you is a yngwie plan, start me from the 1st step and get a lesson plan ready for me... i am going to be yngwie. |
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sorry there, I've been away practicing vigorously for the past couple of days. I'm joining this band that is semi-popular in my city and I'm grinding to get the 5 cover songs down as they requested of me.
Anyways, Lesson 1:
Practice and sweep pick the seven diatonic arpeggios of a scale. using 5 strings. Start only with the basic three not arpeggios. I'm pretty sure you know what they are. If not just ask for an explanation.
Practicing Arpeggio's is one of the best ways to recognizing chord tones, and they sound cool too. Yngwie is the god of crazy arpeggio's so it's important if you want to be like him.
Lesson two:
Now take these arpeggio's from the previous lesson and work up and down in triplets.
(ex.)In the Cmaj. arpeggio. you will go C-E-G, E-G-C, G-C-E, C-E-G. and then go back up. I'm sure you did this before, but try to get your tempo up.. do it first with alternating picking, and then figure out the economical picking that suits you best. I go with down, down, up. most of the time, but alternating is also fast.
IMPORTANT:
-When practicing exercising, always use a time keeper (metronome).
-If you find yourself thinking about something other what you are playing, as you are practicing, STOP, and refocus or change the routine. This will keep you safe from the auto-pilot mode that many players get into.
-remember. If you want to be a virtuoso like Yngwie, it will take years of disapline and hard work. It's not something made over night.
-when you are doing any scale for arpeggio exercises, keep in mind of the tone of every note. You want to start being perfect now, before you pick up and more bad habbits. Make sure that every note is sounded, and sounds good. you might have to go back to square one and slowly work the tempo up, but it's worth it.
-Always push yourself. This is a military. Make punishment for yourself when you do make a mistake, like start back at the beginning. You might think it's a waste of time, but your mind will push you harder towards perfection. I do this all the time, especially when I on the all day sessions. I started this about a year ago, and I became my own monster.
-always set a short-term, realistic goal for yourself, and then before the end of the day, see if you've reached your goal.
-End for today-
You changed your user name again. Argggg, now I have to edit my first post, AGAIN..
Anyways good luck. even though you this is not the first step. this is a very good place to start. If, you've done it before. Do it again. there is no harm in more practice, especially on such an important subject.
Oh yeah if you can find one. get a chord book. make sure that it does not have just the fingering. It's important to know the stucture and formula for many many chord that you will need to experiment with. |
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| Ok i thank you for lesson, i am pretty sure i know what you are explaining, ill report back when this is mastered or when i have a few questions, thanks stew, though right now i dont have my guitar i left it at a bandmates house ill have to retrieve it. |
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STEW what the hell happened to posting? i KNOW u have been on !!!! hahaha no hard feelings, i bought a steve vai cd its divine,
"the elusive light and sound vol 1" |
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yeah, I'm battleing alot for I first joined this site to battle.
Yeah that album is pretty cool with all the stuff he did for movies.
if you can get the 7TH song album. it is the best of all his bluesy ballads and it's ****ing brilliant.
Anyways how are you doing with your chops that I gave you.
i'll try and be back tommarrow, but if not The next day. key is that the technique could always improve. |
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| Well i have been practicing random arpeggios and i am getting them cleaner and better timed everyday, i do not under stand the diatonic arpeggios? what are they? I know diatonic scales... though they dont come with arpeggios, cant arpeggios be made up of any notes on any strings? they arent set chords are they? |
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arpeggio's are chords played in a pattern one note at a time.
Do you know the & diatonic chords in every major and minor scales...
ok if you don't it's a bit simple...
First the formula for the chord in order in the Cmajor scale
I= C major
ii= D minor
iii= E minor
IV= F major
V= G major
vi= A minor *
vii= B minor b5
Ok there they are.. I'm hoping you know how to play all the chords above so I'll just go onto the explanation of the scale.
First notice the roman numerals.. they represent each degree of the major scale.. Also did you notice that some of them are capitolized and some aren't.. The caps are for Major chords and vise a versa. Also see the order which they come by... That order will stay the same in every key.. Every key's chords can be represented by the roman numerals. so it is important to remeber the orfer of minor and major chords in the accending diatonic scale..
Ok here is my definition of the word:
Diatonic: in music it is refering to an order. boundries. to say something is diatonic. is to say that all notes are in and follow one major or minor scale.
So diatonic chords are all the chords that can be played within one scale.. and so Arpegio's are the same. |
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| Ok understood, *slaps forehead* i know you wont believe this but i DID know that... its just well i suppose i was confused... Thanks though i guess it happens, i am glad to have a teacher like you. Ill report in once they are practiced. and stew... FF ORCHESTRA SIGNATURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! |
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