What do y'all think?

Paleo

Paleo

Student Of The Blues
ChrisGSP said:
Isn't that what Griff calls the 3 + 2 pattern?
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Yepper!! AKA the extended, sliding and stair step pentatonic pattern, i.e. "extended" from one position to the next horizontally rather than playing across the neck vertically in a "Box".
 
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Paleo

Paleo

Student Of The Blues
And in "Soloing Without Scales" Lesson 16 - Blues Block #3.

He shows how the "block" repeats and "extends" starting on page 96.
 
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snarf

snarf

making guitars wish they were still trees
I had a face teacher for about a minute a couple of years ago. Out of all the lessons I took with him, the two things that I took from him were that he introduced me to a LOT of great music that I had never heard (although he never believed me when I told him I had never heard it before) and this little scale pattern. He called it the magic scale. Turns out, although I wouldn't say it's magic, it is pretty handy.
 
Rancid Rumpboogie

Rancid Rumpboogie

Blues Mangler
Well, handy as it may be, I have been totally lick-oriented, and none of the hundreds of licks I know use this, they are all "box patterns", some moving from box to box, but always staying in those box patterns, no matter who those licks came from. I agree 600% with Griff's recent email about "Improvising", so about the only use I will have for this is to develop smooth transitions from a Box 1 lick to, say, a Box 5 lick ... and practice that until it becomes another lick of its own, familiar to me and practiced. Not something to just use randomly. In other words, if you don't know where you're going you will end up somewhere else. :)
 
sdbrit68

sdbrit68

Student Of The Blues
Rancid Rumpboogie said:
Well, handy as it may be, I have been totally lick-oriented, and none of the hundreds of licks I know use this, they are all "box patterns", some moving from box to box, but always staying in those box patterns, no matter who those licks came from. I agree 600% with Griff's recent email about "Improvising", so about the only use I will have for this is to develop smooth transitions from a Box 1 lick to, say, a Box 5 lick ... and practice that until it becomes another lick of its own, familiar to me and practiced. Not something to just use randomly. In other words, if you don't know where you're going you will end up somewhere else. :)
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Where I see a use for this, I know a ton of licks, my weakness is transitioning and staying melodic, I think the use here for me is the transitional aspect of it, not necessarily a lick of its own
 
Rancid Rumpboogie

Rancid Rumpboogie

Blues Mangler
sdbrit68 said:
Where I see a use for this, I know a ton of licks, my weakness is transitioning and staying melodic, I think the use here for me is the transitional aspect of it, not necessarily a lick of its own
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Well, you have to fit that transition in with the timing of the piece, connect one end to the exit of one lick and connect the other to your target lick. If you can do that all off the cuff, on the fly, and have it all flow with your melody, without practicing it a few times so you know what it will sound like before you play it, you're a better man than I. :) And lately when it comes to my guitar playing, I'm not feeling very manly, but more or less wimply. :confused:
 
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