| Title: | GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion |
| Notice: | Discussion of the finer stringed instruments |
| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
| Created: | Thu Aug 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3280 |
| Total number of notes: | 61432 |
A number of years ago at Berzerklee college of Musak at very emotional
instructor taught me a fantastic chops builder that I thought I
would share for both guitar and bass.
He said "Gentleman, this will make you instrument seem little, like
a violin".
Play all 12 scales starting with the F scale up and down the neck,
starting at the lowest possible position, going up and down, never
wasting a finger. Always play all the scales around the cycle
of fifths.
Example- on bass
Note String Finger
F E 1
G 2
A 3
Bb 4
C A 1
D 2
E 3
F 4
G D 1
A 2
Bb 3
C 4
D G 1
E 2
F 3
and back down. Note you'll often have to stretch 2 frets with one
finger.
Now the kicker. *Don't use your right hand!* Play all the notes
by fingering them.
The first time you do this, your hand will die. I guarantee this
will build chops like you've never seen before.
Don't play it fast, and don't play it mechanically (move a pattern)
always use the whole neck.
Finally, play EACH NOTE as with all your feeling, as if its the
last note you'll ever play in your life.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 278.1 | The Cycle of Fifths | BMT::COMAROW | Wed Jun 10 1987 07:12 | 20 | |
The cycle of fifths represents the natural movement of music. I
suggest both playing around the cycle, and, writing our patterns
(especially for bass players) around the cycles.
C
G F
D Bb
A Eb
E Ab
B Db
Gb
Switch between minor and magor
example
C-7 F7 Bb^7 Bb-7 Ab7 Db^7 etc.
(suggested by Bob Cummingham)
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| 278.2 | The big strech | MTA::COMAROW | Wed Jun 10 1987 09:50 | 19 | |
Fingering and music for chop builder 1.
-----0--4----------
0 3
-O-2----------
01
-o4-----------------
O 3
-------------------O-2--------------------------------------------------------- -
O 1
---------------O-4-----------------------------------------------------------------
O 3
-----------O-2----------------------------------------------------------------------
O 1
-------Ob4-------------------------------------------------------------------------
O 3
---O-2-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
O 1
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| 278.3 | Cycle?? | KAOM01::PENNY | From The Great White North | Wed Jun 10 1987 17:59 | 2 |
Re .0 & .1;
Isn't that the "Circle of Fifths"? 8^)
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| 278.4 | ? | BMT::COMAROW | Thu Jun 11 1987 00:30 | 1 | |
Isn't that what I wrote? | |||||
| 278.5 | or Half Gallons! | USWAV8::KINNEY | Damn, Forgot my paddle again | Thu Jun 11 1987 10:15 | 7 |
Jack Daniels
Bacardi 151 Johnny Walker
Jim Beam Jose Cuervo
Gilbys
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| 278.6 | If I only have time for one exercise,.. | RHETT::MCABEE | Support live music | Wed Jun 17 1987 21:34 | 46 |
re: .0
That;s a good stretcher. A good all-around exercise for the left
hand is the octave chromatic scale. Some of you probably know it.
Start by playing a simple first-position chromatic scale, starting
with the open 6th string, up to the 1st string, 4th fret. First
finger plays 1st fret, second finger plays 2nd fret, etc.
Now go back and play it in two octaves at the same time, using exactly
the same fingering.
1st note (E): open 6th string
with
2nd finger on 2nd fret, 4th string
2nd note (F): 1st finger on 1st fret, 6th string
with
3rd finger on 3rd fret, 4th string
3rd note (F#): 2nd finger on 2nd fret, 6th string
with
4th finger on 4th fret, 4th string
4th note (G): 3rd finger on 3rd fret, 6th string
with
open 3rd string
5th note (G#): 4th finger on 4th fret, 6th string
with
1st finger on 1st fret, 3rd string
etc.
Go up to: 1st finger on 3rd string, 1st fret
with
4th finger on 1st string, 4th fret
and back down and up and down.
There's a lot of payoff in this one dinky exercise. It develops
strength, posture, coordination (adjacent fingers going in opposite
directions), stretch (some) and endurance.
Bob
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| 278.7 | There's a million of them! | ZENSNI::JENSEN | I disappear when nobody's looking! | Thu Jun 18 1987 13:34 | 56 |
There's alot you can do with a basic four-fret (1 finger per
fret) exercise, too. This doesn't accomplish much for the left
hand (.0 does that just fine!), and its certainly not musical, but
its going to give your right hand a work out.
Start by playing (1st position) on the low E string; F,F#,G,G#.
Then move to the A string; A#,B,C,C#. Continue with each successive
string and then back down. Its VERY important to alternate the
direction of the pick for each note. Then repeat the exercise starting
with the pick in the opposite direction (i.e. if you initially started
with a downstroke, start with an upstroke) - both up and back down.
I call this "fours." There is a second version. VERSION 2: start
with your pinky and play groups of four decending notes while going
from strings E,A,D,G,B,E. (use fingers 4,3,2,1). Then reverse and
use fingers 1,2,3,4 while going from strings E,B,G,D,A,E. This is
exactly the opposite of version 1. Remember the alternate picking.
Next threes! In the same position use fingers 1, 2, and 3. On the low
E string, this would be: F,G,G#. Do the same exercise (up/down)
being careful to change the direction of the pick on every note.
Start 1 set with a downstroke, the next set with an
upstroke. VERSION 2: use fingers 1,2,4. VERSION 3: use fingers
1,3,4. VERSION 4: use fingers 2,3,4. etc. And then the opposite
of all these as in "fours" above.
Then twos! Fingers 1,2; then 2,3; then (killer) 3,4; then 1,3;
then 1,4; then... you get the idea.
Then ones!!!.. Sounds funny, but wait till you try it at some
reasonable speed (alternate pick each note). This one is, without
a doubt, the most difficult for me. For example, accending/decending:
F,B,F,B,D,F#/F,C#,A#,F#,C,F#
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
| | | | | | | | | | | +-- on low E string
| | | | | | | | | | +---- on A string
| | | | | | | | | +------- on D string
| | | | | | | | +---------- on G string
| | | | | | | +------------- on B string
| | | | | | +--------------- on high E string
| | | | | +------------------ on high E string
| | | | +-------------------- on B string
| | | +---------------------- on G string
| | +------------------------ on D string
| +-------------------------- on A string
+---------------------------- on low E string
Practical application: non-gliss picked arrpegios (sp?).
One last point, play these exercises with a metronome (sp?) so the
timing is as accurate and so every set of fingers operates at the
same speed. Try not to play the easy ones fast and the hard ones
slow .. play them all at the same speed.
have fun,
steve
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