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Strengthen your fingers with these 3 Basic Exercises Beginner, (intermediate and advanced guitar lesson)
Whether you are a seasoned guitarist or a beginner starting from scratch, you always need to keep working with finger strength and build up dexterity with both left hand and right hand technique, especially left hand fingering. If you want to be proficient and execute lines with proficiency you need to exercise your fingers the same way an athlete or a marathon runner that works out to keep in shape. You work out to maintain or build muscle. The same goes for your left hand fingers, you need to practice and warm up with etudes and chromatic exercises that will do that for you. The newbie guitarist can definitely benefit from performing these studies and the intermediate and advanced player can use them to keep their technique and finger strength in check. It is important to try to play them every day or at least 5 days a week. You can take 2 days off and give your fingers a rest, but any more than that, can set you back to the beginning and you lose your speed that you built up with the metronome. Even if you neglect these exercises for a month because you don’t have time to practice or you need to work on other aspects of your guitar playing. It shouldn’t take you long to build up to where you once were. If you internalized and memorized the exercise studies all you have to worry about finger muscle memory. Not having to relearn the pattern allows you to get right back into it and they are fairly easy to memorize. Start with a slow warm up tempo then gradually work your way up to a faster tempo and stay there for a while until you can bring the exercise up to an even faster pace. Even if you haven’t practiced the exercise for a month you should be able to recall the correct passage of notes from memory. If you can’t do this, please try to commit it to memory, it will make life easier for you. This way you can concentrate on playing in time and at the correct tempo. If you are thinking about the notes or looking at sheet music you are giving your mind extra work. Not having to think about the notes will relieve the mind of any mental stresses and allow you to work and concentrate on the task at hand, (speed and technique).
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Peavey has a nice
line of guitars with Marvel characters painted on to their solid body
electric guitars. The video clip below is a demonstration of the Spiderman 3/4 guitar and the sound
quality I must is say not bad for a lower end model guitar.
Normally when you think of guitars with cartoon charters or superheroes
on it you immediately think of plastic or toy guitars. Not these guitars
they are real instruments and are well worth the price. The price range
is in the $400's and I'm sure it is well worth the price than paying for a
plastic fisher price model. The usual price for beginner guitars is
between $150 and $200. Obviously $400 is a little bitmore, but keep in mind you are paying for the artwork and the Marvel identity. I'm sure Peavey won’t keep these in circulation for long or mass produce them, which
is good news for comic collectors. This will only mean that in the
future 50 years from now you could probably sell one of these babies on
EBay for $20000 and upwards because there weren't that many produced. For a beginner model my rating would be 8 out of 10. The rating is based on the overall sound of the guitar. The artwork
and look is definitely a 10 out of 10. I’m going to buy a couple
guitars for myself. One of them I will keep locked away as a collector’s
item just in case it’s worth something in the future. The second model I
will probably customize it and soup it up with high end pickups and put some Sperzel tuning machines in the head stock.
I’m sure if you decide to buy one of these for someone who loves the Marvel Universe and who loves electric guitars they will end up being very happy about your gift of choice. Especially on Christmas morning or even as birthday gift you can’t go wrong. The list below are some of the other choices of Marvel charters to choose from. Below are all the Marvel guitars are available on our Amazon associates links.
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Here is my featured lick: F Lydian over the F maj or F maj 7 Chord
Starting this month I’m going to feature a monthly modal lick. Our first star comes from the C major scale. Instead of starting in order I’m going to mix it up a bit, beginning with my favorite mode the F Lydian scale which is the 4th degree of the
C major (Ionian) scale. I will write a future lesson on the all the
modes generated by the major scale, for now I want to concentrate on F
Lydian.F Lydian gets
its name from the #4 or #11 interval that exists in this scale. The tritone occurs
between the F and the B : F G A B C D E.
1 2 3#4 5 6 7
Play those 2
notes together and you get the tritone, #11,or b5 sound. As you can see it goes by
many names the most famous name for this interval is the Devils chord or the
Devils notes. The Church in the medieval era decided to ban the use of these 2
notes because they believed it evoked evil spirits. I guess that's why Black Sabbath and rock metal bands decided to use this evil sound in their
compositions because they wanted to summon the devil. Joking and
kidding aside, this scale is very useful in many styles of music other than
rock or metal. In jazz or fusion it’s a great substitute for the major scale.
A musician like Bill Evans might use it as a substitute over the 1
chord in a song because he prefers the sound of the #11. Normally it
would be used as a soloing devise over the 4 chord, but rules can be
broken. There is nothing wrong with borrowing that sound for the I chord. In fact, some musicians would call the #11 sound the real sound of
a major or major 7 chord. The example below illustrates the
substitution over a set of changes in the key of F that an advanced
musician might use in their improvised solo.
Example: I maj 7
I maj 7 ii -7 v7
F maj 7 / F mah7
/ Gmi 7 / C7
Use F Lydian for the 1st 2
measures. Use C mixolydian or G melodic minor for the 2 5 in
F major
Normally a beginner would use F major or F Ionian. This example, employs
the 4 chord sound or Lydian sound over the 1 chord and it sounds good or
even better. Use these techniques sparingly and to create variety with
the sound of your solos. I’m not telling you to give up on the F major scale, just
mix it up a bit to give your playing a more exotic sound. Don’t be afraid to try new things at first it may sound wrong, but eventually your ears will get use to a new hip sound.
It also sounds great over a vamp. In the video below I demonstrate an F lydian lick that is played behind an F maj 7 Chord that is being looped over and repeated.
Books that will aid you in your study of modes:
Here are some book recommendations from my amazon associate links
Use the F Lydian scale in the tablature below to create your own
F Lydian licks over F maj or F maj 7
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