MODES: chord/scale mapping
Here some diagrams containing Dorian and Mixolydan shapes mapped respectively over some minor 7th and dominant 7th chord shapes along the fretboard.
All shapes, scale modes, layering automatically obtained with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Cool. Too bad there's no windows version.
Bucky Pizzarelli, a tasteful sage of jazz guitar who spent the first phase of his career as a prolific session player and the last phase as a celebrated patriarch, died on Wednesday in Saddle River.
N.J. Guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli, his oldest son and regular musical partner, said the cause was the coronavirus. He was 94. 😢 RIP Bucky...
Teachers doing powerful online guitar lessons with guitarLayers 😉
Want to know more about the Diminished Scale?
Read the article, see the video and learn how the amazing young guitarist Matteo Mancuso uses this scale to perform some of his killer guitar licks!
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Matteo Mancuso favorite Diminished Scale shape, with arpeggios inside it, analyzed and mapped on the freyboard with guitarLayers.Will you do an iPad version ?
Matteo Mancuso killer lick on the Diminished Scale
This video shows young iper-talended guitarist Matteo Mancuso on his introductory lick on "The Chiken". Matteo combines a typical 4th’s pattern on the diminished h/w scale with some arpeggios built with the notes of the scale. The result, empowered by Matteo’s astonishing natural technicque and musical feeling, is insane!
Stay tuned for the full article.
Matteo uses guitarLayers and is a guitarLayers artist. guitarlayers.com
We are proud to announce that the brilliant Matteo Mancuso is among the guitarLayers supporters and artists.
Check out Matteo's unique and astonishing technique, the quality, and the versatility of his phrasing!
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This dude is a beast! #fthepick
Minor (Maj7) Arpeggio
12 Vertical Shapes
All shapes automatically obtained with GuitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Funny I just discovered the beauty if Min/Maj7 and now this!
Any IOS or Windows version planed ?
Half Diminished Arpeggio
Vertical Shapes
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All shapes obtained automatically with GuitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Always wondering what these Chords/arpeggios were called. Benny Weinman from The Dillinger Escape Plan uses them alot!
Voice Leading on Stella by Starlight
A great video tutorial about voice leading using Drop 2 and no Drop voicing by Italian jazz guitarist Fabrizio Brusca. All voicings in this video are automatically generated with guitarLayers. Fabrizio is a very good musician and advanced GL user. Enjoy!
En esta ocasión te propongo aprender a utilizar la vieja escala pentatónica menor para conseguir diferentes sonoridades. Ello implica ubicarla a diferentes distancias de la fundamental y sobre todo, aprender a frasear de un modo diferente y a resolver en la nota deseada. Hay muchísimo por aprender aquí! Lección completa con esta y más opciones en el Blog:
carlosvicentblog.com/2015/02/09/multiplicando-la-pentatonica-menor-por-12/
Guitar Layer for PC Please!! 🙏
A basic video guide about Cmaj7 arpeggio shapes, by Chilean guitarist Alvaro Severino Ramirez using guitarLayers.
Arpeggio shapes obtained automatically with guitarlayers according to some user costraints (e.g. NPS, number of frets, string set etc.) guitarlayers.com
Minor 6th Drop2 Voicings
Hi friends! Here minor 6th voicings and inversions on three string sets, showed by degree.
All voicings and inversions on strings sets generated automatically with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Any news on realising the software for pc this year? Thanks
Rare photos of...
Quinten Evans
Not rare. I have all of these & much more .
Jimi ❤️
Jimi Hendrix in the airborne infantry.
How do you use a shape like this?
The answer depends on harmony and is not that obvious for many
Natural minor scale,/dorian mode/c major scale/mixolydian mode/locrian mode
Its minor scale..
Choose your root first... 😝
Interested, kindly do some demo on how u do it? Thanks
Squeeze your fingers
Can anyone make a video using this pattern and how to apply? Thank you and much appreciated 👍
Aeolien
... Anyway I preferably use this pattern as a Dorian mode
Natural minor scale
A / F#m
Just play what you feel.
C / Am and my favorite G / Em
I used guitarLayers to create this scale lesson (with many others linked) lifein12keys.com/guitar-modes-guide-to-modal-shapes/
Double Drop D tuning
DADGBD
Now guitarLayers supports (and can find chords on) some of the most common drop tunings: here's a beautiful sounding Gm6 chord 😉
Per i followers italiani, ecco una recensione di guitarLayers da lachitarrafelice.it
For our Italian followers. here's a guitarLayers review from Italian website lachitarrafelice.it
Un nuovo modo per insegnare e imparare a suonare la chitarra - Lachitarrafelice
lachitarrafelice.it
Disponibile solo su Apple Store, guitarLayers offre nuove possibilità di insegnamento e apprendimento a un costo tutto sommato conveniente. Ci siamo imbattuti in una app che è davvero interessante; si tratta di guitarLayers ideata da moreOrless music. Meglio dirlo subito, possono farne uso solt...Guitarlayers for windows and android please!!
"You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest." - Andrés Segovia
The Master.
Voodoo Blues Scale
Teachers creating interesting lessons by mapping uncommon scales with guitarLayers 😉En esta lección te quiero hablar de un sonido blues tan común como interesante: la escala Voodoo Blues. La estructura interna es totalmente idéntica a una escala de blues menor (1 b3 4 b5 5 b7) a excepción de la b7, que se sustituye por la 6. (1 b3 4 b5 5 6) Es sorprendente como cambiar una sola nota en un grupo de sonidos puede tener un efecto tan notable!
carlosvicentblog.com/2018/02/05/la-escala-voodoo-blues/
Mary ThePhoenix Di Canito Ignazio Schirone
Today exploring arpeggios inside scales with guitarLayers 😉
The Minor Bebop Scale (Five Shapes)
Here's one of the most used scales among jazz players and exploited today by guitarist of all genres.
All shapes and notes degrees automatically obtained with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Thank you 🙂
Thank you
thank you
Thanks
Thank you!
Lovely thnx
Looks like a C Dorian scale with the added major 3rd ..
C-7 e F7 bebop
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Yassine Ezz..
Harmonic Major Scale
Here the Harmonic Major scale Vertical Shapes showing notes degrees and the same vertical shapes without repeated notes respectively on the 2rd and 3nd string.
All shapes automatically obtained with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
New 2.3.0 update available on the App Store!
With this update you can now work with the following tunings:
Guitar 6 Strings C G C F A D (Drop C)
Guitar 6 Strings D A D G B E (Drop D)
Guitar 6 Strings D A D G B D (Double Drop D)
Guitar 6 Strings C G C G C E (Open C)
Guitar 6 Strings D A D F# A D (Open D)
Guitar 6 Strings E B E G# B E (Open E)
Guitar 6 Strings D G D G B D (Open G)
Guitar 6 Strings E A E A C# E (Open A)
Guitar 6 Strings D G C G C D (Open Page)
Guitar 6 Strings C A C G C E (C6)
Guitar 6 Strings D A D G A D (Celtic)
Guitar 8 Strings A D G D G C E A
Guitar 8 Strings A E A D G B E A
C Diminished Scale
Constructing a C Diminished Scale shape with a convenient custom notes-per-string distribution (1 4 4 2 4 3)
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Pentatonic Scales inside the Lydian Mode
Interesting lesson about Lydian Mode and related Pentatonic scales, with guitarLayers 😉El modo Lidio, alberga la posibilidad de tocar tres escalas pentatónicas sin incluir ninguna nota que se salga de la sonoridad.
Modo Lidio: 1 2 3 #4 5 6 7
Pentatónica mayor desde el grado I: 1 2 3 5 6
Pentatónica mayor desde el grado II: 2 3 #4 6 7
Pentatónica mayor desde el grado V: 2 3 5 6 7
En esta lección lo explico e incluyo diagramas para este y los otros seis modos griegos:
carlosvicentblog.com/2017/11/13/pentatonicas-contenidas-en-modos-diatonicos/
Izzy W Starr ....... lol.... wot was I blabbing on about the other day?😉 Pentatonic scales within Lydian....
Young and promising student in a classroom with guitarLayers 😉Young and promising student in a classroom with guitarLayers 🙂
pity this app/software is only available on mac and not windows....would love to have it....
Happy Birthday (some days ago) to one of the most important and influential jazz guitarist in history, Mr. Pat Martino!
There would be no modern jazz guitarist without him today.
Three-Note Voicings
It is not that uncommon, among jazz musicians, to use three-note chords that can work as more complex chords structures.
Three-notes chords often are more handy and essential and, if we have the ability to obtain quickly their inversions, we can obtain a lot of voicings that can work as seventh chords.
In the picture below we have the notes C D Ab that can work as: Amin (maj7), Fm6, E7 (b13), Bb7 (9).
Try yourself the sound ! 😉
All three-notes chords, their inversions on string sets and their equivalent seventh-chords, are automatically generated with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Arpeggios inside the Major Scale
One of the most clicked posts on guitarLayers page...
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Magda Alexandra Grieco
Noel Carlon
🎶.Very good 🎸👏👏👏👏
Sviluppate per android, grazie.
Please make it available for windows
Handy!
Introducing guitarLayers
I love Guitar Layers! When for Ipad?
When will this be available on android?
we will inform you about that
Waiting for this for iPhone and iPad .
Melodic Minor Scale MODES: 3 NOTES-PER-STRINGS
Melodic minor scale and its Modes are generally used to play, with no "avoid notes", over some specific chords with certain tensions as showed below:
C melodic minor -> Cm (maj7)
D phrygian natural 6 -> D7 sus4 (b9)
Eb lydian augmented -> Eb maj7 (#5)
F lydian dominant -> F 7 (#11)
G mixolydian b13 -> G7 (b13)
A locrian natural 2 -> A min7 b5 (9)
B superlocrian -> B7 altered
All scale modes and note-per-string distribution, automatically obtained with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Somebody help me to understand this
Vindell Smith
Fernando Marín , José Caballero Olivares
Lost as hell on this !! Where do place my damn fingers!!!
Overlapping scales & related chords
Automatically finding chords (and inversions) that harmonize Melodic Minor Modes.
Overlapping chords with melodic minor scales shapes, all 12 keys, with guitarLayers.
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Modes of the Melodic Minor Scale
(visualized by degrees)
Melodic minor scale and its Modes are generally used to play, with no "avoid notes", over some specific chords with certain tensions as showed below:
C melodic minor -> Cm (maj7)
D phrygian natural 6 -> D7 sus4 (b9)
Eb lydian augmented -> Eb maj7 (#5)
F lydian dominant -> F 7 (#11)
G mixolydian b13 -> G7 (b13)
A locrian natural 2 -> A min7 b5 (9)
B superlocrian -> B7 altered
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Vertical CAGED shapes, scale's modes and scale's visualization by degrees automatically obtained with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Thanks!
Personally, I use this knowledge for triad pair improvisation. B altered: play A dim B dim, or C minor D minor, or Fmaj G maj. Other combinations eg with Eb aug are also possible of course, but using 2 neighbouring triads of the same quality saves thinking while playing.
Thanks great info
Personally, I prefer 3 notes per strings. I really don't find these 4 notes/2 notes patterns useful at all
Santina
Amazing! Thank you for this
Excelente información
Danny Holloway
Thanks for sharing this one. Interesting stuff to study. 👍👍👍
My mind has blown with it😁😅still learning...
Romain GuitarCook Morlot
Thanks A Ton
Any chance of an iPhone app?
This is very helpful. I am still having problems putting my arms and ears around the sound of this scale and how to really use it. Trying though!!
Rad thanks
Thank you so much 🙂
Pentatonic Scale on Two Strings
Visualizing scales horizontally on the fretboard allows us to play them exploring new melodic ideas and new intervallic patterns.
Here a C minor Pentatonic Scale on sets of Two adjacent strings and sets of Two alternate strings for string skipping approach .
Explore them, find your way and please... Share!
Scale copied on multiple fretboard and arranged on string sets automatically with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Minor Seventh Chord Substitution
In many situations, where we have a bass player, we can avoid to play the root and substitute it with the ninth.
If you apply this process to all the inversions of a minor seventh chord you will come up with the inversions of a major seventh chord, as you can see on the diagrams.
So that, any major seventh chord and its inversions can work as substitution of a minor seventh chord. (e.g. Cm7 -> Ebmaj7)
Substitutions process, inversions on strings sets and chord identification, obtained automatically with guitarLayers guitarLayers.com
Gian Patrick Peñafiel
2 5 1 Minor Progression in C
Five Scales Shapes + Arpeggios in C
For guitarLayers users: on the forum the .exgl file containing Five Scales Shapes + Arpeggios in C. Import it with guitarLayers, then clone it to edit and transpose shapes in all keys. Use keys modifiers [Shift] + [Ctrl] to transpose automatically shapes of all fretboards in a group!
www.guitarlayers.com/forum/main-forum/
![2 5 1 Minor Progression in C
Five Scales Shapes + Arpeggios in C
For guitarLayers users: on the forum the .exgl file containing Five Scales Shapes + Arpeggios in C. Import it with guitarLayers, then clone it to edit and transpose shapes in all keys. Use keys modifiers [Shift] + [Ctrl] to transpose automatically shapes of all fretboards in a group!
https://www.guitarlayers.com/forum/main-forum/](https://scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/65010892_1239934616178530_1838638854756630528_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=Q3kMOCDPAtgAX-FwqHB&_nc_ht=scontent-mxp1-1.xx&_nc_tp=7&oh=5a698ac5fea48f4b49f3dd96d7a7f66c&oe=5EB368E0)
2 5 1 Minor Progression
Today (and not just today!) learning how to improvise over this must-know progression, in Twelve Keys, by visualizing scale-arpeggio shapes in Twelve Positions!
Scale-arpeggio vertical shapes, overlapping, transposition in all keys and in all positions automatically obtained with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Where do you get this? I bought the program already.
Damn, nothing for iOS, i would purchase this in a split-second! 😞😞😞
Thanks to the great guitarist and guitar teacher Kenny Serane from Montréal, Canada! 😉
Diatonic Sixths Intervals
An interesting lesson from the Chilean guitarist Alvaro Severino Ramirez about diatonic intervals using guitarLayers.
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.” - Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
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Triads inside Melodic Minor:
Second inversion
Here we have triads, in Second Inversion, inside each one of the five melodic minor scale shapes.
For those who missed them, look at the previous posts on the page to download the same scale harmonization with triads in Root Position and First Inversion.
All shapes, scale harmonization, triad inversions, scale-arpeggio overlapping automatically generated with guitarLayers. guitarlayers.com
Shell Voicings
Shell voicings are the most basic seventh chords shapes on the guitar. They are seven chords without the 5th degree.
Here you can see the most common shapes of the Cmaj7, C7 and Cmin7 chords with the root on the 5th strings (yellow shapes) and with the root on 6th string (blue shapes).
Diagrams automatically obtained with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Parametric Notes-Per-String number (NPS)
With guitarLayers it is possible to create shapes with a desired number of notes for each string.
This can help you to obtain symmetrical scale or arpeggio shapes along the entire fretboard and, above all, to make your right hand picking more fluent.
In the example below we have 4 NPS descending C Bebop Minor scale, try it yourself! (Scale diagram in comment below)
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Open Strings Voicings
Here a good sounding Abm9 voicing with open B string, enjoy 😉
This open-string voicing automatically obtained with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Diminished Open Triads
Open Triads, or Drop2 Triads, provide a great way for you to expand your chord vocabulary beyond the usual chord shapes. They can also be used as arpeggios to create interesting single-note lines. Diminished open triads formula showed by degrees is: 1 b5 b3, b3 1 b5, b5 b3 1.
On the guitar these voicings can be arranged on three different ways that correspond to different strings sets.
Here we have Diminished Open Triad voicing on three different string sets.
All triads inversions and drop voicings on string sets automatically generated with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
So What
Today workout: practicing with some triads inside the dorian mode on this Miles Davis classic
Still waiting for Android version..............
I would buy the hell out of this software if it came out for PC or Android...
Minor Open Triads
Open Triads, or Drop2 Triads, provide a great way for you to expand your chord vocabulary beyond the usual chord shapes. They can also be used as arpeggios to create interesting single-note lines. Minor open triads formula showed by degrees is: 1 5 b3, b3 1 5, 5 b3 1.
On the guitar these voicings can be arranged on three different ways that correspond to different strings sets.
Here we have Minor Open Triad voicing on three different string sets.
All triads inversions and drop voicings on string sets automatically generated with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Mac Only ???
What does drop 2 mean I'm old school
How can I get this for myself? Where do I sign up?
Major Open Triads
Open Triads, or Drop2 Triads, provide a great way for you to expand your chord vocabulary beyond the usual chord shapes. They can also be used as arpeggios to create interesting single-note lines. The open triads formula showed by degrees is: 1 5 3, 3 1 5, 5 3 1.
On the guitar these voicings can be arranged on three different ways that correspond to different strings sets.
Here we have Major Open Triad voicing on three different string sets.
All triads inversions and drop voicings on string sets automatically generated with guitarLayers guitarlayers.com
Do I need this to start a Jackyl tribute band?
Isn't she lovely?
It's time to study how to improvise on this beautiful classic from Steve Wonder learning scales-chords relations on the fretboard 😉
"I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval." - Jeff Beck
The Lydian Triad
The widely followed guitar teacher and blogger Carlos Vicent uses guitarLayers to generate inversions of non-conventional triads on different strings sets: here an interesting lesson about the lydian triad.
With guitarLayers it is possible to obtain automatically inversions of non common three-notes and four notes structures, on the string sets. guitarlayers.com
carlosvicentblog.com
El modo lidio es básicamente una escala mayor natural con una cuarta aumentada (#4 o #11). Es precisamente ese sonido el que hace de él algo característico. El acorde que se construye…Drop 2&3 and Drop 2&4 voicings
and related inversions
Talking about seven chords, Drop 2&3 and Drop 2&4 voicings are less common then Drop2 and Drop3 ones but they can be very useful in some contexts.
Drop 2&3 are a closed structure (1357) where the third note from the top, as well as the second note are both lowered an octave, resulting in 3517.
Drop 2&4 are a closed structure (1357) where the fourth note from the top, as well as the second note are both lowered an octave, resulting in 1537.
Here the Cmaj7 Drop 2&3 and Drop 2&4 voicings and related inversions, use them as starting point to derive other chord types.
All drop voicings and their inversions are automatically generated and transposed on different string sets with guitarlayers guitarlayers.com
Melodic Minor harmonized with Triads
on four String Sets
In the previous post we've published the Melodic minor scale harmonization with triads inside the five vertical shapes. Here we have the same harmonization, horizontally, along the fretboard, organized on four string sets. Ask your teacher how to use them! 😉
All shapes, shapes overlapping, scale harmonization and string set selection automatically obtained with guitarLayers. guitarlayers.com
Cheers guys 🍻 I rely on diagrams like this if I ever want to learn anything at all 👌
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"If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you’ll make the news or something.
But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you’ll get to where you want to be.” - Eddie Van Halen
Triads inside Melodic Minor:
First Inversion
Here we have triads, in their First Inversion, inside each one of the five melodic minor scale shapes.
For those who missed it, look at the previous post on the page to download the same scale harmonization with triads in Root Position!
All shapes, scale harmonization, triad inversions, scale-arpeggio overlapping automatically generated with guitarLayers. guitarlayers.com
“I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.” - John Coltrane
Diatonic Triads inside Melodic Minor scale
Here three-notes diatonic arpeggios inside each one of the five melodic minor scale shapes.
This material can be used as practicing daily routine, to best learn triads and to break the linear sound of the scale when improvising with the melodic minor scale.
Next work will be Melodic Minor diatonic triads horizontally along string sets: so... stay tuned!
All shapes, scale harmonization, scale-arpeggio overlapping automatically generated with guitarLayers. guitarlayers.com
Is there an android version of the app?
You're amazing
Any aap for guittar play training a to z
What chord is it?
These four notes can work as different kind of chords, try to give us some chord names 😉
C7b9, Bb dim(add 9), Db min/maj 13
C7b9
C7b9... Santina Lanza
Very good answers from you guys! 💪💪💪 Here's the guitarLayers analysis, searching equivalent chords among "complete" four-note structures, with both the 3rd and the 7th. But of course it could be also an incomplete A7 etc...
Bb 5?
No root A7b9#9 or C7b9 drop 2 voicing
C7 b9
C7(b9) , Bbdim(add9) , Dbm6(Maj7) , Gb7(#11) ?
E has to be named Fb, so it could be Bb minor 9. Bb is root 1, Db is minor third, Fb is fifth, C is ninth.
C 7/b9
F#m9-5
A7
For me, it has a kind of Db melodic minor sound. But used isolated as a chord, I would probably used it as a C7b9 or a Bbø7(♮9).
"I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument." - Bill Frisell
Melodic Minor Scale - Twelve Keys
Here the Melodic Minor scale: five shapes with the general degrees map and five shapes along the fretboard, with notes names, transposed in each of the twelve keys.
All shapes automatically generated and transposed with guitarLayers. guitarlayers.com
Gian Patrick Peñafiel, eto na yun pre. Like mo page.
Have You Met Miss Jones?
Today workout: practicing some scales and arpeggios over the chords of this well known jazz standard
Grazie maestro! Sarà fatto.
www.facebook.com/antimaterialainvisiblepreencia/videos/10154515361527034/UzpfSTU5MDAxNzAzMzoxMDE1... great!
good I like
PC?
Arpeggios obtained by stacking proper intervals
Here a Bbmaj13 arpeggio, with a modified note order, obtained by stacking 5th and 4th intervals.
Play these intervals, from the bottom to the top one, as arpeggio sequence and you will get a typical Steve Vai's riff with repeated notes 😉
This intro is a nice variation on this idea youtu.be/rsTXN6KK3Mg
I use this idea to develop an interesting arpeggio formula! Great analysis
Would love to see the stacking of theses notes!’
Harmonic Minor diatonic arpeggios
(the remaining six shapes!)
As promised, here the remaining six (of twelve) Harmonic Minor Scale vertical shapes harmonized with one-octave diatonic arpeggios.
Download the first six shapes from the previous post on this page in case you have missed them.
Practice them as a sequence and use each single arpeggio to break the linear sound of the scale when improvising.
Stay tuned for other micro lessons and diagrams 😉
All shapes, overlappings, scale harmonization and arpeggio fragments are automatically generated with guitarLayers. guitarlayers.com
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Harmonic Minor diatonic arpeggios
(six of twelve shapes)
Here six Harmonic Minor Scale vertical 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.
Stay tuned for the remaining six vertical shapes! 😉
All shapes, overlappings, scale harmonization and arpeggio fragments are automatically generated with guitarLayers. guitarlayers.com
Yngwie Malmsteen,
one of the kings of the harmonic minor scale
Here two B harmonic minor, three/four NPS, descending shapes that can work also as Phrygian Dominant mode over a F#7 chord.
All scale shapes and their parametric notes-per-string distribution automatically obtained with guitarLayers. guitarlayers.com
Sorry, someone can explain me what is a parametric note? Thanks
Diatonic 6ths intervals
In major and minor scales there are two types of Diatonic 6ths: major and minor. Major 6th has distance of four whole steps and one half step. Minor 6th has four whole steps distance between two notes.
In this video Chilean guitarist and teacher Alvaro Severino shows us some interesting exercises with 6ths intervals using guitarLayers. guitarlayers.com
İt is natural major ?
The Girl From Ipanema
A first approach lesson using guitarLayers, from "Life in 12 Keys" guitar blog showing us how to improvise on this timeless tune.
7 Essential Jazz Guitar Chords and Scale Study – The Girl From Ipanema | Life In 12 Keys
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Essential jazz guitar chords and scales, shapes and guitar lesson. Includes free PDF for The Girl From Ipanema.The Lydian Dominant Scale
The Lydian Dominant is one of the melodic minor scale's modes. Due to its #4 degree, this scale has a characteristic sound when used to improvise over dominant seventh chords. Here five CAGED plus seven 3 NPS chord/scale shapes to practice with.
All shapes, notes-per-string distributions, chords inversions and chord/scale overlappings automatically obtained with guitarLayers. guitarlayers.com
What is NPS chords?
Love lydian dominant. Thanks.
Awesome! I recently wrote a lesson using Lydian Dominant and guitarLayers here: lifein12keys.com/7-essential-jazz-guitar-chords-the-girl-from-ipanema/
Triads & Inversions
(major, minor, augmented, diminished)
By following diagrams belonging to a row you will be able to see how to connect inversions vertically, along the string sets.
By following diagrams belonging to a column you will be able to see inversions on a given string set.
All diagrams, inversions and overlappings are automatically obtained with guitarLayers. guitarlayers.com
Minor Pentatonic over 2 5 1 progression
With this mini lesson French guitarist Romain Pilon show us how to improvise on a 2 5 1 progression using a G minor pentatonic over a Cm7, a Ab minor pentatonic over a F7 and a A minor pentatonic over a Bbmaj7.
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"Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins." - Dizzy Gillespie
Two-hands tapping, 6 NPS shapes
Taking inspiration from a today mini lesson on instagram by the great guitarist Daniele Gottardo, here some six note-per-string scales shapes, playable with both two-hands tapping and strings skipping techniques, using 1-2-3 and 1-2-4 pattern for the right hand.
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those patterns are originally from a lesson that accompanied an interview with Jennifer batten in guitar player magazine...back then there were only 4 main tappers...eddie van halen,steve lynch.,Stanley Jordan and Jennifer...those patterns were u play on every alternate string are jennifers approach
Look at the fret numbers
Ok so I only just found I could do this the other day after practicing hammer ons and pull offs for a few months, my questions is with the right hand, how do you know which fret to be tapping at?
Two notes-per-string arpeggios
From Django Reinhardt to Paul Gilbert, two notes-per string arpeggios have been used as useful alternative to the common vertical shapes. Here some shapes, choose those that can work best for you!
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"It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it" - John Frusciante
My favourite guitarist and musician, hands down.
The Chromatic Scale
Here some common ways to play a C chromatic scale: vertical shapes and four notes-per-string shapes.
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Playing the Major Scale in Thirds
One of the most common practicing routine with scales is to play them by following a given intervalic scheme. In this video the Cilean guitarist and teacher AlvaroSeverino shows us some different and useful ways to play the major scale in thirds.
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Harmonic Minor & Diminished arpeggio
Harmonic minor scale is a must-know scale played by musicians of all genres, from Charlie Parker to Yngwie Malmsteen.
Using this scale, musicians often play the four-notes diminished arpeggio contained inside it.
Here some commonly used shapes of the scale and the arpeggio: five shapes, 3NPS shapes and two interesting oblique shapes.
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Wes using Maj9 arpeggios
Maj9 arpeggios can be used over a min7 chord to extend its sound with the ninth and the eleventh.
For example, on a Cm7 chord (C Eb G Bb) you can play a Eb Maj9 arpeggio (Eb G Bb D F).
Here a beautiful excerpt of Wes Montgomery playing Nica's Dream using a Db Maj9 arpeggio over a Bb min7 chord and a B Maj9 arpeggio over a Ab min7 chord.
In order to find it easly, each arpeggio as been mapped inside the dorian scale of each chord.
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