Of course guitar blogs can be very good content resources, softwares can be great aid tools but... nothingβs comparable with a good teacher if you need it! π
An interesting lesson about the DOMINANT BEBOP SCALE by the Spanish guitar teacher and blogger Carlos Vicent using guitarLayers
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MODES AND RELATED CHORDS SHAPES!
The practical and most effective way to learn, understand and use modes is associating them to the chords (and inversions) they are related to, along the whole fretboard. And notice: each of the five shapes can be every one of the seven modes, depending where we place the root inside it!
All scale shapes, chords and inversions automatically generated with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Rosanne Maarschalkerweerd
I don't understand the -related chord shapes- how can I use the given patterns to form a chord?
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Looks really interesting and like a viable tool. However I'll never own i/apple anything! So when you guys get it together and release other platforms I'll give this a go.
A lesson from lifein12keys.com blog about pentatonic scales, using guitarLayers and its "structures overlapping" feature
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Minor Pentatonic Shapes β Guitar Scale Overlapping | Life In 12 Keys
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Pentatonic scale shapes for guitar including how they overlap across the neck in any key. Includes shapes and Free PDFGuitar lesson.ARPEGGIOS WITHIN THE MAJOR SCALE, TWELVE SHAPES!
The twelve major scale vertical shapes harmonized with four-notes diatonic arpeggios.
All diagrams, layering, harmonizations automatically obtained with guitarLayers guitarLayers.com
"As well as the usual ones, I'd play whole tone scales, diminished, dominant sevenths, and chromatic scales. Every chord form, all the way up, and this took an hour." - Joe Pass on practicing
A student has asked us a D Dorian chord/scale map.
Here it is! π
In which circunstances we can apply this patterns
This patterns are major and minor scales....correct?
Android version??
FOUR-NOTES ARPEGGIOS VERTICAL SHAPES!
Vertical shapes of some of the principal seventh-chords arpeggios. Notice that you can derive two different shapes from those containing a same note on the 2nd and 3rd strings.
All shapes obtained automatically with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Is all of this already in guitar layers or do I have to copy this into GL?
The world need this thing on windows.
Anamika Tamuli
Natiq Kamilov
IT'S TIME TO STUDY A NEW TUNE!
Visualizing arpeggios inside scales is a powerful way to learn how to play over chord changes, avoiding that scales sound simply like scales!
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How are you using iReal Pro with GuitarLayers? They donβt work together do they?
MAJOR SCALE HARMONIZED WITH INVERSIONS
E major scale harmonized with drop2 diatonic chords and related inversions on higher strings sets.
Harmonization, inversions and layering automatically obtained with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Here's an interesting and practical guide about MODAL SHAPES, from Craig Smith, director of lifein12keys.com guitar blog.
Enjoy! π
Guitar Modes β A Practical Guide To Modal Shapes | Life In 12 Keys
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Practical guide to learning guitar mode shapes across the guitar neck. Includes Free 16 Page PDF Guitar Mode mini-book.MINOR PENTATONIC 3 NOTES-PER-STRING SHAPES
Whether you play them by shifting your hand, by stretching your fingers, or simply by reaching some notes with tasty strings bendings,
these unconventional shapes can be very useful to take your pentatonic playing to the next level.
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Make one for PC or Android π soon and take my money.
I love the Mac version but would love an iOS app to share shapes back and forth
Brad Gill You should start your scale learning journey from this illustration
love it
Exactly what I have been working on lately thanks
James Pryor
GastΓ³n Maydan
[Quick Tip] If you have trouble with chords inversions, guitarLayers allows you to calculate automatically inversions for any kind of chord, on a given string set, in real time.
First select the string set you want to visualize the inversion on, and then select the inversions with the related button (or the < > arrows).
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![[Quick Tip] If you have trouble with chords inversions, guitarLayers allows you to calculate automatically inversions for any kind of chord, on a given string set, in real time.
First select the string set you want to visualize the inversion on, and then select the inversions with the related button (or the < > arrows).
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FROM MINOR 7th ARPEGGIO TO MINOR SCALES!
Starting from the four-notes m7 arpeggio, obtaining the principal minor scales by gradually adding some degrees to each of its five CAGED shapes.
(All shapes automatically generated with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com)
I appreciate your posts they are a great help, keep up the good work
Great Posts
Ivon Magbanua
Having a good time learning and teaching with guitarLayers! π
Exploring some tricky Rootless Chord voicings and related inversions with guitarLayers: C F G E = Dmin 11
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To Windows please!
Please make it available on Google play store
I still haven't figured out how to use this app
MELODIC MINOR DIATONIC ARPEGGIOS!
Here five Melodic Minor Scale shapes harmonized with one-octave diatonic arpeggios. Practice them as a sequence and use each single arpeggio to break the linear sound of the scale when improvising.
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MINOR PENTATONIC & "BLUE" NOTES!
Some additional colors (degrees) you can add to your pentatonic Five Shapes to play the blues.
Do not play them as a sequence,
but listen from records and from the greatest players how to play and feel each of them.
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"Life isn't all me. I have a family to support.
I can't rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something." - George Benson
Minor Scales: OBLIQUE SHAPES!
These shapes are obtained by setting a convenient three/four notes-per-string distribution. Apply the same concept to every scale you might want to play along the whole fretboard!
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C Harmonic minor scale 7 chords please tell me
Are you planning on putting the app on Android or PC?
The the guitar layer app available for Windows operating system?
Mike Champ Rocher
Richard Frisby
Eliezar Cadacio
It's not so useful if it's only for Mac...
Same Notes, Different Chords!
This four-notes chord and its related inversions can work, at least, as 4 different chord qualities: Cmaj7 (b5) - Am6 (9) - D7 (9,13) - Ab7 (#5,#9). The degrees help to understand why. π
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How many ways to play a Major Scale?
Here some of the most used shapes: 5 Basic, 12 Vertical, 7 three notes-per-strings, 7 two notes-per-strings. Enjoy π
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Do you have to learn them with specific fingerings or can you work out the easiest way to finger them on your own
Javier Quesada #allright
Open Triads Beauty
Try this open triads progression. Consider also to play it by adding the B and E higher open strings. π
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F Harmonic Major scale automatically harmonized with 4-notes chords and related inversions on the first string set.
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The Diminished H/W scale suites very well to improvise over altered dominant chords but also over minor chords pedals in order to obtain a sort of IN-OUT sound.
Here its symmetrical Vertical Shapes along the whole fretboard.
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βLearn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.β - Pablo Picasso
usavo mac adesso windows non si puo avere l'app pure li?
Frank Zappa explained a similar concept.
[Quick Tip] The "Copy Current to Clipboard" function allows you to copy Groups of Fretboards and paste them after a Group belonging to the same project or to a different project.
You can do the same with single Fretboards or Layers by selecting "Copy Current to Clipboard" and "Paste After from Clipboard" from the "Fretboards "and "Layers" menus.
Wishing you a new year rich with the blessings of love, joy, and tons of music and guitars! πΈπΈπΈ
The IIm7 - V7 - Imaj7 progression is one of the most common chord progressions you can find in tunes of all genres, from popular to jazz music.
Here three chord-scales shapes, very common among jazz musicians, to improvise on a Cm7 - F7 - Bbmaj7 progression.
Practice with them and find your own sound ππ
