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
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.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/65010892_1239934616178530_1838638854756630528_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_oc=AQlKX8_8WRtdLGMT-2S4wPJeqFiwPgTgDukKV-zWqV52c2Rg8VMX6O4M5N5wL1PiWVA&_nc_ht=scontent.xx&oh=8d48632b9344985021d46cd0aec425f8&oe=5D7D65A0)
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.
AlvaroSeverino
lección 6°. intervalos de 6° diatonicas para tu rutina diaria
“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
I would buy the hell out of this software if it came out for PC or Android...
Still waiting for Android version..............
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
How can I get this for myself? Where do I sign up?
What does drop 2 mean I'm old school
Mac Only ???
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
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
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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
You're amazing
Is there an android version of the app?
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 😉
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...
C7b9, Bb dim(add 9), Db min/maj 13
Bb 5?
C7b9
C7b9... Santina Lanza
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
Have You Met Miss Jones?
Today workout: practicing some scales and arpeggios over the chords of this well known jazz standard
www.facebook.com/antimaterialainvisiblepreencia/videos/10154515361527034/UzpfSTU5MDAxNzAzMzoxMDE1... great!
good I like
Grazie maestro! Sarà fatto.
PC?